Events
February 2025
Saturday, February 1st, 2025
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Conference in Honor of Colin Camerer
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
- Internal Event
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, February 2nd, 2025
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 3rd, 2025
9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:10am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
2 um fiber lasers and amplifiers for cryogenic silicon gravitational wave detectors
Georgia Bolingbroke,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Atmospheric sulfur sources and chemistry from preindustrial to present
Ursula Jongebloed,
Graduate Student,
Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Semiclassical Amplitudes and Black Holes
Donal O'Connell,
Edinburgh University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
8:00am
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2/11
11:59pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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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
Phase space of JT gravity with positive cosmological constant
Elba Alonso-Monsalve,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Geometric Approach to Quantum Theory
Albert Schwarz,
UC Davis & Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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CTESS Seminar
Ordered Probabilistic Choice
Yusufcan Masatlioglu,
Professor of Economics,
University of Maryland,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Probing Supermassive Black Holes and Quasars with the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project
Catherine (Kate) Grier,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Thursday, February 6th, 2025
9:00am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Mechanics and Myocytes: Engineered Models of the Cardiac Syncytium and Myotendinous Junction
Wendy Crone,
Karen Thompson Medhi Professor Emeritus,
College of Engineering,
University of Wisconsin–Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar Series
Rebecca Wipfler,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, February 7th, 2025
9:00am
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4:00pm
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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
Pinning Defects, Fusion and Factorization
Yifan Wang,
New York University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Impressionable Subjects: The Matter of the Mind in the 20th Century Novel
Lizzie Mundell Perkins,
Lecturer in English,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Debbie Tseng,
Graduate Student (Robb Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 10th, 2025
9:30am
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11:30am
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New Horizons in Neuroscience - Laura Seeholzer and Claire Bedbrook
New Horizons in Neuroscience - Laura Seeholzer and Claire Bedbrook
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
A Climate and Environmental Risks Impacts Assessment for Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Duane Waliser,
Chief Scientist,
Earth Science and Technology Directorate,
JPL,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Quantifying LIGO's response to environmental disturbances in O4 and beyond
Adrian Helmling-Cornell,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Bridging the Gaps between Projection of Climate and Impacts
Jane Baldwin,
Assistant Professor of Earth System Science,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dark showers from sneaky dark matter
Christiane Scherb,
UC Berkeley/LBNL,
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Probing the Frontiers of Interstellar Chemistry Through Cold and Controlled Ion Experiments
Heather Lewandowski,
Professor of Physics, Fellow of JILA,
Department of Physics,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Chemistry- and imaging-based methods to explore extracellular biology
- Internal Event
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
11:00am
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1:00pm
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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
Characterizing the Space of UV-Complete Amplitudes
Justin Berman,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Census of Black Hole Accretion Structure and Mass
Yasaman Homayouni,
Pennsylvania State University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Revisiting the Core Accretion Paradigm for Giant Planet Formation: Analytic Framework for the Late Infall Stage and the Distribution of Planetary Masses
Fred Adams,
Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LCSSP Climate Solutions Seminar
How to reform the permitting process for renewable energy projects
Sanjay Patnaik,
Director, Center on Regulation and Markets (CRM); Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development; Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution,
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
From folding to scaling: a tour through nonlinear mechanics
Huan Liu,
Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Cin-Ty Lee,
Harry Carothers Wiess Professor of Geology, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences,
Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, February 14th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Antipodal (Self-)Duality in Planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
Lance Dixon,
SLAC,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Will we ever detect high frequency gravitational waves?
Raffaele Tito d'Agnolo,
Institut de Physique Théorique,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Ultrafast Quantum State Generation and Measurement in Nonlinear Nanophotonics
James A. William,
Graduate student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Bridging the pressure gap in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Synergies arising from Experimental and Theoretical Kinetics
Alex Wodtke,
Director and Professor of University of Göttingen,
Dynamics and Surfaces,
Max Planck Institute,
Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Moments and saddles of heavy CFT correlators
Gordon Rogelberg,
Yale University,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Finding Black Holes with Microlensing: Current and Future Prospects
Casey Lam,
Carnegie Observatories,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Inclusive Scattering Matrix
Albert Schwarz,
UC Davis & Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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