Events
March 2023
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
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11:59pm
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development of Oxidation and Transition Metal-Mediated Reactions and Application to Natural Product Synthesis
Sara Dibrell,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar
Online Event
Multi-Messenger Probes of Outflows And Accretion in Supermassive Black Holes
Kate Alexander,
Department of Astronomy, Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Small Statistics No More: A Suite of Dwarf Galaxy Simulations to Interpret Observations
Alyson Brooks,
Associate Professor,
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Selective strategies for phosphoranyl radical fragmentation for chemical synthesis
Valerie Schmidt,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium
Thomas R. Palfrey, III,
Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Enigma of the Heart
Online and In-Person Event
Morteza (Mory) Gharib (PhD '83),
Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Medical Engineering; Director and Booth-Kresa Leadership Chair of the Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST); Director of GALCIT,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
- Public Event
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
9:00am
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4:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Liquid Breakup at Supercritical Conditions: Toward Understanding Mixing and Combustion at Extreme Conditions
Dorrin Jarrahbashi,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Microbial-Enrichment Method Enables High-Throughput Metagenomic Characterization from Host-Rich Samples"
Natalie J. Wu-Woods,
Graduate Student,
Ismagilov Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Building with fluids: a lazy approach to fabrication
Prof. Pierre-Thomas Brun,
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Prebiotic Chemistry in Hydrothermal Systems on Early Earth and Ocean Worlds
Laurie Barge,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Black holes in binaries
Ilya Mandel,
Monash University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Back to The Problem of Space
Joshua T. Eisenthal,
Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
Friday, March 3rd, 2023
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Twisting 6d (2,0) SCFTs and LSTs
Kimyeong Lee,
Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS),
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Excited State Properties of Lead Halide Perovskites: Insights for Photocatalysis and Photovoltaics
Jeffrey DuBose,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Manthiram Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, March 4th, 2023
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, March 6th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CANCELLED - RSI Research Seminar
The California Climate Information System (CalCIS)
Dr. Christine Lee,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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History, Ethics, and Identity Seminar Series
Scientific Virtue: Reflections on "Good" Science and "Good" Scientists
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
From N-Heterocyclic Carbenes to Dithiolene Radicals: A Counterintuitive Trek Through Main Group Chemistry"
Gregory H. Robinson,
FRSC Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistryp,
The University of Georgia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
The Galaxy Evolution in the Large-scale Structure
Rieko Momose,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
How similar is Venus to Earth?
Francis Nimmo,
Professor,
Physical & Biological Sciences Division Earth and Planetary Sciences Department,
University of California, Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A chiral SU(5) theory with three generations
Daniel Stolarski,
Carleton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Detecting and Characterizing Planets Around M Dwarf Stars
Emily Gilbert,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Screening with Persuasion
Stephen Morris,
Peter A. Diamond Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
MIT,
Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Mapping the Cosmic Web with IGM Tomography
Andrew Newman,
Staff Scientist,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
When Democracy Refuses to Die: Evaluating a Training Program for New Politicians
Frederico Finan,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, March 9th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Soft Materials Mechanics for Health and Sustainability
Xuanhe Zhao,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Scaling up reusable DNA strand-displacement circuits using heat as a universal energy source"
Tianqi Song,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Qian Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Diagenetic overprints associated with the clay-sulfate transition in Gale crater, Mars & The Behavior of Fluorine in Granitic Melts
Tina Seeger,
Graduate student,
Geology,
Caltech,
Oliver Wilner,
Graduate student,
Geology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Ineffective Field Theory
Lisa Randall,
Harvard University,
Friday, March 10th, 2023
12:00am
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3/11
12:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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Conversations on Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Personalized Medicine
Online Event
- Public Event
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Line Defects in CFTs: from Spin Impurities to Wilson Lines
Avia Raviv-Moshe,
SUNY Stony Brook,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Recommending to Strategic Users: Avoiding the Perils of Strategy-Oblivious Recommendation Algorithms
Chara Podimata,
FODSI Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley and The Simons Institute,
Saturday, March 11th, 2023
8:00am
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3/14
11:59pm
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Monday, March 13th, 2023
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Recent Advances in the Reductive Chemistry of Rare-Earth and Actinide Metals
William J. Evans,
UC Irvine Distinguished Professor; Director, Eddleman Quantum Institute,
Department of Chemistryp,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Where the wheels fall off: stellar rotation period distributions in the "worst case" scenarios
Mark Popinchalk,
CUNY/AMNH,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Natural History of Venus
Gregory Laughlin,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
Yale University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Fun with Chemical Physics: From Controlling Hot Electron Dynamics in Plasmonic Nanostructures to Frequency Comb "Breathalyzer" Detection of COVID!
David Nesbitt,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Physics,
University of Colorado Boulder and NIST,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
The Influence of Tidal Heating on the Habitability of Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs
Juliette Becker,
51 Peg Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What Do Insurers Do Differently Than One Another? Managed Competition and Value Added
Ben Handel,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
8:00am
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3/17
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar
Online Event
Beginning a Journey Across the Universe: the Discovery of Extragalactic Neutrino Factories
Sara Buson,
Faculty for Physik und Astronomie,
Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Using Models to Inform Atmospherically Relevant Laboratory Measurements of Aerosol Formation Reactions
Hannah Kenagy,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Algorithm Design: A Fairness-Accuracy Frontier
Annie Liang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Northwestern University,