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Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest - India Cultural Trip

Online Event
  • Public Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Martin F. Jarrold, Professor and Robert & Marjorie Mann Chair, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
"Internal Senses of the Vagus Nerve"
Steve Liberles, Professor, Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
This seminar has been canceled.
Tomasz Strzalecki, Professor of Economics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

Online Event
Recovery of Earth after the Moon-forming giant impact
Simon Lock, Postdoc, Planetary Science, Caltech,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Webinar: Everything You Wanted to Know about Viruses—An Introduction

Online Event
Rob Phillips, Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics, Biology, and Physics, Caltech,
  • Public Event
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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QuaranTrio – Live from Philadelphia

Online Event
  • Public Event
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
Nearly Optimal Static Las Vegas Succinct Dictionary
Huacheng Yu, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
TBA
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
The Poisson Boundary of countable groups
Josh Frisch, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Guarantees in Fair Division: General or Monotone Preferences
Hervé Moulin, Professor of Economics, University of Glasgow,
12:00pm – 4/26 11:00pm
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World Fest - Culture Show - Virtual World Tour, Part 2

Online Event
  • Public Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Lab Safety Orientation Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Astronomy Colloquum

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
TBD
Didier Queloz, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: CANCELED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
This seminar has been canceled.
Karam Kang, Associate Professor of Economics, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Alexander Balandin, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Biocatalysis and complex molecule synthesis
Alison Narayan, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
This seminar has been canceled.
Jill North, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Can't We Learn to Anticipate Environmental "Costs" of New Technologies?
Phil Gschwend, Ford Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Watson Lecture - A Geodesy Odyssey: Mapping Disasters From Space

Beckman Auditorium
Susan Owen, Principal Investigator and Project Scientist, Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) for Natural Hazards Project, JPL,
  • Public Event
Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
10:00am – 2:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Take Our Children to Work Day 2020

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

Online Event
Reduced-Order Modelling: Simplifying the Description of Chemically-Complex Fluids
Josette Bellan, Dr., Department of Mechanical and Civil Enineering, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest - Journey to the Northern Lights

Online Event
  • Public Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech Sites Office Hours

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Christian Kaiser, Assistant Professor of Biology, Johns Hopkins,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Webinar on Health, Sustainability, and COVID-19

Online Event
  • Public Event
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Library Workshop - Introduction to Zotero - Zoom Session

Online Event
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program

Baxter Lecture Hall
This event has been canceled.
Rob Giampietro, Director of Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York,
  • Public Event
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Meditation Class (Session 3 of 6)

Online Event
  • Internal Event
Friday, April 24th, 2020
10:00am – 11:00am
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▶︎ CANCELED: Beyond Bones: Reading the Fossil Record of Earth and Other Worlds

Beckman Auditorium
Ceclia Sanders, Graduate Student, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
Double-scaled and Supersymmetric SYK
Vladimir Narovlansky, Princeton University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Harvesting proximity effect in 2D Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Heterostructures for Spin and Valleytronics
Ding Zhong, Postdoctoral Scholar, Applied Physics and Materials Science, Faraon Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest - Italian Pasta Making Demonstration

Online Event
  • Public Event
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Logic Seminar

Online Event
Borel asymptotic dimension and hyperfinite equivalence relations
Brandon Seward, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Online Event
Vortex-Wall Interactions of Spatially and Temporally Evolving Vortex Pairs
Sarah Morris, Cornell University,
Monday, April 27th, 2020
9:00am – 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Applied Safety Critical Control
Thomas Gurriet, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
10:00am – 11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
New limit of the neutron electric dipole moment
Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland,
11:00am – Ongoing
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TEMPORARILY CLOSED: Exhibit "Becoming Caltech, Building a Research Community, 1910-1930" - Weekdays, 11 AM-4 PM

Beckman Institute 131
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: CNS Seminar

Arvind Murugan, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Laurent Jolivet, Professor, Department of Earth and Cosmic Sciences, Sorbonne Université,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
**CANCELLED**Cities, Voting, and Spiders Spinning under the Influence: Spatial Applications of Topological Tools
Michelle Feng, Graduate Student, Mathematics Department, University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
TBD
Laurent Jolivet, Sorbonne Université,
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
9:30am – 10:30am
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▶︎ CANCELED: Fire Extinguisher Training

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - You and Your Thesis - Zoom Session

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
This seminar has been canceled.
Yusuke Narita, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

Online Event
The history of water on Mars as constrained through hydrogen isotopes & Possible evidence of p-modes in Saturn's gravity field
Eva Scheller, Graduate Student, Department of Geology,
Stephen Markham, Graduate Student, Department of Planetary Sciences,
  • Internal Event
Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
8:00am – Ongoing
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Midterm Examination Period

10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
Non-Adaptive Adaptive Sampling in Turnstile Streams
Sepideh Mahabadi, Research Assistant Professor, TTIC,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
TBA
Niles Pierce, Professor, Applied and Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Tiling properties and pointwise ergodic theorems
Jenna Zomback, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Assignment Markets: Theory and Experiments
Cesar Martinelli, Professor of Economics, George Mason University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
TBD
Andrea Ghez, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Astronomy, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
** CANCELED** From Feedforward-Designed Convolutional Neural Networks (FF-CNNs) to Successive Subspace Learning (SSL)
C.-C. Jay Kuo, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Media Communications Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Title TBD
Young-Shin Jun, Washington University St. Louis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Synthetic Biology Approaches to Study and Exploit RNA Regulation
Bryan Dickinson, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
This seminar has been canceled.
Isabel Trevino, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC San Diego,
6:00pm – 9:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Caltech Associates: Breaking the Bad

Athenaeum
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program

Dabney Hall, Lounge
This event has been canceled.
Bill Odenkirk, American Comedy Writer,
  • Public Event
Thursday, April 30th, 2020
10:00am – 11:00am
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▶︎ CANCELED: School-Day Show: TheaterworksUSA presents "Dog Man: The Musical"

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Interaction of Seismic Waves with Geomaterial Heterogeneity: From Multi-Scale Scattering Mechanisms to Dynamic Response of Geostructures
Kami Mohammadi, Dr., Department of Mechanical and Civil Enineering, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Online Event
"Structure-guided design of adeno-associated viral capsids with expanded sizes"
Xiaozhe Ding, Gradinaru group, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Fundamentals of Graduate School Applications

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
A Synthesis of Behavioural and Mainstream Economics
Robert J. Aumann, Professor of Mathematics, Hebrew University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech Sites Office Hours

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
CANCELED: Scaffold-Mediated Control of Competing Kinase Reactions in the Wnt Signaling Network
Jesse Zalatan, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life

Baxter Lecture Hall
CANCELLED: Subra Suresh Distinguished Lecture Series, EAS
Frances Arnold, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Chen Institute Virtual Seminar

Online Event
Forced Exploration and the "New Normal" from COVID-19
Colin Camerer, Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair and Director, Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
  • Public Event