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Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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NB & CNS Seminar -Paola Arlotta - Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 - 4 pm

Chen 100
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Pet Therapy at Caltech Library

Sherman Fairchild Library, Lobby
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
What Purpose Do Corporations Purport? Evidence from Letters to Shareholders
Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the George G. Rinder Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities & Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

Annenberg 105
Good Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes from the NTRU cryptosystem
Jonathan Conrad, Free University, Berlin,
11:00am – 3:00pm
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Winter 2023 STEM Virtual Career Fair

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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APACT Leadership Series: Nagin Cox & Charlene Ung

Online Event
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Prof. Maura Dykstra's Book Symposium

Online and In-Person Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Role of AGN-Driven Winds in their Host Galaxies' Evolution
Dalya Baron, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Towards Soft Intelligent Materials: Reconfigurable Single-Material Soft Microstructures
Shucong Li, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Salt Fat Acid Meet: Cooking Up an Understanding of Organic Aerosol Heterogeneous Reactions, Phase, and Continuing Chemistry in Individual Particles
Andrew Ault, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
"Catalysis Beyond the Surface: How Bulk Ion Insertion Influences Reactivity in Electrochemical Energy Conversion"
Tyler Mefford, Sr. Physical Science Research Scientist in Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford University,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Galactic Paleontology with JWST: Finding Living Fossils in the Ancient Universe

Online and In-Person Event
Chuck Steidel (PhD '90), Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Department of Astronomy,
Thursday, February 9th, 2023
8:45am – 5:00pm
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AI4Science Workshop: AI for Accelerating and Enhancing Scientific Simulations

Beckman Auditorium
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Structured Instabilities in Excited Granular Materials
Christopher Boyce, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, Columbia University,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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'A Taste of Teaching' Thursdays

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CAEL Workshop: Career Fair Follow Up

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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Radioactive Material Handling Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Yu Sun

Annenberg 105
Medical Robotics for Cell Surgery
Yu Sun, Professor Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering, with jroint appointments in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Artin formalism for non-genuine p-adic Garrett-Rankin L-functions
Kazim Büyükboduk, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
Guy Gur-Ari, Google Research,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Why did Pierre Bayle believe in Virtuous Atheists?: A Critique of Pure Reason Avant la Lettre
Dmitri Levitin, Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford; Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Unpacking Masculinity

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talks: Patrouille des Glaciers – The World's largest ski mountaineering race by Tom McHenry

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday, February 10th, 2023
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Crossing Symmetry in Matter Chern Simons theories at finite N and k
Shiraz Minwalla, TaTa Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science Panel

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Collisions in Galactic Nuclei: Stars, Binaries, and Black Holes
Sanaea Rose, Graduate Student, Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCLA,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
High-temperature carbon fibers ablation in 4D
Francesco Panerai, Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Finite Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measures in higher rank
Mikolaj Fraczyk, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Employing a Ferrocene-based Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Mediator in Photoelectrocatalysis
Catherine Romero, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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HoliGay Celebration

Dabney Hall, Lounge
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Planetary Detection" and "Space Volcanoes" in Death Valley
Max Goldberg, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Katherine de Kleer, Assistant Professor, Department of Planetary Science, Caltech,
Saturday, February 11th, 2023
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Wind Orchestra Concerts

Ramo Auditorium
Monday, February 13th, 2023
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Deficiency Notices

11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special ACM Seminar

Annenberg 105
Towards the Ultimate Solver(s) for Wave Equations in the Time Domain
Thomas Hagstrom, Professor of Mathematics, Center for Research Computing, Southern Methodist University,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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History, Ethics, and Identity Seminar Series

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME): Reflections on a Research Learning Community
Dr. Edray Goins, Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, Pomona College,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
p-adic Borel hyperbolicity of Shimura varieties of abelian type
Abhishek Oswal, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
Thirtysomething black holes
Lieke van Son, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Calming Yoga

Center for Student Services, Large Tent
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk

Baxter Lecture Hall
Liquidity and Risk in OTC Markets: A Theory of Asset Pricing and Portfolio Flows
Mahyar Kargar, Assistant Professor of Finance, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Climate controls on terrestrial biospheric carbon turnover
Valier Galy, Associate Scientist W/Tenure, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Synthesis for robotics - what can go wrong?
Hadas Kress-Gazit, Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Endowed Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Axion wind detection with the homogeneous precession domain of superfluid helium-3
Christina Gao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Quantum simulators: from the Fermi Hubbard model to quantum assisted NMR inference
Eugene Demler, Professor, Department of Physics, ETH Zurich,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Supermassive Black Holes" and "The Age of Stars"
Rocio Kiman, Burke Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Peter Boorman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
11:30am – 1:30pm
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Blood Pressure Screening with Kaiser Permanente

Hameetman Center Patio
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CAEL Workshop: Ace the Interview

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Artistic Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
Jessica Helfand, Artist, Designer, and Writer (Winter 2020 Artist in Residence),
Joanne Jang, Product Lead, DALL·E,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Discovery, characterization, and evolution of enzymes for biocatalysis and gene editing
Monica Neugebauer, Ph.D., NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,