Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

November 2019

Friday, November 22nd, 2019

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"Cryo-EM analysis of molecular machines involved in bacterial pathogenesis"

Melanie Ohi, Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Towards holistic imaging and rapid phenotyping of complex biological systems

Kwanghun Chung, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Beyond Abel and Jacobi

Kapil Paranjape, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Washington University in St. Louis,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Detecting Gravitational Waves Using the public LIGO-VIRGO data: Doubling the sample of Binary Black Hole Mergers

Barak Zackay, IAS,

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Archaeology Lecture

Gates-Thomas 135

Sarah Yeomans, Archaeologist, West Virginia University,

Friday, November 22nd, 2019

9:00am – 10:00am

PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100

Visualizing small proteins with the cryoEM Platform and The Structure of the Vibrio cholerae Type IV Competence Pilus Secretin PilQ

Sara J. Weaver, Graduate Student, Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

9:00am – 10:00am

PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100

Visualizing small proteins with the cryoEM Platform and The Structure of the Vibrio cholerae Type IV Competence Pilus Secretin PilQ

Sara Weaver, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Holey Sheet, Integrability!

Shota Komatsu, IAS,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

International Education Week - SURFing in South Korea

Avery Library

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Recovery of massless Dirac fermions at charge neutrality in strongly interacting twisted bilayer graphene with disorder

Alex Thomson, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,

12:00pm – 3:00pm

Photography/Filming on Campus: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter B125

Equitable Voting Rules

Omer Tamuz, Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Caltech,

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

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

LISA Galactic Binaries in the WFIRST Microlensing Survey

Matthew C. Digman, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Ohio State University,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Resistance is Futile: Physical science, systems biology and single-cell analysis to understanding the plastic and heterogeneous nature of melanoma and their role in non-genetic drug resistance

Yapeng Su, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255

Fourier uncertainty principles, interpolation and uniqueness sets

João Pedro Ramos, Mathematical Institute, University of Bonn,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Machine Learning and Sparse Optimization for Modeling, Sensing, and Controlling Fluid Dynamics

Steve Brunton, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, University of Washington,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Thesis PhD Seminar

Crellin 151

Sarah Del Ciello, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

Saturday, November 23rd, 2019

11:00am – 2:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Ferrer Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

1:00pm – 4:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachikyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Glee Club & Chamber Singers

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, November 24th, 2019

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech Glee Club & Chamber Singers

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Jasper String Quartet with Nicholas Phan, tenor

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, November 25th, 2019

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

Annenberg 105

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google

Blair Zajac, Google,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387

The integral geometric Stake equivalence in mixed characteristic

Jize Yu, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Slabs: Penetration, Stagnation, Topography and Inundation

Carolina Lithgow-Bertellon, Louis B and Martha B Slichter Chair in the Geosciences, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

The Large-Misalignment Mechanism for Compact Axion Structures

Ken Van Tilburg, KITP, UCSB,

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Curve Counting Reading Seminar

Linde Hall 183

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction in Infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces with Tensor Networks

Monica Jinwoo Kang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Flexible stability and nonsoficity

Peter Burton, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Reimagining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms

Dan Nomura, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, UC-Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310

Generalised Rogers–Ramanujan identities and arithmetics

Ole Warnaar, School of Mathematics & Physics, University of Queensland,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187

CANCELLED - The Classical Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism

Sunghyuk Park, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Lab Safety Orientation Training

Keith Spalding B117

1:30pm – 2:30pm

Personal Emergency Preparedness

Keith Spalding 118

Thursday, November 28th, 2019

12:00am – 11/29 12:00am

Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

8:00am – 11/29 5:00pm

Thanksgiving (Institute holiday)

Academic