Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Wednesday, January 17th, 2018

10:00am – 11:00am

U.S. Bank Card Fraud Overview Webinar

12:00pm – 1:00pm

MLK Week 2018: Keynote Address by Dr. Melina Abdullah

Dabney Hall, Lounge

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "Introduction to Zotero"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 105

A refined Cantor-Bendixson rank for presented Polish spaces

Vibeke Quorning, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Analysis Seminar

Building 15, Room 131

Differentiability and rectifiability on metric planes

Guy C. David, Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Lab Safety 101 Training

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Welcome to the multi-messenger era: a report on the first binary neutron star merger detection

Jennifer Barnes, Columbia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment: A Vision to Enable Decentralized Water Treatment and Address Growing Challenges of the Water Energy Nexus

Pedro J.J. Alvarez, George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University; Director of the NSF ERC on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Finance Seminar: Alexander Lipton, StrongHold Labs & MIT

Baxter B125

Modern Monetary Circuit Theory and Stability of Financial Ecosystem

Alexander Lipton, Founder and CEO, StrongHold Labs; Connection Science Fellow, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Fundamental Neutron Physics at the ILL

Peter Geltenbort, Institut Laue-Langevin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Halide Perovskites: Poor man's high performance semiconductors

Mercouri Kanatzidis, Professor, Chemistry, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Moore Lecture

Kerckhoff 119

"How to Hit HIV Where it Hurts"

Arup Chakrabirty, Founding Director, Institute for Medical Engineering & Science; Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry and Biological Engineering, MIT, Founding Steering Committee Member, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, & Harvard, Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Shuttle Catalysis - a Conceptual Blueprint for Reversible Functional Group Transfer

Bill Morandi, Associate Professor, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung,

4:15pm – 5:15pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280

Deterministic Random Matrices

Ilya Soloveychik, Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University,

5:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Associates Panel Discussion & Reception: The Future of Autonomous Technology

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Caltech Debate Club Meeting

IMSS 120

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Cal Lutheran

7:00pm – 7:45pm

CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry

Annenberg 105

Topological Quantum Computation -- Professor Xie Chen, Caltech

7:00pm – 9:10pm

JPL SURF Information Session

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Andrei Faraon - "Flat Metasurface Optics"

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event