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Midterm Examination Period

Thursday, May 1st, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CTESS Seminar

Baxter 228
Topic to be announced
Margherita Comola, Associate Professor, Paris School of Economics,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Barry Stoddard, Professor, Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Transport of nanoparticles through complex, crowded fluids
Jacinta Conrad, Frank M. Tiller Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Topic to be announced
Emmy Waldman,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Eric Betzig

Chen 100
Exploring the Universe Inside Ourselves
Professor Eric Betzig, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, the Eugene D. Commins Presidential Chair in Experimental Physics, a Senior Fellow at the Janelia Research Campus, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture

Online and In-Person Event
Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125
Topic to be announced
Zhiguo He, James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Julian Sonner, University of Geneva,
11:00am – 3:00pm
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Molecular Biology BioFestival & Grant Competition

Moore Walk
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
Logan Prust, Postdoctoral Fellow, KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Fernando Guerrero, Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Mark Panning, Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Monday, May 5th, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social Science Lunch Talk

Baxter B125
Empirical Analysis of Network Data
Bryan Graham, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley,
1:00pm – 2:30pm
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Transforming Your Research Into Teaching for Postdocs

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Alexis Grimaud, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Boston College,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
On the Evolution of the Arctic
Justin Strauss, Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Darmouth College,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
TBA
John Urschel, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Jake Rudolph, UC Irvine,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
9:00am – 3:00pm
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CANCELED: Red Cross Blood Drive

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
TBA
Yannick Sire, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Johns-Hopkins University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Paul Chirik, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Topic to be announced
Yannai Gonczarowski, Professor of Economics and of Computer Science, Harvard University,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Misha Usatyuk, KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social Science Lunch Talk

Baxter B125
Empirical Analysis of Large Games
Bryan Graham, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture)

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
TBD
Christopher Kochanek, Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar, Ohio State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
How Will Severe Thunderstorms Respond to Climate Change?
Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Katherine Faber, Professor, Materials Science, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Expanding the Chemical Tractability of Human Proteome
Christopher Parker, Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Topic to be announced
Jean-Francois Houde, Professor and Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
9:00am – 3:00pm
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CANCELED: Red Cross Blood Drive

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – You & Your Thesis

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Join Feynman Teaching Award Recipient, Professor Joel Tropp & the CTLO for a Fireside Chat

Chen 100
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Adrian Tasistro-Hart, Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkely,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125
Topic to be announced
Tim Guinnane, Philip Golden Bartlett Professor Emeritus of Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University,
Friday, May 9th, 2025
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Admission to Candidacy for the Degrees of Master of Science and Engineer

10:00am – 3:30pm
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
Sara Beery, Assistant Professor, CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Daniel Dauhajre, Assistant Professor, Computational Ocean Dynamics, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Hannah Druckenmiller, Assistant Professor, Economics, California Institute of Technology,
Mark Jason Lara, Assistant Professor, Plant Biology and Geography and Geographic Information Sciences, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Sruthi Narayanan, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Green Labs May 2025 Meeting

12:00pm – 1:15pm
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LGBTQIA+ 101

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
Hang Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Montana State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Catherine Romero, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Lingseng Meng, Associate Professor of Geophysics, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Bandorama Concert

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, May 10th, 2025
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Bandorama Concert

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, May 12th, 2025
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Seniors to Remove Conditions and Incompletes

9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Grades

3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Jihye Park, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
TBD
Eric Dunham, Professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
TBA
Zico Kolter, Professor, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
9:00am – 11:00am
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International Scholar Orientation

Moore 239
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Daniel Voytas

Chen 100
From Lab to Field: The Promise of Plant Gene Editing at Scale
Daniel Voytas, Professor/Director, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
TBA
Oliver Tse, Associate Professor, Applied Analysis group of the Centre for Analysis, Scientific computing and Applications (CASA), Eindhoven University of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Inference on High Dimensional Selective Labeling Models
Shakeeb Khan, Professor of Economics, Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences, Boston College,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
10:00am – 11:15am
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

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

Online and In-Person Event
Signatures of high-energy neutrinos from sources for r-process nuclei
Yongzhong Qian, University of Minnesota,