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January 2023

Wednesday, January 25th, 2023

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biology Seminar - Madan Babu - Tuesday, January 24, 2023 - 4 pm

Chen 100

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Hope Michelsen, Associate Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado Boulder,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

BRINGING ORDER TO CHAOS: INSIGHTS ON THE FORMATION OF CHAOS TERRAIN FROM GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF EUROPA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ICE SHELL EVOLUTION

Erin Leonard, Post-doctoral Researcher, Planetary Geoscience, JPL,

Wednesday, January 25th, 2023

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

Academic

11:00am – 12:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event

Towards fast hardware decoding: parallel window decoding and Riverlane's progress

Earl Campbell, Riverlane & University of Sheffield,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213

Connections between Iterative Methods for Linear Systems and Consensus Dynamics on Networks

Jamie Haddock, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Coping with Procrastination workshop for students

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CPET Seminar, "Developing Your Dossier"

Online Event

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Combinatorics Seminar

Linde Hall 255

Graphs with large minimum degree and large girth are three-colourable

Jozef Skokan, Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics and Political Science,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Commencing the Era of Fast Radio Burst Cosmology

Liam Connor, Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar, Radio Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Understanding and Managing Ecosystems in a Time of Rapid Environmental Change

Jeff Dukes, Carnegie Institution for Science,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Materials design for critical element separation

Chong Liu, Assistant Professor, Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114

Moiré Materials and their New Degrees of Freedom

Yuan Cao, Harvard,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Alumni Fireside Chat, RSI Entrepreneurship

Online Event

Cody Finke, Caltech Alum, CEO and Co-Founder of Brimstone

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Thursday, January 26th, 2023

10:30am – 12:00pm

Campus History & Architectural Tour

Athenaeum

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Koopman Operator Theory Based Machine Learning of Dynamical Systems

Igor Mezic, Distinguished Professor, College of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara,

12:00pm – 1:30pm

'A Taste of Teaching' Thursdays

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CAEL Workshop: Career Fair Preparation

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)

1:00pm – 5:30pm

Perpall Speaking Competition Finals

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Internal Event

3:00pm – 5:00pm

CPA Writing Group Sessions

Internal Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

"How does protein synthesis start in eukaryotes?"

Dr. Jinfan Wang, Research Scientist, Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

LA Probability Forum

Linde Hall 310

A tale of three coauthors: comparison of Ising models

Barry M. Simon, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

Shedding nano-light on quantum materials

Dmitri Basov, Columbia University,

5:00pm – 8:00pm

Carnival of Souls Movie Night and Discussion

Center for Student Services, Lobby

5:00pm – 6:00pm

LA Probability Forum

Linde Hall 310

Chemical distance for 2d critical percolation

Lily Reeves, Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University,

6:00pm – 7:00pm

LA Probability Forum

Linde Hall 310

Spin glass phase at zero temperature in the Edwards-Anderson model

Sourav Chatterjee, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,

7:30pm – 10:00pm

Alpine Club Talk: Zachary Green- A Long Term Goal Realized: The Nose

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Friday, January 27th, 2023

10:00am – 12:00pm

Cool Beans Coffee for Postdocs

Chen Breezeway

Internal Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Distinguishing SCFTs in Four and Six Dimensions

Craig Lawrie, DESY,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special Chemical Biology Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Chemical Proteomics – Driving biological discovery and therapeutic development

Dr. Madeline Kavanagh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cravatt Lab, The Scripps Research Institute,

2:00pm – 3:56pm

TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

The Next Generation of Barred-Galaxies

Steven Gough-Kelly, Graduate Student, Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central Lancashire,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Developing imaging technologies to search for, discover, and understand life in the deep sea

Kakani Katija, Principal Engineer, Research and Development, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Khovanov-type homology of null homologous links in RP^3

Daren Chen, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Catalytic Asymmetric C-H Insertion Reactions of Vinyl Carbocations

Sepand Nistanaki, Graduate Student (Nelson Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

Saturday, January 28th, 2023

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Caltech Jazz Band Concert with Guest Artist Bob Mintzer

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, January 29th, 2023

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech Chamber Music Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

Monday, January 30th, 2023

12:00pm – 12:55pm

CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk

Annenberg 105

Data Science Applications to the Video Game Industry

Jonathan Lane, Senior Director of Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning at Activision Publishing, Activision,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Faculty Pedagogy Journal Club

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

2:15pm – 3:15pm

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Crellin 151

Yunho Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University,

Jaeheung Cho, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387

On P^1-stabilization in unstable motivic homotopy theory

Aravind Asok, Department of Mathematics, USC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Covariance-modulated optimal transport and gradient flows

Franca Hoffmann, Assistant Professor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Coaction and cuts for Feynman diagrams and integrals

Ruth Britto, Trinity College Dublin & IAS,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114

Nano-optical probe of van der Waals interfaces

Dmitri N Basov, Professor, Department of Physics, Columbia University,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Hiding the Vegetables: Mark Rober's Artform of Science Communication

Beckman Auditorium

7:00pm – 9:00pm

▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Astronomy on Tap

"Mars Rovers" and "Rocket Physics"

Tina Seeger, PhD Candidate, Division of Geology & Planetary Science, Caltech,

Justin Foley, Systems Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Public Event

Tuesday, January 31st, 2023

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Assessment Methods that Promote Student Learning - Workshop Series

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Bi & Beyond Workshop

Kerckhoff 119

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Logic Seminar

Online Event

Classification strength of Polish groups and involving S∞

Shaun Allison, Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Structure and Complexity of Graphical Designs for Weighted Graphs through Eigenpolytopes

Catherine Babecki, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Inaugural Peter B. Dervan Lecture

Gates Annex B122

A Decade of CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing: What's Ahead for the Technology and Its Applications

Jennifer A. Doudna, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CAEL Workshop: Career Fair Preparation

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Revisiting the Core Accretion Paradigm for Giant Planet Formation: Analytic Framework for the Late Infall Stage and the Distribution of Planetary Masses

Fred Adams, Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Detecting (high frequency) gravitational waves in a box

Diego Blas, UA Barcelona, IFAE,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

NB & CNS Seminar - Terry Sejnowski - Tuesday, January 31, 2023 - 4 pm

Chen 100

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Telling Our Stories: Journaling Workshop

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area