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Wednesday, February 7th, 2024
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Illuminating the Dynamic Night Sky: Discoveries from the Zwicky Transient Facility

Beckman Auditorium
Thursday, February 8th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Contraction Theory for Optimization, Control, and Neural Networks
Francesco Bullo, Distinguished Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CBIPP Tech Talk

Chen 100
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Faculty Short Course - Course Design Basics (Technology Tools)

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Survival Kit for Managing Anxiety and Stress - Thursday, Feb 8th

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Lunar New Year Talk: "Working Women in Ancient China"

Chen 130
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
How Much Income Inequality is Fair? A Surprising Answer to a 200-year-old Question.
Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Karen Christman

Annenberg 105
Biomaterials for Treating the Heart
Karen Christman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Pierre Galletti Endowed Chair for Bioengineering cInnovation, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Welfare, Jaobs School of Engineering, University of San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Uniform irreducibility of Galois action on the p-primary part of Abelian 3-folds of Picard type
Mladen Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, University of Lille,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Magnetic power of neutron stars
Andrei Beloborodov, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Mechanism and function of accurate stress response silencing
Diane Haakonsen, Ph.D., Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, February 9th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The EFT of Large Spin Mesons
Gabriel Cuomo, Princeton & NYU,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Magnetic Noise Injection Scripts and Preliminary Results for The Virgo Detector
Catalina Miritescu,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Green Labs February 2024 Meeting

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Lunar New Year Event

Red Door Cafe
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Activation and Incorporation of Rare Sugars into Bacterial Surfaces
Tania Lupoli, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, New York University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Lightweight Discrete Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials
Kenneth Cheung, NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar

Annenberg 213
Bayesian Imaging with Score-based Priors
Berthy Feng, Graduate Student, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
3- and 4-dimensional invariants of satellite knots with (1,1)-patterns
Holt Bodish, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Expanding Rh-Catalyzed Nucleophile Additions to Electron-Deficient Dienes
Christopher Cooze, Postdoctoral Scholar (Stoltz Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Fault creep: What is it, how do we find it, and what does it mean?
Gareth Funning, Professor of Seismology, Earth & Planetary Sciences Department, UC Riverside,
Monday, February 12th, 2024
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Grades

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
There and back again: A journey to the base of a tectonic plate
Samer Naif, Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
The AAA Algorithm For Rational Approximation
Nick Trefethen, Professor, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology and the high-redshift Universe
Nashwan Sabti, Johns Hopkins University,
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
9:00am – 4:00pm
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Science of Benefits - TIAA's Office Hours on Campus

Human Resources
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy of Quantum Matter
Ismail El Baggari, Principal Investigator and Fellow, Rowland Institute, Harvard University,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series

Jorgensen 224
ZAP Lunch & Learn
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Community@Caltech

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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NB & CNS Seminar - Matt Wachowiak | Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 12 pm

Broad 100
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar

East Bridge 114
Robust G-Invariance in G-Equivariant Networks
Nina Miolane, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Computational catalyst design accelerated by machine learning with "Center-Environment" features: from spinel to perovskite oxides
Yi Liu, Professor of Materials Science, Materials Genome Institute, Shanghai University,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Emilie Dunham, Postdoc,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Seeing the invisible: the search for low-mass axion dark matter with DMRadio
Chiara Salemi, SLAC,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Lecture

Linde Hall 310
Extensions and the Twice-punctured Sphere
Christopher Skinner, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
10:00am – 11:30am
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Transforming Your Research Into Teaching for Postdocs-Winter 2024

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Celestial Quantum Error Correction: From Noncommutative Geometry to Celestial CFT
Yangrui Hu, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CTLO Winter Term Workshop Series: How to Design Courses to Increase Student Learning and Promote Academic Integrity

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennen Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Get Moving With Behavioral Activation! - Workshop for students

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 254
The Southern California Seismic Network: Earthquake Monitoring Operations & Research
Gabrielle Tepp, Seismo Lab, Caltech,
Ellen Yu, Seismo Lab, Caltech,
Ettore Biondi, Seismo Lab, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Galaxies in the Reionization Era: New Insight from JWST
Daniel Stark, Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Seeing Antarctica with New Eyes
Britney Schmidt, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Molecular Design Strategies for Mechanochemically Active Polymers
Maxwell J. Robb, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Valentine's Day Card Making

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series

Jorgensen 109
Valuing Technology
Hanna Breunig, Deputy-Head, Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
9:00am – 10:00am
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New Horizons in Neuroscience Seminar - Hannah Payne | Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 9 am |

Chen 100
10:00am – 11:00am
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Consciousness & Reality Colloquium: 2023-24 Series

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

Gates-Thomas 135
Towards sustainable materials from biological matter: leveraging macromolecular composition, bonding motifs and hierarchical structure to tailor mechanical performance
Eleftheria Roumeli, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CBIPP Tech Talk

Chen 100
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151
"Localized catalytic DNA circuits for scalable molecular computation on a surface"
Samuel Davidson, PhD Student, Qian Group,