Events
October 2023
Monday, October 2nd, 2023
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PhD Thesis Defense
Measuring charge carrier and structural photodynamics at solar energy material surfaces using transient extreme ultraviolet reflection spectroscopy
Jonathan Michelsen,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar
A Data-Driven Approach to Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon
Tamma Carleton,
Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics, Climate Change,
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Tracking water resources and probing Earth structure with space geodesy
Hilary Martens,
Associate Professor,
Department of Geosciences,
University of Montana,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Light Shining Through a Thin Wall: Evanescent Hidden Photon Detection
Ryan Janish,
Fermilab,
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Katherine de Kleer,,
Assistant Professor, Hufstedler Family Scholar,
Planetary Science and Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
Yuk L. Yung,
Professor & Senior Research Scientist,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology & JPL,
Mike Brown,
Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy and the Terence D. Barr Leadership Chair and Director of the Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemistry Engineering
Fusing machine learning and simulations for molecular design
Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli,
Jeffrey Cheah Career Development Chair, Associate Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
10:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Grey Galaxies: The Endpoint of Superradiant Instabilities in Rotating AdS Black Holes
Jaeha Lee,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
TESS Stellar Variability Catalog (TESS-SVC)
Tara Fetherolf,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Origin of Cosmic Rays: Updates from Multi-Messenger Observations
Nahee Park,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy,
Queen's University,
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Experimental Investigation on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Supercritical CO2 Flows Through Microtubes
Hojin Ahn,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering Department,
Yeditepe University,
4:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Lecture
Metal ions as dynamic crosslinkers for polyelectrolyte gel networks
Pierre Walker,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Implicit Government Guarantees
Andrew J. Sinclair,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Measuring the knots and braids of non-Hermitian oscillators
Jack Harris,
Yale,
Friday, October 6th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Integrable Kerr Black Hole Spectrum from Twistor Symmetries
Alfredo Guevara Gonzalez,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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Saturday, October 7th, 2023
8:00am
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Wedding Photography: McCumber Party(Athenaeum)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 9th, 2023
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Atmospheric methane: where did you come from, where did you go?
Alexander Turner,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
Universtiy of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Neutrinoless double beta decay in effective field theory
Wouter Dekens,
INT, University of Washington,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
The Possibilities: On Weaving Science into Fiction
Yael Goldstein-Love,
Novelist,
- Public Event
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Connecting Common Ratio and Common Consequence Preferences
Charles Sprenger,
Professor of Economics; Executive Officer for the Social Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Pursuit of Strongly Correlated Electrons and their Applications on Quantum and Classical Devices
David A. Mazziotti,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
David Stephenson,
Marvin L. Goldberger Professor , Emeritus,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Bethany Ehlmann,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Heather Knutson,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
10:30am
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11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Entropy Vector Dynamics from Cayley Graphs
William Munizzi,
Arizona State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
The Effects of Peremptory Challenges on Jury Diversity and Conviction Rates
Joanna Huey,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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IPAC Lunch Seminar October 11, 2023
Preparing for Euclid and Roman Galaxy Redshift Surveys: Galaxy Clustering Models and Observational Systematics
Kevin McCarthy,
Caltech/IPAC and Caltech/JPL,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
From Exoplanets to the Solar System: Rocky Planet Formation in a New Light
Hilke Schlichting,
Professor of Planetary Science,
Department of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
More than physics, more than data: Integrated machine-learning models for chemistry
Michele Ceriotti,
Associate Professor,
Institute of Materials,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Disappearing Without a Trace: The Arrows of Time in Kent's Solution to the Lorentzian Quantum Reality Problem
Emily Adlam,
Assistant Professor,
Schmid College of Science and Technology,
Chapman University,
7:00pm
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Thursday, October 12th, 2023
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Adaptable, Scalable, and Certifiable Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Mobile Robots
Brett Lopez,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar
Attitudes toward Automation and the Demand for Policies Addressing Job Loss: The Effects of Information about Trade-Offs
Beatrice Magistro,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computational Social Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Simulating the quantum world on a classical computer
Garnet Chan,
Caltech,
Friday, October 13th, 2023
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Evidence for KKLT de Sitter Vacua
Richard Nally,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Tales on Bismuth Redox Catalysis
Josep Cornella,
Research Group Leader,
Department of Organometallic Chemistry,
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany,
Saturday, October 14th, 2023
12:00pm
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Wedding Photography: Kiester-Shuster Party(Athenaeum)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, October 15th, 2023
3:30pm
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Monday, October 16th, 2023
12:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Appealing to Independents: Information on Negative Externalities Increases Support for Environmental Corrective Taxes
R. Michael Alvarez,
Professor of Political and Computational Social Science,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Beatrice Magistro,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computational Social Science,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Towards a Unified Model of Planet Formation
Konstantin Batygin,
Professor of Planetary Science,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Qubit-based sensing for axion dark matter
Chiara Salemi,
KICP, Stanford/SLAC,
Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Deciphering Suboptimal Updating: Complexity, Structure, and Sequencing
Marina Agranov,
Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Konstantin Batygin,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Andy Ingersoll,
Professor, Emeritus,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Geoff Blake,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
California Insitute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Difference-in-Differences with Interference: A Finite Population Perspective
Ruonan Xu,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
School of Art and Sciences,
Rutgers,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
10:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Integer modes and Bulk w_(1+infinity) symmetry
Noah Miller,
Harvard University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Revisiting Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations Through Dark Matter – Gas Coherence
Giulia Cerini,
Department of Physics,
University of Miami,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Machine Learning: The Evolution of Gas from Molecular Clouds to Stars
Stella Offner,
Associate Professor of Astronomy,
Center for Scientific Machine Learning,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Scaling for Growth: From R&D to Reality
Steve Oldham,
CEO,
Captura,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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