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Monday, April 22nd, 2024
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
The Classical Limit of Quantum Max-Cut
Vir Bulchandani, Leibniz Universität Hannover,
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Benefits Webinar - Harness the Power of a Health Savings Account (HSA)

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest - Roots Rediscovered: Stories from India's Diaspora

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar

East Bridge 114
Learning Augmented Algorithms for MDPs
Adam Wierman, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
"Exploring the Diversity of Earth-sized Planets in Compact Multi-planet Systems" & "Mapping Callisto's surface properties: ALMA & JWST Perspectives"
Mike McKeon, Graduate Student, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
Maria Camarca, Graduate Student, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Assignment in Ride-Hailing
Yao Luo, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Toronto,
6:00pm – 7:30pm
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Into the Unknown: Cozy Conversations on Uncertainty - Free Dinner!!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Library Outdoor Documentary Screening - "Canary: the Fight for our Future Begins at 18,000 Feet"

Sherman Fairchild Library, Amphitheatre
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
10:00am – 11:30am
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*CANCELED* Faculty Short Course - Course Design Basics (Assessment & Feedback)

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Rindler Fluids from Gravitational Shockwaves
Jerry Zhang, Caltech,
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Medicare 101 Presentation

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Enhancing PDE Computations and Score-Based Generative Models through Optimization
Siting Liu, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Denim Day Awareness

Red Door Cafe
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Getting Things Done - Free Pizza!!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Equivalence relations classifiable by Polish abelian groups
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest - Africa Paradise in Zimbabwe with Tinashe Handina, Nyasha Makaya and Kim Muchenje

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
1:00pm – 2:30pm
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Transforming Your Research Into Teaching for Postdocs-Spring 2024

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Renaissance of Compact Objects in Binary Systems
Kevin Burdge, Pappalardo Fellow, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Using seafloor cables to observe surface waves in high resolution: from the sea ice zone to the surf zone
Madison Smith, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Line bundles on abelian schemes and p-adic heights
Adebisi Agboola, Department of Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Optimal Bailouts in Diversified Financial Networks
Rakesh Vohra, George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor, Department of Economics and the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,
Thursday, April 25th, 2024
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Campus History & Architectural Tour

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

Gates-Thomas 135
Vortex Dynamics in Inertial Fusion and Supernovae
Michael Wadas, Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151
"Synthetic miRNA circuits for the regulation of gene expression, including in gene therapy applications"
Michael Flynn, PhD Student, Elowitz Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Impact of Taxes Now and Later

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125
Financial Scarring and the Failure of the Freedman's Savings Bank
Vellore Arthi, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UC Irvine,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest - Clans and Castles: Exploring Heritage with Caltech's Gabi Twombly and Hope Arnett

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
DNA replication: challenges and solutions
David Cortez, Professor of Biochemistry, Richard N. Armstrong Ph.D. Chair for Innovation in Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt School of Medicine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Dynamic Control of Active and Flowing Matter
Sho Takatori, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Hong Chen

Moore B270
Neurosonics: A new frontier for noninvasive brain interventions with ultrasound
Professor Hong Chen, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery, Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Programmable control of indistinguishable particles: from clocks to qubits to many-body physics
Adam Kaufman, JILA/NIST,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Movies That Matter presents "Chasing Ice"

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
7:30pm – 8:20pm
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TACIT Show

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Friday, April 26th, 2024
8:00am – 4/27 5:00pm
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SoCal Structural Econometrics Conference

Baxter Lecture Hall
Topics and speakers to be announced
10:30am – 11:30am
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Caltech Brain Imaging Center Seminar

Online Event
High-density arrays of optically-pumped magnetometers for MEG
Svenja Knappe, Associate Research Professor, Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
New dualities between string theories and random ensembles
Victor Rodriguez, Princeton University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Modeling and Inference of Environmental Effects in Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals
Shubham Kejriwal,
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Deep Learning 2: Building a Neural Network for Classification

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Postdocs Launch – April 26, 2024

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
Caltech Postdocs Launch
Dr. Hanxun Jin, EAS,
Dr. Alessandro Liberatore, JPL,
  • Public Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 127
Price & Choose
Matias Nunez, CNRS researcher and Professor, Ecole Polytechnique,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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EE Distinguished Speaker: William J. Dally

Annenberg 105
Deep Learning for Chip Design
William J. Dally, Chief Scientist & SVP of Research at NVIDIA Corporation; Adjunct Professor of EE and CS at Stanford University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Resonant shattering flares as probes of neutron star structure and nuclear symmetry
Duncan Neill, Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Bath,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Hypersonic boundary-layer transition over slender conical geometries
Stuart Laurence, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Stable Minimal Hypersurfaces in \R^5
Paul Minter, IAS,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Biological Quantum Sensing with an Fe2S2 Metalloprotein
Christian Totoiu, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Variable short-term slip rate on the Imperial fault modulated by filling of the Salton Trough by Lake Cahuilla
Thomas Rockwell, Professor, College of Sciences, Geological Sciences, San Diego State University,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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World Fest - International Food Fair + Multicultural Fashion & Talent Show

Beckman Mall
7:30pm – 8:20pm
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TACIT Show

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, April 27th, 2024
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Jazz Festival

Hameetman Center Patio
  • Public Event
7:30pm – 8:20pm
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TACIT Show

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, April 28th, 2024
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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OcTech choral concert: Earth From Earth

Kerckhoff Morgan Library
  • Public Event
2:30pm – 3:20pm
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TACIT Show

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, April 29th, 2024
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Jorgensen 109
Policy to Pollute: Strategic Bargaining and Dissolved Oxygen Depletion in Streams and Rivers in the American West: The Case of American Indian Water Rights
Laura Taylor, Postdoctoral Instructor in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Annenberg 314
Statistical Foundations of Operator Learning
Nicholas H. Nelsen, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Designing Functional Sites in Metal-Organic Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion.
V. Sara Thoi, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering; Leadership Council, Ralph S. O'Connor, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Quantifying the processes driving the land carbon sink
Yinon Bar On, Postdoctoral Scholar, Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Indirect probes of muon EDM and spin force
Yohei Ema, University of Minnesota & FTPI,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures

Linde Hall 310
Random planar curves
Jason Miller, Statistics Laboratory, University of Cambridge,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Technosignatures" and "Galactic Gravitational Waves"
Joseph Lazio, Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Smadar Naoz, Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, UCLA,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
All Day
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Caltech Giving Day: A Day to Give Back, Celebrate, and Engage

  • Public Event
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Employees: Therapy Pets Hang

12:00pm – 1:30pm
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STEMinar: Women in Science Now with Lisa Munoz (Faculty & Staff)

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar

East Bridge 114
Learning Shallow Quantum Circuits
Robert Huang, Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Integrating equity and inclusion into STEM coursework

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Moving Protons with Photoacids to Harness Light Energy"
Kana Takematsu, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Bowdoin College,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
"ExoCubed: A Riemann-Solver based Cubed-Sphere Dynamic Core for Planetary Atmospheres" & "Probing the Origins of the Young Triple System ROXs 42 B with Atmospheric Retrievals and Orbital Fits"
Sihe Chen, Graduate Student, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
Julie Inglis, Graduate Student, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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STEMinar: Women in Science Now with Lisa Munoz (Students)

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area