Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

October 2017

Thursday, October 19th, 2017

3:00pm – 4:00pm

CS Theory Seminar

Annenberg 314

Testing Linearity against No-Signaling Strategies

Peter Manohar, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125

Neuroimaging of pain and distress: From biomarkers to brain representation

Tor Wager, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Asymmetry in Molecular Machines

Gino Cingolani, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Drugs and metal: using directed evolution to engineer biocatalysts for facile pharmaceutical production

Kari Hernandez, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology ,

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

multiple zeta-half values, double shuffle equation, and connection with cusp forms

Ming Da, Department of Mathematics, Duke University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science

Mikhail Lukin, Professor of Physics, Harvard University,

5:30pm – 6:40pm

Fall 2017 Walking Campaign

Counseling Center

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

7:40pm – 10:30pm

Our Town - Pasadena Playhouse

Off Campus

Friday, October 20th, 2017

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

The Markov property of the CFT vacuum and the entropic proof of the a-theorem

Eduardo Teste Lino, Centro Atomico Bariloche,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Exactly Solvable Model for Two Dimensional Topological Superconductor

Zitao Wang, Graduate Student, Xie Chen Group,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Safe Zone Training

Avery Dining Hall

Safe Zone Training - Faculty & Staff

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Searching for Biases in Observations of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies Using Simulations

Andrew Graus, Graduate Student, UC Irvine,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Caltech Project for Effective Teaching (CPET) Discussion Group

Gates Annex 126 (Library)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Turbulence in stratified flows: wakes of submersibles and flow over underwater topography

Sutanu Sarkar, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Concordance invariants from truncated Heegaard Floer homology

Linh Truong, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar-CANCELLED

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

!! This talk will be rescheduled for a later date

Yigong Shi, Professor, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Eigenvalue Asymptotics for Dirichlet-to-Neumann Operator

Victor Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA

Konstantin Tikhomirov, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Cosmic Fireworks

Mansi Kasliwal, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Saturday, October 21st, 2017

9:00am – 5:30pm

SURF Seminar Day

9:00am – 5:30pm

SURF Seminar Day

9:00am – 11:30am

The CEC's Fall Used Clothing and Toy Sale

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Occidental

Sunday, October 22nd, 2017

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) IFCSC Collegiate Open vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 4:00pm

(Women's Soccer) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Sandrosyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Heath Quartet

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, October 23rd, 2017

10:00am – 11:00am

MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Coherent structures, their interactions, and their effects on passive scalar transport and aero-optic distortion in a turbulent boundary layer

Theresa Saxton-Fox, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Alumni Career Webinar Series

What Makes A Great Leader? Introduction to Leadership

Corinne Bendersky, PhD, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations , Anderson School of Management, UCLA ,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Explore JPL - Seminar #3

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Synthesis of Pillar-Shaped Macrocyclic Compounds "Pillar[n]arenes" Providing Supramolecular Assemblies

Tomoki Ogoshi, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Kanazawa University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Categorification at prime roots of unity

You Qi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Deconstructing the Neural Dynamics of Anticipation

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

CNS Seminar

Sotiris Masmanidis, Assistant Professor, Neurobiology, UCLA Brain Research Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Of Babies and bathwater: can we reconstruct the global carbon cycle using the chemistry of ancient carbonate sediments?

John A. Higgins, Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Dark Matter and the LZ Experiment

Carter Hall, University of Maryland,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Electoral Competition with Rationally Inattentive Voters

Filip Matejka, Associate Professor with Tenure, CERGE-EI; Research Affiliate, Center for Economic and Policy Research,

Tuesday, October 24th, 2017

8:30am – 3:00pm

Benefits Fair and Flu Shot Clinic

Avery Courtyard

10:30am – 11:30am

English Conversation Group

Olive Walk

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105

When is Biological Science Information Science?

Lior Pachter, Bren Professor of Computational Biology and Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Biology and Biological Engineering, CALTECH,

12:10pm – 12:50pm

Guided Meditation

Beckman Institute, Glanville Courtyard

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Comparing SSS17a with GW170817

Michael Coughlin, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Entanglement transformation and the structure of matrix space

Yinan Li, University of Technology Sydney,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131

A recursion theoretic property of analytic equivalence relations

Howard Becker, Visiting Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Special Combinatorics Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Simple 3-designs constructed from finite classic groups and Preparata codes

Hao Shen, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"Models of phenotypic plasticity and its role in the transition to metastasis"

Herbert Levine, Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering, Co-Director, Center of Theoretical Biological Physics, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMI Seminar

Annenberg 314

Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing and Isolation Lemma (1st of 2 parts)

Rohit Gurjar, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

TBD

Michael Chaffin, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Temperature Representation and Processing in the Drosophila Brain

Marco Gallio, Assistant Professor, Neurobiology, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

GW170817: Gravitational Waves from the Merger of Two Neutron Stars

Jess McIver, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Diophantine equations, L-functions, and Shimura varieties

Yifeng Liu, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors and Models of Moral Cognition

Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy, UC Riverside,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Incentive Effects of Horizontal and Vertical Inequality

Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Assistant Professor, Anderson School of Management, UCLA,

5:30pm – 6:40pm

Fall 2017 Walking Campaign

Counseling Center

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Bring Your Own Craft

Caltech Y

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Whittier vs. Caltech

Wednesday, October 25th, 2017

8:00am – 10/31 5:00pm

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

10:00am – 11:00am

Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Gates-Thomas 115

Laboratory studies of granular materials under shear: from avalanches to force chains.

Eloïse Marteau, Graduate Student, Applied Mechanics,

10:00am – 11:00am

TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308

A Time Hierarchy Theorem for the LOCAL Model

Seth Pettie, University of Michigan,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "Patents"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Benefits Open Enrollment Webcast Presentation

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Occidental vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

p-adic Mellin amplitudes

Sarthak Parikh, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Debris Disks as Probes of Planetary System Evolution

Meredith MacGregor, Harvard,

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