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Friday, October 25th, 2024
9:00am – 5:00pm
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E-Plegona Experiential Art Exhibition at Red Door

Red Door Cafe
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Tensionless AdS_3/CFT_2 and Single Trace TTbar
Andrea Dei, University of Chicago,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Postdocs Launch – October 25, 2024

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
  • Public Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
Doug Rennehan, Research Fellow, CCA, Flatiron Institute,
2:30pm – 5:00pm
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Visual Culture Program Event

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Sustainable Fashion Symposium
  • Public Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
How do dispersed inertial particles modify turbulent flows?
Said Elghobashi, Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
An iterable surgery formula for knot lattice homotopy
Seppo Niemi-Colvin, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Assessing the Degradation of Battery Cathodes in Real Time via Spatially Resolved Electrochemical Methods
Abhiroop Mishra, Postdoctoral Scholar (See Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Wind-generated waves in the Earth system: learning about wave properties from microseisms
Fabrice Ardhuin, Project Investigator, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS),
Saturday, October 26th, 2024
10:00am – 7:00pm
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Fall Orange Out 2024

Braun Gym
Monday, October 28th, 2024
9:00am – Ongoing
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Dia de Los Muertos Altar Building

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
9:00am – 5:00pm
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E-Plegona Experiential Art Exhibition at Red Door

Red Door Cafe
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Invited Talk

Broad 100
Single-Molecule Sensors Integrated with Machine Learning Enable Early Diagnosis
Justin Rolando, Research Fellow, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard's Wyss Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk with Cadence

Annenberg 105
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370
Observing Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite / Mapping the Dynamics, Dark matter, and Dense clouds of the Galaxy
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Bridging biological scales to assess the contribution of landslides to the functioning of tropical mountainscapes
Carla Restrepo, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Quantum algorithms for eigenvalue problems
Lin Lin, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
High Energy Scattering in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Michael Saavedra, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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OCS/Merck-Banyu Lectureship Award

Gates Annex B122
Exploring Ways to Harness N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Triarylboranes in Organometallic and Synthetic Chemistry
Yoichi Hoshimoto, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, Osaka University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Pin-Making Art Night

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Probing Correlated States in Semiconducting Moiré Superlattices with Microwave Impedance Microscopy
Yongtao Cui, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, UC Riverside,
Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
9:00am – 5:00pm
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E-Plegona Experiential Art Exhibition at Red Door

Red Door Cafe
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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CCE Quarterly Safety Meeting

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Piali Sengupta

Chen 100
TBD
Piali Sengupta, Professor, Biology, Brandeis University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Breakups in the Digital Age

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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California Ballot Overview

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Topology and category theory in quantum computing and condensed matter physics
Milo Moses, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project

Online Event
Conducting elections in the largest U.S. election jurisdiction
Dean Logan, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Marton's Polynomial Freiman--Ruzsa conjecture
Frederick Manners, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Antihydrogen energy: techniques to control and measure
Danielle Louise Hodgkinson, Postdoctoral Scholar, CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Coping with Election Stress

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Astrobiology of Mars: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
Jeff Osterhout, Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Lab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Do Rational Beliefs Make You Happy? An Experiment on How to be a Spectator
Andrew Schotter, Professor of Economics, New York University,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium

Online Event
The Arithmetic of Power Series and Applications to Period
Yunqing Tang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
8:00am – Ongoing
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Midterm Examination Period

9:00am – 5:00pm
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E-Plegona Experiential Art Exhibition at Red Door

Red Door Cafe
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Charged Superradiance in AdS5 x S5 black holes
Chintan Patel, TIFR Mumbai/KITP,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Instantaneous continuous loss of regularity for the SQG equation
Wojciech Ożański, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Earth's variable rotation and its climate connection
Surendra Adhikari, Reseach Scientist, JPL Earth Surface and Interior group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Getting Things Done - A system for highly productive people

Online Event
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Orbit equivalence classification of Baumslag-Solitar groups
Antoine Poulin, Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Writing a Diversity Statement for Graduate School Admissions. A Workshop for Undergraduates

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Construction of multi-soliton solutions for semilinear equations in dimension 3
Istvan Kadar, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Beckman Institute 115
Designing Energy Conversion and Storage Structures Using Two-Dimensional Materials
Zhengtang Luo, Professor and Program Director of MSc in Chemical and Energy Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Ordered Ramsey numbers of powers of paths
Oliver Janzer, Trinity College, University of Cambridge,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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CPET Fall Workshop Series: Strategies for Grad TAs

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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A Fireside Chat with Silicon Valley Legend Mike Maples, Jr.

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Next Decade of Discoveries with Radio Interferometry: Bringing Nature's Deepest Mysteries into View
Michael Johnson, Astrophysicist, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Exploring the Dynamics and Activity of Massive Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea Blooms in South San Francisco Bay
Christopher Francis, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Linguistic Structure from a Bottleneck on Sequential Information Processing
Richard Futrell, Department of Language Science, UC Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
What's Next for Low-temperature Plasma Science and Technology?
Lorenzo Mangolini, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UC Riverside,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Light-Responsive Materials for a Sustainable Future: Exploring Optically-Controlled Functional Organic Systems
Grace Han, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Guy Talk: Catalyzing Peer Effects on IPV through Virtual Support Groups for Men
Erica Field, Professor of Economics, Duke University,
6:30pm – 9:00pm
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Spooky Outdoor Movie Night

Sherman Fairchild Library, Amphitheatre
Thursday, October 31st, 2024
9:00am – 5:00pm
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E-Plegona Experiential Art Exhibition at Red Door

Red Door Cafe
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Etching for Atomic Scale Semiconductor Devices
Heeyeop Chae, Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU),
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Don't get stuck: (no)flow and clogging of particulate suspensions
Alban Sauret, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151
"Temperature dependent state switches for macrophage immunotherapy"
Ann Liu, Graduate Student, Shapiro Group,
2:30pm – 3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Contact instantons and contact dynamics
Yong-Geun Oh, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Ends of the uniform spanning tree on unimodular random rooted graphs
Diederik van Engelenburg, Lyon University,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Pumpkin Painting

Center for Student Services, Large Tent
3:45pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Stability conditions on surface root stacks
Yeqin Liu, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CCE Seminar: John Tsamopoulos

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Buoyancy driven rise of bubbles in elasto-visco-plastic fluids
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Isotope diagenesis of biogenic silica in marine sediments & implications for paleotemperature reconstruction
Anastasia Yanchilina, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geochemistry, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Vector-Valued Concentration on the Symmetric Group
Miriam Gordin, Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
What is a machine in the European Middle Ages? Cognition, mechanics, and cosmology in medieval philosophy
Jonathan Morton, Associate Professor, Tulane University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Towards an explicit Bezrukavnikov's equivalence in mixed characteristic
Jize Yu, Department of Mathematics, Rice University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Robust dynamics and function in stochastic topological systems
Evelyn Tang, Rice University,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Patterns and statistics in shifts of finite type
Jacob Richey, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics,