Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

October 2019

Wednesday, October 16th, 2019

11:30am – 1:00pm

TeachWeek Immersive Demo: Into the Archives with Thomas Hunt Morgan: Exploring the Nature of Information through the Humanities at Caltech

Kerckhoff Morgan Library

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213

A `Liquid-Solid' Phase Transition in a Simple Model for Swarming

Rupert Frank, Professor, Mathematics, Caltech,

1:30pm – 2:30pm

Geometry and Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Meromorphic Jacobi forms in representation theory and physics

Antun Milas, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, SUNY Albany,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Galactic Archaeology: Galaxy Formation and Nucleosynthesis

Evan Kirby, Assistant Professor, Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Modeling the terrestrial biosphere in the Earth system: moving beyond the incorrect but useful paradigm

Gordon Bonan, National Center for Atmospheric Research,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

"Pascal conductance series in ballistic one-dimensional LaAlO3/SrTiO3 channels"

Jeremy Levy, Distinguished Professor of Condensed Matter Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

The Strategy and Technology of Conflict

Sandeep Baliga, John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Northwestern University,

7:00pm – 8:30pm

Martin Chalifour: Chamber Music Recital

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Watson Lecture - Causality: From Aristotle to Zebrafish

Beckman Auditorium

Frederick Eberhardt, Professor of Philosophy, Caltech,

Public Event

Thursday, October 17th, 2019

10:17am – 1:00pm

2019 ShakeOut and Personal Preparedness Fair

Avery Courtyard

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

The Timing of Soil Liquefaction and Its Potential for Improving Liquefaction Hazard Evaluation

Steve Kramer, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Washington,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151

Repurposing Cytochrome P450s for Selective C–H Fluoroalkylation

Juner Zhang, Graduate student, CCE,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

DOLCIT Seminar

Annenberg 213

Machine Learning for the Real World: Provably Robust Extrapolation

Angie Liu, Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

TeachWeek Reception and Exhibit of Caltech Teaching Awards

Hameetman Center Caltech Store Lobby

12:05pm – 1:00pm

Post-Career Fair Internship Strategies

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Condensed Mathematics Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Condensed sets and condensed abelian groups

Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Coffee & Career

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

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

The geomorphology of the ocean floor: Advances in the assessment of marine hazards and natural resources

Aaron Micallef, Senior Scientist, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel,

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387

On the Kudla-Rapoport conjecture

Chao Li, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Compact Proton Therapy: Improving Access to Advanced Cancer Treatment

James Cooley, Director of Advanced Development, Mevion Medical Systems,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

William Bennet Munro History Seminar

South Mudd 365

The Airing of Grievances: Are the Humanities Bullshit?

Gabriel Rosenberg, Assistant Professor in Women's Studies, Duke University,

Friday, October 18th, 2019

All Day

Women Mentoring Women Applications Due 2019-2020

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

Academic

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Extensions of Kac-Moody algebras and Calabi-Yau singularities.

Miroslav Rapčak, UC Berkeley,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Defect-Level Switching: A New Mechanism for Electronic Devices

Rafael Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 125

The Edgeworth Conjecture with Small Coalitions and Approximate Equilibria in Large Economies

Federico Echenique, Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Caltech-UCLA Logic Seminar

Quotients by countable subgroups are hyperfinite

Shinko Forte, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Relativistic outflows in neutron star mergers

Ore Gottlieb, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysics, Tel Aviv University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

On the Interaction between Mechanics and Chemistry: Two Studies in Electrochemical Energy Storage and Heterogeneous Catalysis

Pradeep Guduru, Professor, Brown University,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Harmonic maps with polynomial growth

Andrea Tamburelli, Department of Mathematics, Rice University,

4:00pm – 4:50pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Singularity formation in incompressible fluids

Tarek Elgindi, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

7:00pm – 8:30pm

von Kármán Lecture - Darkness Surrounds Us: The Other 95% of the Universe

Beckman Auditorium

Alina Kiessling, Astrophysicist, JPL,

Jason Rhodes, Astrophysicist, JPL,

Public Event

Saturday, October 19th, 2019

8:00am – 11:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Langley Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

10:00am – 6:00pm

SURF SEMINAR DAY

Beckman Mall

Public Event

1:30pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Kazandjian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:00pm – 7:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Thomas/Mehra Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:30pm – 7:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Baghdasarian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Perla Batalla: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, October 20th, 2019

4:00pm – 4:30pm

Photography on Campus: Chabner Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, October 21st, 2019

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

Annenberg 105

AI in Space – From Earth Orbit to Mars and Beyond! (JPl)

Steve Chien, Senior Research Scientist, Mission Planning and Execution Section, JPL,

Jagriti Agrawal, Member of Technical Staff, Artificial Intelligence Group, JPL,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Getting Better Sleep Workshop

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room

12:15pm – 12:45pm

Chair Yoga

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Exploring Stable Yet Unusual pi-Electron Materials by Making Use of Phosphorus and Sulfur

Aiko Fukazawa, Professor, iCeMS, Kyoto University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

The Mechanics of Slow Earthquakes and Lab Earthquake Prediction

Chris Marone, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Penn State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems meet in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.

Boumediene Hamzi, Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College in London,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Connecting early Universe with Observations: from Primordial Black Holes to Sterile Neutrinos

Volodymyr Takhistov, UCLA,

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019

10:00am – 11:00am

TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 322

A proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture

Hao Huang, Assistant Professor, Emory University,

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Curve Counting Reading Seminar

Linde Hall 183

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Scalable Autonomous Driving in the Urban Core

Peter Carr, Senior Staff Engineer at Argo AI and is responsible for overseeing the tracking and prediction aspects of autonomous vehicles, Argo AI,

12:00pm – 12:50pm

Meditation Mob

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3

12:05pm – 1:00pm

Navigating the Interview Process for Summer Internships

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory in the Verlinde category in positive characteristic

Siddharth Venkatesh, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Understanding coupled nuclear-electronic dynamics near a metal surface

Joseph Subotnik, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMI Seminar: Guannan Qu

Annenberg 314

Distributed optimization in multi-agent systems: bridging the gap between centralized and distributed algorithms

Guannan Qu, CMI Postdoc, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

"Earth as an Exoplanet: A Two-dimensional Alien Map" & "Regional Structural Orientation of the Mt. Sharp Group Revealed by In-situ Dip Measurements and Stratigraphic Correlations on the Vera Rubin Ridge"

Siteng Fan, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, Caltech,

Nathan Stein, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Fast, "Robust", and Approximately Correct: Estimating Mixed Demand Systems

Bernard Salanie, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

William Bennet Munro History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Contestation and Representation: Community, Conflict, and History in Los Angeles

Lizeth Ramirez, Librarian/Archivist for Los Angeles Communities and Cultures, UCLA,

Dalena Sanderson-Hunter, Librarian/Archivist for Los Angeles Communities and Cultures, UCLA,

Devin Fitzgerald, Curator of Rare Books and History of Printing, UCLA,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Basic Examples of Factorization Algebras

Tamir Hemo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019

10:00am – 11:00am

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Paul Nunez, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213

Mitigation of Cascading Failures in Power Systems

Steven H. Low, Gilloon Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:30pm

JPL Info-Session: Careers for Postdocs at Caltech and JPL

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 187

How large is the outer automorphism group?

Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

STEMinar: Diana Trujillo

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

12:05pm – 1:00pm

Resume Rescue

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)

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