Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

April 2017

Friday, April 21st, 2017

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Guillaume Roger, University of Sydney

Baxter 127

Scale Effects in Dynamic Contracting

Guillaume Roger, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Edge of darkness: The splashback radius as a physical halo boundary

Benedikt Diemer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Cal Lutheran

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Wind Farm Modeling and Control for Power Grid Support

Dennice Gayme, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Symplectic Instanton Homology via Traceless Character Varieties: SO(3)-Bundles and Dehn Surgery

Henry Horton, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University ,

4:00pm – 4:45pm

BMB Seminar

Broad 100

Transcriptomic Genetics: A new way to use RNA-sequencing data.

David Angeles Albores, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Breaking Lorentz Reciprocity: From Physics to New Wireless Communication Paradigms

Moore B280

Caltech's Young Investigator Lecture Series

Negar Reiskarimian, PhD candidate , Electrical Engineering , Columbia University.,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Electrochemical CO2 Reduction by Polymer-Immobilized Molecular Catalysts

Wesley Kramer, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Fault-tolerance in topological stabilizer codes and universal workarounds

Tomas Jochym O'Connor, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

William Bennett Munro History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Did Edward Gibbon Meet Yelü Chucai?: Detecting Chinese Influence on European Historiography about the Mongol Empire

Matthew Mosca, Assistant Professor of History, University of Washington,

Saturday, April 22nd, 2017

12:00am – 12:00am

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

8:00am – 11:00am

March for Science - Pasadena

Beckman Institute Lawn

9:00am – 12:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech vs. Redlands

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Whittier vs. Caltech

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Whittier

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Baseball) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 4:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Kakosimidi Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Earth Day Event: A staged reading of "Vavilov's Garden"

Ramo Auditorium

Sunday, April 23rd, 2017

12:00am – 12:00am

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech Symphony

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Dover Quartet

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, April 24th, 2017

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter 125

Fear

Ralph Adolphs, Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Professor of Biology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

World Fest Event: Teas of the World

San Pasqual Walk

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Aerospace Engineering Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

The James Webb Space Telescope; Its Mission, Design and Development

Jonathan Arenberg, Chief Engineer for the James Webb Space Telescope and Space Science Missions, Northrop Grumman,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Derived categories of canonical covers of bielliptic and Enriques surfaces in positive characteristic

Katrina Honigs, Mathematics Department, University of Utah,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Lecture

Kerckhoff 119

From Fluctuations to Function: The Role of Dynamics in Gene Expression and Iomolecular Function

Ruben Gonzalez, Professor, Chemistry , Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech - Amgen Collaborative Seminar 2017

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

David Reese, Amgen, Senior Vice President, Translational Sciences,

Philip Tagari, Amgen, Vice President, Research (Therapeutic Discovery),

Cindy Afshari, Amgen, Vice President, Comparative Biology and Safety Sciences,

Sheldon Moberg, Amgen, Head of Advanced Device Technology and Innovation,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Using Artificial-Intelligence-Driven Deep Neural Networks to Uncover Principles of Brain Representation and Organization

Daniel L.K. Yamins, Assistant Professor , Psychology and Computer Science, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Survivors of giant impacts: fingerprints of the Earth's oldest mantle domains revealed by short-lived radionuclides

Hanika Rizo, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM),

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Nnaturalness

Tim Cohen, University of Oregon,

6:00pm – 7:30pm

Art + Tech Panel: Computational Literature

Gates-Thomas 135

Xtine Burrough, Artist, Associate Professor in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, UT Dallas,

Nick Montfort, Poet, Professor of Digital Media, MIT,

Brian Kim Stefans, Poet, Associate Professor of Literature, UCLA,

Eran Hadas , Poet, Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artist, Caltech,

Tuesday, April 25th, 2017

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 4/27 1:00pm

Gaypril Safe Zone Training for Staff, Faculty, and Postdocs

Avery Conference Room

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105

Impact of Deep Neural Networks and One of Its Mobile Applications

Charles Fan, CTO of Cheetah Mobile (NYSE: CMCM),

12:00pm – 1:00pm

World Fest Event: My Iran

Avery Library

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

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

TBD

Dr. Ben Shappee, Carnegie Observatories,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar/Political Economy Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Self-Evident Events and the Value of Linking

Jimmy Chan, Professor, Department of Economics, Fudan University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Divide and Conquer - Synthetic Biology of Cell Division

Petra Schwille, Professor, Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

Extremes: nonlinear PDEs, random walk, Gaussian processes and random matrices

Ofer Zeitouni, Department of Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Early History of the Moon & Mercury: Merging Magma Ocean Models with LRO, GRAIL & MESSENGER Data

Alex Evans, Postdoc, University of Arizona,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Molybdenum Metabolism in Humans and Plants: From Atomic Structures to Patient Therapy

Ralf Mendel, Prof. Dr., Institute for Plant Biology, Technical University of Braunschweig,

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Dish and Discuss #17 Defining Social Class in America

Avery Dining Hall

12:00pm – 1:00pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280

Measurement-dependent Noisy Search: An Information Acquisition Approach

Tara Javidi, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Logic Seminar

On The Interplay Between Representations and Topological Actions

Omer Tamuz, Economics & Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Two-spectra theorem with uncertainty

Alexei Poltoratski, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151

Physiological and Biochemical Mechanisms of Phenazine-Mediated Survival in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Nate Glasser, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization

Eduardo Banados, Carnegie,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Electroactive biofilms - key characteristics and applications

Korneel Rabaey, Professor, Department of Biochemical and Microbial Technology, Ghent University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Finance Seminar: John Zhu, University of Pennsylvania

Baxter B125

Renegotiation of Dynamically Incomplete Contracts

John Zhu, Assistant Professor of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Universal avalanche statistics across 16 decades in length: From nanocrystals (and neurons) to earthquakes and stars

Karin Dahmen, Professor, Condensed Matter Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Harper, extended Harper, and sharp spectral transitions in the arithmetics of the flux

Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Electronic structure theory for excited state dynamics

Toru Shiozaki, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 6:00pm

World Fest Event: In Focus - International Photography Exhibit + Opening Reception

Center for Student Services, Lobby

5:00pm – 6:00pm

How does an "inverted flag" flap?

Kerckhoff 119

Everhart Lecture Series

Andres J. Goza, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,

8:30pm – 10:00pm

IMPLiCIT Improv Workshop

Ramo Auditorium

Thursday, April 27th, 2017

12:00am – 12:00am

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at The Ojai Valley Tournament

9:00am – 3:00pm

Take Our Children to Work Day

10:30am – 12:30pm

Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Carbon-based nanomaterials: from combustion nanoparticles to chiral nanomaterials"

Angela Violi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Biophysics Program, University of Michigan,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104

MEMS are becoming 3D and atomically precise

Andrei Shkel, Prof., Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151

Rusty Lewis, Graduate Student, Arnold Research Group, CCE, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CANCELED: Number Theory Seminar

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Nicolas Barth, Assistant Professor of Geology, Jr Faculty Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside,

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