Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

March 2018

Wednesday, March 7th, 2018

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105

Fireside Chat with Bill Coughran

Bill Coughran,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Emotional Well-Being Workshop for Students: Alcohol and Other Drugs

Avery Library

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)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

The Milky Way Laboratory

Cara Battersby, Univ of Connecticut,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Robot Planning for Underwater Sensing and Sampling

Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Dean's Professor and Chairman , Department of Computer Science (Joint appointment in Electrical Engineering), USC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Metal Micro-lattices by Sintering of 3D-Printed Metal Particle Inks

David Dunand, Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Reaction Development in the Amide Playground

Naoya Kumagai, Ph.D., Chief Researcher, Division of Chemistry, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Quantitative Biology Symposium

Beckman Institute Auditorium

"3D Genomics"

Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Assistant Professor, Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Single-Carbon Feedstocks for Sustainable Bioprocess Engineering

Ben Woolston, Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Shared Knowledge and Competition for Attention in Information Markets

Simone Galperti, Assistant Professor of Economics, UCSD; Visiting Assistant Professor, Yale University,

4:15pm – 5:15pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280

Adaptive Caching Algorithms with Optimality Guarantees for Arbitrary Network Topologies

Edmund Yeh, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University,

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Occidental vs. Caltech

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Occidental vs. Caltech

6:00pm – 7:30pm

Women's History Month Event

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

Dinner with Title IX

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Women's History Month Event

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Who Am I? How Media Stereotypes Shape Gender Roles and What We Can Do About It

Thursday, March 8th, 2018

8:30am – 11:00am

International Scholar Orientation

Moore 239

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 2:00pm

ME 72 Contest

Beckman Mall

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Cancelled -- CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105

**Cancelled** AuptiX Tech Talk by Alum Lu Saenz

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMI Faculty Lunch - invitation only

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213

Sequence Modeling via Segmentations

Chong Wang, Google,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Ab Initio Free Energy Calculations with Chemical Accuracy for Molecules - Surface Interactions

Joachim Sauer, Prof., Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Women's History Month Event

Center for Student Services, Lobby

International Women's Day: Press for Progress

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Literary Dimensions Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Media Before Gutenberg

Ingrid Nelson, Associate Professor of English, Amherst College,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Mathematics and Learning for Agile and Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion"

Jessy Grizzle, Professor - Director of Robotics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Fully maximal and minimal supersingular abelian varieties

Valentijn Karemaker, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

NICER View: Astrophysics and Exploration from the International Space Station

Zaven Arzoumanian, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Women's History Month Event

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

Responding to Every day Micoaggressions

Friday, March 9th, 2018

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at NCAA West Regional

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day of Classes for Winter Term

Academic

10:00am – 11:00am

CANCELED - Miwa Matreyek: Myth and Infrastructure/This World Made Itself

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Carbon Materials and Single Crystal Metals

Ruoff Rodney, Director, Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST),

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

How Low can the Energy Density Go?

Aron Wall, Stanford University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

A phase separation mechanism for mammalian chromatin structure formation

Yi Qin Gao, Cheung Kong Professor, College of Chemistry & Molecular Engineering AND Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center, Peking University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Streams collision as a precursor of double tidal disruption events

Clément Bonnerot, Postdoctoral Scholar, Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Mary Washington vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Nonlinearity and Uncertainty in Dynamical Systems: Is this a Dual Curse, or is it Job Security?

John Junkins, Texas A&M University,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Gluing constructions for Higgs bundles over a complex connected sum

Georgios Kydonakis, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Photochemistry and Reactivity of Mono- and Bimetallic Mabiq Complexes

Corinna Hess, Assistant Professorship Bioinorganic Chemistry, Chemistry, Technical University of Munich,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103

Variation-norm estimates for a Stein-Wainger type oscillatory integral

Joris Roos, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

5:30pm – 6:30pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103

The Weak Pinsker Property

Tim Austin, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Caltech Theater presents Storytelling and Improv for Scientists

TACIT House, 275 S. Hill Ave.

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

CANCELED - Miwa Matreyek: Myth and Infrastructure/This World Made Itself

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, March 10th, 2018

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at NCAA West Regional

12:00am – 12:00am

(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at Oxy Invite

8:00am – 3/13 5:00pm

Study Period

Academic

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Linfield vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at Redlands

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Caltech Orchestra

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Pasadena Opera presents "The Man Who Mistook His WIfe for a Hat"

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Sunday, March 11th, 2018

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) Dickinson vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Baseball) Dickinson vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Vassar vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Pasadena Opera presents "The Man Who Mistook His WIfe for a Hat"

Dabney Hall, Lounge

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech Orchestra

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Jerusalem Quartet

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, March 12th, 2018

8:00am – 8:00pm

Filming on Campus

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

12:10pm – 12:50pm

Chair Yoga

Annenberg 107

3:00pm – 4:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Molybdenum para-Terphenyl Diphosphine Complexes

Joshua Buss, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

BELS

Kerckhoff 119

The Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cellular Uptake of Vitamin A

Filippo Mancia, Associate Professor, Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Colombia Univeristy, Medial Center,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Dr. James DiCarlo, Peter de Florez Professor and Department Head, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Exploring the solar system: Who has done it, how, and why?

Peter Westwick, Lecturer in History, Caltech; Research Professor of History, USC; Director, Aerospace History Project, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

'Oumuamua!

Gregory Laughlin, Professor, Department of Astronomy, Yale University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Ti-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer Reactions: Harnessing the TiII/TiIV Redox Couple for New Organic Methods

Ian A. Tonks, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, University of Minnesota,

7:00pm – 8:30pm

New Media Art Student Exhibition

Jorgensen Lobby

Tuesday, March 13th, 2018

8:00am – 12:00pm

First Aid Training/CPR/AED - Child/Infant/Adult - Day 1 of 2

Beckman Institute 121

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