Events
April 2025
Ongoing
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4/14
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
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NB-CNS Seminar - Chris Harvey
Cortical circuits for spatial navigation
Chris Harvey,
Professor,
Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Wavepackets that Probe Electron transfer and Quantum-Like States
Gregory D. Scholes,
William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Job Candidate Seminar
Beyond Conflict: Global Trade and Everyday Relations between China and the West, 1780-1860
Carl Kubler,
Assistant Professor,
Department of History,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Direct Examination of Preferences for Wealth Integration
Alex Rees-Jones,
Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy,
The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
10:00am
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4:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Existence and Stability of Euclidean Wormholes with $S^1\times S^2$ Boundaries
Xiaoyi Liu,
UC Santa Barbara,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
"The Birth of Poetry From the Spirit of the Machine": Automatic Writing in the 1960s
Tobias Wilke,
Assistant Professor of German,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
AGN Variability: A Cornucopia or a Phantasmagoria?
Matthew Graham,
Research Professor of Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Job Candidate Seminar
What She Had: Women Managing Property and Confronting Financial Ruin in Mid-Qing China
Stephanie Painter,
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, East Asian Civilizations,
Department of History,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Candidate Selection by Parties: Crime and Politics in India
Gergely Ujhelyi,
Professor of Economics,
University of Houston,
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Grain Growth in Materials and the Role of Deformation
Peter Voorhees,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CTESS Seminar
The Anatomy of Honesty: Lying Aversion vs. Deception Aversion
Wooyoung Lim,
Associate Professor and Lee Heng Fellow,
Department of Economics,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Race & Ethnicity - Mortgage Markets in the 1930s
Price Fishback,
Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics,
University of Arizona,
Friday, April 4th, 2025
10:00am
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4:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
An L-function Approach to 2D CFT
Eric Perlmutter,
IPhT-Saclay, Paris,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning, and Optimal Pricing
Alex Smolin,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE),
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
A Pd-Catalyzed Cascade Strategy Towards the Total Synthesis of Cassiabudanol A.
Katelyn (Kate) Gallagher,
Graduate Student (Reisman Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 6th, 2025
3:00pm
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Monday, April 7th, 2025
12:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Engineering nitrogenase for the bioelectrocatalytic reduction of N2 to ammonia
Stephen Mayo,
Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry; Merkin Institute Professor,
Caltech,
Douglas Rees,
Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Chemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Deep source, noise, and glitch separation for the LISA global fit, with applications to LIGO
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Seeing the "Unseen" Planetary Interior with A Single Seismometer
Sheng Wang,
Staff of Professorship for Seismology and Wave Physics,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
9:00am
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11:00am
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Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) Panel
Online Event
Biotechnologies Beyond Conventional Containment
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Daniel Dombeck
Hippocampal spatial representations in complex environments
Daniel Dombeck,
Professor,
Neurology and Neuroscience,
Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Biomolecular Engineering of Gas Vesicles with Thiol Functionality
Erik Schrunk,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Shapiro Lab),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Roel Tempelaar,
Assistant Professor of Chemistrry,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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History Job Candidate Seminar
The Frigid Frontier: Weather Reporting and State Expansion in Early Modern Korea
Wenjiao Cai,
Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow,
Georgetown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Disparities in Aid for Natural Disasters
Tatyana Deryugina,
Associate Professor of Finance,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Women in Chemistry Special Organic Seminar
Choose Your Own Adventures in Metal-Hydride Catalysis
Prof. Vy Dong,
University of California Irvine,
Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
9:00am
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4/30
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantizing the Area: Geometry from Conditional Probability
Marc Klinger,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Davidson Lecture - Jonathan Kipnis
Anatomy of brain-immune interactions
Jonathan Kipnis,
Professor,
Pathology and Immunology,
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
SPHEREx First Light
Jamie Bock,
Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics, Caltech; Senior Research Scientist, JPL,
California Institute of Technology; Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Michael Taylor,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Arizona,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
(Mis-)Understanding Quotas
Maria Kogelnik,
Postdoctoral Associate at the Economic Growth Center and the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics,
Yale University,
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Probing Photonic Quantum Matter with Cats
Jonathan Simon,
Stanford University,
Friday, April 11th, 2025
9:00am
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6:00pm
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Decoherence near Black Holes: Causality, Fluctuation and Dissipation
Sam Gralla,
University of Arizona,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Monday, April 14th, 2025
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Photochemistry at Mars, Venus, & Exoplanets Through Time
Danica Adams,
NASA NHFP Postdoctoral Fellow,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
On Plausible Counterfactual Explanations in XAI
Jiji Zhang,
Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Hongkui Zeng
Dynamic changes of brain cell types in development and aging
Hongkui Zeng,
Executive Vice President /Director,
Allen Institute for Brain Science,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Renee Frontiera,
Northrop Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Social Media and the Behavior of Politicians: Evidence from Facebook in Brazil
Claudio Ferraz,
Professor,
Vancouver School of Economics,
University of British Columbia,
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
10:00am
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3:00pm
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