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Week of May 22, 2022

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Thursday, May 19th, 2022
Sunday, May 22nd, 2022
Monday, May 23rd, 2022
9:00am 10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Development of Electrochemical Processes for More Practical and Effective Onsite Wastewater Treatment
Seungkyeum (Sean) Kim, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
9:00am 10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar

"PiRNA-Mediated Gene Silencing in Genome Defense and in Development"
Katalin (Kata) Fejes-Toth, Research Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
12:30pm 1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Networks based on Integrated Diamond Photonics
Daniel Assumpcao, Harvard University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Formation, Abundance, and Evolution of Molecular Products in α-Pinene and β-Pinene Secondary Organic Aerosol
Christopher Kenseth, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Robba cohomology for dagger spaces in positive characteristic
Koji Shimizu, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online Event
Optical variability of intermediate-mass black holes and implications for their identification
Colin Burke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Reactivity of Alkyl MFe3S3 Clusters Towards Bridging Carbynes and Carbides
Anna Scott, Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Optical Control of Quantum Materials
Jonathan Curtis, Harvard University,
5:15pm 6:15pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

A tensor 2-product of 2-representations of $\mathfrak{sl}_2$
Matthew McMillan, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
7:30pm 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

Online Event
The Science of Star Trek and Star Wars
Michael Wong, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institute,
Cameron Hummels, Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, May 24th, 2022
1:00pm 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Online Event
Compact-to-Dendritic Transition in the Reactive Deposition of Brownian Particles
Daniel Jacobson, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Discrete Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Finding large additive and multiplicative Sidon sets in sets of integers
Yifan Jing, University of Oxford,
3:00pm 5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Structure and function of the human nuclear pore complex
Stefan Petrovic, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
3:30pm 4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Synthetic Studies of the Polycyclic Furanobutenolide-Derived Cembranoid and Norcembranoid Diterpenoids
Nicholas Hafeman, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Aida Behmard, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, California Instittue of Technology,
Nicole L. Wallack, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, California Instittue of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

"Neural Circuits that Generate Persistent Behavior States in C. elegans"
Steven Flavell, Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium/Taussky-Todd Lecture

Applied l-adic cohomology
Philippe Michel, EPFL/TAN, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Online Event
Deep denoising for scientific discovery
Carlos Fernandez-Granda, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science and Center for Data Science, New York University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Classifying invariants for E1E1
Assaf Shani, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Machine Learning for Cosmic Explosions: Algorithms to Applications
Edo Berger, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Online Event
Rapid Breast Cancer Pathology Tissue Evaluation Using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Diana Mojahed, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

A nutrient relay sustains subtropical ocean productivity
Mukund Gupta, Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar

The Discovery of Character: Reimagining "Literature and Science" circa 1800
James Chandler, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Dynamical electronic correlations: from models to materials
Vojtech Vlcek, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Shining Light on Chemistry
Javier Read de Alaniz, Professor, Associate Director of the California Nanosystems Institute, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Information and Disparities in Health Care Quality: Evidence from GP Choice in England
Zach Brown, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan,
4:30pm 5:30pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures

Decoupling and applications
Ciprian Demeter, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Bloomington,
Thursday, May 26th, 2022
9:00am 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Self-heating of HEMT low-noise amplifiers in liquid cryogenic environments and the limits of microwave noise performance"
Anthony Ardizzi, Graduate Student, Applied Physics, Caltech,
9:00am 10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar

"Physics of Living Matter: From Molecule to Embryo"
Sebastian Streichan, Assistant Professor, Physics, University of California - Santa Barbara,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

Multi-messenger Astronomy and Low Latency PE in O4
Vinaya Valsan,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar - Hanieh Fattahi, MPI

Spectro-microscopy at Extreme Limits
Hanieh Fattahi, Head of Research Group, Femtosecond Fieldoscopy, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Autonomous Temporal Understanding and State Estimation during Robot-Assisted Surgery"
Ida Qin, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Advancing Sustainability: Small Molecules and Polymers from Biomass and Plastics Waste
Thomas H. Epps, III, Allan & Myra Ferguson Distinguished Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Summing Hecke eigenvalues over polynomials
Liubomir Chiriac, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Portland State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar - Giovanni Traverso

Online and In-Person Event
Biomedical Device Development for Gastrointestinal Applications
Giovanni Traverso, MB, BChir, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Present Bias in Consumption-Saving Models: A Tractable Continuous-Time Approach
Peter Maxted, Assistant Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Lipidomic hydrogen stable isotope probing for quantification of slow microbial growth in situ
Tristan Caro, Graduate student, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Harden M. McConnell Lecture

"A New Phase for Structural Biology"
Dame Carol Robinson, DBE FRS FMedSci FRSC, Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry, Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery at Oxford, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Many-body theory in the Quantum Information era
Matthew Fisher, KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar

Online Event
A data driven reduced order model for the wave operator and its application to velocity estimation
Liliana Borcea, Peter Field Collegiate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures

Decoupling and applications
Ciprian Demeter, Department of Mathematics, University of Indiana Bloomington,
4:45pm 6:00pm
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Friday, May 27th, 2022
10:00am 11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Foundations and applications of single-cell RNA sequencing
Ali (Sina) Booeshaghi, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Firewalls from wormholes
Zhenbin Yang, Stanford University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

2D topological order on a hollow thin sphere and a non-Clifford gate without magic state distillation
Arpit Dua, UQM-IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Xie Chen Group,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Black Hole Populations in Globular Clusters: Observational Validation, Modeling Uncertainties, and Massive Mergers
Newlin Weatherford, Riedel Family Graduate Fellow, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CIERA, Northwestern University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Poroviscoelasticity and fracture in gelatin-based hydrogels

Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chem Club Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Selective Catalytic Isomerization Reactions.
Alison Wendlandt, Green C. D. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures

Decoupling and applications
Ciprian Demeter, Department of Mathematics, University of Indiana Bloomington,
Saturday, May 28th, 2022