Institute Calendar
December 2020
Ongoing
Ongoing
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12/4
11:59pm
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Online Event
Quantum Simulation and Optimization in Near-Term Quantum Computers
Leo Zhou,
Graduate Student,
Harvard University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Finite temperature simulations of strongly correlated systems
Chong Sun,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:00pm
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3:50pm
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4:00pm
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4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Proving Positive Lyapunov Exponents: Beyond Independence
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Atmospheric Mixing in Cool Exoplanet Analogs
Brittany Miles,
Graduate Reserach Fellow,
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Online Event
"Targeting Neural Circuits to Address Pain and Addiction "
Xiaoke Chen,
Associate Professor,
Biology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar
Online Event
Transitioning to a Future Low Carbon Energy System: Key Scientific and Technological Challenges
Peter F. Green,
Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology and Chief Research Officer,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL),
- Public Event
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Contraction Analysis in Optimization, Learning, and Adaptive Prediction and Control
Jean-Jacques Slotine,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Information Sciences / Brain and Cognitive Sciences / Director of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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10:45am
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12:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar
Online Event
Expanding the Synthetic Capabilities of Yeast
Virginia Cornish,
Helena Rubinstein Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
The definable content of homological invariants I: Ext(−,−)Ext(−,−) and lim1(−)lim1(−)
Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos,
Institute for Mathematical Logic and Basic Research,
University of Münster,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Behavioral Neural Networks
Shaowei Ke,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Michigan,
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Collective Gravity in the Outer Solar System
Ann-Marie Madigan,
Researcher,
University of Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
J. Dowling: Role of Long-Duration Energy Storage in Variable Renewable Electricity Systems ❖ K. Vasquez: Rapid hydrolysis of tertiary isoprene nitrate efficiently removes NOx from the atmosphere
Jackie Dowling,
Caltech,
Krystal Vasquez,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Neutron Scattering applied to Hydrogen Storage in Metal-Organic Frameworks at the NIST Center for Neutron Research
Craig Brown,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
University of Delaware, Team Lead Structure and Dynamics of Materials National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
9:00am
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9:55am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Online Event
Attentional Foundations of Framing Effects
Ernst Fehr,
Professor of Economics and Director of the UBS Center for Economics in Society,
University of Zurich,
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Pattern Formation in Suspension Flows
Sungyon Lee,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Minnesota,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Online Event
The quest for an atomic understanding of prions, model members of the amylome
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Understanding and Engineering Catalytic Materials Using Nanocrystal Precursors
Matteo Cargnello,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering and SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Exploring novel forms of endoplasmic reticulum with electron cryo-tomography (cryo-ET)"
Stephen Carter (Jensen Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Multipole moments and fractional corner charges of insulating materials
Haruki Watanabe,
University of Tokyo,
Friday, December 4th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Khovanov homology from string theory
Mina Aganagic,
UC Berkeley,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Precise Calibrations of Few-Body Physics in Potassium-39
Xin Xie,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Endres Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar--POSTPONED UNTIL 2021
Online Event
Impacts of Surface Chemistry in Metal and Metal-Like Nanoparticle Synthesis, Structure, and Performance
Jill Erin Millstone,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry; Department of Chemical Engineering; Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Approximating Operators with Deep Learning
Nikola Kovachki,
Graduate Student,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Star Formation in the Turbulent-Multiphase Interstellar Medium
Shmuel Bialy,
ITC Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute for Theory and Computations (ITC),
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Probabilistic Programming Semantics for Name Generation
Michael Wolman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, December 5th, 2020
8:00am
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12/8
11:59pm
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Monday, December 7th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Algorithm is Experiment: Machine Learning, Market Design, and Policy Eligibility Rules
Yusuke Narita,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics & Cowles Foundation,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Exoplanets as New Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detectors
Rebecca Leane,
SLAC,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Inaugural IDEAS Lecture
Online Event
Point of Care, Everywhere!
Axel Scherer,
Bernard A. Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Medical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
10:30am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
Light activated matter: from sustainability to quantum information science
Giulia Galli,
Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering & Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Seasons in Titan's lower stratosphere
Melody Sylvestre,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
School of Earth Sciences,
University of Bristol,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
8:00am
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12/11
11:59pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
This seminar has been postponed.
Konstantin Sonin,
John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor,
Harris School of Public Policy,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
The definable content of (co)homological invariants II: definable cohomology and homotopy classification
Jeffrey Bergfalk,
Kurt Gödel Research Center,
University of Vienna,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Online Event
Leveraging Cyclophane and 1,2,3-Triazole Synthesis to Prospect for Novel Atropisomeric Scaffolds, Fluorophores, and Colorimetric Sensors
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Informal Seminar
Online Event
The Double Copy of Electric-Magnetic Duality
Uri Kol,
NYU,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Exoplanet Imaging with Extremely Large Telescopes
Rebecca Jensen-Clem,
Assistant Professor,
UC Santa Cruz,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - The Inner Life of the Brain: Fear, Sex, and Violence
Online Event
David J. Anderson,
Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology; Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, December 10th, 2020
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
The hole event for Gaussian complex zeros and the emergence of quadrature domains
10:30am
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11:30am
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Revealing Hidden Dimensions in Soft Materials (or How to Play a Chord on a Rheometer)
James W. Swan,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Cardiac neural crest plasticity and its application to mending congenital heart defects"
Shashank Gandhi (Bronner Group),
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Microstructure-Enabled Plasticity in Nano-to-Microscale Materials
Haolu (Jane) Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, December 11th, 2020
All Day
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Science Journey: "From Pencil Lead to Skyscrapers: Building the Future with Carbon Nanomaterials"
Online Event
Michael Mazza,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
10:30am
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11:00am
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
Structure, Dynamics and Degradation of Batteries - From LCO, NCA and NMC-811 to New Materials to Enable Fast Charging
Clare P. Grey,
Fellow Pembroke College Cambridge; Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in Materials Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Cambridge,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Human, Scientist
Jennifer Jahner,
Professor of English (HSS),
Kriti Sharma,
Postdoctoral Scholar (GPS),
Charles Xu,
Graduate Student in Physics (PMA),
Maura Dykstra,
Assistant Professor of History (HSS),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Neuro Afternoon Meeting via Zoom
David Khan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
BBE,
Caltech,
Yue Xu,
Graduate Student,
Computation and Neural Systems,
Caltech,
Iman Wahle,
Scholar,
Schmidt Academy for Software Engineering,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Angular momentum in Einstein-Maxwell theory
Alexander Grant,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Department of Physics,
University of Virginia,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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Saturday, December 12th, 2020
8:00am
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Monday, December 14th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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1:00pm
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