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Friday, May 1st, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

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1+1d adjoint QCD and non-invertible topological lines
Kantaro Ohmori, SCGP, Stony Brook University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

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Automated Decision Making for Safety Critical Applications
Mykel Kochenderfer, Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Dr. Trevor Lohrey, Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
Saturday, May 2nd, 2020
2:00pm 4:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Wedding Photography on Campus: Touloumdjian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, May 4th, 2020
2:00pm 3:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Special CCE Seminar

Prediction and design of biological sequences with neural machines
Debora Marks, Associate Professor, Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

TBD
Claudio Faccenna, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: H. B. Keller Colloquium

**CANCELLED** Variations on a theme by George Dantzig: Revisiting the principles of the Simplex Method
Jesus De Loera, Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Davis,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar

Online Event
Invariants of 4-manifolds from Khovanov-Rozansky link homology
Paul Wedrich, Max Planck Institute/University of Bonn/MSRI,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

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Composite Higgs Models at the LHC and beyond
Da Liu, UC Davis,
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
3:00pm 3:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Regularity of the centered fractional maximal function
David Beltran, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
3:00pm 5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Online Event
Structure, Function, and Application of Bacterial ABC Transporters
Chengcheng Fan, Graduate Student, BMB, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: General Biology Seminar

TBD
Elissa Hallem, Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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4:00pm 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
TBA
Luca Spolaor, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
An improved approximation algorithm for TSP in the half integral case
Nathan Klein, Graduate Student, University of Washington,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

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Big Ramsey degrees for finite binary classes forbidding finitely many structures
Andy Zucker, Université Lyon 1,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Stability and Robustness in Misspecified Learning Models
Mira Frick, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Astronomy Colloquium

TBD
Masami Ouchi, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture

Collin L. Broholm, Gerhard H. Dieke Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar

Chemical Biology of Protein Aggregation in the Membraneless Organelles and Stressed Proteome
Xin Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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"Explore Caltech" Talks

Online Event
Arun Nagpal, Graduate Student, Applied Physics,
Kevin Kaichuang Yang, Alumnus,
Celeste Labedz, Graduate Student, Geophysics,
  • Public Event
5:30pm 6:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

This seminar has been canceled.
Felicity Meakins, Associate Professor of Linguistics, The University of Queensland, Australia,
Thursday, May 7th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Fast and Guaranteed Safe Controller Synthesis for Dynamical Systems
Chuchu Fan, Dr., Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Finance Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Michael Sockin, Assistant Professor of Finance, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Online Event
"Biomolecular ultrasound imaging of in vivo phagolysosomal function"
Bill Ling, Shapiro Group, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Biochemistry Seminar

Base editing and prime editing: chemistry on the genome without double-strand breaks
David Liu, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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7:00pm 8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Becoming a NASA Engineer

Online Event
Tracy Drain, Flight Systems Engineer, JPL,
  • Public Event
Friday, May 8th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
1+1d adjoint QCD and non-invertible topological lines
Dan Harlow, MIT,
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Simulating the collapse of false-vacuum bubbles in spin chains
Ash Milsted, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Online Event
Got Stress? Visualizing and Inferring Film Stresses in patterned Wafers
Ares Rosakis, Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, GALCIT, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Characterizing handle-ribbon knots
Maggie Miller, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Title TBD
Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton, UK,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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7:00pm 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Online Event
The Loneliest Galaxies in the Universe
Mia de los Reyes, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, May 9th, 2020
Monday, May 11th, 2020