Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

Friday, December 5, 2014

Thursday, November 20th, 2014

Ongoing – 5:00pm

Registration for Winter Term 2014-15

Academic

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014

All Day Ongoing

Post Office extends hours during the month of December including Saturdays and Sundays

Keith Spalding Building

Friday, December 5th, 2014

12:00am – 12/6 12:00am

(Fencing) NAC Tournament

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day of Classes for Fall Term

Academic

8:00am – 4:30pm

Standard First-Aid/CPR Training

Winnett Lounge

10:30am – 11:30am

PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Metallaboratrane Facilitated E-H Bond Activation and Hydrogenation Catalysis

Henry Fong, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Peters Group, Chemistry, Caltech,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

TBA

Mark Van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Finance Seminar: Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management

Baxter B125

Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?: New Approaches to Funding Biomedical Innovation

Andrew Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor; Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213

The hidden subgraph problem

Andrea Montanari, Stanford,

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Beckman Room open (Caltech's Science Museum)

Beckman Institute 131

1:00pm – 2:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Recursion Relation for Conformal Blocks

Masahito Yamazaki, IMPU, Univ of Tokyo,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

The Zen of Core Collapse: How to See A Supernova That Doesn't Happen

Elizabeth Lovegrove, Graduate Student, Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Stress state effects in yield and flow responses of nanocrystalline metals

David L. McDowell, Carter N. Paden Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing; Regents' Professor Mechanics of Materials; Executive Director, Institute for Materials, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Decouplings and applications

Ciprian Demeter, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Indiana University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Quantifying residual properties of virtually special groups

Mark Hagen, RTG Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Protection of Photoanodes for Water-Splitting in Harsh Environments

Michael Lichterman, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:30pm – 5:15pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

All-fermion electrodynamics and fermion number anomaly inflow

Shauna Kravec, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Univ. of California, San Diego,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Scattering Theory for the Boltzmann Equation and the Arrow of Time (joint work with Claude Bardos, Irene Gamba, and Francois Golse)

David Levermore, Professor, Mathematics, University of Maryland,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)

Coming Soon to a Dwarf Planet in Your Solar System: NASA's Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt

Marc Rayman, Director, Dawn Project Mission, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

7:30pm – 7:30pm

German Film

Baxter Lecture Hall

Some One Like Me (2012)

8:00pm – 10:00pm

MOVED TO WEDNESDAY - TACIT: Caltech Players Student Director Showcase

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event