Events
January 2023
Friday, January 20th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Holographic Codes in CFT
Thomas Hartman,
Cornell University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
Illuminating Bioelectricity in the Brain
Dr. He Tian,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Cohen Lab,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Magnetoelectric Materials for Wireless Neuromodulation and Bioelectronic Medicine
Josh Chen,
PhD candidate,
Bioengineering,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Talk
Functional Generalization: From Rhodopsin to Autism
Caleb Dewey,
Graduate Student,
College of Social & Behavioral Sciences,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Thermochemistry of Proton-Coupled Ln(II) Reductants that Enable Selective Fe-Catalyzed N2-to-N2H4 Conversion"
Emily Boyd,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2023
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 23rd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Soil-dwelling nematode Steinernema hermaphroditum as a vector for engineered E. coli
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Transient Science with TESS
Michael Fausnaugh,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Earth Imaging Spectroscopy from EMIT on the ISS
Robert O. Green,
Principal Investigator of the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT),
Director of the Microdevices Laboratory and a Senior Research Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Presupernova Neutrinos from Massive Stars as Probes of New Physics
Yong-Zhong Qian,
University of Minnesota,
Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Hope Michelsen,
Associate Professor,
College of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
BRINGING ORDER TO CHAOS: INSIGHTS ON THE FORMATION OF CHAOS TERRAIN FROM GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF EUROPA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ICE SHELL EVOLUTION
Erin Leonard,
Post-doctoral Researcher,
Planetary Geoscience,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Commencing the Era of Fast Radio Burst Cosmology
Liam Connor,
Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar,
Radio Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Alumni Fireside Chat, RSI Entrepreneurship
Online Event
Cody Finke, Caltech Alum, CEO and Co-Founder of Brimstone
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Thursday, January 26th, 2023
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Koopman Operator Theory Based Machine Learning of Dynamical Systems
Igor Mezic,
Distinguished Professor,
College of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
This seminar has been rescheduled to February 13, 2023.
Jennifer A. Jahner,
Professor of English,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
1:00pm
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5:30pm
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar
"How does protein synthesis start in eukaryotes?"
Dr. Jinfan Wang,
Research Scientist,
Department of Structural Biology,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Talk
Modeling Injustice in Epistemic Networks
Jingyi Wu,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science (LPS),
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Shedding nano-light on quantum materials
Dmitri Basov,
Columbia University,
Friday, January 27th, 2023
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Distinguishing SCFTs in Four and Six Dimensions
Craig Lawrie,
DESY,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
Chemical Proteomics – Driving biological discovery and therapeutic development
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Catalytic Asymmetric C-H Insertion Reactions of Vinyl Carbocations
Sepand Nistanaki,
Graduate Student (Nelson Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, January 28th, 2023
8:30am
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5:30pm
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2:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Shabandari Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, January 29th, 2023
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, January 30th, 2023
12:00pm
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12:55pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk
Data Science Applications to the Video Game Industry
Jonathan Lane,
Senior Director of Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning at Activision Publishing,
Activision,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The magmatic web beneath Hawaii
Zachary Ross,
Assistant Professor of Geophysics; William H. Hurt Scholar,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Coaction and cuts for Feynman diagrams and integrals
Ruth Britto,
Trinity College Dublin & IAS,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inaugural Peter B. Dervan Lecture
A Decade of CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing: What's Ahead for the Technology and Its Applications
Jennifer A. Doudna,
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology,
Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Revisiting the Core Accretion Paradigm for Giant Planet Formation: Analytic Framework for the Late Infall Stage and the Distribution of Planetary Masses
Fred Adams,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Detecting (high frequency) gravitational waves in a box
Diego Blas,
UA Barcelona, IFAE,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Talk
Reframing Epistemic Partiality: Acceptance and the Cognitive Work of Friendship
Laura Soter,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Department of Philosophy,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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