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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Gates Annex B122
First Principles Driven Materials Design: From Building Blocks to Superlattices
Thi Vo, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan,
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections for Winter Term

10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
New Diameter Reducing Shortcuts: Breaking the $O(\sqrt{n})$ Barrier
Merav Parter, Weizmann Institute of Science,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Compressive gate set tomography
Martin Kliesch, University of Düsseldorf,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Online Event
Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Social Justice
Chad Topaz, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (QSIDE),,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Most(?) theories have Borel complete reducts and expansions
Chris Laskowski, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Unconscious Bias Training

Online Event
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Personal Emergency Preparedness Training

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - Introduction to Zotero - Zoom Session

Online 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

Online and In-Person Event
GraL: In Search of Quasar Gravitational Lenses from Gaia and Beyond
Alberto Krone-Martins, Lecturer, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Online Event
"Cinematography" of nanoparticles, membrane proteins, and polymer membranes at the nanoscale
Qian Chen, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
Chaos and Unpredictability in Dynamic Public Policy Problems
Marco Battaglini, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Edward H. Meyer Professor of Economics, Cornell University,
Thursday, February 24th, 2022
8:00am – Ongoing
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Registration for Spring Term

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

Gates-Thomas 135
Morphing Materials and Multifunctional Structures: From Mechanics to Applications
Xueju "Sophie" Wang, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and the Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut (UConn),
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Discovery Research

Online Event
Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Professor of Physics, Harvard University,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Searches for New Physics at the Edge of Absolute Zero
Jonathan Ouellet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Online Event
"Harnessing Pseudomonas Physiology to Treat Chronic Infections"
Dr. Chelsey VanDrisse, Newman Group, Caltech,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - Getting Started with LaTeX Using Overleaf (Zoom Session)

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Computer Vision for Global-Scale Biodiversity Monitoring
Sara M. Beery, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Community succession and nitrogen fixation under altered N/P/Fe nutrient availability
Emily Seelen, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Cold and ultra-cold molecules for quantum science
John Doyle, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Bridging Length Scales in Electrolyte Transport Theory via the Onsager Framework
Kara Fong, PhD candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
Imprecise Probabilistic Inference from Sequential Data
Michael Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Friday, February 25th, 2022
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Singularities From Entropy
Raphael Bousso, UC Berkeley,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
High fidelity quantum science with Rydberg atom arrays
Adam Shaw, Graduate Student, Endres Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CPET Webinar: "Teaching and Research at Pasadena City College (PCC)" with Professor Veronica Jaramillo

Online Event
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
What is (the physics of) TMF?
Sergei Gukov, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online Event
Gas dynamics, inflow and star formation in centre of the Milky Way
Mattia Sormani, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Universität Heidelberg,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Autonomous Miniaturized Distributed Space Systems

Online Event
Simone D'Amico, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
TBA
Jonathan Zung, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
Monday, February 28th, 2022
9:00am – 10:00am
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MedE Special Seminar. Dr. Alex Abramson

Online Event
Tissue Interfacing Robotic Therapeutics
Alex Abramson, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Study Abroad Day Reception

Center for Student Services, Lobby
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
Moduli of Fontaine-Laffaille modules and mod p local-global compatibility
Bao Le Hung, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar

Online Event
Measuring the Capabilities of Quantum Computers
Timothy Proctor, Sandia National Lab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Sectorial descent for wrapped Fukaya categories and applications to mirror symmetry
Sheel Ganatra, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online Event
Revealing the Star Formation History of our Solar Neighborhood: Supernova-Driven Star Formation on the Surface of the Local Bubble
Catherine Zucker, Hubble Fellow, Space Telescope Science Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B Keller Colloquium Series

Online Event
Computational Design of Metamaterials and Deployable Structures
Julian Panetta, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of California - Davis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Coulomb enhancements for fundamental physics
Ryan Plestid, University of Kentucky,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Elucidating the Mechanism of Excited State Bond Homolysis in Nickel-Bipyridine Photoredox Catalysts
David Cagan, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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MedE Special Seminar. Dr. Ritchie Chen

Online Event
Genetically-targeted bioelectronics to study brain and body circuits
Ritchie Chen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bioengineering, Stanford University,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

Online Event
"Black Holes" and "Binary Stars"
Ron Tso, PhD Candidate, Department of Physics, Caltech,
Ylva Götberg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Observatories,
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