Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

January 2017

Monday, January 2nd, 2017

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Whittier vs. Caltech

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Whittier vs. Caltech

Wednesday, January 4th, 2017

8:00am – 5:00pm

Beginning of Instruction of Winter Term

Academic

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Impact of mesophyll conductance on photosynthesis from leaf to globe

Ying Sun, Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth Science Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Bridging the Gap Between Molecules and Materials: Redox Reactivity of MOFs and Quantum Dots

Carl Brozek, Dr., Clean Energy Institute, University of Washington,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Occidental

Thursday, January 5th, 2017

9:00am – 5:00pm

Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

Location to be announced

Academic

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Discovery and Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems from Data"

Steven Brunton, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

South Mudd 365

Francois Tissot, Crosby Postdoctoral Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Detecting and coupling quantum objects with quantum light

Dan M. Stamper-Kurn, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Occidental

Friday, January 6th, 2017

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

K3 String Theory, Lattices, and Moonshine

Sarah Harrison, Harvard University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Undergraduate Math Club Seminar

Wizards vs. Time Machines

Jalex Stark, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Caltech Science Museum's Beckman Room Open for Walk-Ins

Beckman Institute 131

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Giga resolution topology optimization for aerospace and multiphysics structures

Ole Sigmund, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Coarse and fine geometry of the Thurston metric

Ian Zemke, Mathematics Department, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Practical, Reliable Error Bars in Quantum Tomography

Philippe Faist, Postdoctoral Scholar, Brandao Group,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Fundamental Processes and Materials Development in Next Generation Battery Systems

Kimberly See, Dr., Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Saturday, January 7th, 2017

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

Monday, January 9th, 2017

10:00am – 3:00pm

Envisioning the Scientific Paper of the Future

Avery House

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Subgradient Methods for General Convex Optimization

Professor James Renegar, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Geomicrobiological processes in Banded Iron Formations

Andreas Kappler, Professor of Geomicrobiology, Department of Biosciences, Center for Geomicrobiology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Informal Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Regulation of Microtubule Plus-End Dynamics During Cell Migration

Laura Lowery, Assistant Professor, Biology , Boston College,

Tuesday, January 10th, 2017

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Humanities Brown Bag Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Giving Effective Feedback on Student Writing: What Do Caltech Students Do with Professors' Comments on Their Writing?

Susanne Hall, Campus Writing Coordinator in the Hixon Writing Center and Lecturer in Writing, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105

"Enabling Reproducibility in Computational Science"

Victoria Stodden, Victoria is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Jerusalem Uncovered Lecture

Steele 102

Avrohom Stolik, Director of Chabad in Downtown Coral Gables, Florida,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Math Graduate Student Seminar

Quantum Ramsey Numbers: a Probabilistic Method Approach to Operator Systems

Jalex Stark, California Institute of Technology,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

Downs 314

Searching for Quantum Geometry with the Fermilab Holometer

Jonathan Richardson, Physics, University of Chicago,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Drainage solutions for quantum systems

Victor Albert, PhD Candidate, Liang Group, Yale,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

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

TBD

Dr. Dan Stern, JPL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Short Linear Motifs (SLiMs) Determine Phosphatase Network Identity and Evolution

Martha Cyert, Professor, Biology, Stanford,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

Galois theory and the cohomology of arithmetic 3-manifolds

Richard Taylor, Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

What Makes Titan Tick: Exploring Titan Surface Chemistry in the Laboratory

Morgan Cable, Research Scientist, JPL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Enabling Function in Soft Materials through Molecular Design

Maxwell Robb, Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

5:30pm – 6:30pm

Commit@Caltech Walking Challenge

Counseling Center

7:00pm – 9:00pm

SURF Info Session

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Wednesday, January 11th, 2017

10:00am – 11:30am

Student Shop Safety Hands-on Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Biosafety – Comprehensive Training

Keith Spalding B117

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Chains of atoms coupled to a nanofiber waveguide

Jean-baptiste Béguin, Postdoctoral Scholar, QUANTOP - Danish Center for Quantum Optics, Niels Bohr Institute,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Full Spectrum Ultrahigh Efficiency Photovoltaics: System Design, Integration, and Characterization

Cristofer Flowers, graduate student, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Spin and Magnetism in Small Stars

Elisabeth Newton, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar

Annenberg 105

John Rogers, Ph.D. and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery (and by courtesy Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry), Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Ambiguity in the causes for decadal trends in atmospheric methane and hydroxyl

Alex Turner, Graduate Student, Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

A New Approach to an Old Problem - Discovery of Mechanisms That Regulate Sleep Using Zebrafish

David Prober, Assistant Professor of Biology, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Hidden Order in the Pseudogap Region of High-Tc Superconductors

David Hsieh, Faculty, Quantum Matter, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM), Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Asymptotics of the eigenvalues of operators for mirror curves

Lukas Schimmer, Mathematics Department, Caltech,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Redlands vs. Caltech

Thursday, January 12th, 2017

8:50am – 11:30am

International Scholar Orientation

Moore 139

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Physical Properties of Surface Materials on Mars and Selection of the InSight Landing Site"

Matthew Golombek, Senior Research Scientist, Mars Exploration Rover Project Scientist, Mars Exploration Program Landing Site Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100

Biophysical Characterization of an ABC L-methionine Transporter

Qi Wen Li, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,

1:30pm – 4:30pm

Perpall Speaking Competition Finals

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Lecture

Kerckhoff 119

Chemical Discovery in the Microbial World

Emily Balskus, Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Chemistry & Chemistry Biology, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Logic Seminar

Non-Minimality of the Shift Graph

Connor Meehan, Mathematics Department, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Generalized Kuga-Satake theory and good reduction properties of Galois representations

Stefan Patrikis, Mathematics Department, University of Utah,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

The next questions in neutrino physics

Ryan Patterson, Assistant Professor of Physics, Caltech,

5:30pm – 8:30pm

Associates Program: Understanding Autism

Athenaeum

5:30pm – 6:30pm

Commit@Caltech Walking Challenge

Counseling Center

⟨⟨
1
2
3
4
-⟩
⟩⟩