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Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Deep Learning 1: Introduction to Deep Learning and Neural Networks

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Undergraduate Research Week 2024 - From SURF to Faculty

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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The Q[ueer] Continuum - Therapy Group for Students

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Forming the Trappist-1 system in two steps during the recession of the disc inner edge
Gabriele Pichierri, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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NB & CNS Seminar - Noashige Uchida | Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 4 pm

Chen 100
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Thomas Gray as reader and writer of the natural world
Scott Mandelbrote, Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Best Complete Approximations of Preference Relations
Efe Ok, Professor of Economics, New York University,
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
10:00am – 3:00pm
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2024 Grad Fair

Caltech Store
10:00am – 3:00pm
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Senior Class Gift

Hameetman Center Patio
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Acceleration-Induced Effects in Stimulated Light-Matter Interactions
Barbara Soda, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Non-Backtracking spectral methods for sparse matrices and tensors
Yizhe Zhu, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine,
12:00pm – 4/19 5:00pm
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Discover Caltech (DiscoTech) 2024

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Getting Better Sleep - Free Pizza!!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Non-reciprocity in quantum materials
Philip Moll, Max-Planck Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Groups without unitary representations, submeasures, and the escape property
Sławomir Solecki, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
1:00pm – 2:30pm
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How Learning Works - Spring 2024

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Recent progress on mathematical wave turbulence
Yu Deng, Department of Mathematics, USC,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Uniqueness problems for generalized quadrature domains with connections to Hele-Shaw flow and the Faber transform
Andrew Graven, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Undergraduate Research Week 2024 - Student-Mentor Coffee Hour

Cafe at Broad
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Large Fiber Array Spectroscopic Telescope
Chad Bender, Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
The Stirring Tropics
Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Toward a Control Theory of LLMs
Aman Bhargava, Electrical Engineering Department, Computational & Neural Systems, Caltech,
Shi-Zhuo Looi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
What limits the critical temperature for superconductivity in quantum materials?
Milan Allan, Associate Professor, Leiden University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Dearomative Alkaloid Synthesis
Joel M. Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Violent Backlash to Political Reform: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution
Scott Gehlbach, Elise and Jack Lipsey Professor, Department of Political Science, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago,
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
10:00am – 11:00am
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Consciousness & Reality Colloquium - Bioelectricity: The Body's Cognitive Glue

10:00am – 10:30am
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Undergraduate Research Week 2024 - CAST Lab Tour

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

Gates-Thomas 135
Micro/nanoscale reactive transport toward decarbonization
Wen Song, Assistant Professor, Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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► CANCELED: Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125
This seminar has been canceled.
Price Fishback, Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics, University of Arizona,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151
"Non-invasive actuation of chemical reactions through mechanochemistry and gas vesicle proteins"
Yuxing Yao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Shapiro Group,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Zhiyang Jin

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Acoustic Biosensors for Noninvasive Imaging of Molecular Processes
Zhiyang Jin, Ph.D. Candidate, Shapiro Lab, Medical Engineering Department, Caltech,
2:30pm – 3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Algebra and geometry of camera resectioning
Jessie Loucks-Tavitas, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Discussing Course Design: Forward, Central, Backward, and Beyond!

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Interpersonal Process Group (IPG) - Therapy Group for Graduate Students

Student Health Center
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series: Bob Iger

Athenaeum
  • Internal Event
3:45pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

From geometric realizations of affine Hecke algebras to character formulas
Vasily Krylov, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
4:00pm – 6:30pm
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Caltech Study Hub - Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Single-Cell Imaging & Control of Microbial Functions via Protein Nanowires
Nikhil Malvankar, Yale University, Protein Nanowire Lab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series-Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D.

Annenberg 105
Pursuit of Precision Health: The digital twin opportunity
Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D., Chief Executive Officer of Engineering Health Engineering, Robert A Welch Professor Inaugural Dean School of Engineering Medicine, Texas A&M University / Houston Methodist Research Institute,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
The period-index conjecture for abelian threefolds
Alexander Perry, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum materials on the mesoscale
Philip Moll, Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Empowerment Self-Defense

Center for Student Services, Lobby
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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First Generation Student Affinity Space

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition

Chen 100
Friday, April 19th, 2024
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 127
Quantum Advantage in Bayesian Games
Igal Milchtaich, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Majorana zero modes in germanium-based devices
Katharina Laubscher, University of Maryland, College Park,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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STEMinar: Robin Aguilar- One FISH, Two FISH: A Story of Genomics Technology Development and Advocacy-Centered Scientific Communication

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Undergraduate Research Week 2024 - Gratitude Tabling

San Pasqual Walk
  • Internal Event
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Green Labs Working Group Meeting

2:00pm – 6:15pm
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Inaugural Conference of The Merkin Center

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Stellar Rotation and Polytropic Gas Effects on the Stellar Wind
Bhimsen Shivamoggi, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Central Florida,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Perspectives on using AI for climate and weather simulation
Mike Pritchard, Professor, Department of Earth System Sciences, University of California, Irvine,
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Generating Near-Infrared Chiral Light, and other Hot Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Gael Ung, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut,
4:00pm – 6:30pm
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Caltech Study Hub - Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Triple Grid Diagrams
Sarah Blackwell, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Roland Bürgmann, Professor, Earth & Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Anti-screening and nonequilibrium layer electric phases in graphene multilayers
Mark Rudner, University of Washington,
5:15pm – 6:15pm
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Richard N. Merkin Public Lecture

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Puzzles to Unravel the Universe
Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University,
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cosmic Gold Mining
Shreya Anand, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, April 20th, 2024
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Inaugural Conference of The Merkin Center

1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Richard N. Merkin Public Lecture

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Toy Models
Tadashi Tokieda, Stanford University,
  • Public Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Monday, April 22nd, 2024
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Earth Day Resource Fair

San Pasqual Walk
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Earth Day Celebration

Center for Student Services, Large Tent
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest - The Nuances and Traditions of Great Britain with Peter Boorman

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
4:00pm – 6:30pm
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Caltech Study Hub - Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Reconstructing pCO2 from carbon isotope fractionation in marine algae
Pratigya Polissar, Associate Professor, Ocean Sciences Department, University of California Santa Cruz,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Stochastic particle systems for global optimization: a journey from metaheuristics to PDEs
Lorenzo Pareschi, Professor, Chair of Applied and Computational Mathematics, School of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Detecting Dark Matter Substructures on Small Scales with Fast Radio Bursts
Huangyu Xiao, Fermilab & KICP,