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Friday, November 8th, 2024
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New Opportunities in Waveguide QED
Alejandro González-Tudela, Professor, University of Madrid,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Structure and Function of Mammalian SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Health and Disease
Cigall Kadoch, Associate Professor of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Preparing for life detection strategies in future ocean world exploration
Bonnie Teece, Postdoctoral Fellow, Origins and Habitability Lab, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Computing crystalline deformation rings via the Taylor-Wiles-Kisin patching method
Chengyang Bao, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Precision and Discovery at the Frontiers of Elementary Particle Physics
Josh Bendavid, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
"Network Phases in Block Polymers"
Kevin Dorfman, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Head, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Visual Culture Program Event

Chen 100
An Entrepreneurial Journey on the Road Less Traveled
Stuart Weitzman, American shoe designer and the founder of the luxury shoe company Stuart Weitzman,
Friday, November 8th, 2024
10:00am – 11:00am
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Science Journey - Seeing is Believing: Powerful Microscopes Help Us Discover Medicines in Nature

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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APhMS: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Directly Observing the Ice-Water Interface with Molecular Resolution
Jingshan S. Du, Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Classical Double Copy: Solutions, Horizons, and Penrose Limits
Cindy Keeler, Arizona State University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Xiaoyi Liu, UC Santa Barbara,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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MCE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Thermal Design of Functional Wearable Textile-Based Materials
Marquise Bell, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University,
11:30am – 1:00pm
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National First-Generation College Celebration Day

San Pasqual Walk
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Databases and SQL

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Postdocs Launch – November 8, 2024

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Y Community Service and Advocacy Fair

San Pasqual Walk
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS: EAS Trailblazers Symposium

Annenberg 105
Control Design with Guarantees for Minimalist Robotic Swarms
Himani Sinhmar, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Green Labs November 2024 Meeting

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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POSTPONED: Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 127
This seminar has been postponed.
Manuel Mueller-Frank, Professor of Economics, IESE Business School, University of Navarra,
12:15pm – 1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
A local automaton for the 2D toric code
Shankar Balasubramanian, MIT,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Extracting Hidden Riches from Biomass: Focus on Fruit Wastes and Bioenergy Grasses
Shivali Banerjee, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Medical Engineering Trailblazer Seminar, Eri Takematsu

Moore B270
Controlling pleiotropy of therapeutic protein for skeletal regenerative medicine
Eri Takematsu, Ph.D., Postdoc, Department of Surgery, Stanford Medicine, Stanford University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The Impact of Stellar Interactions on Black Hole Spin Evolution
Fulya Kiroglu, Graduate Student, CIERA, Northwestern University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Trailblazer Seminar

Moore B270
Sample Complexity of Quantum Hypothesis Testing and Its Private Variant
Theshani Nuradha, Ph.D. candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Integrated Convolutional and Graph Neural Networks to Advance Composites Analysis
Marwa Yacouti, Ph.D. candidate, Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
The Space of Minimal Surfaces in S^3 and in B^3
Peter McGrath, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Ubiquity of conical intersections in ultrafast photochemistry
Luis Banares, Director of the Center for Ultrafast Lasers; Associate Research Professor, Physical Chemistry Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
How Viable is Electroweak Baryogenesis?
Michael Ramsey-Musolf, U Mass Amherst & Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Minute-scale Dynamics of Repeated Dike Intrusions in Iceland with Fiber-Optic Geodesy
Jiaxuan Li, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Seismo Lab, California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mapping the Universe in Blurred Lines
Delaney Dunne, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, November 9th, 2024
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Wind Orchestra Concert

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, November 10th, 2024
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Wind Orchestra Concert

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Midterm Postmortem: Learning from your Midterm Mistakes

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Monday, November 11th, 2024
9:00am – 3:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Grades

10:00am – 5:00pm
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AI Bootcamp VII - Foundational Models

Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar

See event detail for location
Network and Timing Effects in Social Learning
Wade Hann-Caruthers, Postdoc, Game Theory Group, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Low-latency gravitational-wave data products intended for multi-messenger searches in the fourth observing run of the International Gravitational-Wave Network
Andrew Toivonen,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370
Using cogsworth to make self-consistent population synthesis & galactic dynamics simulations of observable populations of massive binary products / Searching For Additional Planets in Multi-Planet Systems
Tom Wagg, PhD student, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington,
Emma Turtelboom, Final-year PhD student, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Morphodynamics of deformable planetary surfaces: Examples from big and small salt basins on Earth
David Mohrig, Professor, Peter T. Flawn Centennial Chair in Geology Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Multi-agent higher-order learning vs Nash equilibrium
Jeff Shamma, Department Head and Jerry S. Dobrovolny Chair, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Limiting Light Dark Matter with Luminous Hadronic Loops
Melissa Diamond, Queens University,
Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
9:00am – 2:30pm
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AI Bootcamp VII - Foundational Models

Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
  • Internal Event
9:00am – 4:00pm
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Science of Benefits - TIAA's Office Hours

Red Door Cafe
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Gee Family SURF Poster Competition Finals

San Pasqual Walk
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Course (Re)Work Series

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Operator learning without the adjoint
Nicolas Boullé, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics, Imperial College London,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Meditation Mob Elections Edition: Making Room for Uncertainty

Hameetman Center B120 - Club Room 2
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – You & Your Thesis

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Venus Volcanism: Insights into Volcanic Activity and Surface Evolution
David Sulcanese, PhD Student, Department of Geosciences, Università d'Annunzio/Jet Propulsion Lab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Challenging the Standard Model of Particle Physics and the CMS tracker with flavour
Luigi Marchese, Fermilab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Geometry, groups and fixed points
Nicolas Monod, EPFL,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series: Katherine E. Fleming

Athenaeum
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Collective action in heterogeneous societies: the role of strategic uncertainty
Dimitri Landa, Professor of Politics and Director of the MA Pre-PhD program, New York University,
Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
10:00am – 5:00pm
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AI Bootcamp VII - Foundational Models

Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
  • Internal Event
10:00am – 11:00am
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Consciousness & Reality (C&R) Colloquium: WHAT IS A FEELING? A BIOENERGETIC PERSPECTIVE

11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
How the Hilbert space of two-sided black holes factorises
Guanda Lin, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Europa Clipper: the journey to explore an ocean world begins
Dr. Erin Leonard, Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Limits of sparse hypergraphs
Riley Thornton, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Undergraduate Tour – Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020 (PST ART)

Bechtel Mall
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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CTLO: Teaching Statement Fall Workshop

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Astronomy Research Talk

Cahill 370
To 100 kpc and Beyond: Tales from the Milky Way's Distant Horizon / Linking Gas, Dust, and Star Formation: Probing the baryonic cycle in early galaxies with the ALPINE survey
Vedant Chandra, PhD student, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University,
Prasad Sawant, Final-year PhD student, Department of Astronomy, National Centre for Nuclear Reasearch,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Present and Future of A New Era in High-Redshift Supernova Discovery
Justin Pierel, Einstein Fellow, Space Telescope Science Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Slow, fastidious, and the king of the hill. Investigating growth limitations of SAR11 bacterioplankton
Cameron Thrash, USC,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Regular Functions in Linguistics and Language Models
Jon Rawski, Department of Linguistics & Language Development, San Jose State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Next Generation of X-Ray Diffraction Microstructure Imaging Techniques
Ashley Bucsek, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Catalytic Platforms for Selective Interhalogenation and Reductive Functionalization
Liela Romero, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Financial Literacy: Budgeting

Central Catalinas Recreation Room