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Chaitan Khosla, Wells H. Rauser and Harold M. Petiprin Professor and Professor of Chemistry and, by courtesy, of Biochemistry, Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,

5:30pm – 7:30pm

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PMA Postdoc Social

Internal Event

Wednesday, April 5th, 2023

9:30am – 12:00pm

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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Online Event

11:30am – 12:30pm

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Caltech Employees: Meditation and Reducing Stress Workshop

Online Event

1:00pm – 2:30pm

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Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training - Unit 1 - Disaster Preparedness

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Illuminating the Origins of the Universe's Fastest Transients

Wen-fai Fong, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Atmospheric Aerosol Formation from Anthropogenic Pollution

Mingyi Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall

Evaluating Instrument Validity using the Principle of Independent Mechanisms

Patrick F. Burauel, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Gates Annex B122

Structures and Mechanisms of Assembly-Line Polyketide Synthases (Technical Lecture)

Chaitan Khosla, Wells H. Rauser and Harold M. Petiprin Professor and Professor of Chemistry and, by courtesy, of Biochemistry, Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,

4:30pm – 6:00pm

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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series

Online and In-Person Event

Alumni Fireside Chat - Engineer Goes Rogue

Kevin Noertker,

Thursday, April 6th, 2023

11:00am – 12:00pm

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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Bulging and Poking of 2D Materials

Nanshu Lu, Professor, Frank and Kay Reese Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin,

12:00pm – 1:30pm

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'Taste of Teaching' Thursdays 2.0

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

3:00pm – 5:00pm

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CPA Writing Group Sessions-April

Caltech Hall 9th Floor

Public Event

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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Informal Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"Construct exchange-correlation functional via machine learning"

Guanhua Chen, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Arab American Heritage Month: Cultural Exchange Event

Center for Student Services, Lobby

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

Keeping it together: How single-molecule imaging can reveal the mechanisms of DNA double strand break repair

Joseph Loparo, Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Developing integrated single-cell epigenome and transcriptome sequencing technologies to study early mammalian development

Prof. Siddharth Dey, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Geology Club Seminar Series

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Jessica Watkins, Astronaut, NASA,

Internal Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

Quantum Materials by Design

Andrea Damascelli, University of British Columbia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125

Impacts of the Clean Air Act on The Power Sector from 1938-1994: Anticipation and Adaptation

Edson R. Severnini, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University,

Friday, April 7th, 2023

10:00am – 11:00am

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Cool Beans Coffee for Postdocs-PMA

Internal Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Mass shift in lattice Hamiltonian approach to Schwinger model

Silviu Pufu, Princeton University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Visible Light Photonics for Atomic and Quantum Applications

Dan Blumenthal, Distinguished Professor, ECE, UC Santa Barbara,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

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PhD Thesis Defense

Moore B270

Parametrically-driven nonlinear optical resonators and their networks for sensing and computing

Arkadev Roy, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Architecting Polymer Composites for Damage Tolerance and Durability

Pavana Prabhakar, Charles G. Salmon Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Enhancing the Ethylene and Propylene Selectivities in the Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction by Exploiting the Intricate Relationship between Framework Topology and Acidity

Faisal H. Alshafei, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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PhD Thesis Defense

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Polyelectrolytes near Solid Surfaces

Christopher Balzer, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event

Area-minimizing subvarieties of general manifolds

Zhenhua Liu, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Photogenerated Ni(I)–Bipyridine Halide Complexes: Structure-Function Relationships for Competitive C(sp2)–Cl Oxidative Addition and Dimerization Reactivity Pathways

David Cagan, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Nanshu Lu

Annenberg 105

E-Tattoos and E-Skins Bridging Humans and Robots

Professor Nanshu Lu, Frank and Kay Reese Professor, Departments of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, Texas Materials Institute-The University of Texas at Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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