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Registration for Spring Term

Monday, March 1st, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Anticlassification results for groups acting freely on the line
Filippo Calderoni, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
A Test of the Selection on Observables Assumption Using a Discontinuously Distributed Covariate
Nese Yildiz, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Rochester,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Online Event
Critical Computing Education
Amy Ko, Professor, Informatics Program Chair, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Loops and Trees in Generic 4d EFT up to operator dimension 8
Yingying Li, Fermilab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Online Event
Significance of Quasi Fermi Level at Photo-Electrochemical Interfaces for Solar Energy Conversion
Weilai Yu, Graduate Student (Lewis Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
10:00am – 10:50am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Magnetic skyrmions in the conformal limit
Cyrill Muratov, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology,
10:00am – 11:00am
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CPET Teaching Seminar - Telescope to Microscope: Examining Crucial Teaching Practices Across Scales

Online Event
11:00am – 11:50am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
TBA
Betsy Stovall, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
11:00am – 12:15pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Online Event
Engineering Immunology using Chemistry and Data Science
Gaurav Chopra, Assistant Professor, Analytical and Physical Chemistry, Purdue University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Spill the Tea with Allie McIntosh hosted by SAGE Council, Equity & Title IX, & the CCID

Online Event
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Online Event
Local Symmetric Quantum Circuits: How, in the presence of symmetry, locality restricts realizable unitaries
Iman Marvian, Assistant Professor, Duke University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Quantum Sensors for Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter
Noah Kurinsky, FNAL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Online Event
Convective Inhibition in the Solar System and Beyond/Deep Helium Transits in the V1298 Tau System
Stephen Markham, Graduate Student, Department of Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology,
Shreyas Vissapragada, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Online Event
"Anti-Oncogenic Dynamics of Hematopoiesis"
Thomas Hofer, Professor, Theoretical Systems Biology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum,
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
9:00am – 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

Online Event
Walking the Boundary of Learning and Interaction
Dorsa Sadigh, Assistant Professor, Departments of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
A Theory of Universal Learning
Steve Hanneke, Research Assistant Professor, TTIC,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Online Event
Chemical Tools that IMPACT Lipid Signaling
Jeremy M. Baskin, Assistant Professor, Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology, Cornell University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
The power of referential advice
Nicolas Lambert, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, MIT,
1:30pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Weekly SURF Drop-in Sessions for Undergrads

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Discovering, Weighing, and Characterizing Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
Tim Brandt, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Molecules, Microbes, and the Ocean Carbon Cycle
Mary Ann Moran, University of Georgia in Athens,
4:00pm – 3/5 5:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
Lorentzian Dynamics and Factorization beyond Rationality
Ying-Hsuan Lin, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Online Event
Computationally Guided Alloy Design through Control of Bulk and Interfacial Phases
Mark Asta, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Caltech Connect training for students - Working effectively with students in distress

Online Event
Thursday, March 4th, 2021
9:00am – 9:55am
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Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Stability results for anisotropic systems of wave equations
John Anderson, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
10:00am – 11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar

Online Event
Thinking the Right Thoughts
Nathaniel Daw, Huo Professor in Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience, Princeton University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Experimental Fluid Mechanics with Machine Learning
Isabel Scherl, PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Finding Your Voice: Using Science to Engage Local Government & Communities

Online Event
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Women's History Trivia hosted by SAGE Council, Equity & Title IX, & the CCID

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Online Event
Linker Proteins Tie the Nuclear Pore Complex Together
Stefan Petrovic (Hoelz Group), Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Online Event
Fa Ngamnithiporn, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Connection, Belonging, and Community: 2 part Winter Meditation Series with Jaime Rossfeld

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online Event
Designer Atoms and Molecules for Fundamental Science
Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, MIT,
Friday, March 5th, 2021
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
Shocks and Shifts in Celestial CFT
Andrea Puhm, Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Ultrafast strong-field-induced band engineering in Ca2RuO4
Xinwei Li, Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group,
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
The Molecular Vision of Life | Reading Group Pt. 1
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online Event
Spritz: General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics with Neutrinos​
Federico Cipolletta, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Stable and unstable homology of graph braid groups
Ben Knudsen, Mathematics Department, Northeastern University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations in Equatorial Atmosphere and Oceans

Online Event
Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations in Equatorial Atmosphere and Oceans
Harindra Joseph Fernando, Professor, Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Day of Remembrance Facilitated Films Discussion

Online Event
Saturday, March 6th, 2021
12:01am – Ongoing
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"A Weekend with Pablo Picasso"

Online Event
  • Public Event
Monday, March 8th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Women's Day Virtual Speak Out

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Infinitary continuous logic and descriptive set theory
Maciej Malicki, Department of Foundations of Mathematics, IMPAN,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

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

Online Event
Merger, Product Variety and Firm Entry: the Retail Craft Beer Market in California
Ying Fan, Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Economics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Searching for new physics at cosmic dawn and reionization
Julian Muñoz, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Online Event
Electrocatalytic Strategies Towards Nitrogen Reduction Using Concerted-Proton Electron Transfer Mediators
Pablo Garrido Barros, Postdoctoral Scholar (Peters Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Your Career—Shoot for the Stars

Online Event
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
11:00am – 12:15pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Online Event
Control of Soft Matter with Magnetic Fields
Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Materials Science and Engineering Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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BMB Winter Rotation Seminar

Online Event
6:45pm – 8:15pm
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Caltech Debate Toastmasters Club

Online Event
  • Public Event
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
All Day
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Last Day of Classes for Winter Term

9:00am – 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

Online Event
Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent State
Benjamin Van Roy, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, and of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar

Online Event
Designing Brighter Dyes for Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy
Luke D. Lavis, Senior Group Leader and Head of Molecular Tools and Imaging, HHMI - Janelia Research Campus,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Random versus Directed Search for Scarce Resources
Teddy Mekonnen, Orlando Bravo Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Brown University,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Create a Lasting Legacy: Effective estate and tax planning

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Weekly SURF Drop-in Sessions for Undergrads

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Dark Matter Clues from the Tiniest Galaxies
Risa Wechsler, Professor of Physics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Online Event
Identifying New CFC Emissions Through Joint Inference of Banks and Lifetimes, with Impacts on the Ozone Layer and Climate
Megan Lickley, Postdoctoral Associate in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Online Event
Electron Dynamics in Materials from First Principles
Marco Bernardi, Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology,