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Professional Clothing Drive

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)
All Day Ongoing
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LEAP Project Donation Drive

Monday, April 14th, 2025
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Buoyancy-Driven Fluid Dynamics for Enhanced Ocular Drug Delivery
Stephanie O'Gara, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Photochemistry at Mars, Venus, & Exoplanets Through Time
Danica Adams, NASA NHFP Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Betting against the losers: supermartingale tests of election outcomes.
Philip B. Stark, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Gravothermal Collapse of Dark Matter Halos: Observational Insights
Haibo Yu, UC Riverside,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Scientific Careers and Priorities at the DoD

Broad 100
Alessandra Zito, Innovation Fellow, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
Matthew Glasscott, Program Manager, Electrochemistry Army Research Office,
Ana Alvarez, Research Materials Engineer, Army Research Laboratory,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Kernels in Numerical Methods and Operator Learning
Varun Shankar, Assistant Professor, Kahlert School of Computing (KSoC), University of Utah,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
This seminar has been postponed.
Claudio Ferraz, Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Mapping and controlling excited state potential energy surfaces with ultrafast Raman spectroscopies
Renee Frontiera, Northrop Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
JWST Spectroscopy of the Small Satellites of Uranus and Neptune
Ryleigh Davis, Graduate Student, Department of Planetary Science, Caltech,
Matthew Belyakov, Graduate Student, Department of Planetary Science, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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WEB Gathering

Center for Student Services, Large Tent
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
10:00am – 3:00pm
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2025 Grad Fair

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

Online and In-Person Event
Phases with Generalized Symmetries
Alison Warman, University of Oxford,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Alexander Aulehla

Chen 100
Cycles upon cycles - collective rhythms during embryonic development
Alexander Aulehla, Head/Group Leader, Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Sleep Like a Legend

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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BMS Lectures in Organic Synthesis

Gates Annex B122
Gregory Beutner, Associate Scientific Director, Reaction Sciences Group, Bristol-Myers Squibb,
Song Lin, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Fast Radio Bursts
Vikram Ravi, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Climate Feedback from Plant Physiological Responses to Increasing Atmospheric CO2 in Earth System Models
Yue Li, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Stabilizing a complex but promising dual phase cathode material: making lithium-rich, manganese-rich cathode materials useful
Jay Whitacre, Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon Universiry,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Optimal In-Kind Redistribution
Zi Yang Kang, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto,
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
9:00am – 10:00am
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project

Online Event
Unpacking the Implications of President Trump's Election Executive Orders
Justin Levitt, Professor of Law and Gerald T. McLaughlin Fellow, Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University,
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Employees: Therapy Pets Hang

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

Gates-Thomas 135
Smart Geomechanics
Ioannis Stefanou, Professor of Mechanics, UME, ENSTA, IP Paris,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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APACT Professional Development Workshop | LinkedIn Lab with James Berk

  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Grading Best Practices - Practical Advice for Consistent, Constructive Grading

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Inclusive Leadership 201

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Understanding Your Loan and Withdrawal Options in Regards to Federally Declared Disasters

Online and In-Person Event
2:45pm – 3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Moduli spaces of curves with polynomial point count
Hannah Larson, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
3:00pm – 7:00pm
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KISS Showcase and Caltech/JPL Networking Mixer

Chen 100
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Gram Matrices for Isotropic Vectors
Bernd Sturmfels, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Messinian flash floods & Mediterranean Gateway changes detected by plant biomarkers along the S Iberian Margin
Sarah Feakins, Professor of Earth Science, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism
Keidrick Roy, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar, Samuel Achilefu

Annenberg 105
Convergence of multi-spectral radiation for cancer detection and therapy
Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
On p-adic L-functions for GL(N)
Mladen Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, Université de Lille,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Feedback control of open quantum systems: Looking back, looking forward
Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125
Medieval Markets and Migration: Paris c. 1300
Nathan Sussman, Full Professor, International Economics & Pictet Chair in Finance and Development, Geneva Graduate Institute,
Friday, April 18th, 2025
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

10:00am – 11:15am
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Science Journey - Nature's Tango: How Insects Dance for Survival

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Exploring CFT Moments
David Poland, Yale University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 127
Structural Rationality, Strategic Reasoning, and Equilibrium
Marciano Siniscalchi, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Graduate Student Affinity Space

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Jordan-Wigner transformations on the torus
Frank Verstraete, University of Ghent, University of Cambridge,
1:45pm – 5:00pm
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The Second Annual Bill Gross Business Plan Competition

Chen 100
  • Internal Event
2:15pm – 3:15pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Performance-Portable Numerical Relativity with AthenaK and Applications
Hengrui Zhu, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Princeton University,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Illuminating Molecular Spin Relaxation Mechanisms through Ligand Field Theory and Physical Inorganic Spectroscopy
Nathanael Kazmierczak, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Collision of two plates in a gas
Hans Hornung, C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus, GALCIT, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Tight contact structures on Seifert fibrations
Hyunki Min, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CGSC Industry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Why So Many Ways to Die?
Dr. Vishva Dixit, Vice President, Physiological Chemistry, Genentech,
6:00pm – 10:00pm
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CPA Comedy Night

Dabney Hall, Lounge
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Saturday, April 19th, 2025
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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The Caltech Jazz Festival

Hameetman Center Patio
  • Public Event