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Saturday, February 1st, 2020
1:30pm 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Boiadjian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, February 3rd, 2020
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Derived traces for Soergel categories
Eugene Gorsky, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

A Pan-STARRS and TESS Search for Distant Planets
Matthew Holman, Lecturer / SAO Astrophysicist, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Algorithms for Eliciting Machine Learning Metrics
Sanmi Koyejo, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

SUSY Rilles: A Speculation on Superstring Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background
S. James Gates, Jr., Brown University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Colloidal Electronics
Albert Tianxiang Liu, PhD Candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Online Optimization with Preference Feedback, Structured Decision Spaces, and Safety Constraints
Yanan Sui, Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

Cosmography and Black Hole Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves
Will Farr, Professor, Stoneybrook,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

Direct Characterization of Exoplanets with Long-Baseline Optical Interferometry
Jason Wang & Max Millar-Blachaer, Post Doc, Astronomy, Caltech (Astronomy),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

"Neural Adaptations and Behavioral Strategies for Aerial Interception of Targets in Visually Guided Predatory Insects"
Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, Assistant Professor, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota,
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Central limit theorem on conjugacy class measure of the symmetric group
Yuhui Jin, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Weak containment of subgroups
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Fault-tolerant quantum error correction in bosonic systems
Kyungjoo Noh, Graduate Student, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Detecting the Shadow of the Black Hole in M87
Feryal Ozel, Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

The Radiative Drivers of Climate Change: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns
William Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar

Engineered Protein Switches for Studying Dynamic Cellular Processes
Dustin Maly, Professor and Raymon E. and Rosellen M. Lawton Distinguished Scholar in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Washington,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate

Those Who Stayed: Selection and Cultural Change during the Age of Mass Migration
Anne Sophie Beck Knudsen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, Harvard University,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk

Moab Adventures
Eowyn Lucas, Alumna, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Snapping and Dancing Soft Structures
Francesco Dal Corso, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Italy,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

"Single cell spatial genomics with seqFISH+"
Chee Huat (Linus) Eng, Cai Group, CCE,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Special Chemical Biology Seminar

Structure, Occurrence, and Biological Functions of Chemical Modifications on Nucleic Acids
Huiqing "Jane" Zhou, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:30pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar

Invariance Theory
Bowen Yang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

The Christy Lecture: Cosmic alchemy in the era of gravitational wave astronomy
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Charge-Functional Soft Materials Design via Multiscale Molecular Modeling
Nicholas Jackson PhD, Assistant Scientist, Center for Molecular Engineering & Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory,
Friday, February 7th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

OPE inversion and light cone bootstrap in generic dimensions
Carlos Cardona, Bohr Institute,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Conformal field theories are magical
Christopher White, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Maryland Condensed Matter Theory Center,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Transformative Meta-Optical Systems
Dragomir N. Neshev, Professor, Physics, Australian National University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

The quest to observe the Turbulent Cascade in real time
Michael Brenner, Michael F. Cronin Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics and Professor of Physics, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University,
3:00pm 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Surface bundles, monodromy, and arithmetic groups
Bena Tshishiku, Department of Mathematics, Brown University,
4:00pm 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Local smoothing for the wave equation in $2+1$ dimensions
Ruixiang Zhang, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Cytochrome P450: Nature's Aircraft Carrier
Dr. Alec Follmer, Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemistry, Department of Chemistryt, Caltech,
5:00pm 5:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Counting rational points close to a hypersurface
Jing-Jing Huang, Mathematics & Statistics, University of Nevada, Reno,
7:00pm 8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Beyond the Pale Blue Dot: Seeing Distant Planets

Rich Terrile, Astronomer and Voyager Imaging Team Member, NASA-JPL,
Rob Zellem, Exoplanetary Astronomer, NASA-JPL,
  • Public Event
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Monday, February 10th, 2020
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

DG center and cocenter of a monoidal category
Matt Hogancamp, Mathematics Department, Northeastern University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

On the kinematics and dynamics of crystal-rich (hydrogranular) systems
George Bergantz, Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Structured neutron waves
Dmitry Pushin, University of Waterloo,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Shock Compression of Molybdenum Single Crystals to High Stresses Tomoyuki Oniyama, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. Thesis Defense
7:00pm 8:30pm
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Visual Culture Program

More Than Pretty Pictures
Felice Frankel, Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Science Photographer,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
12:00pm 1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program Workshop

Are your figures and cover submissions the best they can be?
Felice Frankel, Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Science Photographer,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Classical Coding Approaches to Quantum Applications
Narayanan Rengaswamy, Graduate Student, Duke University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Ultrafast Dynamics and Interactions of Molecular Vibrational Polaritons
Wei Xiong, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

"Overturning Ocean Circulations in Ocean Worlds" and "Observations of Exoplanetary Mass Loss with Ultra-Narrowband Helium Photometry"
Shreyas Vissapragada & Ana Lobo, Graduate Students, Planetary Science, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

"Regulation of Cardiopharyngeal Fates in Chordates"
Lionel Christiaen, Associate Professor, Biology, New York University,
4:15pm 5:15pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture

Emergent Ferromagnetism in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Aaron Sharpe, PhD Candidate, Applied Physics, Stanford University,
Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
9:00am 10:00am
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IUPAC Global Breakfast — Building Bonds to Create Future Leaders

IUPAC Global Breakfast — Building Bonds to Create Future Leaders
  • Public Event
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Automating Resolution is NP-Hard
Albert Atserias, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Non-Archimedean tsi Polish groups, and obstructions to Borel reducibility
Shaun Allison, Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Efficient Learning of Quantum Noise
Steve Flammia, Professor, University of Sydney,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Spitzer and the High Redshift Universe: Approaching Cosmic Dawn
Richard Ellis, Professor of Astrophysics, University College London,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Graph Signal Processing for Machine Learning Applications: New Insights and Algorithms
Antonio Ortega, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Southern California,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

What's on the menu? Investigating the selective diet of microbes using novel isotopic tools
Nagissa Mahmoudi, McGill University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

A safari through thousands of 2D materials guided by data science
Evan Reed, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk

Journey to the Arctic
Erin Burkett, ESL Graduate Writing Instructor; Lecturer in Engineering, Caltech,
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Thursday, February 13th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Fluctuations in the Life of a Cell: Maintaining Order Amidst Disorder
Vikram Deshpande, Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm 5:30pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar

Invariance Theory
Bowen Yang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Convolution morphisms and Kottwitz conjecture
Naoki Imai, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells
Ibrahim Cissé, MIT,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Nanomaterial Platforms for Transgene-Free Plant Genetic Engineering
Gözde Demirer, PhD Candidate, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, February 14th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Entanglement islands and the information paradox
Raghu Mahajan, IAS,