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Week of February 26, 2023

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Sunday, February 26th, 2023

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Caltech Orchestra & Glee Club Concert with Concerto Competition Winners

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Wu Han, Philip Setzer, and David Finckel

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, February 27th, 2023

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Training: Diversity Statement

Online Event

3:45pm – 4:45pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"Solution-Phase Routes to Inorganic Solid-State Materials"

Alina Schimpf, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387

On the D-module of an isolated singularity

Thomas Bitoun, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Calgary,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event

Connecting the disk dispersal phase to magnetic morphology-driven stellar spin-down

Kristina Monsch, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO),

4:00pm – 5:00pm

H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Swarm-Based Gradient Descent Method for Non-Convex Optimization

Eitan Tadmor, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

SMEFT, loops and all that

Michael Trott, Neils Bohr Institute and Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114

Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation: What, why, how, when?

Sankar Das Sarma, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Maryland,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

The many phases of the cell

Krishna Shrinivas, Ph.D., NSF-Simons Fellow of Quantitative Biology, Harvard University,

Tuesday, February 28th, 2023

10:00am – 11:00am

Studying Consciousness & Free Will: A Neurophilosophical Approach

11:00am – 1:00pm

Course Design Workshop for Instructors

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

BHM: African Drum and Dance Circle

Center for Student Services, Lobby

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Logic Seminar

Online Event

Clopen type semigroups of actions on 0-dimensional compact spaces

Julien Melleray, Université Lyon 1,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Special Quantum Matter Seminar

West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room)

Spin waves meet superconductivity

Nicholas R. Poniatowski, Harvard University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

EE Devices Seminar - Machiel Blok, Univ of Rochester

Moore B280

Multi-level quantum information processing with Superconducting Circuits

Machiel Blok, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester,

3:30pm – 5:00pm

CPET Workshop: Effective Communication for TAs

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Literary Dimensions Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Image Machines/Computation's Womb

Sarah Pourciau, Assistant Professor of German, Duke University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

NB & CNS Seminar - Gloria Choi - Tuesday, February 28, 2023 - 4 pm

Chen 100

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall

Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Uncover How Players Choose Mixed Strategies

Michihiro Kandori, Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo,

Wednesday, March 1st, 2023

9:00am – 10:00am

PhD Thesis Defense

Gates Annex B122

Development of Oxidation and Transition Metal-Mediated Reactions and Application to Natural Product Synthesis

Sara Dibrell, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

9:30am – 12:00pm

Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Understanding and Coping with ADHD

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Women's HERstory Month: Lunch & Crafting

Center for Student Services, Lobby

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Dynamics of Time-Varying and Nonlinear Phononic Lattices

Brian Kim, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Small Statistics No More: A Suite of Dwarf Galaxy Simulations to Interpret Observations

Alyson Brooks, Associate Professor, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

A new theory for heat extremes in a changing climate

Yi Zhang, University of California Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Thermochemical and Thermophysical Properties of Refractory Materials above 3000 ˚C

Scott J. McCormack, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Davis,

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4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

Selective strategies for phosphoranyl radical fragmentation for chemical synthesis

Valerie Schmidt, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall

Cursed Sequential Equilibrium

Thomas R. Palfrey, III, Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Spinning the Globe: A Dialogue of Current Events with CCID

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Watson Lecture: Enigma of the Heart

Online and In-Person Event

Morteza (Mory) Gharib (PhD '83), Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Medical Engineering; Director and Booth-Kresa Leadership Chair of the Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST); Director of GALCIT, Division of Engineering and Applied Science,

Public Event

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023

9:00am – 4:30pm

New Horizons in Biology & Biological Engineering Symposium | Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 9 am

Chen 100

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Liquid Breakup at Supercritical Conditions: Toward Understanding Mixing and Combustion at Extreme Conditions

Dorrin Jarrahbashi, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151

"Microbial-Enrichment Method Enables High-Throughput Metagenomic Characterization from Host-Rich Samples"

Natalie J. Wu-Woods, Graduate Student, Ismagilov Group,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

CPA Writing Group Sessions

Internal Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Building with fluids: a lazy approach to fabrication

Prof. Pierre-Thomas Brun, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Prebiotic Chemistry in Hydrothermal Systems on Early Earth and Ocean Worlds

Laurie Barge, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Medical Engineering Seminar Series, Dr. Andy Tay

Annenberg 105

Mechano-enhancement of wound regeneration and nanomedicine delivery

Andy Tay, Assistant Professor, Presidential Young Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

Black holes in binaries

Ilya Mandel, Monash University,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Back to The Problem of Space

Joshua T. Eisenthal, Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Caltech,

Friday, March 3rd, 2023

10:00am – 12:00pm

Cool Beans Coffee for Postdocs

Internal Event

10:30am – 11:45am

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Twisting 6d (2,0) SCFTs and LSTs

Kimyeong Lee, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS),

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Does gravity constrain computation?

Alex May, Stanford University,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

Internal Event

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Tracing the New Arctic

Monica Martinez Wilhelmus, Professor, School of Engineering, Brown University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Exotic codim-1 submanifolds in 4-manifolds

Anubhav Mukherjee, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Excited State Properties of Lead Halide Perovskites: Insights for Photocatalysis and Photovoltaics

Jeffrey DuBose, Postdoctoral Scholar (Manthiram Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

Saturday, March 4th, 2023

8:00pm – 9:00pm

Chamber Music Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event