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Thursday, May 24th, 2018
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Exploring the Energy Frontier at the Large Hadron Collider
Eva Halkiadakis, Professor of Physics, Rutgers University,
Friday, May 25th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at NCAA Championships

9:30am – 10:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151
Development of Stereoselective Iridium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation Methods
Samantha Shockley, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
11:00am – 4:00pm
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Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
TBD
Volker Schomerus, DESY,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151
A Synthetic Nitrogenase: Insights into the Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by a Single-Site Fe Catalyst
Niklas Thompson, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Holographic Orbifold CFTs
Christoph Keller, University of Arizona,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Gates-Thomas 115
Improving Seismic Collapse Risk Assessments of Steel Moment Frame Buildings
Kenny Buyco, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 314
Addressing Challenges in Autonomy: Lessons from Information and Control Theories
REZA AHMADI, Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences , UT Austin,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Measuring black hole spins in TDEs: a QPO in ASASSN-14 li
Alessia Franchini, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
2:30pm – 5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Melik-Jahanian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Algorithms in group theory
Rita Gitik, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Alice Chang, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:30pm – 6:30pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech vs. NCAA Championships

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Antoine Gloria, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Sorbonne Université ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--CANCELLED

5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Sharp Strichartz inequalities for fractional and higher order Schrödinger equations
Diogo Oliveira e Silva, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Grand Tour: Exploring Planets Outside the Solar System
Heather Knutson, Professor, Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
Saturday, May 26th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at NCAA Championships

12:00pm – 4:00pm
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2018 Caltech Chess Spring Tournament

Avery Library
12:00pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Seferian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, May 28th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Memorial Day (Institute Holiday)

Off Campus
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Siapyan & Good Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 9:00pm
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Techstock 2018: Music and Arts Festival

Beckman Institute Lawn
Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
9:30am – 10:30am
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Fire Extinguisher Training

11:00am – 4:00pm
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Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Let's Talk! Sponsored by Counseling Services

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Nonstandard natural numbers in Ramsey Theory
Mauro Di Nasso, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Atmospheres and Climates of Rocky Exoplanets: What Earth tells us about them, and what they can teach us about Earth
Daniel Koll, Department of Earth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
"Neural Circuits Controlling Sleep"
Yang Dan, Professor of Neurobiology, Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Atom-by-Atom Engineering with 2D Materials
Andrew Mannix, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Mary Szybist, American Poet,
Wednesday, May 30th, 2018
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 205
Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness
Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania,
11:00am – 4:00pm
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Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Let's Talk! Sponsored by Counseling Services

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Identification of Wiz, a novel Lenalidomide and Pomalidomide dependent substrate
Helen Yu, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
A short proof of l^2 decoupling for the parabola
Zane Li, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Kloosterman Sums
Zavosh Amir Khosravi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Spitzer Space Telescope: What Have We Learned Lately?
Tom Soifer, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Engineering Quantum States in 2D Materials and Heterostructures
Stevan Nadj-Perge, Assistant Professor, Applied Physics and Materials Science, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Sequentially Optimal Mechanism Design
Laura Doval, Assistant Professor of Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
11:00am – 4:00pm
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Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"Design and Fabrication of Compliant Structures, Mechanisms, and Materials"
Jonathan B. Hopkins, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213
Online Experiment Design
Reza Eghbali, Research Fellow, SIMONS Institute for the Theory of Computing,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Failure of the L^1 pointwise ergodic theorem for PSL_2(R)
Peter Burton, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Chad Kendall, USC

Baxter B125
Herding and Contrarianism: A Matter of Preference?
Chad Kendall, Assistant Professor, Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
The mod p derived Hecke algebra and its action on arithmetic cohomology
Niccolo' Ronchetti, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
All the Black Holes in the Universe
Rana Adhikari, Professor of Physics, Caltech,