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November 2024

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Week of November 3, 2024

Ongoing

All Day Ongoing

Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020 (PST ART)

Bechtel Mall

Ongoing – 11/4 5:00pm

Dia de Los Muertos Altar Building

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

Ongoing – 11/5 11:59pm

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

Sunday, November 3rd, 2024

3:00pm – 5:00pm

EARTH DATA / THE MUSICAL

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Cuarteto Casals

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, November 4th, 2024

8:15am – 12:30pm

KISS Short Course - Digital Twins for Solar System Exploration

Broad 100

Public Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Job Market Seminar

See event detail for location

Trade, Industrialization, and Regional Disparities: Evidence from China during the Warlord Era

Kexin Feng, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

RSI Research Seminar

Resnick Sustainability Center 110

3:45pm – 4:45pm

Inorganic-Elecrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"Biologically Inspired Catalytic Systems for Solar-to-Fuel Technologies".

Smaranda C. Marinescu, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370

The Prevalence of Distant Giant Companions to Inner Small Planets / Kinematic Lensing with the Roman Space Telescope and other experiments

Judah Van Zandt, Final-year Ph.D. student, Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles,

Tim Eifler, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Physics, The University of Arizona,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Reconceptualizing Mentoring

Joyce Yen, Director of University of Washington ADVANCE, Center for Institutional Change, University of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Waves and Resonances: Accelerated Green Functions, High-Frequency Asymptotics and Optimization for Simulation and Design

Oscar Bruno, Professor, Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

High-precision measurement of the W boson mass at CMS

Josh Bendavid, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar

Classifying vector bundles on complex projective spaces

Morgan Opie, Mathematics Department, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

QUANTUM MATTER SEMINAR

East Bridge 114

Dynamic Manipulation of Charge Density Waves

Vidya Madhaven, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Dia De Los Muertos Community Gathering

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar

Bohr-Sommerfeld surgeries on Lagrangian submanifolds

Soham Chanda, Department of Mathematics, USC,

Tuesday, November 5th, 2024

11:00am – 12:00pm

Course (Re)Work Series

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Biology Seminar - Christine Jacobs-Wagner

Broad 100

Cracking Old Mysteries of Cellular Replication

Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Professor, Biology/Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213

Some problems in the flow of Liquid Crystals

Yannick Sire, Professor, Director of Graduate studies, Department of Mathematics, Johns-Hopkins University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Meditation Mob Elections Edition: Staying Grounded

Hameetman Center B120 - Club Room 2

1:30pm – 3:30pm

Burke Institute Lecture Series

Online and In-Person Event

Introduction to turbulence for physicists

Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold

Michael Newman, Google,

Kevin Satzinger, Google,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Charles R. dePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

Linde Hall 310

Using Math to Invent Solutions to Large-Scale Human Problems, Just in Time to Survive AI

Po-Shen Loh, Mathematical Science, Carnegie Mellon University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Microwave Remote Sensing of Living Systems and Water Resources on the 3rd Planet from the Sun

Paul Siquiera, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Market Power and Insurance Coverage

Daniel Gottlieb, Arkley Chair in Risk Management and Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Election Night Watch Party

Avery Courtyard

Internal Event

Wednesday, November 6th, 2024

All Day

Styrofoam Recycling Drop Off Day

10:30am – 11:45am

Informal Seminar - Daniel Rokhsar

Chen 100

"The past has left its traces on the world": deeply conserved synteny and the evolution of animals

Dan Rokhsar, Professor, Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Quantum gravity corrections to absorption and emission of 4d near-extremal black holes in supergravity and Einstein gravity

Anna Biggs, Princeton University,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project

Online Event

A Re-Cap and Discussion of Election Day by Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project Co-Directors R. Michael Alvarez and Charles Stewart, III

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)

Enhancement of Phase Picking Models Using Deep Learning by Addressing the Label Imbalance Problem

Shinya Kato, Researcher, Nagao Laboratory, Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop – Databases and SQL

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Getting Things Done

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Logic Seminar

Online Event

A hierarchy of cli Polish groups and non-reducibility results

Shaun Allison, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Undergraduate Tour – Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020 (PST ART)

Bechtel Mall

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Transforming Your Research Into Teaching - Fall 2024

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Combinatorics Seminar

Linde Hall 255

Uncommon linear systems of two equations

Dingding Dong, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Decoding Neural Networks: A New Frontier in Astrophysical Discovery

Brice Menard, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Climate, energy, and economic development: Exploratory research

Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Science,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310

The strong law of large numbers as an axiom

Tobias Fritz, Department of Mathematics, University of Innsbruck,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Polycatenated Architected Materials

Chiara Daraio, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Mathematical Writings of Antoine Parent

John F. Hall, Professor of Civil Engineering, Emeritus, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Inertial Updating with General Information

Gerelt Tserenjigmid, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Santa Cruz,

Thursday, November 7th, 2024

10:00am – 12:00pm

EAS Trailblazers Symposium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

11:00am – 12:30pm

PST Art Tour led by CHATS

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop – Databases and SQL

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151

"Principles of Computation by Protein Dimerization Networks"

Jacob Parres-Gold, Graduate Student, Elowitz Group,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Job Market Seminar

See event detail for location

Incentivizing Information Acquisition

Fan Wu, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Special Quantum Matter Seminar

West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room)

Identifying the topological order of quantized half-filled Landau levels through their daughter states

Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Department of Physics, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Spill the Tea with the CCID

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

Public Event

1:00pm – 2:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

On Symmetries, Boundaries, and Entanglement Entropy

Brandon Rayhaun, Stony Brook University,

2:30pm – 3:45pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Topological Laplace transform and decomposition of nc-Hodge structures

Shaowu Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

2:30pm – 4:00pm

PBU Coffee Hour

Hameetman Center Caltech Store Lobby

3:45pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Equivariant formal group laws and Quillen theorem

Yunze Lu, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

New Opportunities in Waveguide QED

Alejandro González-Tudela, Professor, University of Madrid,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

Structure and Function of Mammalian SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Health and Disease

Cigall Kadoch, Associate Professor of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Preparing for life detection strategies in future ocean world exploration

Bonnie Teece, Postdoctoral Fellow, Origins and Habitability Lab, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Computing crystalline deformation rings via the Taylor-Wiles-Kisin patching method

Chengyang Bao, Mathematics Department, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

Precision and Discovery at the Frontiers of Elementary Particle Physics

Josh Bendavid, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

"Network Phases in Block Polymers"

Kevin Dorfman, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Head, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota,

7:00pm – 8:30pm

Visual Culture Program Event

Chen 100

An Entrepreneurial Journey on the Road Less Traveled

Stuart Weitzman, American shoe designer and the founder of the luxury shoe company Stuart Weitzman,

Friday, November 8th, 2024

10:00am – 11:00am

Science Journey - Seeing is Believing: Powerful Microscopes Help Us Discover Medicines in Nature

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

APhMS: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Directly Observing the Ice-Water Interface with Molecular Resolution

Jingshan S. Du, Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

TBA

Xiaoyi Liu, UC Santa Barbara,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Classical Double Copy: Solutions, Horizons, and Penrose Limits

Cindy Keeler, Arizona State University,

11:00am – 12:00pm

MCE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Thermal Design of Functional Wearable Textile-Based Materials

Marquise Bell, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University,