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Monday, April 1st, 2024
12:00am – 4/2 12:00am
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AI Bootcamp - Physics Informed Learning and Computation (PILC)

Annenberg 106
  • Internal Event
12:00am – 4/2 12:00am
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Beginning of Instruction of Spring Term

  • Academic
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Jorgensen 109
Developing isotopic tools to study carbon flow in cow rumen upon inhibition of methane-producing microbes
Elliot Mueller, Grad student, Resnick Scholar, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Score Entropy Discrete Diffusion Models
Stefano Ermon, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University,
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
12:00am – 4/3 12:00am
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AI Bootcamp - Physics Informed Learning and Computation (PILC)

Annenberg 106
  • Internal Event
9:00am – 12:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

  • Academic
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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William T. Freeman/MIT

Annenberg 105
Seeing Faces in Things: A Model and Dataset for Pareidolia
William T. Freeman, Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, EECS, Massachusetts Institue of Technology,
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
12:00am – 4/4 12:00am
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AI Bootcamp - Physics Informed Learning and Computation (PILC)

Annenberg 106
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Transgender Day of Visibility

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Electrification and Decarbonization of Chemical Manufacturing
Karthish Manthiram, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Additive Manufacturing: Technology Maturation and Synchrotron x-ray Microscopy Insights
Anthony Rollett, Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
12:00am – 4/5 12:00am
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AI Bootcamp - Physics Informed Learning and Computation (PILC)

Annenberg 106
  • Internal Event
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Spill the Tea with the CCID

San Pasqual Walk
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Man-made earthquakes and the energy transition
Ruben Juanes, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering / Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Ashutosh Chilkoti

Annenberg 105
Molecular Engineering of Biointerfaces and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Professor Ashutosh Chilkoti, Alan L. Kaganov Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Chemistry, Duke University,
Friday, April 5th, 2024
12:00am – 4/6 12:00am
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AI Bootcamp - Physics Informed Learning and Computation (PILC)

Annenberg 106
  • Internal Event
9:00am – 4/6 6:00pm
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Conference for Emerging Black Academics In STEM

Dabney Hall 115
  • Public Event
10:00am – 11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Experiments on a new favorite among diamond quantum networkers: the SnV center
Ronald Hanson, Delft University of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 127
Growth and Likelihood
Jakub Steiner, Senior Researcher, Cerge-Ei in Prague; Associate Professor (tenured), University of Zurich,
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium

Chen 100
Gözde Demirer, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, California Institute or Technology,
Carlos Morales-Guio, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
William Tarpeh, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, by courtesy, of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University,
Monday, April 8th, 2024
11:30am – 12:30pm
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Caltech Optica Student Chapter Lecture Series

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Synchronization Dynamics of Nonlinear Photonic Oscillators
Alexander Gaeta, David M. Rickey Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Colu,
,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Alexander Lvovsky/Oxford

Moore B280
Optical neural networks: from computer vision to superresolution imaging
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Worst-Case Learning from Inaccurate Data and under Multifidelity Models
Simon Foucart, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Worst-Case Learning from Inaccurate Data and under Multifidelity Models
Simon Foucart, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
8:30am – 10:00am
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Staff of Color Affinity Breakfast

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Internal Event
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Finding Common Ground

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
New ice cores from coastal West Antarctica to constrain climate forcing on Amundsen Sea regional ice shelves and outlet glaciers: initiating a Ross-Amundsen Ice Core Array (RAICA)
Peter Neff, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Predictive coding in neural networks can recover the environment's map
James Gornet, Electrical Engineering Department, Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Fertile ground for quantum materials, and how to grow them
Daniel Shoemaker, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC,
Thursday, April 11th, 2024
10:00am – 11:00am
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Science Journey: How Soil Microbes Help Us Fight Climate Change

Beckman Auditorium
Hannah Dion-Kirschner, Caltech graduate student, Geobiology,
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Do we really need all that data? Learning and control for contact-rich manipulation
Michael Posa, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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APACT Mahjong Afternoon

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
  • Internal Event
Friday, April 12th, 2024
8:00am – 4/13 5:00pm
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Innovations in the Science & Policy of Water Quality Measurement

Baxter Lecture Hall
  • Public Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Postdocs Launch – April 12, 2024

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
Caltech Postdocs Launch
Dr. Riccardo Caniato, PMA,
Dr. Maksym Figat, Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology,
  • Public Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SFCC x CCID Neurodiversity at Work: Part 4

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Wall-Modeled LES: Nonequilibrium Flows and Convergence
George Park, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania,
Monday, April 15th, 2024
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Jorgensen 109
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Gates-Thomas 135
Low rank approximation for faster optimization
Madeleine Udell, Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University,
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Non-Backtracking spectral methods for sparse matrices and tensors
Yizhe Zhu, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Non-reciprocity in quantum materials
Philip Moll, Max-Planck Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
The Stirring Tropics
Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Toward a Control Theory of LLMs
Aman Bhargava, Electrical Engineering Department, Computational & Neural Systems, Caltech,
Shi-Zhuo Looi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
What limits the critical temperature for superconductivity in quantum materials?
Milan Allan, Associate Professor, Leiden University,
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Micro/nanoscale reactive transport toward decarbonization
Wen Song, Assistant Professor, Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Zhiyang Jin

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Acoustic Biosensors for Noninvasive Imaging of Molecular Processes
Zhiyang Jin, Ph.D. Candidate, Shapiro Lab, Medical Engineering Department, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series-Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D.

Annenberg 105
Pursuit of Precision Health: The digital twin opportunity
Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D., Chief Executive Officer of Engineering Health Engineering, Robert A Welch Professor Inaugural Dean School of Engineering Medicine, Texas A&M University / Houston Methodist Research Institute,
,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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First Generation Student Affinity Space

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
Friday, April 19th, 2024
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

  • Academic
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 127
Quantum Advantage in Bayesian Games
Igal Milchtaich, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Majorana zero modes in germanium-based devices
Katharina Laubscher, University of Maryland, College Park,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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STEMinar: Robin Aguilar- One FISH, Two FISH: A Story of Genomics Technology Development and Advocacy-Centered Scientific Communication

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Perspectives on using AI for climate and weather simulation
Mike Pritchard, Professor, Department of Earth System Sciences, University of California, Irvine,
Monday, April 22nd, 2024
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Earth Day Celebration

Center for Student Services, Large Tent
3:00pm – 5:30pm
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Visual Culture Program

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Scaling Observations
Devin Griffiths, University of Southern California,
Anna Henchman, Boston University,
Omar Nasim, University of Regensburg,
Anne Sullivan, University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Stochastic particle systems for global optimization: a journey from metaheuristics to PDEs
Lorenzo Pareschi, Professor, Chair of Applied and Computational Mathematics, School of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
The Classical Limit of Quantum Max-Cut
Vir Bulchandani, Leibniz Universität Hannover,
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Enhancing PDE Computations and Score-Based Generative Models through Optimization
Siting Liu, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Denim Day Awareness

Red Door Cafe
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Using seafloor cables to observe surface waves in high resolution: from the sea ice zone to the surf zone
Madison Smith, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
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