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Week of January 29, 2023

Sunday, January 29th, 2023

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech Chamber Music Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

Monday, January 30th, 2023

12:00pm – 12:55pm

CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk

Annenberg 105

Data Science Applications to the Video Game Industry

Jonathan Lane, Senior Director of Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning at Activision Publishing, Activision,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Faculty Pedagogy Journal Club

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

2:15pm – 3:15pm

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Crellin 151

Yunho Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University,

Jaeheung Cho, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387

On P^1-stabilization in unstable motivic homotopy theory

Aravind Asok, Department of Mathematics, USC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Covariance-modulated optimal transport and gradient flows

Franca Hoffmann, Assistant Professor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Coaction and cuts for Feynman diagrams and integrals

Ruth Britto, Trinity College Dublin & IAS,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114

Nano-optical probe of van der Waals interfaces

Dmitri N Basov, Professor, Department of Physics, Columbia University,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Hiding the Vegetables: Mark Rober's Artform of Science Communication

Beckman Auditorium

7:00pm – 9:00pm

▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Astronomy on Tap

"Mars Rovers" and "Rocket Physics"

Tina Seeger, PhD Candidate, Division of Geology & Planetary Science, Caltech,

Justin Foley, Systems Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Public Event

Tuesday, January 31st, 2023

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Assessment Methods that Promote Student Learning - Workshop Series

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Bi & Beyond Workshop

Kerckhoff 119

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Logic Seminar

Online Event

Classification strength of Polish groups and involving S∞

Shaun Allison, Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Structure and Complexity of Graphical Designs for Weighted Graphs through Eigenpolytopes

Catherine Babecki, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Inaugural Peter B. Dervan Lecture

Gates Annex B122

A Decade of CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing: What's Ahead for the Technology and Its Applications

Jennifer A. Doudna, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CAEL Workshop: Career Fair Preparation

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Revisiting the Core Accretion Paradigm for Giant Planet Formation: Analytic Framework for the Late Infall Stage and the Distribution of Planetary Masses

Fred Adams, Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Detecting (high frequency) gravitational waves in a box

Diego Blas, UA Barcelona, IFAE,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

NB & CNS Seminar - Terry Sejnowski - Tuesday, January 31, 2023 - 4 pm

Chen 100

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Telling Our Stories: Journaling Workshop

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

Wednesday, February 1st, 2023

12:00pm – 1:00pm

BHM: The State of Black Pasadena w/ NAACP Pasadena Branch

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Introduction to the Getting Things Done system of productivity - a workshop for students

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Probing Galaxy Physics with ISM Emission Lines

Shengqi Yang, CTAC Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Observatories,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Electrochemical methods for the oxidation of pollutants in aqueous matrices

Davide Clematis, University of Genoa,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

Deciphering the Human Gut Microbiome with Chemistry

Emily P. Balskus, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Spinning the Globe: A Dialogue of Current Events with CCID

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Conference Room

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Comet Viewing Event

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Public Event

Thursday, February 2nd, 2023

9:00am – 12:15pm

Classroom lesson: Renewables

9:30am – 12:00pm

Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Online Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

LIGO Seminar

Internal Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Understanding the Role of Network Structure in Controlling Complex Networks

Jorge Cortes, Professor, Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair in High Performance Dynamic Systems Modeling and Control, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Panel Event: Doing an Internship as a Graduate Student

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114

"Programmable adiabatic demagnetization: preparing low energy states by simulated cooling"

Professor Mark Rudner, University of Washington,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Quantum Detectorology

Murat Kologlu, Yale University,

2:30pm – 4:00pm

Visual Culture Seminar

Online Event

ARTIST TALK WITH KEARRA GOPEE

Kearra Gopee, Anti-disciplinary Visual Artist,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Paul Beard

Annenberg 105

Medical photoacoustic imaging using optical ultrasound detection: from light to sound…and back

Professor Paul Beard, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387

The Gross--Kohnen--Zagier formula via $p$-adic uniformisation

Lea Beneish, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

Axion Dark Matter and Quantum Measurement: ABRACADABRA to DMRadio

, Lindley Winslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech Guitar Ensemble Winter Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

Friday, February 3rd, 2023

8:00am – 4:00pm

First Aid / AED / CPR Training

8:00am – Ongoing

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

9:00am – 10:00am

LIGO Seminar

Internal Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Nonperturbative scattering amplitudes from dispersive iterations of unitarity

Alexander Zhiboedov, CERN,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Quantum error correction and computation with two-qubit measurements

Arpit Dua, UQM-IQIM Postdoctoral scholar, Xie Chen Group,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Building Coordinator & Floor Warden Training

Online Event

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Core-Collapse Supernovae: From the Last Decade to the Next

David Vartanyan, Hubble Einstein Fellow, Carnegie Observatories,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Measurement of interatomic forces that can evade detection and hydrodynamic boundary conditions on single nanoparticles

John Sader, Research Professor, Aerospace and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar

Annenberg 104

Infinitely-instantiable descriptions of convex sets.

Eitan Levin, Graduate Student, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

EE Devices Seminar - Konstantin Vodopyanov, CREOL, University of Central Florida

Moore B280

Precision midinfrared-to-THz frequency combs and their spectroscopic applications

Konstantin Vodopyanov, 21st Century Scholar Endowed Chair & Professor of Optics and Physics, CREOL, University of Central Florida,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Fibrations, depth 1 foliations, and branched surfaces

Chi Cheuk Tsang, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Modulating electron spin relaxation times in an Fe2S2 ferredoxin

Christian (Chris) Totolu, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room