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Friday, November 6th, 2020
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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CANCELED Building Coordinator & Floor Warden Training

Online Event
2:00pm – 2:15pm
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Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Data-Driven Prediction of Partially Observed Multiscale Systems

Online Event
Data-Driven Prediction of Partially Observed Multiscale Systems
Krithika Manohar, Assistant Professor (starting 01/2021), Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
3-manifold invariants, G-equivariant TQFT, and complexity
Eric Samperton, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Humanities Seminar

Online Event
Mammy, Hetty, Sarah, and an Old Healer Woman: Foremothers in The History of Mary Prince
Dana Murphy, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
A dichotomy for Polish modules
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Online Event
The First Portrait of a Black Hole and Beyond​
Katie Bouman, Assistant Professor, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
Saturday, November 7th, 2020
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Chess Grandmaster Sam Shankland Lecture + Simul Exhibition

Online Event
Monday, November 9th, 2020
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Deficiency Notices

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

Online Event
Misinformation and Fake News
Cathy Ma, Facebook,
Andrew Kang, Facebook,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Pop-in group to hang out and discuss life while working remotely

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Study Abroad & Away Application Info Session #2

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Topic to be announced
Nese Yildiz, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Rochester,
12:30pm – 2:00pm
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Joint Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
Vanishing theorems for Shimura varieties
Ana Caraiani, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Online Event
Stochastic Gradient Descent: From Practice Back to Theory
Rachel Ward, W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Distinguished Professor in Computational Engineering and Sciences—Data Science Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Probing Dark Matter substructure with astrometric weak lensing
Cristina Mondino, Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Online Event
Mechanochemical Regulation of Reactivities - from Mechanically Gated Photoswitch to Triggered Release
Xiaoran Hu, Postdoctoral Scholar (Robb Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
11:00am – 12:15pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Online Event
Machine learning and partial differential equations (PDEs)
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute, NYU,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Part 1: Writing Our Stories with Davin Malasarn

Online Event
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Online Event
TBD
Marian Walhout, Professor, Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Online Event
A Song of Ice and Fire: the Fate of Planetary Systems After Stellar Death
Andrew Vanderburg, Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Caltech and Harvey Mudd Facebook Puzzle Hunt

Online Event
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5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Webinar: Presidential Leadership in Human Space Exploration Yesterday and Today

Online Event
6:45pm – 8:15pm
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Caltech Debate Toastmasters Club

Online Event
7:30pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Playreaders 70th Season: Dava Sobel's "And the Sun Stood Still"

Online Event
Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
9:00am – 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

Online Event
A new approach to contextual bandits
Sasha Rakhlin, Associate Professor, Center for Statistics, IDSS / Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences / Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
9:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
A Dichotomy for Real Boolean Holant Problems
Shuai Shao, Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Career Chat with an Atypical Astronomer: A path through research, outreach, and policy

Online Event
Anjali Tripathi, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
On the Luzin-Novikov theorem
Miroslav Zelený, Department of Mathematical Analysis, Charles University in Prague,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Online Event
Development of New Chemical Platforms for Polymer Synthesis
Will Gutekunst, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Staying Connected With Your Partner During the Pandemic

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Admissible Matchings in the School Choice Problem
Philip Reny, The Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, University of Chicago,
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

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

Online Event
Linear codes with Constrained Generator Matrices
Hikmet Yildiz, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - You and Your Thesis (Zoom Session)

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Weekly SURF Drop-in Sessions for Undergrads

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar

Online Event
Factorization, Beĭlinson-Drinfeld Grassmannians, and the fusion product
TBA,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

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

Online Event
Direct Collision of White Dwarfs as a Possible Major Channel for Type Ia Supernovae
SuBo Dong, Associate Professor, Kavli Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Peking University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture

Online Event
Growing the Nearly Impossible: Routes to Stabilize Metastable Phases
Lauren Garten, Jerome and Isabella Karle Distinguished Scholar Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Using Stoichiometry and Elemental Composition to Explore Marine Biogeochemical Cycles
Claudia Benitez-Nelson, University of South Carolina,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - The Power of Nonlinearities: Unlocking Opportunities for Sensing and Computing with Light

Online Event
Alireza Marandi, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
9:00am – 9:55am
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Analysis Seminar

Online Event
On the Bochner-Riesz operators and the maximal Bochner-Riesz operator
Shukun Wu, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign,
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Training

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

Online Event
Enjoyable, Knotty Problems on Shoestrings
Oliver O'Reilly, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Online Event
A case for integrating solar geoengineering into climate policy
David Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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General Study Abroad & Away Choosing Courses Meeting

Online Event