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Mike Brown, Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy; Terence D. Barr Leadership Chair, Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution; Director, Caltech Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar

Chen 100

Naturalistic Paradigms and Real Rewards for Unveiling Neurocognitive Mechanisms in Decision-Making and Addiction

Woo-Young Ahn, Professor in the Department of Psychology and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University,

Tuesday, September 30th, 2025

11:00am – 12:00pm

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PhD Thesis Seminar

Methodological Development and Computational Investigations of Metal-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions

Robert Anderson, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Caltech Library - Dabney Humanities Library Open House

Dabney Hall, Library

Internal Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Spill the Tea with CCID

Hameetman Center Patio

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Shaowei Li, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Powering Ganymede's Dynamo with Ongoing Core Formation

Kevin T. Trinh, Barr Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Trust but Verify? Experimental Evidence on Disclosure, Deception and Punishment in the Data Economy

Ginger Jin, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland,

Wednesday, October 1st, 2025

11:00am – 12:00pm

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

Online Event

A Conversation on Election Technology with Ben Adida, PhD, Executive Director of VotingWorks

Ben Adida, Founder and Executive Director, VotingWorks,

11:00am – 12:00pm

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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Towards an Analytic Bootstrap Framework for Thermal CFTs

Deniz Bozkurt, DESY,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Getting Started With Gradescope

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 254

Favorable tidal stress triggers more tremors with higher energies

Siyuan Zhang, Graduate Student, University of Southern California,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Cosmic Evolution of Star Formation, Gas, and Dust in Galaxies

Nick Scoville, Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, Astronomy Department, Caltech,

Andreas Faisst, Staff Scientist, IPAC, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Beyond strain and rotation: What do velocity gradients reveal about turbulent flows?

Rahul Arun, Foster and Coco Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

Alkene and Arene Functionalizations: Synthesis of Heterocyclic Natural Products

Kevin G.M. Kou, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside,

Internal Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

A General Framework for Estimating Preferences Using Response Time Data

Federico Echenique, Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley,

Thursday, October 2nd, 2025

11:00am – 12:00pm

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Mechanical and Civil Engineering

Gates-Thomas 135

Engineering Emergent Material Behaviors with Controlled Microstructures

Marcia A. Cooper, Associate Professor, J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University,

12:00pm – 2:00pm

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Caltech Library - TechHub Open House

Caltech Hall TechHub

Internal Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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CTLO - Summer Faculty Lunch Series

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room

12:00pm – 1:30pm

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EVOxZankou Seminar

Chen 100

"The structure and evolutionary consequences of an ancient genotype-phenotype map" and "A single-cell view of sexual dimorphism in wing scales"

Jaeda Patton, Postdoctoral Scholar, BBE, Caltech,

Ling Loh, Postdoctoral Scholar, BBE, Caltech,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Unoriented 2-dimensional TQFTs

Agustina Czenky, Simons Collaboration Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, USC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Quot schemes of points on torus knot singularities

Yifeng Huang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, USC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Structural Changes associated with Electron Transfer in Nitrogenase

Sundar Raam Swaminathan, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Manthiram Lab), Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Informal Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

Fast, Ultrasensitive, Label-Free Molecular Detection with FLOWER

Judith Su, Associate Professor in Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering and Craig M. Berge Faculty Fellow, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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