Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

Friday, May 20, 2016

All Day Ongoing

Voting Open for the Caltech Y Photo Contest

All Day Ongoing

Reunion Weekend

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

All Day Ongoing

Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

Academic

9:00am – 10:00am

MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Shock wave propagation in composites and electro-thermomechanical coupling of ferroelectric materials

Vinamra Agrawal, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering,

9:00am – 5:30pm

UCI Southern California Machine Learning Symposium

Off Campus

9:30am – 10:30am

Personal Emergency Preparedness

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Chaos and the growth of operators

Dan Roberts, MIT,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

High temperature mechanical performance of metallic and metal-ceramic nanoscale multilayers

Javier LLorca, Professor, Department of Materials Science, Polytechnic University of Madrid,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Science of Writing Please Note Location Change

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

Caltech Alumni Roundtable on Writing and Communication in STEM Professions

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 314

Spectrahedral lifts of polytopes, sums of squares, and quantum information

James Lee, University of Washington,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Undergraduate Math Club Seminar

The Distribution of Discriminants of Polynomials with Coefficients in a Finite Field

Michael Seaman, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Cosmological Tests of Gravity Come of Age

Tessa Baker, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Univ of Oxford and Univ of Pennsylvania,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Approaching the complexity of combustion kinetic models through chemical time scale investigations

Benjamin Akih-Kumgeh, Assistant Professor, Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

On Thurston's Euler class one conjecture

Mehdi Yazdi, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Princeton University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Understanding Co-translational Protein Targeting and Lithium Dendrite Formation through Modeling and Long-Timescale Simulations

Connie Wang, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Miller group, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

DNA-Mediated Iron-sulfur Redox Signaling in Bacterial Nucleotide Excision Repair.

Rebekah Silva, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Unexpected effects in periodic driving of gapless topological systems

Michael Kolodrubetz, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

Network Contagion and Interbank Amplification During the Great Depression

Kris Mitchener, Robert and Susan Finocchio Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

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

Fire and Ice...and Methane—Exploring Mars and Titan using laboratory and field analogues on Earth

Morgan Cable, Assistant Project Science Systems Engineer, Cassini Mission and Technologist, Instrument Systems Implementation and Concepts Section, JPL,