Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

August 2019

Ongoing

Ongoing – 8/1 5:00pm

2019 IEEE Space Computing Conference (SCC)

Ongoing – 8/1 5:00pm

SMC-IT 2019: 7th IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology

Thursday, August 1st, 2019

11:45am – 1:15pm

2019 Undergraduate Research Mentoring Series: From Student to Scientist

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

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 213

Locality estimates for complex-time evolution in 1D

Antonio Perez, Postdoctoral Scholar, ICMAT,

Friday, August 2nd, 2019

8:00am – 4:00pm

Caltech Summer Preview: Women in STEM

Beckman Mall

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Tech Talks Toastmaster Club: Practice Speaking Confidently About Your Research, Improve Your Communication Skills

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Building Coordinator & Floor Warden Training

Keith Spalding B117

2:00pm – 3:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Experiments with strongly interacting Fermi gases of atoms and molecules

Jee Woo Park, Seoul National University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Experiments with strongly interacting Fermi gases of atoms and molecules

Jee Woo Park, Seoul National University,

Saturday, August 3rd, 2019

8:00am – 10:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Moffatt/Orwin Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Sunday, August 4th, 2019

8:00am – 2:00pm

Caltech Postdoc Hikes - Hike to Mount Baldy

12:00pm – 3:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Eskandar Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, August 5th, 2019

12:15pm – 12:45pm

Chair Yoga

Annenberg 314

Tuesday, August 6th, 2019

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Kimberley Mac Donald, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 135

Three-dimensional Quantitative Visualization for Mechanics of Discontinuous Materials

Kimberley Mac Donald, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 213

Spectroscopy with quantum sensors

Tuvia Gefen, Graduate Student, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Binary black hole simulations: from supercomputers to your laptop

Vijay Varma, Caltech,

Wednesday, August 7th, 2019

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Keith Spalding B117

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

8:30am – 11:00am

International Scholar Orientation

Moore 239

11:45am – 1:15pm

2019 Undergraduate Research Mentoring Series: Wrapping Up the Undergraduate Research Experience

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

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Faculty Search Panel EAS/PMA

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

5:00pm – 6:00pm

From Apollo to Artemis: Policy History and Promise

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Dr. Scott Pace, Executive Secretary, National Space Council,

Public Event

Friday, August 9th, 2019

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Tech Talks Toastmaster Club: Practice Speaking Confidently About Your Research, Improve Your Communication Skills

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

A Series of Fortunate Events: A gravitationally lensed, multiply-imaged Lyman-continuum leaking galaxy as a laboratory for Lyman-alpha and Lyman-continuum escape at high redshift

T. Emil Rivera-Thorsen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CGSC Summer Seminar Talks

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Bil Clemons, Professor of Biochemistry, Chemistry, Caltech,

7:00pm – 8:30pm

von Kármán Lecture - Small Worlds, Big Science

Ramo Auditorium

Carol Raymond, Dawn Principal Investigator and Manager of the Small Bodies Program, JPL,

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

EXPLiCIT: "Arsenic and Old Lace"

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Galactic Archaeology: Digging Through the Remnants of Galaxies

Gina Duggan, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Public Event

Saturday, August 10th, 2019

2:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Luymes Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Avakian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

8:00pm – 10:00pm

EXPLiCIT: "Arsenic and Old Lace"

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.

Public Event

Sunday, August 11th, 2019

8:00pm – 10:00pm

EXPLiCIT: "Arsenic and Old Lace"

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.

Public Event

Tuesday, August 13th, 2019

9:00am – 10:00am

TIAA Science of Benefits Webinar: All About IRAs

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Electrical Engineering Seminar

Moore B280

Nearby Skeleton Constrained Accelerated Recomputing, NSCAR, and the Bidirectional Adaptive Refinement Scheme, BARS: constrained Optimization meets Machine Learning to challenge the Von Neumann Computing Paradigm

Bedros Afeyan, CEO, Polymath Research Inc.,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 255

Bernshteyn's proof of Bernoulli disjointness

Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 213

Quantum Simulation of quantum field theory in the light-front formulation

Peter Love, Associate Professor, Tufts University,

Wednesday, August 14th, 2019

9:00am – 10:00am

TIAA Science of Benefits Webinar: Lifetime Income--Market-Proof Your Retirement and Learn More About Annuities

10:00am – 11:30am

Shop Safety Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Lab Safety Orientation Training

Keith Spalding B117

Thursday, August 15th, 2019

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 1:00pm

TIAA Science of Benefits Webinar: Strategies for Staying on Track for Retirement

1:00pm – 2:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Annenberg 314

Convex Relaxations for Graph and Inverse Eigenvalue Problems

Utkan Onur Candogan, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

8:00pm – 10:00pm

EXPLiCIT: "Arsenic and Old Lace"

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.

Public Event

Friday, August 16th, 2019

10:00am – 11:00am

PhD Thesis Defense

Annenberg 121

Latent-variable modeling: inference, algorithms, and applications

Armeen Taeb, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Tech Talks Toastmaster Club: Practice Speaking Confidently About Your Research, Improve Your Communication Skills

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CGSC Summer Seminar Talks

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Brian Stoltz, Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, Caltech,

8:00pm – 10:00pm

EXPLiCIT: "Arsenic and Old Lace"

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.

Public Event

Saturday, August 17th, 2019

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Medina Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

8:00pm – 10:00pm

EXPLiCIT: "Arsenic and Old Lace"

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.

Public Event

Sunday, August 18th, 2019

8:00am – 2:00pm

Caltech Postdoc Hikes

Tuesday, August 20th, 2019

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 255

Refutation of Hedetniemi's conjecture

Forte Shinko, Mathematics Department, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 213

Machine Learning for Quantum and Vice Versa

Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Research Scientist, Google Research,

Wednesday, August 21st, 2019

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

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