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Monday, October 2nd, 2023
10:30am 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Measuring charge carrier and structural photodynamics at solar energy material surfaces using transient extreme ultraviolet reflection spectroscopy
Jonathan Michelsen, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

Virtu Finance Tech Talk
Joe Danzer, Strategy Developer, Virtu Finance,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar

A Data-Driven Approach to Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon
Tamma Carleton, Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics, Climate Change, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Tracking water resources and probing Earth structure with space geodesy
Hilary Martens, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Montana,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Light Shining Through a Thin Wall: Evanescent Hidden Photon Detection
Ryan Janish, Fermilab,
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Rosen Center Seminar

Proteins as Mechano-Chemical Switches as Probed in Healthy and Diseased Organs
Viola Vogel, Professor, Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology, Institute of Translational Medicine, Department for Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST), ETH Zürich,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Katherine de Kleer,, Assistant Professor, Hufstedler Family Scholar, Planetary Science and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,
Yuk L. Yung, Professor & Senior Research Scientist, Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology & JPL,
Mike Brown, Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy and the Terence D. Barr Leadership Chair and Director of the Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution, Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:30pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemistry Engineering

Fusing machine learning and simulations for molecular design
Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, Jeffrey Cheah Career Development Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
10:30am 11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Grey Galaxies: The Endpoint of Superradiant Instabilities in Rotating AdS Black Holes
Jaeha Lee, Caltech,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

Online Event
Quantum Hamiltonian Descent
Xiaodi Wu, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park,
2:00pm 3:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Bounding spectral gap for Laplacian and Dirac operator
Yixin Xu, Department of Physics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Origin of Cosmic Rays: Updates from Multi-Messenger Observations
Nahee Park, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy, Queen's University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

From leaves to ecosystems: new insight into plants from novel remote sensing observations
Xi Yang, University of Virginia,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Design and Discover of New Correlated Electron Systems: Exploring New Materials Space
Paul Canfield, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Senior Scientist at Ames Laboratory,
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
All Day
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Canceled: Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Jacob Robinson

Minimally invasive brain interfaces using magnetic materials
Professor Jacob T. Robinson, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering, Rice University. Co-Founder and CEO, Motif Neurotech,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Experimental Investigation on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Supercritical CO2 Flows Through Microtubes
Hojin Ahn, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Yeditepe University,
2:30pm 3:30pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Lagrangian cobordism functor in microlocal sheaf theory
Wenyuan Li, Department of Mathematics, USC,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Poisson-Voronoi tessellations and fixed price in higher rank
Amanda Wilkins, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Open/closed correspondence and mirror symmetry
Song Yu, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Lecture

Metal ions as dynamic crosslinkers for polyelectrolyte gel networks
Pierre Walker, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Implicit Government Guarantees
Andrew J. Sinclair, Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Asymptotics for the site frequency spectrum associated with the genealogy of a birth and death process
Jason Schweinsberg, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Measuring the knots and braids of non-Hermitian oscillators
Jack Harris, Yale,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Poisson Boundaries Without Moment Conditions
Joshua Frisch, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
Friday, October 6th, 2023
10:00am 11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Integrable Kerr Black Hole Spectrum from Twistor Symmetries
Alfredo Guevara Gonzalez, Harvard University,
12:15pm 1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Measuring high-amplitude quantum motion in a nanogram object
Jack Harris, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Yale,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
A tale of two objects: binary formation, evolution and distribution
Mor Rozner, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysics, Technion University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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KNI Special Seminar: Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing for Quantum Materials

Haozhe Wang, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University,
  • Public Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar

Learning and Control of Sustainable Energy Systems
Chris Yeh, Graduate Student, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Geometric Boundary of Groups
Yulan Qing, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Saturday, October 7th, 2023
Monday, October 9th, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk

Invenergy Tech Talk
Dr. Natalie Labrador,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Atmospheric methane: where did you come from, where did you go?
Alexander Turner, Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Universtiy of Washington,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Neutrinoless double beta decay in effective field theory
Wouter Dekens, INT, University of Washington,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Probing post-measurement entanglement without post-selection
Sam Garratt, UC Berkeley,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

The Possibilities: On Weaving Science into Fiction
Yael Goldstein-Love, Novelist,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Pursuit of Strongly Correlated Electrons and their Applications on Quantum and Classical Devices
David A. Mazziotti, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

David Stephenson, Marvin L. Goldberger Professor , Emeritus, Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology,
Bethany Ehlmann, Professor, Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology,
Heather Knutson, Professor, Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
10:30am 11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Entropy Vector Dynamics from Cayley Graphs
William Munizzi, Arizona State University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Ensemble Kalman methods: statistical theory in high and infinite dimension
Daniel Sanz-Alonso, Assistant Professor Department of Statistics (CAMI), Department of Statistics (CAMI) and the College Member: Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM), University of Chicago,
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Coffee & Tea with the CCID

San Pasqual Walk
  • Public Event
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar

The Effects of Peremptory Challenges on Jury Diversity and Conviction Rates
Joanna Huey, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Quantifying emergent effects through homological algebra
Johnny Jingze Li, Mathematical Neuroscience Lab, UC San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

From Exoplanets to the Solar System: Rocky Planet Formation in a New Light
Hilke Schlichting, Professor of Planetary Science, Department of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:30pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

More than physics, more than data: Integrated machine-learning models for chemistry
Michele Ceriotti, Associate Professor, Institute of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Understanding and predicting radiation-matter interactions through atomistic modeling
Eva Zarkadoula, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Disappearing Without a Trace: The Arrows of Time in Kent's Solution to the Lorentzian Quantum Reality Problem
Emily Adlam, Assistant Professor, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University,