Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

June 2018

Thursday, May 24th, 2018

Ongoing – 6/8 5:00pm

Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

Academic

Friday, June 1st, 2018

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Presenting Theses for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer

Academic

8:00am – 9:00am

PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151

Redox Signaling in Eukaryotic DNA Replication and Repair

Elizabeth O'Brien, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

9:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day of Classes for Seniors and Graduate Students

Academic

11:00am – 4:00pm

Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Unifying Tree Super-Amplitudes in 6D: Branes, SYM, and SUGRA

Matthew Heydeman, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Fermionized Parafermions and Symmetry-Enriched Majorana Modes

Aaron Chew, Graduate Student, Alicea Group,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Luciano Pomatto, Caltech

Baxter 127

Modeling the cost of information

Luciano Pomatto, Assistant Professor of Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Moore B280

Nested Periodic Subspaces: Extensions of Ramanujan Sums for Periodicity Analysis.

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Galactic Collisions: The Growth and Merger of Supermassive Black Holes

Vivian U, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Accurate and efficient algorithms for modal decomposition and reduced-order modeling in fluid mechanics

Scott Dawson, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Piecewise-linear disks and spheres in 4-manifolds

Adam Levine, Department of Mathematics, Duke University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Structural and Spectroscopic Models of the Oxygen Evolving Complex in Photosystem II

Heui Beom Lee, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Spring Scattering

President's Residence

5:30pm – 8:30pm

North Houses Dress Dinner

7:30pm – 9:00pm

German Film: Gegen die Wand

Baxter Lecture Hall

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

Saturday, June 2nd, 2018

8:00am – 6/5 5:00pm

Study Period for Seniors and Graduate Students

Academic

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Amirkhanyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:30pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Sargsyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:30pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Pastrana Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Crary, Evans & Barnick

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, June 3rd, 2018

4:00pm – 8:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Andretto Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Shant Babapilavian Engagement Photos

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, June 4th, 2018

11:00am – 4:00pm

Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131

12:10pm – 12:50pm

Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Brian Wiltgen, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and the Center for Neuroscience , UC Davis,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Between the Sheets: The Molecular Chemistry of Hybrid Perovskites

Hemamala Karunadasa, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, Stanford University,

Tuesday, June 5th, 2018

8:00am – 12:00pm

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

Beckman Institute 121

11:00am – 4:00pm

Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213

Program Synthesis at the Edge of Artificial Intelligence

Swarat Chaudhuri, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Rice University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Sofic entropy theory

Lewis Bowen, Mathematics Department, University of Texas, Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Principle of Stability

Sam Fletcher, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Molecular Mechanisms of Human Sleep Timing

Alina Patke, Research Associate, Laboratory of Genetics, The Rockefeller University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Theory Group Meeting

Annenberg 322

A new algorithm for fast generalized DFTs

Chris Umans, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements

Alessandro Lizzeri, Professor of Economics, New York University; Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

Wednesday, June 6th, 2018

8:00am – 6/8 5:00pm

Final Examinations for Seniors and Graduate Students for Spring Term

Academic

8:00am – 12:00pm

First Aid Training/CPR/AED - Recertification

Beckman Institute 121

11:00am – 4:00pm

Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Weight Watchers Open House

383 S. Hill Ave., Annex

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Keith Spalding B117

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "Patents"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

New Opportunities in All-sky Surveys

John Tonry, IFA Hawaii ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Elucidating Mechanisms of Complex Protein Assembly and Evolution

Matthew Shoulders, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, MIT,

Thursday, June 7th, 2018

8:00am – 12:00pm

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

Beckman Institute 121

11:00am – 4:00pm

Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131

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

"A Family of Rhodium Complexes with Selective Toxicity toward Mismatch Repair-Deficient Cancers"

Kelsey Boyle, Graduate Student, Barton Research Group, CCE, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213

Sample-efficient exploration in reinforcement learning with function approximation

Nan Jiang, Postdoral Researcher, Machine Learning, Microsoft Research, NYC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125

A translational neuroscience approach to understanding anxious temperament

Drew Fox, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, UC Davis,

4:00pm – 6:30pm

CWC Feyman Exhibit Meet-up

Beckman Institute 131

Friday, June 8th, 2018

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day of Classes for Undergraduates

Academic

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day to Register for Summer and Fall Term

Academic

11:00am – 4:00pm

Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131

11:30am – 1:00pm

Last Day of Lunch in South Kitchen

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Senior Thesis Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Multi-scale Hydrodynamic Simulations of Wind-Fed Accretion Onto Sagittarius A*

Sean Ressler, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Fibered, homotopy-ribbon knots and the Generalized Property R Conjecture

Jeffrey Meier, Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Mechanistic Insights into Light Enhanced Nitrogen Fixation by Synthetic Iron Complexes

Dirk Schild, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103

Calculus on Riemann surfaces

Nikolai Makarov, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

5:30pm – 6:30pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103

Master equations in the theory of Mean Field Games

Alpár Mészáros, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Senior Dinner

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Storytelling/Improvisation Final Presentation

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, June 9th, 2018

8:00am – 6/12 5:00pm

Study Period for Undergraduates

Academic

9:00am – 6/10 3:00pm

Last Weekend for Open Kitchen

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

2:30pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Avagyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography