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Thursday, January 16th, 2025
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Don't get stuck: (no)flow and clogging of particulate suspensions
Alban Sauret, Associate Professor and Clark Faculty Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park,
2:45pm 3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Symplectic Aspects of Hyperplane Arrangements
Siyang Liu, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Segre classes and Lorentzian/covolume polynomials
Paolo Aluffi, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

The arithmetic of power series and applications to irrationality
Yunqing Tang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Computing for Plasma Physics: Challenges and Opportunities
Nuno Loureiro, MIT,
Friday, January 17th, 2025
9:00am 6:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Visual Culture Program Event

This workshop has been postponed to Friday, April 11, 2025.
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
New Phases in SYM
Prahar Mitra, University of Amsterdam,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Magnetic Control of Chiral Phonons and Deep-Strong Light-Matter Coupling
Andrey Baydin, Rice University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Algebraic structure of knot Floer homology
David Popović, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Ultrafast, all-Optical Coherence of Molecular Electron Spins
Erica Sutcliffe, Postdoctoral Scholar (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Climat DIYnamics
Jonathan Aurnou, Professor, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (EPSS), University of California Los Angeles,
Monday, January 20th, 2025
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Inferring the dynamics of locomotion using spectral mode representations
Alasdair Hastewell, Postdoctoral Fellow, NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB),
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Investigating the Mechanics of Architected Solids across Scales through Predictive Modeling
Ziran (Rachel) Zhou, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Origin of Life's Homochirality: From Magnetic Minerals to a Homochiral Genome
Furkan Ozturk, Kavli-Laukien Fellow, Department of Physics, Harvard University,
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The Hilbert space of de Sitter JT gravity
Jesse Held, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Pi-1-1 maximal almost disjoint families and Laver measurability
Asger Törnquist, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

How Dark is Space?
Tod Lauer, Astronomer, NOIRLab,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Title TBD
Kelly Wrighton, Colorado State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Natural Superlattice Design of Modulated Superconductors
Joseph Checkelsky, Associate Professor, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Hardware / controls co-design to overcome challenges for aerial robots
Mark W. Mueller, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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APhMS Special Seminar

Scalable classical and quantum semiconductor light sources
Boubacar Kante, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Molecular Assembly of Living and Lifelike Materials
Seu Sim, Professor, Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Geologic processes that control sourcing and migration of subsurface helium
Daniel Halford, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geochemistry, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Tony Jun Huang

Acoustofluidics: merging acoustics and fluid mechanics for biomedical applications
Tony Jun Huang, William Bevan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Modularity of special cycles in orthogonal and unitary Shimura varieties
Salim Tayou, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
A New Era in Quantum Optics: From Topological Photonics to Correlated Materials
Mohammad Hafezi, UMD,
Friday, January 24th, 2025
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Local Consequences of Asymptotic Symmetries
Gautam Satishchandran, Princeton University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Topological superconductivity and high-magnetic-field superconductivity in UTe2
Sylvia Klare Lewin, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Electrochemical synthesis of Value-added chemicals from CO2 and N2 reduction reaction
Yun Jeong Hwang, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Weyl Law for the 1-cycles
Bruno Staffa, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Imaging Excited-State Carrier Dynamics in Strontium Titanate Photocatalysts through Ultrafast Electron Microscopy and Correlative Electron Spectroscopies
Levi Palmer, Graduate Student (Cushing Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Thermobaric activation of fault friction
Sylvain Barbot, Associate Professor, Earth Sciences, University of Southern California,
8:00pm 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Faster than Light Speed? The Physics of the Warp Drive
Elias Most, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, January 25th, 2025
Sunday, January 26th, 2025
Monday, January 27th, 2025
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Ecological Pattern to Molecular Mechanism: Evolutionary Selection for Environmental Resilience in the Marine Environment
Margaret McFall-Ngai, Division of Biosphere Sciences and Engineering, Carnegie Institution for Science,
4:00pm 5:15pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

An independent search for small long-period planets in Kepler data / Detecting and Characterizing Intermediate-period Companions to Stars with Space-based Photometry / Early On-Sky Results from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Commissioning Campaign
Oryna Ivashtenko, PhD student, Weizmann Institute of Science,
Shishir Dholakia, PhD student, University of Southern Queensland,
Guillem Megias i Homar, PhD student, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Understanding How the Hydroxyl Radical Shapes Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate
Qindan Zhu, Houghton Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Private Private Information With Kevin He and Fedor Sandomirskiy
Omer Tamuz, Professor, Department of Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Time-delayed gamma-ray signatures of heavy axions from core-collapse supernovae
Joshua Benabou, UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Junho Lee| Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 3 pm

Mind of a Dauer: Developmental Plasticity of the Nervous System
Junho Lee, Professor, Genes and Development, Seoul National University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

The photochemistry and climate of foreign atmospheres: implications for the origin of life on early Earth and understanding exoplanets observed by the James Webb Space Telescope
Nicholas Wogan, Postdoctoral Researcher, NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

A Field Experiment on Antitrust Compliance
Kei Kawai, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Tokyo; Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley (on leave),
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Asymptotic Higher Spin Symmetries in Yang-Mills Theory
Nicolas Cresto, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Bowen's Problem 32 and the conjugacy problem for systems with specification
Bo Peng, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University,