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Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe
Misha Usatyuk, KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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KNI Special Seminar with Dr. Christian Haffner

Steele 125
Christian Haffner, Principal Member of Technical Staff, imec,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Forcing and Borel Equivalence Relations
Dima Sinapova, Mathematics Department, Rutgers University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 254
Earthquake energy-moment ratio scales with rupture complexity
Hao Zhang, Geophysics, University of Southern California,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social Science Lunch Talk

Baxter B125
Average Treatment Effects in Exchangeable Random Arrays
Bryan Graham, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture)

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Time Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei
Christopher Kochanek, Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar, Ohio State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
How Will Severe Thunderstorms Respond to Climate Change?
Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Intercultural Discussion Group (Snacks Provided!)

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Diffusionless Transformations in Ceramics: Can Brittle Materials Survive Martensitic Transitions?
Katherine Faber, Professor, Materials Science, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Expanding the Chemical Tractability of Human Proteome
Christopher Parker, Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Imperfect Competition and Sanitation: Evidence from Randomized Auctions in Senegal
Jean-Francois Houde, Professor and Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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What Makes a Model a Digital Twin? An Atmospheric Science-based Perspective

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
9:00am – 3:00pm
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CANCELED: Red Cross Blood Drive

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

Gates-Thomas 135
Advances in Eulerian Modeling: Compaction, Multiphase Flow, and Plasticity
Nicolas Favrie, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Aix-Marseille University,
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Introduction to Natural Language Processing and Language Models

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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EVOxZANKOU Seminar

Chen 130
"Evolutionary entrenchment of a myrmecophilous lifestyle: the basis of obligate parasitism in rove beetles" and "Lineage tracing in the developing placenta through space and time"
Joani Viliunas, Graduate Student, BBE, Caltech,
Martin Tran, Graduate Student, BBE, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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STEMinar Series: Iraís Ortiz Caraveo

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Metal Binding to Nsp1, a SARS-CoV-2 protein
Maryann Morales, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – You & Your Thesis

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Join Feynman Teaching Award Recipient, Professor Joel Tropp & the CTLO for a Fireside Chat

Chen 100
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Illuminating Natural Intelligence with Smart Experimental Systems and Advanced Machine Learning
Hang Lu, C. J. "Pete" Silas Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation of College of Engineering, Georgia Tech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Adrian Tasistro-Hart, Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkely,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Unveiling the First Galaxies & Black Holes in the Universe
Priyamvada Natarajan, Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor in Astronomy & Physics, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125
Using Organizational Flexibility: Inside the GmbH
Tim Guinnane, Philip Golden Bartlett Professor Emeritus of Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Connect Training for Students (in-person)

Downs 269
Friday, May 9th, 2025
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Admission to Candidacy for the Degrees of Master of Science and Engineer

10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Moore B280
Flexible Phased Arrays: Challenges & Opportunities
Oren Mizrahi, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
10:00am – 3:30pm
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
Sara Beery, Assistant Professor, CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Daniel Dauhajre, Assistant Professor, Computational Ocean Dynamics, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Hannah Druckenmiller, Assistant Professor, Economics, California Institute of Technology,
Mark Jason Lara, Assistant Professor, Plant Biology and Geography and Geographic Information Sciences, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Collinear Corrections to the Cachazo-Strominger Soft Theorem
Sruthi Narayanan, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Introduction to Natural Language Processing and Language Models

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS Seminar-Shaping AI for the Public Good via the Berkeley Lab Model

Broad 100
Shaping AI for the Public Good via the Berkeley Lab Model
David Patterson, Computer Scientist UC Berkeley and Google,
Andy Konwinski, Co-founder of Laude, Databricks, and Perplexity,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Green Labs May 2025 Meeting

2:15pm – 3:15pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Dynamical tides in binary neutron stars: effects of spin, tidal spin, and nonlinear hydrodynamics
Hang Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Montana State University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Stochastic estimation and reinforcement learning control of disturbed aerodynamic flows
Jeff Eldredge, Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
The Dehn twist on a connected sum of two homology tori
Haochen Qiu, Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Unveiling the Dynamics of Supershear Earthquakes: Insights from Enhanced Back-Projection Imaging
Lingsen Meng, Associate Professor of Geophysics, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Bandorama Concert

Ramo Auditorium
Saturday, May 10th, 2025
2:30pm – 5:00pm
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Exploring the Intersection of YouTube and STEM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Estefannie,
Dr. Alex Dainis,
Lindsay Nikole,
Earthquake Sim,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Bandorama Concert

Ramo Auditorium
Monday, May 12th, 2025
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Seniors to Remove Conditions and Incompletes

9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Grades

9:30am – 11:30am
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Dia de las Madres

9:30am – 10:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 115
Mechanical Characterization of Irregular Architected Two-Phase Materials
Chelsea Fox, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:15pm
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Positionality in Research 101

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Chen 100
Topological organization of cell state manifolds across metazoans
Emanual Flores Bautista, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Molecular Approaches to Advancing 2D Conductive MOFs for Tailored Properties and Applications
Jihye Park, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370
Dr. Devontae Baxter, NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics and UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC San Diego,
Minjie Lei, PhD student, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Fault valving, slow slip events, and the friction-viscous transition in seismic cycle models with fault zone fluid transport
Eric Dunham, Professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Recent Advances in AI Safety and Robustness
Zico Kolter, Professor, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
How the universe came to be smooth and flat
Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University,