Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

February 2015

Saturday, February 21st, 2015

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Caltech-Occidental Concert Band

Off Campus

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Theater Lab: "Alice Through the Wormhole"

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, February 21st, 2015

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) North vs. South IFCSC

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Swimming and Diving) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 2/22 12:00am

(Men's Swimming and Diving) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track) Pomona-Pitzer All-Comers Meet

12:00am – 2/22 12:00am

(Women's Swimming & Diving) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 12:00am

(Women's Swimming & Diving) SCIAC Championships

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Whittier vs. Caltech

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Redlands

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Occidental

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Occidental

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Occidental vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Occidental vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Theater Lab: "Alice Through the Wormhole"

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Vienna Boys Choir

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, February 22nd, 2015

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Swimming and Diving) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 2/23 12:00am

(Men's Swimming and Diving) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 2/23 12:00am

(Women's Swimming & Diving) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 12:00am

(Women's Swimming & Diving) SCIAC Championships

2:30pm – 4:30pm

Caltech Theater Lab: "Alice Through the Wormhole"

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, February 23rd, 2015

9:00am – 10:00am

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102

The Terradynamics of Robotic and Biological Movement in Complex Terrain

Chen Li, University of California, Berkeley,

9:30am – 10:30am

Personal Emergency Preparedness

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Faculty Meeting

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates

12:00pm – 1:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Hunting for Mixed Stop Decays at the LHC

Michael Graesser, LANL,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Seeding a New Kind of Garden: Synthesis of Symmetrically Stellated Bimetallic Nanocrystals as a New Class of Plasmonic Colloids

Sara Skrabalak, Associate Professor, Dean's Fellow, Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington,

2:30pm – 5:00pm

Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics - Inaugural Celebration and Symposium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Twisted commutative algebras and related structures

Steven Sam, Miller Research Fellow, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium

"Engineered proteins for visualizing and treating disease"

Jennifer Cochran, Associate Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 4:00pm

CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Towards Model-Based and Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation

Caleb Kemere, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Rice University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

The natural variability of glaciers: was there a little ice age?

Gerard Roe, Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Learning Systems: Systems and Abstractions for Large-Scale Machine Learning

Annenberg 105

Computing & Mathematical Sciences Seminar

Joseph E. Gonzalez, Postdoctoral Scholar, AMPLab, UC Berkeley,

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Beginner/Intermediate West Coast Swing with Demetre Souliotes - Week 6

Winnett Lounge

Tuesday, February 24th, 2015

9:00am – 5:00pm

New Frontiers in Biological Engineering

Broad 100

9:00am – 5:00pm

Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics Inaugural Symposium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Relative Entropy Optimization and Its Applications

Venkat Chandrasekaran, Assistant Professor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Targeted Nanoparticles for Mitochondial Medicine

Shanta Dhar, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Nano Therapeutics Research Laboratory, Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens,

2:30pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Naïve entropy of dynamical systems

Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill 370

No signal yet: The elusive birefringence of the vacuum, and whether gravitational wave detectors may help.

Hartmut Grote, AEI Hannover,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMI Seminar

Annenberg 213

Generalized Low Rank Models

Madeleine Udell, Computational & Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Planetary System Evolution: Gas Giants in disks, and Nonconservative Dynamics

David Tsang, Postdoc, McGill University,

5:30pm – 8:30pm

(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Chapman

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

7:30pm – 10:30pm

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Chapman

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015

9:00am – 5:00pm

Last day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections for Winter Term

Academic

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanics

Pun Wai Tong, PhD. Student, Mathematics, UC San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Star Formation

Ralf Klessen, Heidelberg,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

A millennial-scale stagnation of Southern Ocean circulation in a past warm climate

Christopher Hayes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

KNI Seminar

Steele 125

Cooperative Function in Atomically Precise Nanoscale Assemblies

Paul Weis, KNI Visiting Associate/Director of CNSI, Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

The Equivariant Verlinde Formula

Du Pei, Graduate Student, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Professor Yanyi Huang - Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center, Peking University

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"Microfluidics: A Better Approach for Sequencing Single Cells"

Yanyi Huang, Professor, Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center, Peking University,

8:30pm – 11:00pm

West Coast Swing Social

Winnett Lounge

Thursday, February 26th, 2015

8:00am – Ongoing

Registration for Spring Term 2014-15

Academic

10:30am – 12:30pm

Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop: "Crystallographic Resources"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Directed self-assembly of soft mesophases using magnetic fields

Chinedum Osuji, Associate Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280

A Timing Approach to Casual Network Inference

Negar Kiyavash, Willett Faculty Scholar, Industrial and Enterprise Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Abby Kavner

Abby Kavner, Associate Professor, Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Evolution of Tunable Laser Absorption Sensors for Combustion and Propulsion

Ronald Hanson, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Divisibility in K-groups and classical conjectures in Number Theory

Grzegorz Banaszak, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Adam Mickiewicz University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Optically driven quantum solids: emergence without equilibrium

Andrea Cavalleri, Professor of Physics, University of Hamburg and University of Oxford,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

POSTPONED: Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Lisa Barrett, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University,

4:45pm – 6:00pm

CMA presents: Inside the Inside Stories: Hear from Four Curiosity-Inspired Authors

JPL

Marc Kaufman, writer, journalist,

Rob Manning, Chief Engineer, JPL,

Rod Pyle, author,

Roger Wiens, LANL,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Beginning & Intermediate Salsa Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

Friday, February 27th, 2015

10:00am – 11:00am

Kellogg Seminar

Lauritsen Library

Studies of Fundamental Interactions of Trapped ^8Li and ^8B Ions

Adrian Perez Galvan, Physics, Argonne National Laboratory,

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