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Thursday, May 19th, 2022
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Cascade Olefin Metathesis Polymerization- In Memory of Bob
Tae-Lim Choi, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Online Event
"Prediction of GPCR-G protein complex structures and the activation mechanism"
Dr. Moon Young Yang, (Goddard group),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
On local Galois deformation rings
Gebhard Bockle, Heidelberg University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Searches for New Physics with Quantum Sensors in the Laboratory and in Space
Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Subra Suresh Distinguished Lecture

Ramo Auditorium
Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life
Frances Arnold, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Gates Annex B122
Dr. Paula T. Hammond, Institute Professor and Department Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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Self-Care Art Night and Tea-Tasting with Confidential Campus Advocate

Bechtel Mall
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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"Ferguson Rises" Film Screening and Director Q & A

Baxter Lecture Hall
Friday, May 20th, 2022
10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
A Bubble is Born: Nucleation and Early Growth of CO2 Bubbles in Polymer Foams
Andrew Ylitalo, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
10:00am – 10:30am
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Science Journey: "Journey to the Center of Jupiter"

Online Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Error Correcting Codes in CFTs
Al Shapere, University of Kentucky,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar - CANCELLED

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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Narrow transparency and collective emission in an ensemble of rare-earth ions coupled to a nanophotonic cavity
Mi Lei, Graduate Student, Faraon Group,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Leveraging Common Structure for Prior-Free Image Reconstruction
Oscar Leong, von Karman Instructor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
The alternation number and the Upsilon-invariant at 1 of positive 3-braid knots
Paula Trüol, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich,
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

Online Event
The University in Space
Lisa Messeri, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University,
Eun-Joo Ahn, Graduate Student, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
What compact-object mergers (and re-mergers) can tell us about astrophysics
Chase Kimball, Graduate Student, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CIERA, Northwestern University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Cilia Powered Pumps

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Eva Kanso, Professor and Z.H. Kaprielian Fellow, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Memorial Service for Robert H. (Bob) Grubbs

Beckman Mall
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The Mathematics of Privacy and Synthetic Data
Roman Vershynin, Professor of Mathematics / Associate Director, Department of Mathematics / Center for Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization, University of California Irvine,
Saturday, May 21st, 2022
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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The Caltech Orchestra "Wondrous Tales"

Ramo Auditorium
Sunday, May 22nd, 2022
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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The Caltech Orchestra "Wondrous Tales"

Ramo Auditorium
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Miró String Quartet with Martin Beaver, Violin; and Clive Greensmith, Cello

Beckman Auditorium
Monday, May 23rd, 2022
9:00am – 10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Development of Electrochemical Processes for More Practical and Effective Onsite Wastewater Treatment
Seungkyeum (Sean) Kim, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
9:00am – 10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
"PiRNA-Mediated Gene Silencing in Genome Defense and in Development"
Katalin (Kata) Fejes-Toth, Research Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Networks based on Integrated Diamond Photonics
Daniel Assumpcao, Harvard University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

South Mudd 365
Formation, Abundance, and Evolution of Molecular Products in α-Pinene and β-Pinene Secondary Organic Aerosol
Christopher Kenseth, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Robba cohomology for dagger spaces in positive characteristic
Koji Shimizu, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online Event
Optical variability of intermediate-mass black holes and implications for their identification
Colin Burke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Reactivity of Alkyl MFe3S3 Clusters Towards Bridging Carbynes and Carbides
Anna Scott, Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Optical Control of Quantum Materials
Jonathan Curtis, Harvard University,
5:15pm – 6:15pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
A tensor 2-product of 2-representations of $\mathfrak{sl}_2$
Matthew McMillan, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

Online Event
The Science of Star Trek and Star Wars
Michael Wong, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institute,
Cameron Hummels, Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
Tuesday, May 24th, 2022
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Preparing for an Academic Job Search

Online Event
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Online Event
Compact-to-Dendritic Transition in the Reactive Deposition of Brownian Particles
Daniel Jacobson, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Discrete Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Finding large additive and multiplicative Sidon sets in sets of integers
Yifan Jing, University of Oxford,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Chen 100
Structure and function of the human nuclear pore complex
Stefan Petrovic, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Synthetic Studies of the Polycyclic Furanobutenolide-Derived Cembranoid and Norcembranoid Diterpenoids
Nicholas Hafeman, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Aida Behmard, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, California Instittue of Technology,
Nicole L. Wallack, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, California Instittue of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Broad 100
"Neural Circuits that Generate Persistent Behavior States in C. elegans"
Steven Flavell, Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium/Taussky-Todd Lecture

Linde Hall 310
Applied l-adic cohomology
Philippe Michel, EPFL/TAN, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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R.A.D. Self-Defense for Women Tuesdays + R.A.D. Self-Defense for Men Wednesdays

Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
11:00am – 11:45am
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Conversations on the Quantum World: The Power of Quantum Materials

Online Event
11:30am – 1:00pm
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What Happens When I Retire?

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Online Event
Deep denoising for scientific discovery
Carlos Fernandez-Granda, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science and Center for Data Science, New York University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Classifying invariants for E1E1
Assaf Shani, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Personal Emergency Preparedness Training

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

Online Event
Machine Learning for Cosmic Explosions: Algorithms to Applications
Edo Berger, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Online Event
Rapid Breast Cancer Pathology Tissue Evaluation Using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Diana Mojahed, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
A nutrient relay sustains subtropical ocean productivity
Mukund Gupta, Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech,