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Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
9:45am – 11:15am
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Caltech Library Workshop – The Unix Shell (Zoom Session)

Online Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Gates-Thomas 135
Exoskeleton-Based Training For Novel Motor Skill Acquisition
Keya Ghonasgi, Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas, Austin,
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Caltech Employees: Tea Tasting

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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The Armenian Genocide 1915-2023 and Its Legacy in 2023

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Transforming Your Research Into Teaching

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
  • Internal Event
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Interparticle forces and stress transfer in saturated and unsaturated granular systems
Zichen Gu, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Discrete Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187
On Pisier type problems
Marcelo Sales, Department of Mathematics, Emory University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Generating Spin-Triplets at the Perovskite/Organic Interface
Lea Nienhaus, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Florida State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Danica Adams, Graduate Student, Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
Maria Camarca, Graduate Student, Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
*CANCELLED* Revisiting Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics
Angkur Shaikeea, Ashby Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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NB & CNS Seminar - Gul Dolen | Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 4 pm

Chen 100
"Reopening critical periods with psychedelics: basic mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities"
Gul Dolen, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, John Hopkins University,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Pleasure and Consent Workshop w/ Planned Parenthood

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
Reputation and Capture: Limits of the Administrative Presidency
Lindsey Gailmard, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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World Fest - International Food Fair + Live Music

Moore Walk
5:00pm – 7:30pm
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2023 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series

Online and In-Person Event
Fundraising - Part 2
Doug Wicks, Program Director, ARPA-E,
Apoorv Agawal, Technology-to-Market Advisor, ARPA-E,
Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
All Day
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Exploring and Controlling Superconducting States with 2D Quantum Structures
Vlad Pribiag, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota,
10:45am – 12:15pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Geospatial Data with Python (Zoom Session)

Online Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Consciousness & Reality Colloquium: Does Consciousness Continue After We Die?

11:00am – 12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit
Michael Newman, Google Quantum AI,
Kevin Satzinger, Google Quantum AI,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Regularized SVGD, Gaussian Variational Inference and Wasserstein Gradient Flows
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Assistant Professor, Department of Statisticis, University of California Davis,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Denim Day Tabling and Raffle

Red Door Cafe
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest - Beyond a Vacation: The Past and Present Caribbean

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training - Unit 4 - Disaster Medical Ops 2

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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OCS - Novartis Chemical Sciences Lectures

Gates Annex B122
Dr. Phillip Alper, Senior Principal Investigator, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation,
Eric Jacobsen, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Big Stars and Their Little Friends
Morgan MacLeod, Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Astrophysics, CFA / Harvard,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Denim Day Event

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Simultaneous Winds and Surface Currents: ODYSEA (Ocean Dynamics and Surface Exchange with the Atmosphere) into Space
Sarah Gille, UCSD/Scripps,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
Learning, Sophistication, and the Returns to Advertising: Implications for Differences in Firm Performance
Steven Tadelis, Professor of Economics and Sarin Chair in Leadership and Strategy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley,
Thursday, April 27th, 2023
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Campus History & Architectural Tour

Athenaeum
10:45am – 12:15pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Geospatial Data with Python (Zoom Session)

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

Gates-Thomas 135
Composite Nanolattices and Colloidal Self-Assembly Enabled by 3D Nanoprinting
Wendy Gu, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter 237
Bank Branching and Local Shocks
Sarah Quincy, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest - Malaysia Revealed

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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CPA Writing Group Sessions-April

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar Series

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Physics-based uncertainty quantification for megathrust earthquake potential using reduced-order modeling
Gabrielle Hobson, Ph.D. Student, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Linde Hall 310
Permuted Random Walks
Omer Angel, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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NB & CNS Seminar - Gilles Laurent | Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 4 pm

Chen 100
On Sleep, Camouflage and Brain Evolution
Gilles Laurent, Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Abelian covers of P^1 of p-ordinary Ekedahl-Oort type
Yuxin Lin, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
The Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess
Daniel Hooper, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Malnutrition and the "Quality of People" in the Early Cold War
Hannah LeBlanc, Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in STEM and Inequality, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Linde Hall 310
Exploring conformal probability with hierarchical models
Abdelmalek Abdesselam, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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PRISM Queer Film Night

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Linde Hall 310
Extreme eigenvalues in bipartite Erdos-Renyi graphs
Ioana Dumitriu, Department of Mathematics, UCSan Diego,
Friday, April 28th, 2023
9:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Cryo-ET Reveals Molecular Details of Multi-Megadalton Bacterial Protein Complexes
Przemysław Dutka, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,
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
Some comments on modular invariance in higher dimensions
Edgar Shaghoulian, UC Santa Cruz,
11:00am – 3:45pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Symposium

Broad 100
Neuroscience and the Principles of Evolution
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Annenberg 104
New Directions in Algorithms with Predictions: Learning and Privacy
Misha Khodak, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Gaypril STEMinar: Daniel Cruz-Ramírez de Arellano, Ph.D. of Queer In STEM

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Getting Better Sleep workshop for grads and undergrads

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Green Labs Lightning Talks 2023

Chen 100
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

  • Internal Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
New approaches to analyze optical transients
Tatsuya Matsumoto, Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrophysics Lab, Columbia University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Leveraging Ambient Radio Noise for Passive Radar Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial and Space Environment
Sean Peters, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Naval Postgraduate School,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Visual Culture Event: Campus Walking Tour

THIS EVENT IS AT CAPACITY
Wendy Cheng, Associate Professor of American Studies, Scripps College,
Becky Nicolaides, Research Affiliate, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,
Yvette Saavedra, Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Oregon,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar

Annenberg 104
Self-similar blowups of various models in fluid dynamics
Yixuan Wang, G3 Graduate Student, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Colored sl(N) homology and SU(N) representations
Joshua Wang, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Homogeneous to Heterogeneous Catalysis: Strategies for C-C Bond Formation.
Rachel J. Baker, Postdoctoral Scholar (Manthiram Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Unique features in quantum oscillations of Kagome metal CsV3Sb5
Prof. Lu Li, University of Michigan,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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AAPI Heritage Month Kickoff Celebration

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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APACT - AAPI Heritage Month Kickoff Celebration

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
5:30pm – 9:00pm
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Mega Shabbat

Off Campus
  • Internal Event
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Saturday, April 29th, 2023
9:30am – 11:30am
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World Tai Chi and Qigong Day

Caltech Y
Sunday, April 30th, 2023
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Calidore String Quartet

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event