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Fall 2014-2015

Saturday, October 4th, 2014

2:00pm – 3:00pm

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Bekerian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:30pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Adena Hovasapian & Arbi Sarkisian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:30pm – 4:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Nalbandyan Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:20pm – 6:20pm

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

3:30pm – 6:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Paria Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Caltech at Chapman

6:00pm – 9:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

Sunday, October 5th, 2014

8:00am – 5:00pm

Okularfest

Beckman Mall

8:00am – 5:00pm

Okularfest

Beckman Auditorium

12:30pm – 3:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Baehr-Jones Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachikyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, October 6th, 2014

8:00am – 8:20pm

Red Cross Blood Drive

Winnett Quad

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Art, Science, & Learning: Innovation at the Intersection

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The Structure of Instability in Moduli Theory

Dan Halpern-Leistner, Ph.D student, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium

"Synthetic Approaches to Deciphering Cis-Regulation"

Sriram Kosuri, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114

Title TBD

Sean Hartnoll, Stanford,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar

Baxter B125

DARUM: Deferred Acceptance with Random Utility Models

Alfred Galichon, Professor of Economics, Sciences Po,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Polymorphism of carbonates at Earth's mantle condition and their bearing on carbon cycle

Marco Merlini, Researcher, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Milan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Dark matter searches at ATLAS

Ning Zhou, UC Irvine,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Caltech at Whittier

Tuesday, October 7th, 2014

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 6:20pm

Red Cross Blood Drive

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Samba and Salsa Exhibition

Red Door Cafe

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

2:10pm – 3:30pm

Thirty Meter Telescope Groundbreaking and Blessing

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium

TBA

Dr. Kasper Schmidt, UCSB,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Face Processing: A Window into Object Perception

Doris Tsao, Assistant Professor of Biology, Biology & Biological Engineering, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125

Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence

Filipe R. Campante, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government,

4:30pm – 6:00pm

CMA presents "Stranded on Mars: Could an Ingenious Astronaut Survive?"

JPL

Andy Weir, software engineer and novelist,

6:30pm – 8:30pm

Caltech Peer Tutor Training

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

7:30pm – 10:30pm

(Women's Volleyball) Occidental vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Playreaders: "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates

Wednesday, October 8th, 2014

9:30am – 11:00am

Student Shop Safety Hands-on Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop

10:00am – 11:00am

TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308

List-decodability of structured random codes

Mary Wootters, Carnegie Mellon,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Monotonicity of relative entropies and convexity of some trace functions

Rupert Frank, Professor, Mathematics, Caltech,

12:15pm – 1:15pm

IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)

KMTNet: A Cold Exoplanet Census Through a Global Microlensing Survey

Calen Henderson, Graduate Student, Oregon State University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "Overview of Library Resources"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Resnick Fellows Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Two Seminars: Better Enzymes for Biofuels and Green Chemistry--Solving the Cofactor Imbalance Problem & Model Complexes for Studying Heterometallic Effects Relevant to Fuel Cell Chemistry

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

How Black Holes Dine above the Eddington "Limit" without Overeating or Excessive Belching

Shane Davis, Virginia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Sequential Equilibrium Distributions in Multi-Stage Games with Infinite Sets of Types and Actions

Philip J. Reny, William C. Norby Professor in Economics and the College, Department of Economics, University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Why do plants grow where and when they grow?

Kyla M. Dahlin, ASP Postdoctoral Fellow, Climate & Global Dynamics Division, Terrestrial Sciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research,

Thursday, October 9th, 2014

8:50am – 11:00am

International Scholar Orientation

East Bridge 114

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

Finance Seminar: Peter Carr, Morgan Stanley

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Can Investor Beliefs be Extracted from Option Prices?

Peter Carr, Global Head of Market Modeling, Morgan Stanley,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Chain conditions and elementary amenable groups

Jay Williams, Postdoc, Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Weil Sums of Binomials and Helleseth's Conjecture

Daniel Katz, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, California State University, Northridge,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Irreversibility, information and the second law of thermodynamics at the nanoscale

Christopher Jarzynski, Director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park ,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

Rosetta – A Lesson on Comets, the Solar System and Mysteries of Earth

Art Chmielewski, Manager, U.S. Rosetta Project, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Friday, October 10th, 2014

10:30am – 11:30am

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Quantum spectral curve of N=4 SYM

Vladimir Kazakov, Ecole Normale Superieure d'Universite Paris,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Control and Dynamical Systems Seminar

Firestone 306

Coherent Lagrangian Vortices in Unsteady Continua

George Haller, Prof. Dr., Nonlinear Dynamics, ETH Zürich,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Course Ombudsperson Training

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 125

Natural Selection, Game Theory and Genetic Diversity

Georgios Piliouras, Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Science, Caltech,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Givental J-functions, Quantum integrable systems, AGT relation with surface operator

Satoshi Nawata, NIKHEF,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

There's Government in Your Science

Josh Shiode, John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow, American Astronomical Society,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

On the Complex Rocking Response of Large Statues atop Ancient Multispondyle Columns Under Ground Motion: A Genious & Challenging Structural System

Anthony Kounadis, Professor Emeritus, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

New results on Hitchin representations

Tengren Zhang, Grad Student, Mathematics, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Programmable Self Assembly with Particles and Polymers

Robert (Rob) Macfarlane, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:30pm – 6:00pm

Family Night Dinner & Movie

Beckman Auditorium

4:30pm – 5:15pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Enhancement of the hidden-order/large-moment antiferromagnetic phase boundary in the URu2−xFexSi2 and URu2−xOsxSi2 systems

Noravee Kanchanavatee, Postdoctoral Scholar, Maple Group, Univ of California, San Diego,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)

Rosetta – A Lesson on Comets, the Solar System and Mysteries of Earth

Art Chmielewski, Manager, U.S. Rosetta Project, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Saturday, October 11th, 2014

12:00pm – 3:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Alumni vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 4:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Mills vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Occidental vs. Caltech

6:00pm – 9:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Mills vs. Caltech

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