Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

October 2018

Friday, October 12th, 2018

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Heegaard Floer homology and higher representations

Andrew Manion, Department of Mathematics, USC,

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Let's Talk

North Mudd B114F

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Expression Sessions: Sumingashi Journal

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room

5:50pm – 7:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Willcox/Puente Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Chapman

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Ceres, an Unexpectedly Active Dwarf Planet: Findings from the Dawn Mission

Bethany Ehlmann, Professor, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

Saturday, October 13th, 2018

12:00am – 12:00am

(Cross Country) Caltech at Invitational TBD

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at 2018 ITA Cup vs. Gustavus Adolphus

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Soccer) Mills vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Mushegain/Marchant Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:00pm – 5:00pm

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

3:00pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Ebrahimi Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Men's Soccer) St. Katherine vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Chapman vs. Caltech

Sunday, October 14th, 2018

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at 2018 ITA Cup

12:00pm – 3:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Nicola Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:30pm – 5:30pm

David Finckel and Wu Han

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, October 15th, 2018

10:00am – 11:30am

PhD Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 135

Jeffrey Edlund, Graduate Student, Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech,

12:00pm – 3:00pm

CMS Techfest

Annenberg Center

Jon Snoddy, R&D Studio Executive, Walt Disney Imagineering,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Explore JPL Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:10pm – 12:50pm

Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop: Overview of Library Resources

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Social Confidence Group

Counseling Center

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Singular Schubert Varieties and Representation Theoretic Consequences

Peter McNamara, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar

Section problems

Lei Chen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Characterizing the thermal infrared emission properties of asteroid regolith by replicating the airless space environment in the laboratory

Michael Bramble, Planetary Scientist & PhD Candidate, Planetary Geoscience, Brown University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Linking the geologic and genomic records: Characterization of lipid fossils in extant microbes

Paula V. Welander, Assistant Professor of Earth System Science, Stanford School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Small Molecule Activation of 1st-Row Transition Metal Pincer Complexes

Yunho Lee, Associate Professor, Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planning Pods: Setting goals and defining values

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Florian Engert, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar

The Conway knot is not slice

Lisa Piccirillo, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin,

6:00pm – 7:00pm

CPA STEM for Families

Moore 239

Tuesday, October 16th, 2018

9:00am – 10:00am

A TIAA Financial Essentials Webinar

Social Security Basics

Colleen Carcone, CFP, Director, Wealth Planning Strategies, TIAA Individual Advisory Services,

Scott Chester, Director, Wealth Planning Strategies, TIAA Individual Advisory Services,

12:00pm – 12:50pm

Meditation Mob

Caltech Hall 9th Floor

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Attosecond science and its applications to chemical dynamics

Daniel Neumark, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkekely,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMI Seminar

Annenberg 314

Hard-core interactions on graphs

Alessandro Zocca, Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Planetary Science Seminar

Characterizing the thermal infrared emission properties of asteroid regolith by replicating the airless space environment in the laboratory

Michael Bramble, Planetary Scientist & PhD Candidate, Planetary Geoscience, Brown University ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

"How lncRNAs Shape Chromatin Structure to Control Gene Expression"

Mitchell Guttman, Assistant Professor, Biology & Biological Engineering, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Let's Walk

Counseling Center

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310

Thinking inside the box: a combinatorial approach to Schubert calculus

Sami Assaf, Department of Mathematics, USC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Words and Weapons: Analyzing Reactions to Gun Violence with a Social Media Panel

Nicholas Adams-Cohen, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Occidental vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Cal Lutheran

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby

Wednesday, October 17th, 2018

10:00am – 11:00am

TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 322

Finding forbidden minors through random walks: (almost) n^{1/2} query one-sided testers for minor closed properties

C. Seshadri, UC Santa Cruz,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building

1:30pm – 2:30pm

Retirement Plan Changes Webinar

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop: Introduction to Zotero

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometrization Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 289

Proof of Thurston fixed point theorem

Nathaniel Sagman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Lab Safety 101 Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Let's Talk

Annenberg 243

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Women's Soccer) Redlands vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

The Wolfe Disk: ALMA Discoveries of Distant, HI-selected Galaxies

J. Xavier Prochaska, UC Santa Cruz,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Beckman Lecture

Gates Annex B122

Developing New Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Organic Synthesis

Melanie S. Sanford, Moses Gomberg Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280

Arbitrarily Varying Broadcast and Relay Channels

Uzi Pereg, Ph.D. student, Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Light absorption by atmospheric particles: using field and lab studies to understand linkages between sources, chemical processing and impacts

Christopher Cappa, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Plant Nanobionic Materials with Ultra-High Temperature Response

Chiara Daraio, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, Caltech ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Failures in Contingent Reasoning: The Role of Uncertainty

Emanuel Vespa, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Caltech at Redlands

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Alpine Club Talk

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Two Men, Three Mountains, Eight Days

David Hodge, Research Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Caltech,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Baxter Lecture Hall

The Science of Shakespeare

Dan Falk, journalist, author, and broadcaster,

Thursday, October 18th, 2018

10:20am – 10:20am

2018 ShakeOut and Personal Preparedness Fair

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Extreme Events in Complex Dynamical Systems: Prediction and Statistical Quantification

Themistoklis Sapsis, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Reading Women

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

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 mechanism for a rapid diagnostic assay of the activity of beta-lactam antibiotics against pathogenic bacteria."

Eric Liaw, Graduate Student, Ismagilov Lab, BBE, Caltech ,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105

Citadel -- FinTech

Lucy Yin, Citadel,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Married and Partnered Women's Group

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

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