Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

May

Day

Week

Month

Term

May 2024

Wednesday, May 8th, 2024

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Moore 139

Signal Processing for Large Arrays: Convolutional Beamspace, Hybrid Processing, and Distributed Algorithms

Po-Chih Chen, Graduate student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Analysis Seminar

Online Event

Dispersive decay for the energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Matt Kowalski, Mathematics Department, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Biard Lecture)

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Planet Formation Under the Microscope

Karin Oberg, Professor of Natural Sciences, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Alice in Fluxland: Down the rabbit hole of surface-atmosphere exchange and reactive organic carbon.

Delphine Farmer, Colorado State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Informal Seminar - John E. Harris | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 4 pm

Broad 100

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310

Complete constraints on hyperbolic surface spectra from the conformal bootstrap

Anshul Adve, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Solid-State Ionics for Energy Applications: Materials Development Through the Lens of Defect Chemistry

Nicola Perry, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Gates Annex B122

On the Origin of Biological Homochirality (General Lecture)

Donna G. Blackmond, The John C. Martin Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Chemistry Department Chair, Scripps Research,

Thursday, May 9th, 2024

All Day

"I'll Eat My Hat!"

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Mobile sand dunes - silent travelers of the desert

Michel Louge, Emeritus Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Bamboo Ceiling with Linda Akutagawa

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

Public Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Cancelled - Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151

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12:00pm – 1:15pm

Center for Evolutionary Science EVOxZANKOU Seminar

Chen 130

"The evolution of bacterial CO2 concentrating mechanisms" and "The cellular substrate of evolutionary novelty"

Avi Flamholz, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee, BBE, Caltech,

Joe Parker, Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering; Chen Scholar, BBE, Caltech,

Internal Event

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Some equations involving the Gamma function

Adele Padgett, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University,

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Caltech Library Workshop – You & Your Thesis

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Finance Seminar

Baxter B125

Green Capital Requirements

Marcus Opp, Professor of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Multiplicative Relations Among Differences of Singular Moduli

Sebastian Eterovic, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

Quantum Critical Metals and the fermion sign problem

Erez Berg, Weizmann Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Symmetries as Isomorphisms

Lu Chen, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, USC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Gates Annex B122

A Novel Paradigm for Asymmetric Organocatalysis (Technical Lecture)

Donna G. Blackmond, The John C. Martin Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Chemistry Department Chair, Scripps Research,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

A reading from Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe

Dr. Aomawa Shields, Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine,

Public Event

Friday, May 10th, 2024

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Admission to Candidacy for the Degrees of Master of Science and Engineer

Academic

9:30am – 11:00am

Dia de Las Madres Breakfast

Center for Student Services, Large Tent

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

The Callan Rubakov Effect

Daniel Brennan, UC San Diego,

11:00am – 12:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Gravitational & quantum physics at low energies

Animesh Datta,

Internal Event

11:30am – 1:00pm

Resting into Truth: A Writing Workshop on Embracing the True Self Within the Natural World

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Caltech Library Workshop – Deep Learning 4: Advanced Neural Network Layer Types

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Quantum eigenvalue transformation from and beyond Hamiltonian simulation

Dong An, University of Maryland, College Park,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Tools for Noninvasive Imaging and Control of Engineered Bacteria In Vivo

Marjorie Buss, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Partial Post-Selection: Unveiling Measurement-Induced Transitions trajectory by trajectory

Alessandro Romito, Lancaster University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Chemical biology in the executive branch: an introduction to NIH intramural research

Jordan Meier, Senior Investigator, Chemical Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Coupling & Collisions: The Dynamic Lives of Galactic Atmospheres

Chris Carr, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Columbia University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Burn-resistant materials for high-performance reusable rocket engines

Zack Cordero, Edgerton Career Development Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Knots in circle bundles

Andrew Yarmola, Department of Mathematics, Yale University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Photoinduced Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric C-N and C-X Coupling

Feng Zhong, Postdoctoral Scholar (Fu Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)

Airborne Geophysics – Relating Geology to Methods

Luc Lafrenière, Senior Geophysicist, Sander Geophysics,

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Bandorama Concert

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Nova T Coronae Borealis: A New Star in the Crown

Mansi Kasliwal, Professor, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Public Event

Saturday, May 11th, 2024

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Bandorama Concert

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, May 13th, 2024

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Seniors to Remove Conditions and Incompletes

Academic

9:00am – 9:01am

Due Date for Midterm Grades

Academic

12:00pm – 1:00pm

RSI Research Seminar

Jorgensen 109

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Work Smarter, Not Harder - Italian Buffet

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151

Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Reactive Intermediates in the Atmosphere of Venus: The Catalytic Role of Chlorine Atoms

Wen Chao, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

Internal Event

3:00pm – 4:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Altering Framework Topology and Heteroatom Distributions of Molecular Sieves by Designed Organic Structure-Directing Agents

Youngkyu Park, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech (Davis Group),

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370

The NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Survey of the North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field / A systematic study of AGN torus with NuSTAR

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Orbital Architecture of Planetary Systems formed by Gravitational Scattering and Collisions

Eiichiro Kokubo, Professor, Division of Science, Center for Computational Astrophysics, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Rethinking the Connections of Machine Learning and Control in the Era of Generative AI

Bin Hu, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Heavy quark transverse momentum-dependent fragmentation

Zhiquan Sun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Senior Celebrations

Internal Event

Tuesday, May 14th, 2024

9:00am – 4:00pm

Science of Benefits - TIAA's Office Hours

Red Door Cafe

10:00am – 11:00am

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Freeze-Cast Porous Ceramics: Tailoring Chemistry and Porosity to Applications

Laura Quinn, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics

Annenberg 213

A theoretical framework for fault-slip styles from aseismic creep to regular earthquakes

Davide Zaccagnino, PhD student in Geophysics, Department of Geophysics, Sapienza University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Understanding the Tropospheric Impacts of Isoprene-Derived Carbonyl Oxide Criegee Intermediates: Direct Studies of an Elusive Class of Reactive Intermediates.

Rebecca Caravan, Assistant Chemist, Argonne National Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Informal NB-CNS Seminar- Speaker: Cory Root | Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 4 pm

Chen 100

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310

Homotopy Groups of Spheres

Zhouli Xu, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Choose Your Moments: Peer Review And Scientific Risk Taking

Josh Graff Zivin, Professor; Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations; Director, Cowhey Center on Global Transformation; UC San Diego,

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Senior Celebrations

Internal Event

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Movies That Matter Presents "L.A. Real: A Theatrical Reel"

Ramo Auditorium

Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

10:00am – 11:00am

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Novel Reactivity and Applications of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions

Xiaoyu Dan Tong, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Search for Kerr from Multipole Moments on the Worldline

Trevor Scheopner, UCLA,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213

On False Positive Error

Venkat Chandrasekaran, Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Guided Meditation & Grub - for Employees

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

Internal Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Live with Confidence: 5 steps to setting your retirement date

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Logic Seminar

Online Event

Invariant uniformization and reducibility

Michael Wolman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Understanding Emotions as Data - Spam Musubi!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room

1:00pm – 2:30pm

How Learning Works - Spring 2024

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Caltech Library Workshop – Programming with Python, Part 1

Online Event

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