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Monday, May 13th, 2024
2:00pm 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Reactive Intermediates in the Atmosphere of Venus: The Catalytic Role of Chlorine Atoms
Wen Chao, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
  • Internal Event
3:00pm 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Altering Framework Topology and Heteroatom Distributions of Molecular Sieves by Designed Organic Structure-Directing Agents
Youngkyu Park, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech (Davis Group),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

The NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Survey of the North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field / A systematic study of AGN torus with NuSTAR
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Orbital Architecture of Planetary Systems formed by Gravitational Scattering and Collisions
Eiichiro Kokubo, Professor, Division of Science, Center for Computational Astrophysics, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Rethinking the Connections of Machine Learning and Control in the Era of Generative AI
Bin Hu, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Heavy quark transverse momentum-dependent fragmentation
Zhiquan Sun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
6:00pm 8:00pm
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Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
10:00am 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Freeze-Cast Porous Ceramics: Tailoring Chemistry and Porosity to Applications
Laura Quinn, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics

A theoretical framework for fault-slip styles from aseismic creep to regular earthquakes
Davide Zaccagnino, PhD student in Geophysics, Department of Geophysics, Sapienza University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Understanding the Tropospheric Impacts of Isoprene-Derived Carbonyl Oxide Criegee Intermediates: Direct Studies of an Elusive Class of Reactive Intermediates.
Rebecca Caravan, Assistant Chemist, Argonne National Laboratory,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Homotopy Groups of Spheres
Zhouli Xu, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Topic to be announced
Josh Graff Zivin, Professor; Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations; Director, Cowhey Center on Global Transformation; UC San Diego,
6:00pm 8:00pm
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
10:00am 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Novel Reactivity and Applications of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
Xiaoyu Dan Tong, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Search for Kerr from Multipole Moments on the Worldline
Trevor Scheopner, UCLA,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

On False Positive Error
Venkat Chandrasekaran, Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Invariant uniformization and reducibility
Michael Wolman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

The More the Merrier - Stellar Physics in the Era of Stellar, Transient, and Gravitational Wave
Selma de Mink, Scientific Director, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Changing Atmospheric Teleconnection Patterns over the North Pacific
Clara Deser, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Deciphering the chemical crosstalk of host-gut microbiota interactions
Pamela V. Chang, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Almost-idempotent quantum channels and approximate C*-algebras
Alexei Kitaev, Department Theoretical Physics & Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Accelerated Catalyst Design Beyond Sabatier Plot
Yu Huang, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Risk Aversion and Insurance Propensity
Fabio Maccheroni, Full Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, Università Bocconi,
6:00pm 8:00pm
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Thursday, May 16th, 2024
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

How "to see a world in a grain of sand"?
Rouslan Krechetnikov, Professor, Mathematical & Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

The Model T
Joshua Hausman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Visual Culture Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
John Brewer, Faculty Associate, History Department, Harvard University and Eli and Edythe Broad Emeritus Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
  • Public Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

AMPK: energy sensor and central guardian of mitochondrial homeostasis
Reuben Shaw, Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Bio-inspired Systems for Sustainability and Environmental Remediation
Ariel Furst, Paul M. Cook Career Development Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT,
4:00pm 6:00pm
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Chen-Huang Sustainability Series Lecture

Clean Electricity and the Path to Net Zero: Methods and Insights
Jesse D. Jenkins, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy & Environment, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT,
Friday, May 17th, 2024
10:00am 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Impact of Interfacial Chemistry on Corrosion, Sensing, and Catalytic Properties of Materials
John Evans, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Multipartite Edge Modes and Tensor Networks
Ronak Soni, University of Cambridge,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Games under the Tiered Deferred Acceptance Mechanism
Jiarui Xie, Visiting Student, UC Berkeley,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Lean Premixed Hydrogen Flames: Turbulence, Chemistry, and Modelling
Matthew Yao, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Kuang Ming (Allen) Shang

Oxygen-Regulating MEMS Devices for Cell Transplantation to Cure Type 1 Diabetes
Kuang Ming (Allen) Shang, Ph.D. Candidate (Med-EE Joint Track), Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, Caltech MEMS Lab, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
To infinity and beyond: the hyperboloidal framework in Black-hole perturbation theory
Rodrigo Macedo, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Overview of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&M and Finding the Origin of Heat Streaks on Hypersonic Canonical Geometries
Ivett A. Leyva, Ph.D., P.E., Department Head, College of Engineering Excellence Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Khovanov skein lasagna modules and exotica
Michael Willis, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Enantioselective Intramolecular Reactions of Palladium Enolates.
Christian Strong, Graduate Student (Stoltz Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Zachary Eilon, Associate Professor, Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

Integer and Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Crystalline Rhombohedral Graphene
Long Ju, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,