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Day

Week

Month

Term

October 2017

Wednesday, October 25th, 2017

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

This talk has been cancelled.

Phil Haile, Ford Foundation Professor of Economics, Yale University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Rethinking the abyssal ocean circulation: bottom-intensified mixing on slopes

Jörn Callies, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Molecular Design Strategies for Functional Soft Materials

Maxwell Robb, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Caltech,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Chapman

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Alpine Club Talk

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Glaciology Field Work in Nepal

Amaury Dehecq, Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth Science Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),

7:00pm – 8:30pm

Caltech Women's Investment Club

7:30pm – 9:00pm

German Film: Willkommen bei den Hartmanns

Baxter Lecture Hall

Movie screening for German 130a & 132a // In German with English subtitles

Thursday, October 26th, 2017

10:30am – 12:30pm

CATS Campus Tours

Athenaeum

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Scalable Thermal Energy Engineering Technologies"

Shannon K. Yee, Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

1:15pm – 2:15pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Searching for dark matter annihilation in nearby galaxy groups

Siddarth Mishra-Sharma, Princeton University,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125

How we know what not to think

Fiery Cushman, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Informal Biology Seminar

Broad 200

Cryo-EM Structures of Tau Filaments from Alzheimer's Disease Brain: Implications for Fibril Propagation arising from Patient-Based

Anthony Fitzpatrick, Assistant Professor , Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Zuckerman Institute - Columbia University,

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

The Hasse-Weil zeta functions of orthogonal Shimura varieties

Yihang Zhu, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Black holes, quantum information, and the foundations of physics

Steve Giddings, Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Synthetic Polymers as Molecular Platforms for Antimicrobial Peptide-Mimetics

Kenichi Kuroda, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biologic & Materials Sciences, University of Michigan School of Dentistry,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

William Bennet Munro History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Reputation Management in late Eighteenth-century England: Angelica Kauffman, the Women and the Men

Amanda Vickery, Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History, Caltech,

5:30pm – 6:40pm

Fall 2017 Walking Campaign

Counseling Center

Friday, October 27th, 2017

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Complexity in holography and QFT

Shira Chapman, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Shining Light On Quantum Magnetism

Nicholas Laurita, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Marcelo Fernandez, Caltech

Baxter 125

Deferred Acceptance and Regret-Free Truthtelling: A characterization result

Marcelo Fernandez, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Undergraduate Math Club Seminar

The Erdős-Szekeres convex polygon problem

Gideon Leeper, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

The history of inter- and circumgalactic gas since reionization

Phoebe Upton-Sanderbeck, Graduate Student, University of Washington,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

CMS/EE Special Seminar

Annenberg 213

Causal Inference in the Presence of Latent Nodes

Negar Kiyavash, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Kamran Mohseni,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Volume conjectures for Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro invariants

Tian Yang, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

New Reactions via Earth Abundant Element Photocatalysis

Julian West, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,

5:30pm – 7:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Gevorkyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Cal Lutheran

Saturday, October 28th, 2017

12:00am – 12:00am

(Cross Country) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at IFCSC Mega Meet

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Caltech at Occidental

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Redlands vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 4:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Bethesda (Calif.) vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 4:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Bethesda University vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Keleshyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Abedi Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Life Pacific vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 7:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Gorezar Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

8:00pm – 10:00pm

CANCELED: Susan McKeown

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, October 29th, 2017

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at IFCSC Mega Meet

3:00pm – 7:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Somers Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, October 30th, 2017

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Photocatalytic Nitrite Reduction on CoMg Complexes: Mechanistic Insights into N–N Bond Formation

Tanvi Ratani, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Monodromic complexes, Koszul duality, and tilting characters of reductive

Shotaro Makisumi, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

A deep thermal plume in the mantle beneath Hawaii? Constraints from tomography and reflection seismology

Robert D. van der Hilst, Schlumberger Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Head of Department, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Unlocking the potential of CMS data: boosted Higgs, low-mass dijet resonances, and data scouting

Javier Duarte, Fermilab,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105

Market Power in Power Markets: Folklore, Proofs, and Counterexamples

Assistant Professor Eilyan Bitar, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Literary Dimensions Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Curious Creatures: Aesthetics, Sentience, and the case of the Medieval Ape

Patricia Clare Ingham, Associate Professor, Department of English, Adjunct Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University,

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Halloween Chandler Dinner

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)

Tuesday, October 31st, 2017

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

10:30am – 11:30am

English Conversation Group

Olive Walk

11:00am – 2:00pm

Procurement Services' TechMart Vendor Fair

Beckman Mall

12:10pm – 12:50pm

Guided Meditation

Beckman Institute, Glanville Courtyard

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Efficient classical simulation of noisy quantum circuit

Xun Gao, Tsinghua University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131

Strong conceptual completeness for L_{\omega_1\omega}

Ronnie Chen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Meet the Laureates

Olive Walk

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMI Seminar

Annenberg 314

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

Rohit Gurjar, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

TBD

Nancy Thomas, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,

Michael Wong, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Constructing pseudorandom matrices with polynomial convolutions

Adam Marcus, Mathematics Department, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Special Furniture Pool & Toy Library Halloween Event

Off Campus

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Electoral Competition and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India

Amrita Dhillon, Professor of Political Economy, King’s College London,

5:30pm – 6:40pm

Fall 2017 Walking Campaign

Counseling Center

6:00pm – 9:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at West Coast Baptist

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