Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

March 2006

Ongoing

All Day Ongoing

PHOTOGRAPHY: SCHOOL PROJECT - JENNIFER O'CONNOR

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

10:00am – 12:00pm

Wednesdays in the Park Playgroup

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Analytic Capacity, Cauchy Integrals, Menger Curvature, and Bilipschitz Maps

2:00pm – 3:00pm

CACR Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Uncertainty Quantification through the Lenses of Concentration Inequalities and Large Deviations

Houman Owhadi, Applied and Computational Mathematics - Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Laboratory Safety 101

Keith Spalding 118

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Comets Present and Future: Infrared Survey of Comets and White Dwarfs

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Everhart Lecture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Darwin's Dumpster: How Cellular Sloppiness Governs the Rate of Evolution

D. Allan Drummond, Computation & Neural Systems, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Activity-Based Proteomics

Benjamin F. Cravatt, Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute,

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

8:30am – 12:00pm

Transition to Leadership Series

Brown Gymnasium, Classroom

10:00am – 1:00pm

Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Caltech Library System Presents: SciFinder Scholar Its Not Just for Chemists

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Bioengineering Seminar

Keck 142

Soft-State Biological Application Specific Circuits and Nanocrescents for Quantitative Biomedicine

Luke Lee, Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley,

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Photography Exhibit

Center for Student Services, Lobby

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Sulfur-, Molybdenum- and Iron-based Perspectives on Proterozoic Ocean Chemistry

Tim Lyons, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, UC Riverside,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Information Science and Technology Seminar

Jorgensen 74

Scalable Automated Methods for Software Reliability

Koushik Shen, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Oxide Nanoarchitectures with Innate Ion Wires Yield Enhanced Nanoionic Properties

Debra Rolison, Doctor, Naval Research Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Novel Hadrons

Chris Quigg, Theoretical Physics Department, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Intermediate Competitive Ballroom Dance

Winnett Center

9:00pm – 10:00pm

Hip-Hop Classes

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

8:00am – 5:00pm

Fencing

away game

9:00am – 5:00pm

Track & Field

away game

10:00am – 11:30am

School-Day Event: Flamenco: Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Automorphic Forms, Topological Strings, and Perhaps Black Holes

Andrew Neitzke, IAS,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

ESE and Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Economic Justice and Environmental Justice

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Financial Planning: Getting Started

Beckman Institute Auditorium

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Setting Limits with Love: Positive Guidance for Children

Moore 239

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Women's Tennis

home game

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151

Cellular Uptake of Luminescent Ruthenium Complexes

Cindy Puckett, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Jorgensen 74

Quantum Simulation of Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Atoms

Luming Duan, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

RF and Microwave Seminar

Moore B280

Dual-Use Design Strategies for Electromechanical Systems and Power Processing Circuitry

Robert Cox, Ph.D. Candidate, Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Women's Water Polo

away game

5:30pm – 6:30pm

CPA Social Hour

North Catalinas Recreation Room

7:30pm – 10:00pm

German Film Series

Baxter Lecture Hall

8:00pm – 10:00pm

As You Like It: Theater Arts at Caltech

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:30pm

Caltech Chess Club

Page House, Dining Room

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

8:00am – 5:00pm

Fencing

away game

9:00am – 5:00pm

Track & Field

home game

10:00am – 1:00pm

Men's Tennis

away game

11:00am – 12:00pm

Women's Water Polo

away game

12:45pm – 1:45pm

Belly Dancing

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

2:00pm – 4:00pm

As You Like It: Theater Arts at Caltech

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

2:00pm – 4:30pm

Baseball

home game

5:15pm – 6:15pm

Women's Water Polo

away game

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

8:00am – 5:00pm

Fencing

away game

8:30am – 9:30am

Women's Water Polo

away game

12:15pm – 1:15pm

Women's Water Polo

away game

1:00pm – 5:00pm

PHOTOGRAPHY: BOWERS PARTY (FAMILY PORTRAIT)

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech-Occidental Symphony Orchestra

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, March 6th, 2006

3:00pm – 4:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 269

Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the LSST Project

J. Anthony Tyson, UC Davis,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biophysics Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

CANCELLED

Evan A. Evans, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Functional Genomic Analysis of Gene Regulation Mediated by Small RNAs in C. elegans

John Kim, Prof., Department of Molecular Biology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics, Massachusetts General Hospital,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Information Science and Technology Seminar

Jorgensen 74

Merrimac: High-Performance, Highly Efficient Scientific Computing with Streams

Mattan Erez, PhD Candidate, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,

4:15pm – 5:00pm

Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Cloaking: Science Fiction or Reality?

5:30pm – 6:30pm

William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Unification and Coherence

Stephan Hartmann, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method , London School of Economics,

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

10:00am – 12:00pm

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CIT Knitters Group Meeting

Spalding Laboratory 113

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Women's History Month: Malalai Joya

Avery Library

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Special GALCIT and Bioengineering Seminar

Broad 100

Nanomechanics of Biological Cells and Human Disease States

Subra Suresh, Ford Professor of Engineering, department of materials science and engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium

Clues to the Formation of the Most Massive Galaxies in the Universe

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

East Bridge 114

Tuning LIGO to Listen to Gravitational Waves

Rana Adhikari, Postdoctoral Scholar, LIGO Laboratory, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

New Insights from Dynamics Calculations Using Ab Initio Potential Energy Surfaces That Are Permutationally Invariant: Photodissociation in H2CO and Internal Isomerization in CH5+

Joel M. Bowman, Department Chair, and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Theoretical Chemistry, Chemistry, Emory University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Mapping Neural Circuits in the Fly Brain

Julie Simpson, Dr., Janelia Farm, University of Wisconsin - Madison,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248

Status of ZEPLIN II- A Direct Matter Search Detector Using 40kg Liquid Xenon

Hanguo Wang, Assistant Professor of EE, Electrical and Computing Engineering, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125

Electoral Accountability and the Variety of Democratic Regimes

David Samuels, University of Minnesota,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

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