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Week of January 5, 2025

Ongoing

Ongoing – 1/5 11:59pm

Winter Recess

Academic

Monday, January 6th, 2025

All Day

Beginning of Instruction of Winter Term

Academic

4:00pm – 5:00pm

H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Sparse-optimization to discover dynamical systems models from data

Niall Mangan, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Overcoming challenges of quantum interference at LHC with neural simulation-based inference and a full implementation in ATLAS

Aishik Ghosh, LBNL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114

Breaking symmetries by shining light through transparent solids

Anshul Kogar, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

The Thomas J. and Earleen Ahrens Seminar in Geological and Planetary Sciences

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

What makes a planet "giant"?

Ravit Helled, Professor, Department of Astrophysics, University of Zurich,

Tuesday, January 7th, 2025

9:00am – 12:00pm

Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

Academic

11:30am – 1:00pm

Spill the Tea with the CCID

San Pasqual Walk

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Gradescope 101: Getting Started in Gradescope

Online Event

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Ravit Helled, Professor, Department of Astrophysics, University of Zurich,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

Enabling Molecular Quantum Information Science with Electron Spins

Ryan G. Hadt, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Insitutute of Technology,

Internal Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special CMX Seminar

Annenberg 213

Inferring turbulent velocity and temperature fields and their statistics from Lagrangian velocity measurements using physics-informed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (PIKANs)

Juan Toscano, Graduate Student, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University,

Wednesday, January 8th, 2025

9:00am – 3:00pm

Red Cross Blood Drive

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar - POSTPONED

Online and In-Person Event

Well-Posed Boundary Conditions for Semi-Classical Euclidean Gravity

Xiaoyi Liu, UC Santa Barbara,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Online Event

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

James Webb Space Telescope Breakthroughs in Galaxy Formation

Nadia Zakamska, Professor, Johns Hopkins University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Ocean circulation, microbial ecology, climate extremes and the carbon cycle

Mara Freilich, Brown University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Gates Annex B122

Chemistry- and imaging-based methods to explore extracellular biology

Kayvon Pedram, Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,

Internal Event

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Special CMX Seminar

Annenberg 213

Ziming Liu, PhD student in physics, Department of Physics, MIT & IAIFI,

Thursday, January 9th, 2025

9:00am – 3:00pm

Red Cross Blood Drive

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Illuminating the complex mechanics of a simple breath.

Mona Eskandari, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Medicine's multidisciplinary BREATHE Center, University of California, Riverside,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

POSTPONED Succeeding as A TA This Quarter

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

EE Seminar

Moore B270

Developing High-speed Spatial Light Modulators for Advanced Imaging and Photonic Computing

Dr. Mohamed ElKabbash, Assistant Professor, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona,

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Caltech Library Workshop – You & Your Thesis

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

LA Probability Forum

TBD

Yacine Aoun, Department of Mathematics, University of Geneva,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Diophantine problems arising from tetrahedra

Chris Lyons, Department of Mathematics, Cal State Fullerton,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

From Collisions to Discoveries with Machine Learning at the Energy Frontier

Javier Duarte, UCSD,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

LA Probability Forum

TBD

Christian Serio, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,

6:00pm – 7:00pm

LA Probability Forum

TBD

Hindy Drillick, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,

Friday, January 10th, 2025

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar - POSTPONED

Online and In-Person Event

Null Raychauduri and Damour equations : Canonical Structure, Dressing Time and Quantisation

Laurent Freidel, Perimeter Institute,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Connecting Compact Object Dynamics with Multi-Messenger Observations in Dense Star Clusters

Claire Ye, Postdoctoral Fellow, CITA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Cancelled Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)

4-Dimensional Seismic Interferometry: New Perspectives on Aquifer Monitoring and Beyond

Shujuan Mao, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Samarium as a Catalytic Electron-Transfer Mediator in Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction to Ammonia

Emily Boyd, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,