Events
May 2025
Ongoing
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5/6
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Thursday, May 1st, 2025
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Microscopic Robots That Sense, Think, Act and Compute
Marc Miskin,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CTESS Seminar
Social and economic inequality
Margherita Comola,
Associate Professor,
Paris School of Economics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Elucidating the Role of Transition Metal Electronic Structure in Catalysis and Spin Relaxation
Kaitlin Luedecke,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Anti-viral defense in bacteria: first responders, failsafes, and backup systems
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Transport of nanoparticles through complex, crowded fluids
Jacinta Conrad,
Frank M. Tiller Professor,
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Houston,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
OXO, Art Spiegelman: Comics, Tic-Tac-Toe, and the Art of Losing
Emmy Waldman,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Ashvin Vishwanath,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Mobility and Housing: Cash Resettlement in China's Shantytown Renovation
Zhiguo He,
James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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History Seminar
Ecosystem Transformation, Climate Change, and Economic Development in Medieval Northern Tuscany (500-1500)
Ned Schoolman,
Department Vice Chair; Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Rational Design of Molecular Quantum Bits.
Fernando Guerrero,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography: Baghdasarian/Zeytounian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, May 5th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Chetana Sachidanandan
Disease models in zebrafish reveal hidden neurocristopathies
Chetana Sachidananda,
Senior Scientist,
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Murali Dharan Bashyam
New revelations from an old disease: studying somatic DNA aberrations in a poorly understood Colorectal cancer subtype unravels neomorphic gain of function and a novel mode of gene activation
Murali Dharan Bashyam,
Staff Scientist,
Molecular Oncology,
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Alexis Grimaud,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Boston College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chen Institute Seminar: Nachum Ulanovsky
Neuroscience going wild: Neural coding in social groups of bats and in bats navigating outdoors on a remote oceanic island
Dr. Nachum Ulanovsky,
Professor of Brain Sciences and Head of the Center for Learning, Memory & Cognition,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
On the Evolution of the Arctic
Justin Strauss,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Darmouth College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Talk
Empirical Analysis of Network Data
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Topic to be announced
Yannai Gonczarowski,
Professor of Economics and of Computer Science,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
From Dust Worlds to Don DeLillo
Jocelyn Holland,
Professor of Comparative Literature,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science Lunch Talk
Empirical Analysis of Large Games
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture)
The Time Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei
Christopher Kochanek,
Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Topic to be announced
Jean-Francois Houde,
Professor and Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair,
Department of Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, May 8th, 2025
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Illuminating Natural Intelligence with Smart Experimental Systems and Advanced Machine Learning
Hang Lu,
C. J. "Pete" Silas Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation of College of Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Adrian Tasistro-Hart,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth Science,
Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California, Berkely,
4:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Using a New Legal Form: the GmbH 1892-1932
Tim Guinnane,
Philip Golden Bartlett Professor Emeritus of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Yale University,
Friday, May 9th, 2025
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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3:30pm
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Daniel Dauhajre,
Assistant Professor,
Computational Ocean Dynamics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Mark Jason Lara,
Assistant Professor,
Plant Biology and Geography and Geographic Information Sciences,
University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, May 10th, 2025
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, May 12th, 2025
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Psychological Principles Underlying Bursty Power-law Activity in Human Behavior
Colin Camerer,
Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Director, T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Emanual Flores Bautista,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Jihye Park,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Fault valving, slow slip events, and the friction-viscous transition in seismic cycle models with fault zone fluid transport
Eric Dunham,
Professor,
Department of Geophysics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Daniel Voytas
From Lab to Field: The Promise of Plant Gene Editing at Scale
Daniel Voytas,
Professor/Director,
Genetics, Cell Biology and Development,
University of Minnesota,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Inference on High Dimensional Selective Labeling Models
Shakeeb Khan,
Professor of Economics,
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences,
Boston College,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
9:00am
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10:00am
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