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Week of April 16, 2023

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Sunday, April 16th, 2023
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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TACIT Shows "The Sunrise from the Moon"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Academy of St Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, April 17th, 2023
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Connect suicide prevention training for staff and postdocs

Online Event
11:30am – 1:30pm
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Undergraduate Research Week 2023 - Celebrating 45 Years of SURF!

San Pasqual Walk
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Earth Month 2023: Caltech's Annual Sustainability Report

Bechtel Residence Dining Hall
  • Public Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Jorgensen 109
ML-enabled model of underground fluid transport in the presence of chemical reactions
Mina Karimi, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar-CANCELLED

, University of Connecticut,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Tate semisimsimplicity over finite fields
Ananth Shankar, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
Tracing AGN Feedback on the Star-Forming ISM in NGC 7469 with JWST
Thomas Lai, Caltech/IPAC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Future is Now: Using JWST for a Fully 3-D Understanding of Exoplanet Atmospheres
Emily Rauscher, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Consensus-Based Interacting Particle Systems and Mean-field PDEs for Optimization and Sampling
Jose A. Carrillo, Professor of the Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Going Underground or Listening to the Sky?
Anupam Ray, UC Berkeley & University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Topological skyrmion phases of matter
Ashley Cook, Physics of Quantum Materials, Max Planck Institute,
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Caltech Connect suicide prevention training for students

Online Event
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CAEL Workshop: Medical School Applications

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Pasadena Unified Schools Info Session

Avery Library
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter 237
Towns and Agriculture in Times of Serfdom: An Economic Success or an Economic Failure?
Alex Klein, Deputy Head of School and Reader in Economics, School of Economics, University of Kent,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Turbulence for quasilinear waves on Schwarzschild-AdS
Christoph Kehle, Mathematics Department, ETH Zurich,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Robert Chica | Tuesday, April 18th at 3 pm

Broad 100
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Lower bounds on the top Lyapunov exponent of Galerkin-Navier-Stokes and other stochastic differential equations
Jacob Bedrossian, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Cornelis Murre | Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 4 pm

Chen 100
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
Liquid Markets: An Empirical Analysis of a Water Exchange
Yunmi Kong, Assistant Professor of Economics, Rice University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Movies That Matter: Small Island Big Song

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Wednesday, April 19th, 2023
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Online Event
Mean field theory in Inverse Problems: from Bayesian inference to overparameterization of networks
Qin Li, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, UW-Madison,
12:00pm – 4/21 7:00pm
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Discover Caltech (DiscoTech) 2023

12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Faculty Learning Communities - Hosted by the CTLO

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
The Local Lemma in descriptive combinatorics: survey and recent developments
Anton Bernshteyn, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Webinar: Get the Maximum Benefits from Stress Tools!

Online Event
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training - Unit 3 - Disaster Medical Ops 1

Keith Spalding B117
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114
Typicality for Stratified Measures
Juan Pablo Vigneaux, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Constraining the Cosmic Baryon Cycle with ALMA
Fabian Walter, Senior Staff Scientist, MPIA Heidelberg,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
The Great Carbon Arbitrage
Alissa Magdaleen Kleinnijenhuis, Research Fellow, Department of Finance, Imperial College Business School - London,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Variability in Northern Hemisphere carbon exchange -- from diurnal to multi-decadal
Gretchen Keppel-Aleks, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Gaypril - Queer Safety Planning Workshop

Linde Hall 310
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series

Online Event
Alumni Fireside Chat - Scientist Turned Venture Capitalist
Jason Holt,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Dr. Robert Lang Origami Lecture and Workshop

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Electrifying and Decarbonizing Chemical Synthesis

Online and In-Person Event
Karthish Manthiram, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry; William H. Hurt Scholar, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
  • Public Event
Thursday, April 20th, 2023
9:00am – 4/21 5:00pm
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Narrative as Leadership: ABT Framework Build Workshops

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
10:00am – 11:00am
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Cool Beans Coffee for Postdocs-PMA

  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Porous Media Flow and Reactive Transport Phenomena: Accounting for the Underlying Structural Heterogeneity
Veronica L. Morales, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis,
11:30am – 1:30pm
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Undergraduate Research Week 2023 - Gratitude Tabling

San Pasqual Walk
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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'Taste of Teaching' Thursdays 2.0

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151
"Allosteric Modulation of an Alpha5 Containing Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor"
Chris Marotta, Grubbs Group,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series

Jorgensen 224
ZAP Lunch & Learn
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Finding U.S. Maps Online (Zoom Session)

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Redox-Activated Covalent Functionalization of Semiconductor Surfaces
Maureen B. Morla, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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CPA Writing Group Sessions-April

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125
This seminar has been canceled.
Stefanie Stantcheva, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Moore B270
Information-preserving Dimensionality Reduction for High-dimensional Small-sample Data
Aditi Jha, PhD Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Christopher Contag

Annenberg 105
Advances in Imaging and Sensing are Redefining Health and Disease
Christopher H. Contag, Ph.D., James and Kathleen Cornelius Endowed Chair, Director, Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Construction of an anticyclotomic Euler System
Kim Tuan Do, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory
Clay Cordova, University of Chicago,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Gaypril - Queer Graduate Students, Postdocs, Faculty, and Staff Mixer

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Canyoneering in Southern California by Michael Tran, Tiffany Helgestad and Jesse Johnson

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday, April 21st, 2023
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Strategies for the Mechanically Triggered Release of Small Molecules
Corey C. Husic, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Non-Invertible Chiral Symmetry
Clay Cordova, University of Chicago,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Celebrating Environmental Justice Efforts on Earth Day

Center for Student Services, Large Tent
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 127
Behavioral Causal Inference
Ran Spiegler, Professor of Economics, Tel Aviv University and University College London,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CPA Postdoc L(a)unch- Apr 21

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Laser spectroscopy of molecular vibrations
Kon Leung, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar, Endres Group,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar Series, Dr. Patrick Slade

Moore B270
Personalizing Assistive Devices in the Real-world
Patrick Slade, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, SEAS, Harvard University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125
Rethinking basic assumptions in reward learning
Todd Hare, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Zurich,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Worldtube excision method for intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals: scalar-field model in 3+1 dimensions
Nikolas Wittek, Graduate Student, Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute),
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Flume Studies of Gaps, Plumes, and Particles in a Canopy Mixing Layer: Application to Wildfire Spread
Hayoon Chung, Postdoctoral Scholar, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University,
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Dow Lecture in Organometallic Chemistry

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Harnessing of Excited States Through Molecular Design – From Discrete Metal-Ligand Chromophores to Supramolecular Assembly and Functions
Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, Philip Wong Wilson Professor in Chemistry and Energy and Chair Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Plateau's problem via the theory of phase transitions
Stephen Lynch, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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Empowerment Self-Defense

Center for Student Services, Large Tent