Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

March 2015

Monday, March 23rd, 2015

9:30am – 12:30pm

(Men's Tennis) Pacific (Ore.) vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Pacific (Ore.) vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 4:00pm

CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Neuromorphic Chips: Combining Analog Computation with Digital Communication

Kwabena Boahen, Professor, Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering, Stanford,

Tuesday, March 24th, 2015

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Steele 102

Integrated Quantum Light-Matter Interfaces Based on Ensembles of Rare-Earth Ions

Erhan Saglamyurek, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Canada,

1:00pm – 4:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Rensselaer vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Efficient CBC parameter estimation and source classification

Carl-Johan Haster, Department of Physics, Birmingham,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "Introduction to CaltechTHESIS for Staff"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Operationally-Motivated Uncertainty Relations for Joint Measurability and the Error-Disturbance Tradeoff

Volker Schotz, ETH,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

No General Biology Scheduled for Today

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Hearing what gravitational wave standard sirens have to say

Chris Messenger, University of Glasgow,

Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

9:00am – 9:01am

Due Date for Instructors' Final Grade Reports

Academic

9:30am – 10:30am

Office Ergonomics Training

Keith Spalding B117

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Willamette vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Willamette vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) La Verne vs. Caltech

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

8:30am – 12:30pm

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Winnett Lounge

10:30am – 12:30pm

Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) MIT vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm

Office Solutions Efficiency Product Fair

Winnett Quad

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Special LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Measurements of mechanical losses in black coating and bonding of silicon at low temperatures.

Leonid Prokhorov, Physics, Moscow State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar - CANCELED

Broad 100

!! CANCELED !! James Berger Biochemistry Seminar has been canceled

James Berger, Professor, Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

KNI Seminar

Steele 125

Surface Interaction Potentials and Dynamics: Quantitative Measurements and Implications

Paul Weiss, KNI Distinguished Visiting Professor, Caltech;, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Beginning & Intermediate Salsa Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

Adventures From the Field - (Down and Dirty) Stories of Pursuing JPL Science from the Ground up to Space

Mark Helmlinger, Remote Sensing Calibration, Characterization, and Validation Specialist, Imaging Spectroscopy Group, JPL,

Friday, March 27th, 2015

10:00am – 11:00am

How Sticky is Your Gecko?

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Geometry of (0,2) Theories

Bei Jia, University of Texas, Austin,

11:00am – 12:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151

Targeting DNA Repeat Sequences with Py-Im Polyamides

Jeen Joo Kang, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dervan group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Chapman

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Chapman vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Finally Free: Unlocking Dark Matter Physics out of Galactic Substructures

Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Postdoctoral Fellow, W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies, JPL / Caltech,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151

Applications of Cyclometalated Ruthenium Alkylidene Catalysts in Olefin Metathesis

Peter Dornan, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:30pm – 5:15pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Constraining Holographic Entanglement Entropy

Ning Bao, DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics ,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

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

Adventures From the Field - (Down and Dirty) Stories of Pursuing JPL Science from the Ground up to Space

Mark Helmlinger, Remote Sensing Calibration, Characterization, and Validation Specialist, Imaging Spectroscopy Group, JPL,

Saturday, March 28th, 2015

12:00am – 3/29 12:00am

(Track) SCIAC Meet

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track) SCIAC Multi-Dual

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Redlands vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Avila & Adram Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Baseball) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Earth - Power of the Planet: Atmosphere

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Katy Moffatt

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, March 30th, 2015

8:00am – 5:00pm

Beginning of Instruction for Spring Term

Academic

11:15am – 12:15pm

Special Biology Seminar -- CANCELLED

Braun Laboratory 152

Merging Population and Molecular Biology, Fly Examples

Sergey Nuzhdin, Principal Investigator, Center for High-Performance Computing, University of Southern California ,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Aerospace Engineering Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Realizing the Benefits of an Academic / Industrial Collaboration During a Small Satellite Development

Professor Jens Eickhoff, Space Technology Innovation, Airbus,

4:00pm – 4:00pm

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Tropical schemes and the Berkovich analytification

Noah Giansiracusa, RTG Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, University of Georgia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium

"CRISPR-Cas Genome Surveillance: From Basic Biology to Transformative Technology"

Jennifer Doudna, Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Finance Seminar: Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago

Baxter B125

Misspecified Recovery

Lars Peter Hansen, David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current during the Last Glacial Maximum

Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Professor, Associate Chair, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Soft Theorems from Effective Field Theory

Andrew Larkoski, MIT,

Tuesday, March 31st, 2015

9:00am – 5:00pm

Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

Academic

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Gapped and gapless phases of frustration-free spin-1/2 chains

David Gosset, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Theoretical Physics, Caltech,

1:00pm – 1:30pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Optical losses and the optical power requirements in the traditional and the intracavity readout topologies of laser gravitational-wave detectors

F. YA. Khalili, Physics, Moscow State University,

1:30pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Single mode cavity to avoid parametric instability in laser gravitational wave detector

Sergey Vyachanin, Physics, Moscow State University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Collaborative Research Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Water oxidation with all-inorganic earth-abundant catalysts

Dr. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Do We Know Enough to Design Biology?

Pamela Silver, Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Point Source Reconnaissance: Physical Studies of Near-Earth Asteroids

Nicholas Moskovitz, NSF Fellow, Lowell Observatory,