Events
October 2024
Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axion interactions with Domain and Bubble Walls
Isabel Garcia Garcia,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Dodging Day Zero: Drought, Adaptation, and Inequality in Cape Town
Kyle Meng,
Associate Professor,
Bren School of Environmental Management and the Department of Economics,
UC Santa Barbara,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
12:00am
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10/3
12:00am
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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
Carrollian Partition Functions and the Flat Limit of AdS
Richard Myers,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Nonparametric Estimation of Selection Models: A Functional Contraction Approach
Yi Xin,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
When Data Is Not Enough: Illustrating Astrophysics for the Public
Robert Hurt,
Caltech/IPAC,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Phototropic Growth of Cu2O: Light-Directed Semiconductor Mesostructuring via Photoelectrodeposition
Sean Byrne,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Stars Disrupted, Destroyed and Coalesced
Iair Arcavi,
Professor,
School of Physics and Astronomy,
Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
New Tools in the Toolbox for Green & Sustainable Organic Synthesis
- Internal Event
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
A Conversation with Election Technology Providers about the Industry's Preparations and Readiness to Support Election 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Mechanisms driving the Rapid Evolution of Cancer Genomes
David Pellman,
Margaret M. Dyson Professor of Pediatric Oncology,
Margaret M. Dyson Professor of Pediatric Oncology (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), Professor of Cell Biology (Harvard Medical School), HHMI Investigator,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Geoclub Kickoff: Faculty Spotlights
Claire E. Bucholz,
Professor of Geology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Francois Tissot,
Professor of Geochemistry; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Massive Redshift Surveys and First Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
David Schlegel,
LBL,
Friday, October 4th, 2024
9:00am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dynamical Edge Modes and Entanglement in Gauge Theory
Adam Ball,
Perimeter Institute,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 5th, 2024
1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography: Tchahezian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography: Anbarchian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 6th, 2024
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 7th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
The role of policy and governance in shaping biotechnology for sustainability: A case study of U.S. regulations governing engineered microbes for environmental release
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Discovery of Manganese-Dependent Monooxygenases
Jonathan Rittle,
The Chevron Professor of Chemistry; Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Browning of the Earth: Rapid Vegetation Change in the Past and its Impacts
Regan Dunn,
Assistant Curator,
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Weyl fermion on a finite lattice
Srimoyee Sen,
Iowa State University,
Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The Wouk Lecture
Two Engineers and a Whiteboard: Reimagining Clean Energy Systems
Pedro Pizarro,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Edison International,
David Welch,
Co-Founder, NosTerra,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Model Uncertainty, Disagreement, and Over-Precision: Theory and Evidence
Ned Augenblick,
Associate Professor,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Strings near the conformal boundary of AdS3.
Vit Sriprachyakul,
ETH Zurich,
11:00am
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12:30pm
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12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Anthropology of Merging Stars - Tracing the Evolution And Impact of Stellar Mergers with Time-Domain Surveys
Viraj Karambelkar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Evolution, Influence, and Ultimate Fate of Massive Stars
Maria Drout,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
When to Decide: Timing of Choice in Parallel Search
Can Urgun,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
An Interleaved Physics-Based Deep-Learning Framework as a New Cycle Jumping Approach for Microstructurally Small Fatigue Crack Growth Simulations
Ashley Spear,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Utah,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Implicit Government Guarantees
Andrew Sinclair,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Maxim Zhelyabovskiy,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Agapie Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Geoclub Kickoff: Faculty Spotlights
Woodward Fischer,
Professor of Geobiology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Michael P. Lamb,
Professor of Geology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Atomic quantum processors and the error-correction frontier
Dolev Bluvstein,
Harvard University,
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Friday, October 11th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Yang-Mills-Liouville Theory
Tomasz Taylor,
Northeastern University and University of Warsaw,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Nonparametric Estimation of Selection Models
Fan Wu,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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10/12
5:00pm
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Visual Culture Symposium
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Plugged In: Art and Electric Light
- Public Event
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 13th, 2024
3:30pm
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Monday, October 14th, 2024
8:30am
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The destructive formation of moons and rings
Jacob Kegerreis,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Pulsed, Polarized and Sliced – Fundamental Ingredients in Neutron Precision Physics
Floria Piegsa,
Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics,
University of Bern,
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Frank Schroeder
TBD
Frank Schroeder,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
A Conversation with Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse OIiver, Chief Election Official of the State of New Mexico
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Mapping Decoherence Pathways in Molecules
Ignacio Franco,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Rochester,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Optimal Mechanisms for Demand Response: An Indifference Set Approach
Stefan Wager,
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) Panel
Online Event
Impact of Loper Bright on the Regulation of Biotechnology
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
2d theory for asymptotic dynamics of 4d (self-dual) Einstein gravity
Wei Bu,
Northeastern University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
DESI Y1 BAO Analysis: Reconstruction of Large-Scale Structures Using Optimal Transport Theory
Farnik Nikakhtar,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Large-Scale Structure Cosmology: Opportunities in the Systematics-Limited Regime
Elisabeth Krause,
Associate Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Arizona,