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Week of November 12, 2023

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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Orchestra

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Castalian String Quartet

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, November 13th, 2023
9:00am – 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 115
Sea Ice Discrete Element Modeling: Melt and Fracture of Floes and Sheets
Rigoberto Moncada Lopez, Graduate Student, Civil Engineering, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
10:00am – 11:00am
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Jihong Min

Online and In-Person Event
Innovations in wireless bioelectronics for precision medicine, from sustainable sweat sensing to ingestible gut monitoring
Jihong Min, Ph.D. Candidate, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, California Instittute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk: Accelerate your design development with Stratus High Level Synthesis

Annenberg 105
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Education Week: Kick-Off Event

Center for Student Services, Lobby
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar

Baxter 127
Can network ties help improve women's aspiration towards entrepreneurship?
Juni Singh, Postdoctoral Instructor in Social Sciences of Sustainability, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Jorgensen 109
INTERANNUAL VARIATION OF PRODUCTIVITY IN THE HIGH-LATITUDE NORTHERN FORESTS: THE ROLE OF PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPES AND CLIMATE
Ke Liu, Graduate Student, Environmental Science & Engineering,
Paul Wennberg, R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering, Geological and Planetary Sciences,
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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INQNET Pizza Seminar

High-dimensional entanglement and chip-scale quantum information processing
Dr Xiang Cheng,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Alumni in Finance: Panel and Coffee Chats

Baxter B125
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Regret Matching+: (In)Stability, Low Regret, and Last-Iterate Convergence in Games
Haipeng Luo, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Leveraging quantum sensors to shine new light on searches for low-mass dark matter
Kelly Stifter, SLAC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Universal fluctuations in ergodic quantum dynamics, and their use for benchmarking highly entangled states
Daniel K. Mark, Department of Physics-Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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The John R. Herron Lectureship in Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Catastrophe Risk in a Changing Climate
Kelly Hereid, Director of Catastrophe R&D, Liberty Mutual Insurance,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Vibrational imaging for chemical biology: from label-free to molecular probes
Jiajun Du, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Behind the Book: The Warped Side of Our Universe

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Exploring Venus" and "Exoplanets: Past, Present, & Future"
Anna Gülcher, Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Geology and Planetary Science, Caltech,
Luke Bouma, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
9:00am – 4:00pm
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Science of Benefits: Announcing TIAA's office hours on campus

Human Resources
10:00am – 2:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series

Jorgensen 109
NSF I-Corps National Sign Up
11:45am – 1:15pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Databases and SQL, Part 1

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Education Week: Common Threads of Communication

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar

East Bridge 114
Introduction to Transformer Models
Aike Liu, Physics Department, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – You & Your Thesis

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
This seminar has been canceled.
Christopher Timmins, Gary J Gorman Affordable Housing Professor, Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Laurie Mc keown, Postdoctoral Fellow, JPL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Icy insights by bridging models and observations: Antarctic mass loss sensitivity to the thermal state
Eliza Dawson, Graduate Student, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Horizons as Eavesdroppers: Horizons Decohere Quantum Superpositions
Daine Danielson, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Continuous bubbling for the harmonic map heat flow
Andrew W. Lawrie, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Nutritious Cooking on a Budget: Virtual Workshop with Chef Jocelyn Ramirez

Online Event
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Beckman Institute
Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections

11:00am – 12:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Introduction to QGIS

North Mudd 201 (Geology Library)
All Day
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GIS Day 2023

North Mudd 201 (Geology Library)
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

Lauritsen 469
Identification and characterization of topological order without and with tensor networks
Norbert Schuch, University of Vienna,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Optimization, Sampling, and Generative Modeling in Non-Euclidean Spaces
Molei Tao, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Education Week: The Cambridge Chronicles - Tales of Tea, Tutors, and Tunes

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar

Baxter 127
Evaluating Instrument Validity using the Principle of Independent Mechanisms
Patrick F. Burauel, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Introduction to ArcGIS Online

North Mudd 201 (Geology Library)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Aperiodic spin chains for discrete holography on hyperbolic tilings
Giuseppe di Giulio, Institute for Theoretical Physics & Astrophysics, University of Wurzburg,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Characterizing the Life Cycle of the Interstellar Medium and Star Formation in Galaxies with Far-Infrared Spectral Lines
Jorge Pineda, ASTHROS Balloon Principal Investigator, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
On the life and death of Antarctic Bottom Water
Henri Drake, UCI,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Noise Spectroscopy – What Can Electronic Noise Tell Us about the Materials?
Alexander Balandin, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Zachariah Page, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin,
6:00pm – 7:30pm
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Beyond physical postures: exploring different Yoga pathways

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3
Thursday, November 16th, 2023
8:00am – Ongoing
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Registration for Winter Term

10:30am – 12:00pm
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Campus History & Architectural Tour

Athenaeum
10:30am – 11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
AdS_3/RMT_2 Duality
Gabriele Di Ubaldo, IPhT,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Injection-induced Seismicity
Maryam Alghannam, George Housner Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
11:45am – 1:15pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Databases and SQL, Part 2

Online Event
11:45am – 1:20pm
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Caltech Y Community Service & Advocacy Fair

San Pasqual Walk
12:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Bioscience Industry Day

Chen Breezeway
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Panel Event

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Publishing Your Science: A Roundtable Conversation
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Drop-in Info Session and Lunch: the Bill Gross Prize for Entrepreneurship

Building 15, Room 122
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Education Week: Reef Restoration and Citizen Science in French Polynesia

2:30pm – 3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Mirror Symmetry for Nonabelian LG models
Nathan Priddis, College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Brigham Young University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Gates Annex B122
Towards solution of the many-electron problem for transition states and transition metal containing systems
Sandeep Sharma, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder,
3:45pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Quantum K-invariants of Grassmannian via Quot scheme
Ming Zhang, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Andrew Buller, Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dine and Dialogue: Black Feminist Thought

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Ice sheet and landscape change: Insights from subglacial archives
Allie Balter-Kennedy, Postdoctoral Scholar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Geometric Eisenstein Series and Torsion Vanishing
Linus Hamann, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Wielding Frequency Dependent Squeezing against Quantum Back-Action in the LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatories
Lee McCuller, Caltech,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series

Jorgensen 109
Patenting your Innovation
Rose Kiser, Assistant Director for Technology Transfer, Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships, Caltech,
John Peck, Partner, KPPB law firm,
Friday, November 17th, 2023
10:00am – 11:00am
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Special Seminar with Giuseppe Loianno

Annenberg 104
Re-thinking the Perception-Action Paradigm for Super Autonomous Robots
Giuseppe Loianno, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Chaos in Observable Algebras of Quantum Gravity
Nima Lashkari, Purdue University,
11:45am – 1:15pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Managing Data with Pandas

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Education Week: The Caltech Heritage Project – Institutional + International History Memorialized

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
How simulating balls and springs captures the power of quantum computing
Robin Kothari, Google,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Dwarf Galaxies, Neutron Star Mergers, and Heavy Elements
Anya Nugent,
  • Internal Event