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Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

3D Quasi-Dynamic Earthquake Cycle Modelling Accelerated Using Hierarchical Matrices: Role of complex fault geometry
Jinhui Cheng, Postdoctoral Scholar, Geology, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Stability of the catenoid for the hyperbolic vanishing mean curvature equation in 4 spatial dimensions
Ning Tang, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

The Dim Future of Exoplanet Imaging
Michael Bottom, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Recent land carbon sink responses to trends in CO2 and Climate diagnosed from a CARDAMOM reanalysis
Eren Bilir, JPL,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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LCSSP Climate Solutions Seminar (cross-listed with the History and Philosophy of Science series)

Climate Change, Solar Geoengineering, and Risk
Marion Hourdequin, Professor of Philosophy, Colorado College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Nature of the topological insulating and superconducting states in ultrathin semimetal WTe2
David Cobden, Professor, Physics, University of Washington,
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
10:00am 11:30am
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"Innovative Pedagogy in Computer Science: Candidate Series"

Linked Lists and...Large Language Models? Discussing the future of computing education at Caltech
Jedidiah Tsang, Lecturer in Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
11:00am 12:00pm
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APhMS Special Seminar

Adventures with Atomic Materials: Non-volatile Electron Physics to Wearable Health & Clean Energy
Deji Akinwande, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Accelerated Computing of Deformation and Failure in Porous Materials
Yashar Mehmani, Assistant Professor, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Penn State University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

"Ultrasonic Reporter for Kinase Activity and Other Cellular Enzymes"
Jee Won Yang, Graduate Student, Shapiro Group,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

Cascade of new even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states
Mansour Shayegan, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Ridgelines Record Tectonic Forcing
Michael J. Robinson, Graduate Student, Program of Hydrologic Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Generic positivity of the Beilinson-Bloch height of Gross-Schoen and Ceresa cycles
Ziyang Gao, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
From Collisions to Discoveries with Machine Learning at the Energy Frontier
Javier Duarte, UCSD,
Friday, January 31st, 2025
10:30am 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Bond-Selective Nonlinear Optical Microscopy: From Live Cell to Single Molecule Imaging
Dongkwan Lee, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Wei Group), Caltech,
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Conformal boundary conditions and cosmic horizons
Batoul Banihashemi, UC Santa Cruz,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Many-body Interactions between Matter Waves Mediated by a High Finesse Cavity
Chengyi Luo, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar, Faraon Group,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Nanophotonic engineering of thermal emitters
Komron J. Shayegan, Graduate student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Better early than never: A new test for superluminal gravitational wave polarizations
Kristen Schumacher, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
2:30pm 3:30pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Designing Active Particles: From Optical Control to Shape Adaptation
Lucio Isa, Full Professor of Soft Materials and Interfaces, ETH Zurich,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Manifolds with Ricci lower bounds in the spectral sense
Kai Xu, Department of Mathematics, Duke University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminaer

Synthesis and Spectroscopy of Open-shell Complexes Bearing Unusual Me-E (E = N, C) Bonding Motifs
Tianyl (Mike) He, Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Caldera collapse earthquakes at basaltic volcanoes - a trilogy of waves, magma, and friction
Taiyi Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Geophysics, California Institute of Technology,