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Ongoing – 1/3 11:59pm
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Winter Recess

Ongoing – 1/2 5:00pm
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Institute Holidays

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
11:00am – 12:00pm
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CTLO Office Hours for Winter Courses

Online Event
4:00pm – 1/19 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
All Day
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Beginning of Instruction of Winter Term

9:30am – 12:00pm
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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Monsoon depressions: Mechanisms & trends of high-impact storms at the edge of the tropics
William Boos, University of California Berkeley,
Thursday, January 5th, 2023
9:00am – 12:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

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

Gates-Thomas 135
Dynamics of Acoustically Coupled Combustion Instabilities
Ann Karagozian, Distinguished Professor and the Collins Aerospace Term Chair for Innovation, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Tests of quantumness with trapped ions
Crystal Noel, Duke University,
Friday, January 6th, 2023
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Measurement-induced phase transition in teleportation and wormholes
Alexey Milekhin, UC Santa Barbara,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
GRMHD Simulations of Neutrino-Driven Winds From Proto Neutron Stars
Dhruv Desai, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Columbia University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Multifunctional Origami Robots
Renee Zhao, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
On embedding periodic maps of surfaces into those of $S^m$
Zhongzi Wang, Peking University,
Monday, January 9th, 2023
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Alumni Mentors Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Jorgensen 109
Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
"Molecular Insights into Metal-Support Interactions for Catalyst Design."
Alexandra Velian, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Coherent matrix factorizations and superconnections
Zhaoting Wei, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M-Commerce,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk

Baxter Lecture Hall
Simplicity and Risk; Bulls and Binaries
Indira Puri, PhD Candidate in Economics, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Symmetry breaking in EFTs: from CPV to the axion quality problem
Quentin Bonnefoy, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Exotic Superconductivity in Graphene Multilayers
Erez Berg, Professor, CMP Quantum Matter, Weizmann Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
TBA
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
9:00am – 10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Insertion of Olefins into Nickel Alkyl Complexes: Mechanistic Studies and Polymerization Catalysis
Shuoyan Xiong, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Succeeding as a TA this Quarter

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CAEL Workshop: Resume Rescue

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)
12:00pm – 6:00pm
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Human Resources
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Nematic Liquid crystal flows with free boundary
Yannick Sire, Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Entropy, first eigenvalue and stability of the hyperbolic plane
Antoine Song, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Talbot Waterman Lecture - Mayank Mehta - Tuesday, January 10, 2023 @ 3:30 pm

Chen 100
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CPET Discussion Group "Book Club" series

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
AURORA ON MARS: DIVERSE, WIDESPREAD AND UNEXPECTED
Nick Schneider, Professor, Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk

Baxter Lecture Hall
Design-based Estimation Theory for Complex Experiments
Haoge Chang, PhD Candidate in Economics, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

Linde Hall 310
Local Langlands Conjectures
Michael Harris, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,
Wednesday, January 11th, 2023
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Crystalline Quantum Circuits
Grace Sommers, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 6:00pm
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Human Resources
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Tackle the Term - start the term off on the right foot!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Micro-scale biogeochemistry; global scale impacts
Andrew Babbin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Superlattices at van der Waals interfaces: Moiré Lattice Relaxation and Chemical Intercalation of 2D Heterostructures
Kwabena Bediako, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, UC Berkeley,
Thursday, January 12th, 2023
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Recent Advances in Data-Driven Computational Mechanics
Anna Gorgogianni, Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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'A Taste of Teaching' Thursdays

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 3:00pm
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CMS-EE Techfest January 2023

Moore Walk
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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STEMinar: UnDocuSTEM- Highlighting Undocumented Identity in STEM

Online Event
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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Radioactive Material Handling Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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CPA Writing Group Sessions

  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
AI for Chemical Space Exploration and Synthesis
Prof. Connor W. Coley, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk

Baxter Lecture Hall
The geometry of consumer preference aggregation
Fedor Sandomirskiy, Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
What Plato Can Teach Us About Livestreaming the Police; or, Five Theses on Legal Performance and Spectatorship
Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Michael Kolios

Annenberg 105
Action, Lights, Sound: using photoacoustics to probe changes in tissue structure during cancer treatment with nanobubbles
Professor Michael Kolios, Department of Physics at Ryerson University, Associate Dean of Research, Innovation and External Partnerships in the Faculty of Science at Toronto Metropolitan University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Square root p-adic L-functions
Michael Harris, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,
Friday, January 13th, 2023
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Cool Beans Coffee for Postdocs

Chen Breezeway
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar - CANCELED

Online and In-Person Event
Effective Field Theories with Celestial Duals.
Anastasia Volovich, Brown University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wave propagation in periodic acoustic metamaterials: from 1D to 3D
Gunho Kim, Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar Series: Combining Synthetic Chemistry and Biology for Streamlining Access to Complex Molecules | Dr. Hans Renata (Rice University)

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Combining Synthetic Chemistry and Biology for Streamlining Access to Complex Molecules
Dr. Hans Renata, Associate Professor, Rice University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Optimal Design for Emerging Techologies in Materials, Mechanics, and Manufacturing
Andrew Akerson, Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Tensor network algorithms for high-accuracy simulation of realistic materials
Matthew O'Rourke, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar

Annenberg 104
Leave-one-out randomized algorithms for matrix computations
Ethan Epperly, Graduate Student, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk

Baxter Lecture Hall
Non-Price Competition and Risk Selection Through Hospital Networks
Natalia Serna, PhD Candidate in Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Second order elliptic operators on triple junction surfaces
Gaoming Wang, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Synthesis and Reactivity of Phosphorus-Containing Heterocycles and Tetrahedranes
Martin-Louis Riu, Postdoctoral Scholar (Nelson Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
6:00pm – 10:00pm
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CPA Movie Screening: "The Swimmers"

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Internal Event
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room