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Registration for Winter Term

Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
9:30am – 1:00pm
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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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A Conversation with Distinguished Alumnus Dr. Charles Elachi (MS '69, PhD '71)

Online Event
  • Public Event
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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CCE DEI Town Hall: Part 2

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

Online Event
On the universal minimal flow of the homeomorphism group of a Knaster continuum
Lauren Wickman, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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The Criminal Justice System and its Racially Unequal Outcomes

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

Online and In-Person Event
Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s: Perspectives and Discussion
Fiona Harrison, Harold A. Rosen Professor of Physics; Chair, Divison of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Field Courses for All: Creating inclusive field learning opportunities for students and faculty with disabilities
Anita Marshall, University of Florida, Gainesville,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Online Event
New Materials at High Pressure
Wendy Mao, Professor, Geological Sciences, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Pivot Hamiltonians: a tale of symmetry, entanglement, and quantum criticality
Nat Tantivasadakarn, Harvard,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
Policymaking in times of crisis
Federica Izzo, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego,
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
10:00am – 11:00am
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LIGO Seminar

All-sky, all-frequency(ASAF) directional search for an anisotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background (SGWB)
Deepali Agarwal,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Machine learning in solid mechanics: improving modeling and design
Miguel Bessa, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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In Person Lunch for CS Undergrad Students (Opportunities with the Schmidt Academy)

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Build Your Own First Aid Kit

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

Online Event
"A concise total synthesis of lupin alkaloids"
Jeffrey K. Kerkovius, Reisman Group, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Interfacing Living and Non-Living Systems through Extracellular Electron Transfer
Benjamin (Keith) Keitz, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Exploring Mammals of L.A.'s Urban Core: A Community Effort
Miguel Ordeñana, Senior Manager, Community Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
TBA
Manish Mishra, Mathematics & Statistics, American University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Electrons in 2D moiré superlattices
Jie Shan, Cornell University,
Friday, December 3rd, 2021
All Day
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Last Day of Classes for Fall Term

10:00am – 11:00am
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IT Security Best Practices - CCE

Online Event
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Non-Invertible Duality Defects
Clay Cordova, University of Chicago,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Verification with Minimal Overhead, and Public Verification of Quantum Computation
Dominik Leichtle, Sorbonne Université,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
From Molecular Electrocatalysis to Molecular Electroassembly.
Lior Sepunaru, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Sloan Annex
Laver tables and large cardinals
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Breaking the Standard Model (of Embryonic Development)
Hernan G. Garcia, Professor, UC Berkeley,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Exploring galactic nuclei with tidal disruption events
Brenna Mockler, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Fracture of 2D Materials – In situ Experiments and ML Parameterized Force Fields

Online Event
Horacio D. Espinosa, James and Nancy Farley Professor of Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100
Antibody targeting of HIV-1 Env: A structural perspective
Morgan E. Abernathy, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Correlated electronic quantum materials by lattice and symmetry design
Linda Ye, Stanford,
4:30pm – 5:00pm
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Stress Free Library - Animal Crossing Livestream

Saturday, December 4th, 2021
8:00am – 12/7 11:59pm
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Study Period

12:00pm – 4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Cecchetti Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, December 6th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CPET Seminar by Professor Rob Phillips, Recipient of the 2021 Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Explore JPL #3

Online Event
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar

Online Event
Quantum Communications and Networking at ORN
Dr. Nicholas Peters, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Online Event
Computational methods for simulating and parameterizing nucleic acid secondary structure thermodynamics and kinetics
Mark E. Fornace, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
The Hilbert scheme of points on affine space
Burt Totaro, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
A search for heavy resonances decaying to HH in final states with leptons and a bottom quark pair in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV
Brent William Stone, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Online Event
Ni-Catalyzed Asymmetric Cross-Coupling of Carbonyl Derivatives with Unactivated Electrophiles: Synthesis and Mechanism.
Xiaoyu (Dan) Tong, Graduate Student (Fu Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 12/9 6:00pm
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Stress Free Library - Therapy Dogs

Sherman Fairchild Library, Lobby
5:25pm – 12/20 5:00pm
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JPL Virtual Postdoc Research Poster Conference 2021

7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

Online Event
JWST and the Search for the First Galaxies
Christina Williams, Research Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona,
Justin Spilker, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
8:00am – 12:00pm
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First Aid / AED / CPR Training (Day 1 of 2)

383 S. Hill Ave., Annex
8:00am – 12:00pm
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Starshot Lightsail Project Webinar

Online Event
11:00am – 2:00pm
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Caltech Associates: Holiday Luncheon with Mike Brown and Katherine de Kleer

Athenaeum
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Slip Patterns on Heterogeneous Frictional Interfaces
Kavya Sudhir, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
How do cells know their place and fish measure curl: decoding biological function from geometric patterns
Mariela Petkova, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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TIAA Science of Benefits: 529 College Savings Webinar

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Chasing Asteroids in the Infrared: NEOWISE and NEO Surveyor
Joe Maisero, Research Scientist, IPAC, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar: Dr. Teri Odom, Northwestern University

Online Event
KNI Distinguished Webinar
Dr. Teri Odom, Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Chemistry Department, Northwestern University,
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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PCP Theorem Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 387
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
Analyzing Text Data Indexed by a Hidden Characteristic: Method and Application to the Study of Media Bias in the U.S.
Yimeng Li, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Webinar: Probing Worlds Beyond our Solar System

Online Event
  • Public Event
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
8:00am – 12/10 11:59pm
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Final Examinations for Fall Term

8:00am – 12:00pm
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First Aid / AED / CPR Recertification Training

383 S. Hill Ave., Annex
11:00am – 11:45am
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Conversations on Sustainability: Microbes and Climate Change

Online Event
  • Public Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Online Event
On neural network approximations for partial differential equations and convergence analyses for gradient descent optimization methods
Arnulf Jentzen, Presidential Chair Professor / Professor of Applied Mathematics, Mathematics and Computer Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen / University of Münster,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
A dichotomy for σ -Baire class α functions
Andrew Marks, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Online Event
Harnessing Non-Covalent Interactions to Address Selectivity Challenges in Catalysis
Robert Phipps, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Ultracold molecules as clocks and sensors
Kon H. Leung, Physics, Columbia University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Exploration of Materials and Mesostructures Accessible via Inorganic Phototropic Growth
Kathryn R. Hamann, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Fundamental Stellar Astrophysics in the Gaia Era: A New Understanding of Local Stellar Populations
Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Astrophysics, College of Arts & Science, Vanderbilt University,
Marina Kounkel, Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
"Response of Monsoonal Rainfall to Greenhouse Warming in a Model Hierarchy" and "Localized ventilation in high-strain regions of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current"
Katrina Hui, Graduate Student, Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech,
Lily Dove, Graduate Student, Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech,