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Monday, April 1st, 2024
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Journeys beyond the Standard Model in the flavor and dark sectors at LHCb and CODEX-b
Biplab Dev, Eötvös University,
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

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Using Machine Learning to Deal with the Data from the CMS High-Granularity Calorimeter
Matteo Cremonesi, Carnegie Mellon University,
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
One-Form Symmetry in Dynamical Gravity
Joonhwi Kim, Caltech,
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

Online Event
On Galaxies' Circumgalactic Media and Outflows
Claudia Scarlata, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture)

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Simple Physics Behind CMB Spectral Distortions: Three Milestones in the Life of the Universe
Rashid Sunyaev, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
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,
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Financial Literacy: Budgeting - Grad Students

Central Catalinas Recreation Room
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
11:30am – 1:30pm
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Mocktail Carnival - Pizza, Games, Mocktails, and Fun!

Hameetman Center Patio
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum networks linking diamond spin qubits, inside and outside the lab
Ronald Hanson, QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft,
Friday, April 5th, 2024
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,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Precision Black Hole Collider Physics
Enrico Herrmann, UCLA,
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,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The accelerator-driven hunt for hidden sector dark matter in the US
Cristina Mantilla Suarez, Fermilab,
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Mindfully Resilient Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) - Therapy Group for Students

Student Health Center
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
More on Torus Wormholes in 3d Gravity
Cynthia Yan, Stanford University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Tackle the Term - Free Pizza!!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Probing the Smallest Interstellar Dust Grains with JWST in Different Galaxy Environments
Thomas Lai, Caltech/IPAC,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Massive Particles at Spatial Infinity
Suvrat Raju, ICTS, Tata Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
White Dwarfs as Probes of Convective Overshoot and Evolved Exoplanetary Systems
Tim Cunningham, NASA Hubble Fellow, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University,
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,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Trivia Night - Boba & Popcorn Chicken!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
6:30pm – 7:45pm
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Financial Literacy: Investing - Grad Students

Central Catalinas Recreation Room
Thursday, April 11th, 2024
11:30am – 1:30pm
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Tea and Well-Being Raffle - Grad Students

Hameetman Center Patio
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Black hole spectroscopy and beyond no-hair
Dr Julian Westerweck,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Is it really cold and quiet? How mundane backgrounds that cause quasi-particle poisoning in superconducting sensors limit meV-GeV dark matter searches today and could ultimately limit superconducting QUBITs.
Matt Pyle, University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, April 12th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Strings From Feynman Diagrams
Edward Mazenc, ETH, Zurich,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Uncovering the Origins of Binary Black Holes with Normalising Flows
Storm Colloms,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Keeping matter in the loop in 3D quantum gravity
Alejandra Castro, University of Cambridge,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Stellar transient from triple interactions
Hila Glanz, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Technion University,
Monday, April 15th, 2024
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Flavorful New Physics and Wrinkles in the Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism
Sam Homiller, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Quantum many-body physics with ultracold atoms
Peter Schauss, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics-AMOP, University of Virginia,
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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The Q[ueer] Continuum - Therapy Group for Students

Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Acceleration-Induced Effects in Stimulated Light-Matter Interactions
Barbara Soda, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Getting Better Sleep - Free Pizza!!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
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,
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Pre-Peak Emission in TDEs
Xiaoshan Huang, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Large Fiber Array Spectroscopic Telescope
Chad Bender, Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
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
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Interpersonal Process Group (IPG) - Therapy Group for Graduate Students

Student Health Center
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series: Bob Iger

Athenaeum
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum materials on the mesoscale
Philip Moll, Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter,
Friday, April 19th, 2024
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,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Stellar Rotation and Polytropic Gas Effects on the Stellar Wind
Bhimsen Shivamoggi, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Central Florida,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Anti-screening and nonequilibrium layer electric phases in graphene multilayers
Mark Rudner, University of Washington,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cosmic Gold Mining
Shreya Anand, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Monday, April 22nd, 2024
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Detecting Dark Matter Substructures on Small Scales with Fast Radio Bursts
Huangyu Xiao, Fermilab & KICP,
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,
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar

East Bridge 114
Learning Augmented Algorithms for MDPs
Adam Wierman, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,