Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

March 2019

Ongoing

All Day Ongoing

"The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image" - Weekdays, 11am-4pm

Beckman Institute 131

Ongoing – 3/13 5:00pm

Registration for Spring Term

Academic

Friday, March 1st, 2019

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech vs. Grove City

10:15am – 11:15am

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Tuning the Kinetics in Phase-Change Materials: Enlightening from the phenomenology of water and amorphous metals

Shuai Wei, Research Fellow, RWTH Aachen University (Germany),

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

The polarized scattering equations and superamplitudes in 6d

Yvonne Geyer, Institute for Advanced Study,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Lightning Round

Sophie Ding, Victor Albert, Kevin Slagle,

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Mental Health First Aid Training

Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech vs. Villanova

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Radiation-pressure Waves and Multiphase Quasar Outflows

Lluís Mas-Ribas, Postdoctoral Scholar, Astrophysics and Space Sciences, JPL / Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255

Multiplicative functions over F_q[x] and the Erd\H{o}s Discrepancy problem

Oleksiy Klurman, Department of Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Regulation-Triggered Batch Learning: A New Hope for Adaptive Aircraft Control

Miroslav Krstic, Distinguished Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Classification of hyperbolic component with bounded escape

Yusheng Luo, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University ,

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Let's Talk

Jorgensen 126

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Small Molecule Activation by Multimetallic Cyclophane Complexes

Leslie Justin Murray, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Cosmic Gold: Neutron Star Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and the Origin of the Elements

Eliot Quataert, Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Theater Arts Caltech: Avenue Q

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, March 2nd, 2019

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at 130th Pacific Coast Doubles Championship

12:00am – 12:00am

(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at SCIAC Multi-Dual vs. Oxy, Whittier, Pomona-Pitzer and Chapman

8:00am – 5:00pm

Symposium to Honor Professor Charlie Plott

Beckman Institute Auditorium

9:00am – 12:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech vs. Cal St. Monterey Bay

1:00pm – 4:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech vs. Siena

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Carthage

3:30pm – 7:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Semerjian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

6:30pm – 9:30pm

(Baseball) Gust. Adolphus vs. Caltech

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Private Photography Lesson on Campus: Brian Leary

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Theater Arts Caltech: Avenue Q

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, March 3rd, 2019

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Carthage

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Chris. Newport vs. Caltech

2:30pm – 4:00pm

Theater Arts Caltech: Avenue Q

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, March 4th, 2019

11:30am – 1:30pm

Caltech Connect Training - Working Effectively With Students in Distress

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

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Learn to Create Origami

Annenberg 107

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Rigorous Systems Research Group Seminar

Annenberg 213

One if by Land and Two if by Sea: A Glimpse into the Value of Information in Strategic Interactions

Vijay Subramanian, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Rhodes vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Affine Springer fibers and commutative algebra

Oscar Kivinen, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

"Ice sheets, climate, and sea level, in the past and into the future"

Nicholas Golledge, Associate Professor, Antarcitc Research Center, Victoria University of Wellington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Inference, Computation, and Visualization for Convex Clustering and Biclustering

Genevera Allen, Associate Professor, Departments of Statistics, Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Searching for dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way halo

Laura Chang, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Humanities Seminar

Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.

The Forgotten Founder of Quantum Mechanics: The Science and Politics of Physicist Pascual Jordan

Ryan Dahn, Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Predictive Simulations of Redox and Electron Transfer Events on Biomolecules: The Case of Cryptochromes

Ksenia Bravaya, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Boston University,

Tuesday, March 5th, 2019

8:00am – 12:00pm

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

Beckman Institute 121

10:00am – 11:00am

School-Day Show: Theaterworks USA in Charlotte's Web

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

11:30am – 1:30pm

Caltech Connect Training - Working Effectively With Students in Distress

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

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

TBA

Patricio Vela, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech,

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Martin Chalifour: Chamber Music Recital

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

1:00pm – 3:00pm

Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium

Schlinger 101

Olivier Baudoin, University of Basel,

Peng Liu, University of Pittsburgh,

Huw Davies, Emory University,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Advanced LIGO searches for sub-solar mass ultracompact objects

Ryan Magee, Penn State / Caltech,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Rhodes vs. Caltech

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Coffee and Career: Daniel Hutchins

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

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

New Avenues for Planetary Physics in the Laboratory

Pierre Gourdain, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Annenberg 105

Designer Matter: New Frontiers in Wave Interactions with Meta- and Nano-structures

Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri, Postdoctoral Researcher, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMI Seminar: Gitta Kutyniok

Gates-Thomas 135

Approximation Theory meets Deep Learning

Gitta Kutyniok, TU Berlin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

"(Semi-)automating CRISM Analysis: Refinement of Martian Surface Mineralogy using Factor Analysis and Target Transformation" & "Probing the Gas Content of Late-Stage Protoplanetary Disks with N2H+"

Nancy Thomas, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, Caltech,

Dana Anderson, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Electrical Engineering Special Seminar

Annenberg 105

Designer Matter: New Frontiers in Wave Interactions with Meta- and Nano-structures

Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri, Postdoctoral Researcher, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Visiting Newton's Atelier Before the "Principia," 1679-1684

Michael Nauenberg, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"How a soil bacterium responds to light"

Tilman Lamparter, Botanical institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Estimation of Peer Effects in Endogenous Social Networks: Control Function Approach

Hyungsik Roger Moon, Professor in Economics, USC,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Penn St.-Behrend vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby

7:30pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Playreaders 68th Season: "My Cousin Rachel" by Diana Morgan, from the novel by Daphne Du Maurier

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates

Wednesday, March 6th, 2019

8:00am – 11:50am

First Aid Training/CPR/AED - Recertification

Beckman Institute 121

10:00am – 11:00am

TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 322

Strongly log concave polynomials, high dimensional simplicial complexes, and an FPRAS for counting Bases of Matroids

Shayan Oveis Gharan, University of Washington,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Emotional Well-Being Workshop Series - Mindfulness and EMDR for Self-Care

Avery Library

12:00pm – 12:30pm

Self Defense Class

Braun Gym

12:30pm – 1:00pm

Self Defense Class

Braun Gym

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

KNI Distinguished Seminar

Broad Center Rock Seminar Room

New Opportunities with Old Optical Materials

Marko Lončar, Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering, John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

TBD

Ariel Goobar, Stockholm University,

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