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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Probing the Frontiers of Interstellar Chemistry Through Cold and Controlled Ion Experiments
Heather Lewandowski, Professor of Physics, Fellow of JILA, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

The "solar abundance" problem: Decades of discrepancy, today's progress and implications for outer solar system origins and habitability
Ngoc Truong, Postdoctoral Researcher, Southwest Research Institute,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Chemistry- and imaging-based methods to explore extracellular biology
Kayvon Pedram, Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
  • Internal Event
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Characterizing the Space of UV-Complete Amplitudes
Justin Berman, University of Michigan,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Σ12 -completeness results in Borel combinatorics via gadget reductions
Alex Kastner, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

Comprehensive Assessment of DAS Amplitude and Its Implications for Earthquake Early Warning and Moonquake Detection
Qiushi Zhai, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Geophysics, California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm 6:30pm
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Center for Evolutionary Science Winter Symposium

Evolution of Organismal Systems
Jasmine Nirody, Assistant Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago,
Matthew Fuxjager, Graduate Program Co-Director for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program, Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University,
Natasha Mhatre, Assistant Professor & CRC in Invertebrate Neurobiology, Department of Biology, Western University,
Michael Dickinson, Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Aeronautics; Executive Officer for Biology and Biological Engineering, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Revisiting the Core Accretion Paradigm for Giant Planet Formation: Analytic Framework for the Late Infall Stage and the Distribution of Planetary Masses
Fred Adams, Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Synergies and co-benefits of a clean energy transition
Denise Mauzerall, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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LCSSP Climate Solutions Seminar

How to reform the permitting process for renewable energy projects
Sanjay Patnaik, Director, Center on Regulation and Markets (CRM); Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development; Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Strain induced magnetism and superconductivity in Heusler membranes
Jason Kawasaki, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin,
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

From folding to scaling: a tour through nonlinear mechanics
Huan Liu, Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
2:45pm 3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Cycles on the moduli space of abelian varieties
Dragos Oprea, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

CY3 Wall-Crossing using Virtual Classes
Felix Thimm, Department of Mathematics, The University of British Columbia,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Cin-Ty Lee, Harry Carothers Wiess Professor of Geology, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Rice University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar, Muhammad A. Alam

Reliable Sensing with Field-Deployed "Unreliable" Implantable and Wearable Sensors: How Physics, Information Theory, and Fake-News Algorithm Make Robust Sensing Possible
Muhammad A. Alam, Jai N. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Tori with discrete group actions in arithmetic
Peter Xu, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
The DNA of Particle Scattering
Lance Dixon, SLAC,
Friday, February 14th, 2025
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Antipodal (Self-)Duality in Planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
Lance Dixon, SLAC,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Mapping the Dark Matter Distribution of Galaxies with Stellar Streams
Jacob Nibauer, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Embedded Minimal Tori in the Three Sphere
Xingzhe Li, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Evaluating Theoretical Models in Earthquake Physics to Reconcile Recent Observations
Boaning Wu, Postdoctoral Scholar- Research Associate, Earth Sciences, University of Southern California,
8:00pm 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Powerful Jets from Supermassive Black Holes
Martijn Oei, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Monday, February 17th, 2025
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Derivative-free Bayesian Inversion using Multiscale Dynamics: Weak convergence and Invariant Distribution
Antonin Della Noce, Postdoctoral Researcher, Applied Mathematics, Matherials, INRIA and CERMICS ENPC,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Will we ever detect high frequency gravitational waves?
Raffaele Tito d'Agnolo, Institut de Physique Théorique,
2:00pm 4:00pm
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Nanophotonics Seminar - Day 1

Deep Jariwala, Associate Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,
Vivian Ferry, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota,
2:30pm 3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Ultrafast Quantum State Generation and Measurement in Nonlinear Nanophotonics
James A. William, Graduate student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Bridging the pressure gap in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Synergies arising from Experimental and Theoretical Kinetics
Alex Wodtke, Director and Professor of University of Göttingen, Dynamics and Surfaces, Max Planck Institute,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Histories of Waste and Want in Earth's Planetary Periphery
Lisa Ruth Rand, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special Seismo Lab Seminar

4-Dimensional Seismic Interferometry: New Perspectives on Aquifer Monitoring and Beyond
Shujuan Mao, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Texas Austin,
Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Moments and saddles of heavy CFT correlators
Gordon Rogelberg, Yale University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Locally checkable labeling problems in the Borel hierarchy
Felix Weilacher, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

Temporal Changes in the Deep Earth from Repeating Earthquakes
Ruoyan Wang, PhD Student, Earth Sciences Department, University of Southern California,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Inclusive Scattering Matrix
Albert Schwarz, UC Davis & Caltech,
2:00pm 4:00pm
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Nanophotonics Seminar - Day 2

Lisa Poulikakos, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego,
Albert Polman, Professor, Group Leader, Photonic Materials, AMOLF,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

The Multi-Scale Circumgalactic Medium
Peng Oh, Professor, University of California Santa Barbara,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Toward reducing aerosol forcing and climate projection uncertainties
Xu-Cheng He, Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Hidden Order in Amorphous Materials: from gravitational wave detectors to topological materials
Frances Hellman, Professor, Physics, UC Berkeley,
Thursday, February 20th, 2025
11:00am 1:00pm
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11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Wildfire Engineering: Integrating Models and Data to Develop Solutions
Hamed Ebrahimian, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno,
12:00pm 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Direct visualization of cellular protein complexes in situ by fluorescence guided cryo-FIB-SEM and cryo-ET
Jue (Phyllis) Wang, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Imaging Regulation of Single mRNAs in Live Neurons
Robert H. Singer, Harold and Muriel Block Chair, Professor of RNA Biology, Cell Biology, and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Robert Hazen, Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Senior Scientist, Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Shana Kelley

Continuous Monitoring of Protein Biomarkers using Implantable Sensors
Professor Shana Kelley, Neena B. Schwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Monodromy results for abelian surfaces and K3 surfaces with bad reduction
Tejasi Bhatnager, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin - Madison,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Entangling Ultracold Molecules
Kang-Kuen Ni, Harvard University,
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Friday, February 21st, 2025