Events
December 2023
Ongoing
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12/1
11:59pm
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Friday, December 1st, 2023
12:00am
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12/2
12:00am
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8:00am
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12/2
5:00pm
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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
Massive gravity is not positive
Giulia Isabella,
UCLA,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Function, structure and inheritance of the simplest known mitochondria of the unicellular intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia.
Pavel Dolezal,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Parasitology,
Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, December 2nd, 2023
8:00am
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12/5
11:59pm
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2023
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, December 4th, 2023
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Unconventional Approaches for Mediating Redox Reactions
Shabnam Hematian,
Assistant Professor and Bernard-Glickman Dean's Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of North Carolina, Greensboro,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Plants, Planet, and People: Understanding and Leveraging Plant-Water Interactions for a Changing World
Jeannie Wilkening,
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo-Engineering,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Neutrino Scattering for Neutrino Oscillations
Kevin McFarland,
University of Rochester,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap
"Energy Beaming" and "Space Dust"
Michael Kelzenberg,
Senior Research Scientist,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Brenda Rubenstein,
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics,
Department of Chemistry,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
A window into sub-Neptune interiors: coupled chemistry and structure of hydrogen-silane-water atmospheres
William Misener,
Graduate Student,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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12/15
5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
State-of-the art R&D on optical photon detection at Fermilab
Alexander Kish,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting
Peter Buisseret,
Assistant Professor of Government,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
8:00am
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12/8
11:59pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Putting pressure under pressure
Eugene Y. S. Chua,
Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Science,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
RAPID: Roman Alerts Promptly from Image Differencing
Mansi Kasliwal,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Planet Formation Chemistry in the Era of ALMA+JWST
Karin I. Öberg,
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences,
Department of Astronomy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Modeling Luminous Accretion Flows Around Black Holes
James Stone,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Can studying microbial physiology help us predict the fate of soil carbon?
Abraham (Avi) Flamholz,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Machine Learning Strategies for Secondary Sphere Modification in Organocatalysis
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, December 7th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Einstein on Singularities: Analysis versus Geometry
John Norton,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
On the Complexity of Neural Network Representations
Kordag Mehmet Kilic,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Spectroscopic mechanistic elucidation enables quantitative kinetic analysis as a blueprint for data-driven reaction optimization
Jaron Tong,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, December 8th, 2023
12:00am
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12/9
12:00am
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Symposium
The Evolution of Reward Systems in the Mammalian Brain
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
bhpwave: A perturbative waveform model for binaries with spinning massive black holes
Zach Nasipak,
- Internal Event
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Design and Implementation of a Microparticle Delivery Device for the Cornea
Dennis Ko,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 9th, 2023
8:00am
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Ongoing
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Sunday, December 10th, 2023
8:00am
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12/13
12:00pm
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Untangling Photodriven Mechanisms using Computation
Lisa Fredin,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Lehigh University,
Wednesday, December 13th, 2023
9:00am
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9:01am
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12:00pm
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12/16
5:00pm
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12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Masses and Orbits for Planets Likely to be Observed with Ariel/CASE
Robert Zellem,
JPL,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Nonaqueous Electrolyte Design for Energy Storage and Electrosynthesis
Skyler Ware,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Peter B. Dervan Lecture
The Development of Asymmetric Organocatalysis and Metallaphotoredox
David MacMillan,
Nobel Laureate, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, December 14th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Deep Learning for Theory: from Particle Physics to the Poincaré Conjecture
Jim Halverson,
Friday, December 15th, 2023
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Toward unified Bayesian parameter inference of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds
Leo Tsukada,
- Internal Event
Monday, December 18th, 2023
12:00am
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12/19
12:00am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Illuminating exotic chemistry and physics with single-quantum-state spectroscopy
Bryan Changala,
Postdoctoral Physicist,
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard & Smithsonian,
Tuesday, December 19th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2023
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar
The Roman Galaxy Redshift Survey Project Infrastructure Team
Yun Wang,
Caltech/IPAC,
Thursday, December 21st, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Computation and optimization in imaging: non-line-of-sight imaging and label-free, large field-of-view imaging.
Ruizhi Cao,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,