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Week of January 19, 2025

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Monday, January 20th, 2025
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Inferring the dynamics of locomotion using spectral mode representations
Alasdair Hastewell, Postdoctoral Fellow, NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB),
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Gates Annex B122
Investigating the Mechanics of Architected Solids across Scales through Predictive Modeling
Ziran (Rachel) Zhou, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
1:30pm – 5:00pm
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31st Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition Finals

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
  • Internal Event
1:30pm – 5:00pm
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31st Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition Finals

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
  • Internal Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Origin of Life's Homochirality: From Magnetic Minerals to a Homochiral Genome
Furkan Ozturk, Kavli-Laukien Fellow, Department of Physics, Harvard University,
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
10:00am – 3:30pm
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New Horizons in Neuroscience Symposium

Chen 100
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The Hilbert space of de Sitter JT gravity
Jesse Held, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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[CANCELED] Getting Better Sleep

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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*CANCELED* Faculty Learning Community Lunches

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Pi-1-1 maximal almost disjoint families and Laver measurability
Asger Törnquist, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen,
1:00pm – 2:30pm
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Webinar: Tips and Information on Property Insurance After the Wildfires

Online Event
  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
How Dark is Space?
Tod Lauer, Astronomer, NOIRLab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Title TBD
Kelly Wrighton, Colorado State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Natural Superlattice Design of Modulated Superconductors
Joseph Checkelsky, Associate Professor, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Campus History & Architectural Tour

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

Gates-Thomas 135
Hardware / controls co-design to overcome challenges for aerial robots
Mark W. Mueller, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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The Timothy D. Ryan Summer Entrepreneurship Program: Info Session

Building 15, Room 131
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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APhMS Special Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Scalable classical and quantum semiconductor light sources
Boubacar Kante, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Molecular Assembly of Living and Lifelike Materials
Seu Sim, Professor, Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Geologic processes that control sourcing and migration of subsurface helium
Daniel Halford, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geochemistry, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Tony Jun Huang

Annenberg 105
Acoustofluidics: merging acoustics and fluid mechanics for biomedical applications
Tony Jun Huang, William Bevan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Modularity of special cycles in orthogonal and unitary Shimura varieties
Salim Tayou, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
A New Era in Quantum Optics: From Topological Photonics to Correlated Materials
Mohammad Hafezi, UMD,
Friday, January 24th, 2025
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Local Consequences of Asymptotic Symmetries
Gautam Satishchandran, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Topological superconductivity and high-magnetic-field superconductivity in UTe2
Sylvia Klare Lewin, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Electrochemical synthesis of Value-added chemicals from CO2 and N2 reduction reaction
Yun Jeong Hwang, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Weyl Law for the 1-cycles
Bruno Staffa, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Imaging Excited-State Carrier Dynamics in Strontium Titanate Photocatalysts through Ultrafast Electron Microscopy and Correlative Electron Spectroscopies
Levi Palmer, Graduate Student (Cushing Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Thermobaric activation of fault friction
Sylvain Barbot, Associate Professor, Earth Sciences, University of Southern California,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Chamber Music Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Faster than Light Speed? The Physics of the Warp Drive
Elias Most, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, January 25th, 2025
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Chamber Music Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event