Events
April 2023
Saturday, April 15th, 2023
8:00am
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8:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Weinstein/Bartelt Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Bekarian Wedding Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, April 16th, 2023
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 17th, 2023
11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
ML-enabled model of underground fluid transport in the presence of chemical reactions
Mina Karimi,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Tracing AGN Feedback on the Star-Forming ISM in NGC 7469 with JWST
Thomas Lai,
Caltech/IPAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Future is Now: Using JWST for a Fully 3-D Understanding of Exoplanet Atmospheres
Emily Rauscher,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
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
Going Underground or Listening to the Sky?
Anupam Ray,
UC Berkeley & University of Minnesota,
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Towns and Agriculture in Times of Serfdom: An Economic Success or an Economic Failure?
Alex Klein,
Deputy Head of School and Reader in Economics,
School of Economics,
University of Kent,
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
Liquid Markets: An Empirical Analysis of a Water Exchange
Yunmi Kong,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Rice University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2023
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar
Online Event
Particle Acceleration in Galaxy Outflows
Marco Ajello,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Clemson University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Constraining the Cosmic Baryon Cycle with ALMA
Fabian Walter,
Senior Staff Scientist,
MPIA Heidelberg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar
The Great Carbon Arbitrage
Alissa Magdaleen Kleinnijenhuis,
Research Fellow,
Department of Finance,
Imperial College Business School - London,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online Event
Alumni Fireside Chat - Scientist Turned Venture Capitalist
Jason Holt,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Electrifying and Decarbonizing Chemical Synthesis
Online and In-Person Event
Karthish Manthiram,
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry; William H. Hurt Scholar,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
- Public Event
Thursday, April 20th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Porous Media Flow and Reactive Transport Phenomena: Accounting for the Underlying Structural Heterogeneity
Veronica L. Morales,
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Davis,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Allosteric Modulation of an Alpha5 Containing Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor"
Chris Marotta,
Grubbs Group,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Redox-Activated Covalent Functionalization of Semiconductor Surfaces
Maureen B. Morla,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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â–ş CANCELED: Social Sciences History Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Stefanie Stantcheva,
Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Information-preserving Dimensionality Reduction for High-dimensional Small-sample Data
Aditi Jha,
PhD Candidate,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Princeton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory
Clay Cordova,
University of Chicago,
Friday, April 21st, 2023
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Strategies for the Mechanically Triggered Release of Small Molecules
Corey C. Husic,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Non-Invertible Chiral Symmetry
Clay Cordova,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Behavioral Causal Inference
Ran Spiegler,
Professor of Economics,
Tel Aviv University and University College London,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Rethinking basic assumptions in reward learning
Todd Hare,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Zurich,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Dow Lecture in Organometallic Chemistry
Harnessing of Excited States Through Molecular Design – From Discrete Metal-Ligand Chromophores to Supramolecular Assembly and Functions
Vivian Wing-Wah Yam,
Philip Wong Wilson Professor in Chemistry and Energy and Chair Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of Hong Kong,
Saturday, April 22nd, 2023
12:00am
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4/23
12:00am
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Monday, April 24th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Thermally and mechanically responsive platforms for functional polymeric materials
Brooke Versaw,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Inorganic Phototropism: Emergent Properties Directing Growth of Mesostructured Semiconductors
Madeline Meier,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Synthetic Chemistry for Carbon Management."
Matthew W. Kanan,
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Prospects for Detecting Gaps in Globular Cluster Stellar Streams in M31 and Other External Galaxies with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Christian Aganze,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Petrologic Tools for Determining Rates of Magma Ascent in Explosive
Madison Myers,
Assistant Professor Committee Member Chair Earth Sciences Montana State University,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Montana State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dark Photons with Multiple Leptons
Matheus Hostert,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Exoskeleton-Based Training For Novel Motor Skill Acquisition
Keya Ghonasgi,
Ph.D. candidate,
University of Texas, Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Generating Spin-Triplets at the Perovskite/Organic Interface
Lea Nienhaus,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Danica Adams,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Maria Camarca,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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NB & CNS Seminar - Gul Dolen | Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 4 pm
"Reopening critical periods with psychedelics: basic mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities"
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Reputation and Capture: Limits of the Administrative Presidency
Lindsey Gailmard,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online and In-Person Event
Fundraising - Part 2
Doug Wicks,
Program Director,
ARPA-E,
Apoorv Agawal,
Technology-to-Market Advisor,
ARPA-E,
Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:15pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar
Online Event
General Coordinates Network (GCN): NASA's Next Generation Time-Domain and Multimessenger Astronomy Alert System
Leo Singer,
NASA/GSFC,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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OCS - Novartis Chemical Sciences Lectures
Dr. Phillip Alper,
Senior Principal Investigator,
Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Big Stars and Their Little Friends
Morgan MacLeod,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
CFA / Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Learning, Sophistication, and the Returns to Advertising: Implications for Differences in Firm Performance
Steven Tadelis,
Professor of Economics and Sarin Chair in Leadership and Strategy,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, April 27th, 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
Composite Nanolattices and Colloidal Self-Assembly Enabled by 3D Nanoprinting
Wendy Gu,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Bank Branching and Local Shocks
Sarah Quincy,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Vanderbilt University,