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Thursday, October 12th, 2023
7:00pm – 9:30pm
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Movies That Matter - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Thursday, October 12th, 2023
11:00am – 3:00pm
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Caltech and Harvey-Mudd Fall 2023 STEM Virtual Career Fair

11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Adaptable, Scalable, and Certifiable Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Mobile Robots
Brett Lopez, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CPA Bylaws Review Meeting – October 12

  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Revitalization and Relationality in Research with Indigenous Peoples

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar

Baxter B125
Attitudes toward Automation and the Demand for Policies Addressing Job Loss: The Effects of Information about Trade-Offs
Beatrice Magistro, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computational Social Science, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Dan Schwartz, MD

Moore B270
Mining Medically Translatable Technology at Caltech
Dan Schwartz, MD, Physician in Residence, Merkin Institute for Translational Research, California Instittute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Simulating the quantum world on a classical computer
Garnet Chan, Caltech,
Friday, October 13th, 2023
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

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

Online and In-Person Event
Evidence for KKLT de Sitter Vacua
Richard Nally, Cornell University,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Green Labs October 2023 Meeting

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Higher-dimensional encoding and programmable openness with Rydberg atom arrays
Jacob Covey, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar

Crellin 151
The folding and function of proteins with complex topologies
Ellinor Haglund, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
https://ctac.carnegiescience.edu/annastasia-haynie
Annastasia Haynie, Graduate Student, Carnegie Theoretical Astrophysics Center, USC / Carnegie Observatories,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition and the BOLT Flight Experiments
Graham Candler, McKnight Presidential Chair of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Gates Annex B122
Tales on Bismuth Redox Catalysis
Josep Cornella, Research Group Leader, Department of Organometallic Chemistry, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Labeled four cycles and the K(pi,1) problem for reflection arrangement complements
Jingyin Huang, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University,
5:30pm – 7:30pm
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CWC Fall Gathering

Dabney Hall, Lounge
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Intro to Belay Class

Brown Gymnasium
Saturday, October 14th, 2023
7:00am – 10/17 11:00am
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Caltech Up Close

  • Internal Event
8:30am – 10:30am
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Solar Eclipse Viewing Event

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Science and Sunsets

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  • Public Event
Sunday, October 15th, 2023
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Zemlinsky Quartet

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, October 16th, 2023
10:00am – 11:30am
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Taste of Teaching - Fall 2023 (Learning Objectives)

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

Jorgensen 109
Appealing to Independents: Information on Negative Externalities Increases Support for Environmental Corrective Taxes
R. Michael Alvarez, Professor of Political and Computational Social Science, Humanities and Social Sciences,
Beatrice Magistro, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computational Social Science, Humanities and Social Sciences,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CPET Discussion: Supporting First Generation College Students

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Towards a Unified Model of Planet Formation
Konstantin Batygin, Professor of Planetary Science, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
The Effect of Spatial Structure on Phase Transition
Tom Hutchcroft, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics - PMA, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Qubit-based sensing for axion dark matter
Chiara Salemi, KICP, Stanford/SLAC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Page curve-like behavior in an exactly solvable model
Stefan Kehrein, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Goettingen,
Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series

Jorgensen 224
ZAP Lunch & Learn
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Introduction to QGIS

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar

East Bridge 114
Organizational Meeting
Sergei Gukov, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Konstantin Batygin, Professor, Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology,
Andy Ingersoll, Professor, Emeritus, Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology,
Geoff Blake, Professor, Planetary Science, California Insitute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Joint seminar: CPS and IES

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
2D superlattices for electrochemistry and magnetism
Kwabena Bediako, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
The orbit method, microlocal analysis and applications to L-functions
Paul Nelson, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Difference-in-Differences with Interference: A Finite Population Perspective
Ruonan Xu, Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Art and Sciences, Rutgers,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Circuit Machine Demos

Braun Gym
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Michael Lomax

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Party in Pink Dance Party

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
10:00am – 11:30am
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Transforming Your Research Into Teaching - Fall 2023 (Session 2)

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
10:40am – 11:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Integer modes and Bulk w_(1+infinity) symmetry
Noah Miller, Harvard University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Modelling multiphase matter: from microparticles to mega-icebergs
Eric Hester, Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Spectral Method for the Gravitational Perturbations of Black Holes
Adrian (Ka Wai) Chung, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yunes Gravity Theory Group, UIUC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Machine Learning: The Evolution of Gas from Molecular Clouds to Stars
Stella Offner, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Center for Scientific Machine Learning, University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Applied atmospheric science for wind energy research
Caroline Draxl, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
From saving pharmaceuticals to saving priceless historical artefacts: understanding nanostructure with x-rays and algorithms
Simon Billinge, Professor, Columbia University,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series

Jorgensen 109
Scaling for Growth: From R&D to Reality
Steve Oldham, CEO, Captura,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - The Chemistry of Everything: Uncovering New Treatments in the Natural World

Beckman Auditorium
Hosea Nelson (PhD '13), Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
  • Public Event
Thursday, October 19th, 2023
8:00am – 10/22 6:00pm
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Alumni Weekend and Reunions

Beckman Mall
  • Public Event
10:19am – 1:00pm
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Great California ShakeOut Earthquake Drill and Personal Preparedness Fair

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Creating a New Circular Carbon Economy via Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage
Ah-Hyung "Alissa" Park, Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151
"Natural and engineered molecular chaperones against amyloidogenic substrates"
Arpit Gupta, Postdoctoral Fellow, Shan Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CPA Bylaws Review Meeting – October 19

  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Supermassive primordial black holes from inflation
Aurora Ireland, University of Chicago,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Educational Technology Workshop (Canvas Intermediate Skills)

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Introduction to ArcGIS Online

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Some computer studies of membrane proteins, molecular chaperones, and color
Shyam Saladi, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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TechHub Fall Open House

2:30pm – 3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Constructing smoothings of stable maps
Mohan Swaminathan, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
3:45pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
The algebraic Green-Griffiths-Lang conjecture for the complement of a very general hypersurface in Pn
Wern Yeong, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
The role of ER shape, dynamics, and membrane contact sites in health and disease
Gia Voeltz, Professor, HHMI Investigator, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Microbes in the wild: Unraveling microbial community dynamics in their natural environment
Smruthi Karthikeyan, Professor, Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dine and Dialogue: Black Feminist Thought

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series-Professor Tim Salcudean

Moore B270
Image guided surgery and tissue elasticity imaging using ultrasound
Professor Tim Salcudean, Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of British Columbia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Galaxies as Probes of the Particle Physics Nature of Dark Matter
Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Pin-Making Art Night!

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room