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Thursday, January 16th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Don't get stuck: (no)flow and clogging of particulate suspensions
Alban Sauret, Associate Professor and Clark Faculty Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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*New Date* Succeeding as A TA This Quarter

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
2:45pm – 3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Symplectic Aspects of Hyperplane Arrangements
Siyang Liu, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Segre classes and Lorentzian/covolume polynomials
Paolo Aluffi, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
The arithmetic of power series and applications to irrationality
Yunqing Tang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Computing for Plasma Physics: Challenges and Opportunities
Nuno Loureiro, MIT,
Friday, January 17th, 2025
9:00am – 6:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Visual Culture Program Event

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
This workshop has been postponed to Friday, April 11, 2025.
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
New Phases in SYM
Prahar Mitra, University of Amsterdam,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Magnetic Control of Chiral Phonons and Deep-Strong Light-Matter Coupling
Andrey Baydin, Rice University,
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech Community Gathering

Beckman Mall
  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Algebraic structure of knot Floer homology
David Popović, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Ultrafast, all-Optical Coherence of Molecular Electron Spins
Erica Sutcliffe, Postdoctoral Scholar (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Climat DIYnamics
Jonathan Aurnou, Professor, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (EPSS), University of California Los Angeles,
Monday, January 20th, 2025
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Inferring the dynamics of locomotion using spectral mode representations
Alasdair Hastewell, Postdoctoral Fellow, NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB),
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Gates Annex B122
Investigating the Mechanics of Architected Solids across Scales through Predictive Modeling
Ziran (Rachel) Zhou, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
1:30pm – 5:00pm
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31st Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition Finals

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
  • Internal Event
1:30pm – 5:00pm
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31st Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition Finals

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
  • Internal Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

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

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Origin of Life's Homochirality: From Magnetic Minerals to a Homochiral Genome
Furkan Ozturk, Kavli-Laukien Fellow, Department of Physics, Harvard University,
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
10:00am – 3:30pm
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New Horizons in Neuroscience Symposium

Chen 100
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The Hilbert space of de Sitter JT gravity
Jesse Held, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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[CANCELED] Getting Better Sleep

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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*CANCELED* Faculty Learning Community Lunches

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Pi-1-1 maximal almost disjoint families and Laver measurability
Asger Törnquist, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen,
1:00pm – 2:30pm
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Webinar: Tips and Information on Property Insurance After the Wildfires

Online Event
  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
How Dark is Space?
Tod Lauer, Astronomer, NOIRLab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Title TBD
Kelly Wrighton, Colorado State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Natural Superlattice Design of Modulated Superconductors
Joseph Checkelsky, Associate Professor, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Campus History & Architectural Tour

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

Gates-Thomas 135
Hardware / controls co-design to overcome challenges for aerial robots
Mark W. Mueller, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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The Timothy D. Ryan Summer Entrepreneurship Program: Info Session

Building 15, Room 131
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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APhMS Special Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Scalable classical and quantum semiconductor light sources
Boubacar Kante, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Molecular Assembly of Living and Lifelike Materials
Seu Sim, Professor, Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Geologic processes that control sourcing and migration of subsurface helium
Daniel Halford, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geochemistry, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Tony Jun Huang

Annenberg 105
Acoustofluidics: merging acoustics and fluid mechanics for biomedical applications
Tony Jun Huang, William Bevan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Modularity of special cycles in orthogonal and unitary Shimura varieties
Salim Tayou, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
A New Era in Quantum Optics: From Topological Photonics to Correlated Materials
Mohammad Hafezi, UMD,
Friday, January 24th, 2025
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
Local Consequences of Asymptotic Symmetries
Gautam Satishchandran, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Topological superconductivity and high-magnetic-field superconductivity in UTe2
Sylvia Klare Lewin, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Electrochemical synthesis of Value-added chemicals from CO2 and N2 reduction reaction
Yun Jeong Hwang, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Weyl Law for the 1-cycles
Bruno Staffa, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Imaging Excited-State Carrier Dynamics in Strontium Titanate Photocatalysts through Ultrafast Electron Microscopy and Correlative Electron Spectroscopies
Levi Palmer, Graduate Student (Cushing Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Thermobaric activation of fault friction
Sylvain Barbot, Associate Professor, Earth Sciences, University of Southern California,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Chamber Music Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Faster than Light Speed? The Physics of the Warp Drive
Elias Most, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, January 25th, 2025
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Chamber Music Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Sunday, January 26th, 2025
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Chamber Music Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Monday, January 27th, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
Margaret McFall-Ngai, Division of Biosphere Sciences and Engineering, Carnegie Institution for Science,
1:00pm – 2:30pm
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How Learning Works - Winter 2025

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)
TBD
Qindan Zhu, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Time-delayed gamma-ray signatures of heavy axions from core-collapse supernovae
Joshua Benabou, UC Berkeley,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Fast Radio Bursts" and "Building Europa Clipper"
Stella Ocker, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Matthew Stumbo, System Integration and Test Engineer, NASA JPL,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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2025 Lunar New Year Talk: "History of Tea"

Chen 100
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The photochemistry and climate of foreign atmospheres: implications for the origin of life on early Earth and understanding exoplanets observed by the James Webb Space Telescope
Nicholas Wogan, Postdoctoral Researcher, NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
A Field Experiment on Antitrust Compliance
Kei Kawai, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Tokyo; Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley (on leave),
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Asymptotic Higher Spin Symmetries in Yang-Mills Theory
Nicolas Cresto, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Getting Started - Lunch with RSVP

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Bowen's Problem 32 and the conjugacy problem for systems with specification
Bo Peng, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187
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

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Dim Future of Exoplanet Imaging
Michael Bottom, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,