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Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
9:00am – 12:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

  • Academic
10:00am – 4:30pm
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AI Bootcamp X - Intro to Machine Learning

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
AI for Scientists: Perception, Reasoning, & Discovery
Jennifer J. Sun, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Cornell University,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
10:00am – 4:30pm
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AI Bootcamp X - Intro to Machine Learning

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Laboratory constraints on photochemical processing of biomass burning-derived secondary organic aerosol
Maria Zawadowicz, Brookhaven National Lab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special CDS Seminar

Annenberg 104
Nonparametric Analysis and Control of Dynamical Systems: Stability, Safety and Policy Improvement
Enrique Mallada, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
10:00am – 4:30pm
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AI Bootcamp X - Intro to Machine Learning

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Grain Growth in Materials and the Role of Deformation
Peter Voorhees, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Cunjiang Yu

Moore B270
A Soft Approach for Bioelectronics
Professor Cunjiang Yu, Founder Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering (Joint), Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Joint), Department of Bioengineering (Joint), Beckman Institute for Science and Technology (Part time faculty), Materials Research Laboratory, Holon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Friday, April 4th, 2025
9:00am – 4/5 6:00pm
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CEBAS: Conference for Emerging Black Academics In STEM 2025

Dabney Hall 115
  • Public Event
10:00am – 4:30pm
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AI Bootcamp X - Intro to Machine Learning

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 127
The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning, and Optimal Pricing
Alex Smolin, Assistant Professor of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE),
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Parallel Buckling and 3d Printing (Support Your Neighbors)

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
GALCIT Colloquium
Lawrence Virgin, Professor, Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University,
Monday, April 7th, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
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,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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STEMinar: Lauren Denson

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Gradient flows for sampling and their deterministic interacting particle approximations
Dejan Slepčev, Professor, Department of Mathematical Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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CPA Happy Hour (Cool Ales) Meet and Greet

Warren and Katharine Schlinger Laboratory
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Conversations After the Fires: Studying Lead in the Environment

Online Event
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Efficient wave-appropriate numerical methods for high-speed compressible flow simulations
Sainadh Chamarthi, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:15pm
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Inclusive Leadership 101

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Distinguished Speaker - Paul Siqueira

Moore B270
Paul Siqueira, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Friday, April 11th, 2025
9:00am – 6:00pm
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Visual Culture Program Event

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Defining a Visual Practices Lab
12:30pm – 4:30pm
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PBU x PBT LA Climate Week VR 3D Art Experience

Beckman Institute Lawn
  • Public Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Arthur Klein Lecture in Aerospace

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Arthur Klein Lecture in Aerospace
John W. Hutchinson, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering Emeritus, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
  • Public Event
Monday, April 14th, 2025
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Buoyancy-Driven Fluid Dynamics for Enhanced Ocular Drug Delivery
Stephanie O'Gara, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Betting against the losers: supermartingale tests of election outcomes.
Philip B. Stark, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Kernels in Numerical Methods and Operator Learning
Varun Shankar, Assistant Professor, Kahlert School of Computing (KSoC), University of Utah,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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WEB Gathering

Center for Student Services, Large Tent
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Climate Feedback from Plant Physiological Responses to Increasing Atmospheric CO2 in Earth System Models
Yue Li, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Stabilizing a complex but promising dual phase cathode material: making lithium-rich, manganese-rich cathode materials useful
Jay Whitacre, Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon Universiry,
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Smart Geomechanics
Ioannis Stefanou, Professor of Mechanics, UME, ENSTA, IP Paris,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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APACT Professional Development Workshop | LinkedIn Lab with James Berk

  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Inclusive Leadership 201

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 7:00pm
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KISS Showcase and Caltech/JPL Networking Mixer

Chen 100
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar, Samuel Achilefu

Annenberg 105
Convergence of multi-spectral radiation for cancer detection and therapy
Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
Friday, April 18th, 2025
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

  • Academic
10:00am – 11:15am
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Science Journey - Nature's Tango: How Insects Dance for Survival

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 127
Structural Rationality, Strategic Reasoning, and Equilibrium
Marciano Siniscalchi, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Graduate Student Affinity Space

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Frank Verstraete, University of Ghent, University of Cambridge,
6:00pm – 10:00pm
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CPA Comedy Night

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Monday, April 21st, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
A Digital Twin of the Electrical Distribution Grid
Yiheng Xie, Graduate Student, Low Group, Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
12:00pm – 1:15pm
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Understanding & Responding to Microaggressions & Bias 101

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Mathematics of magic angles in 2D structures
Maciej Zworski,, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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APACT Par-Tea with Sylvia Lee

Chen 130
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
The Mechanism Behind the Implicit Biases of Large Learning Rates: Edge of Stability, Balancing, and Catapult
Yuqing Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, AMS, Johns-Hopkins University,
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Earth Day

Center for Student Services, Large Tent
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
5:30pm – 7:00pm
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im cooked, now what? (casual conversation with dinner)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
12:45pm – 1:45pm
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Bystander Intervention Training

Chen 100
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Soil moisture teleconnections and summertime temperature variability in the western United States
David Battisti, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Conformal invariance in strange metals
Peter Abbamonte, Professor, Engineering, UIUC,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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First Gen Dinner Celebration

Off Campus
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Smruthi Karthikeyan: The Secret Life of Superbugs: How Antimicrobial Resistance Moves Between Humans and the Environment

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Thursday, April 24th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Illuminating the complex mechanics of a simple breath
Mona Eskandari, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Medicine's multidisciplinary BREATHE Center, University of California, Riverside,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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World Fest

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room