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April 2016

Tuesday, April 26th, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Circadian Rhythm Networks in Health and Disease

Steve Kay, Adjunct Professor , USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Univeristy of Southern California,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

A Path to New Physics Discovery at the LHC

Si Xie, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Constraints on Planetesimals from their Thermal Evolution

Shigeru Wakita, Division of Theoretical Astronomy, NAOJ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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

Baxter B125

Formal Behavioralism

Daniel Diermeier, Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy and Emmett Dedmon Professor of Public Administration, University of Chicago,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Everhart Lecture

Lecture title TBA

Wednesday, April 27th, 2016

8:00am – Ongoing

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

10:00am – 11:00am

TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308

Constant-round Interactive-proofs for Delegating Computation

Omer Reingold, Samsung Research America,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

National Denim Day- Wear Jeans ALL DAY

Feminist Club ,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "EndNote For Beginners"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar

TBA

Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, Professor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Noncommutative Geometry

Some C*-algebras which are coronas of non-C*-Banach algebras.

Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Continuing the Legacy of Supernova Cosmology

Ryan Foley, Univ. of Illinois,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

The dynamics of changing winter temperature extremes

Andrew Rhines, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Finance Seminar: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue

Baxter B125

Topic to be Announced

Huseyin Gulen, Associate Professor of Finance, Krannert School of Management, Purdue,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Finance Seminar: John Cochrane, Stanford University

Baxter B125

A new approach to monetary policy

John Cochrane, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Guaranteed Non-convex Learning Algorithms through Tensor Decomposition

Annenberg 105

Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences

Anima Anandkumar, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, U.C. Irvine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Kristin Persson, Staff Scientist , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Driving Synthesis by Oxidation

Jean-Philip G. Lumb, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, McGill University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Cold War Geographies and the Making of the Indian Space Program

Asif Siddiqi, Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Noncommutative Geometry

Representations of multiplier algebras of Nevanlinna-Pick spaces

Michael Hartz, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, University of Waterlook,

Thursday, April 28th, 2016

10:00am – 3:00pm

Take Our Children to Work Day

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

(CANCELLED) Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

(CANCELLED) Seth Guikema, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Earth Week Campus Events

Winnett Lounge

Sustainable Living Workshops

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Gaypril Event

Avery Conference Room

Safe Zone Training – Staff & Faculty Session 1

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 5:30pm

Got IP? Intellectual Property & Innovation (World IP Day 2016)

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Small RNAs Fighting Genome Invaders: From Bacteria to Mammals

Alexei Aravin, Assistant Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Lubin-Tate Deformation Spaces and $(\phi,\Gamma)$-Modules

Anne Carter, Mathematics, University of California, San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

String Theory and the CMB

Liam McAllister, Associate Professor of Physics, Cornell University,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall

On Changing False Beliefs: Two Cases from Experimental Economics and Their Economic Implications

Vernon L. Smith, George L. Argyros Endowed Chair in Finance and Economics, Chapman University,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

Friday, April 29th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

12:00am – Ongoing

Child Educational Center 27th Annual Benefit and Auction: Bloom Bloom

Off Campus

11:00am – 12:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104

Superconducting coherent caloritronics

Francesco Giazotto, NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze, CNR & Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Expanding the landscape of N=2 Super-conformal field theories.

Mario Martone, University of Cincinnati,

11:30am – 1:30pm

Caltech Cares Day

San Pasqual Walk

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Gaypril Event

Avery Conference Room

Safe Zone Training – Staff & Faculty Session 2

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research

Baxter 125

Procrastination with Variable Present Bias

Nicole Immorlica, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Understanding Micro- and Macro-Mechanics of Soil Liquefaction: A Necessary Step for Field-Scale Assessment

Utkarsh Mital, Understanding Micro- and Macro-Mechanics of Soil Liquefaction: A Necessary Step for Field-Scale Assessment, Mechanical and Civil Engineering,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Undergraduate Math Club Seminar

Randomness of Fractional Parts and Fourier Series

Zachary Chase, Undergraduate Student, Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

East Bridge 114

Gravitational Lensing of the Transient Sky

Liang Dai, NASA Einstein Fellow, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

SUCCESS AT LAST !

Fred Culick, Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Jet Propulsion, Emeritus, GALCIT, California Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

On Hamiltonian Gromov-Witten theory for symplectic reductions

Rui Wang, Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics

Annenberg 213

A Posteriori Error Estimation Techniques for Finite Element Methods

Professor Zhiqiang Cai, Purdue University,

3:30pm – 7:00pm

Be part of a historic moment for Caltech: Campus Campaign Celebration

Beckman Auditorium

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--SEMINAR CANCELLED

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Evidence for Mechanism-Based Inactivation of Cytochrome P450 by Diazo Reagents, Its Implications for Carbene Transfer Reactions, and Mitigation by Directed Evolution

Hans Renata, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Spectroscopic signatures of Weyl semimetals beyond photoemission

Stefanos Kourtis, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)

Linking the seismic structure of Earth's uppermost inner core to features at the inner core boundary

Lauren Waszek, University of Maryland,

Saturday, April 30th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Whittier

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Redlands

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Mach 33: "Planet Between the Stars"

Beckman Institute Auditorium

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Women's Tennis) La Verne vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 11:00pm

Gaypril Event

Avery Dining Hall

4th Annual PRISM Amateur Drag Show

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