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Monday, May 1st, 2023
1:00pm 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Mechanophore Strategies for the Development of Polymers with Mechanically Gated Responsive Behavior
Ross Barber, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Icy Landscapes - how ice influences sedimentary processes
Irina Overeem, Associate Professor, Department of Geological Science, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Multicontinuum Homogenization and Applications
Yalchin Efendiev, Ewing-Mobil Chair in Computational Science and Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Institute of Scientific Computation, Texas A & M University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Evaporation Barrier for Dark Matter in Celestial Bodies
Javier F. Acevedo, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Topological two-band electron-hole superconductors with d-wave symmetry: a possible application to magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene
Carlos Sa De Melo, Georgia Tech,
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

Josephson junction arrays as a platform for topological phases of matter
Omri Lesser, Weizmann Institute of Science,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The Master Equation in Mean Field Games
Mohit Bansil, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Dimers and embeddings
Marianna Russkikh, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Biology Seminar | Paul Denis Thomas - Tuesday, May 2, 2023 - 4 pm

Big Knowledge in Biology: using phylogenetics and data science to create a human gene "functionome"
Paul D Thomas, PhD, Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, Division of Bioinformatics, Keck School of Medicine - University of Southern California,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Diversity in Notch ligand-receptor signaling interactions
Rachael Kuintzle, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Staring at the Sun to Better See Exoplanets/ The Search for Water Worlds with Palomar Observatory
Mike Mckeon, Graduate Student, Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
Ryan Rubenzahl, Graduate Student, Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special ACM Seminar

Asymptotic Stability in a Free Boundary PDE Model of Active Matter
Leonid Berlyand, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Donations and Dollars: Characterizing the Policy Views of Donors and the Affluent
Brandice Canes-Wrone, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution,
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
11:00am 12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

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Quantum thermal state preparation
Chi-Fang (Anthony) Chen, Brandao Group,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Measurable Vizing's theorem
Jan Grebík, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Learning and Control of Dynamical Systems
Ali Sahin Lale, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Critical JT Gravity
Alicia Castro, High Energy Physics Department, Radboud University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Neugebauer Lecture)

Simple Behavior from Complex Galaxies
George Helou, Research Professor of Physics; Executive Director of IPAC, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture

The Mechanophore Hypothesis
Jeffrey Moore, Stanley O. Ikenberry Research Professor, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Chambaign,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Untangling aerosol-cloud interactions with machine learning
Duncan Watson-Parris, UCSD/Scripps,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Scott Behie | Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 - 4 pm

"Insight into the Cell Editorial Process"
Scott Behie, Scientific Editor, Cell Press,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Tuning itineracy of correlated ground and excited states in semiconductor moiré lattices
Ben Feldman, Assistant Professor, Physics, Stanford University,
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

"EABR Nanoparticles as a Platform Technology for Hybrid mRNA Vaccine Development"
Magnus Hoffman, Merkin Institute Fellow,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

How expanded building block chemistry can enable new frontiers for synthetic biology
Prof. Aditya Kunjapur, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar Series

Understanding organismal biology to manage threats to global biodiversity
David Daversa, Postdoctoral Fellow, La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, University of California, Los Angeles,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Sung-Yon Kim | Thursday, May 4, 2023 - 4 pm

Warm and full: neural circuits for behavioral regulation of homeostasis
Sung-Yon Kim, Associate Professor, Seoul National University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

The unipotent mixing conjecture
Philippe Michel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Black Hole Accretion from the Inside Out
Jason Dexter, University of Colorado, Boulder and JILA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

The Confederate Diaspora
Martin Fiszbein, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University,
Friday, May 5th, 2023
9:00am 10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Incorporation of non-canonical proline residues into proteins expressed in Escherichia coli
Stephanie Breunig, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
10:00am 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Synthetic Studies Toward Total Synthesis of Enterocin
Yujia Tao, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Kinetic Theory of Waves for Turbulent States
Vladimir Rosenhaus, CUNY Graduate Center,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Allocating with Priorities and Quotas: Algorithms, Complexity, and Dynamics
David Kempe, Professor of Computer Science, USC,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Unconditional Separations with Constant Depth Circuits
Adam Bene Watts, University of Waterloo,
12:15pm 1:30pm
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Caltech Y Student Activism Speaker Series (SASS)

Pre-Keynote Lunch Q & A on Generative AI and Society
Kevin Roose, New York Times Tech Columnist,
12:30pm 1:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Tetranuclear CaMn3O4 and Mn4O4 Complexes as Spectroscopic Models of the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II
Angela Shiau, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Engineering cytochrome P450BM3 for oxidation and silicon–carbon bond cleavage of volatile methylsiloxanes
Nicholas Sarai, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

MFeS Clusters as Models for Complex Multimetallic Systems
Anna Scott, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers: A Multi-Band Opportunity for Gravitational Waves
Giacomo Fragione, Research Assistant Professor, CIERA, Northwestern University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Piezoelectric Quantum Microsystems
Matt Eichenfield, Associate Professor, Optical Sciences, University of Arizona,
3:00pm 5:00pm
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3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Revolutionizing Hypersonic Flow Simulation: Physics-Aware Coarse Graining and Maximum Entropy Principles for Next-Generation Aerothermal Modeling
Marco Panesi, Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Hypersonics and Entry Systems Studies (CHESS), Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Fixed point-free pseudo-Anosovs and the cinquefoil
Luya Wang, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

"Chemodivergent Organolanthanide-Catalyzed C–H α-Mono-Borylation of Pyridines."
Dr. Jacob (Jake) Rothbaum, Postdoctoral Scholar (Nelson Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:30pm 9:30pm
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Saturday, May 6th, 2023
Sunday, May 7th, 2023
Monday, May 8th, 2023
3:45pm 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Cooperative Adsorption and Gas Separations in Metal–Organic Frameworks
Jeffrey R. Long, C. Judson King Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Reduction of Brauer classes on K3 surfaces
Salim Tayou, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
Radio stars and exoplanets: Sources in circularly-polarised radio surveys, present and future
Joe Callingham, ASTRON / Leiden Observatory,