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Fall 2015-2016

Thursday, November 19th, 2015

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Reading Women

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151

Functional Characterization of a Novel MUTYH Variant

Kevin McDonnell, Dr., Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, USC School of Medicine,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

International Education Week Lecture

Winnett Lounge

STEM Outreach in Mexico

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Development of Fluorescent Tools for Live Cell Imaging: Exploring the Possibility of Zinc Ions to Act as Cellular Messengers

Amy Palmer, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Mechanosensing at cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesions

Alexander Dunn, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

the Geometry Near Infinity of shrinking Ricci Solitons

Bennett Chow, Mathematics, UCSD,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Some degenerate Whittaker functions for Sp_n(R)

Stephen Kudia, Mathematics, University of Toronto,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Einstein's Equations From Entanglement

Brian Swingle, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

Friday, November 20th, 2015

12:00am – 11/21 12:00am

(Men's Water Polo) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

8:00am – 11:00am

(Men's Water Polo) Caltech vs. Occidental

8:00am – 5:00pm

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

Academic

10:00am – 11:00am

Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Towards in situ Single Cell Systems Biology

Eric Lubeck, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

What is Temperature of a Pure State?

Jared Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University,

11:30am – 1:30pm

Graphic Resources and Mail Services Fall Harvest Promotional Fair and Open House

Keith Spalding Building

12:00pm – 1:00pm

International Education Week Lecture

Winnett Lounge

Japan Internship Program

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Joel Watson

Baxter 125

Contractual Equilibrium: An Application to Conservation Agreements and Computational Issues

Joel Watson, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

The X-ray through optical fluxes of Tidal Disruption Events

Nathan Roth, Graduate Student, Dept of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Spacecraft Optical Navigation using a Planet's Lit Horizon

John Christian, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBA

Laura Starkson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics, Stanford University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Learning Seminar

Absolute Hodge Cycles

Matthias Flach, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Mechanistic Studies of Hydrogen Evolution by Cobaloximes

Sarah Del Ciello, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Atom-atom interactions in an ‘Alligator' photonic crystal waveguide

Jonathan Hood, Graduate Student, Kimble Group,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Molecular Programming Project Seminar

Moore B280

Self-assembly pathways of DNA origami

Fritz Dannenberg, Graduate Student, Computer Science, Oxford University,

4:30pm – 6:00pm

Dow-Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA) Ceremony & Reception

Jorgensen Lobby

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Whitworth

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Caltech-Occidental Concert Band

Off Campus

Public Event

Saturday, November 21st, 2015

12:00am – 12:00am

(Cross Country) Caltech at NCAA Championships

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech vs. IFCSC

8:00am – 11:00am

(Men's Water Polo) Caltech at La Verne

12:00pm – 3:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Le Wedding Photography Session

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

12:00pm – 4:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Mirzoyan Photography Session

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Whitman

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech-Occidental Concert Band

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, November 22nd, 2015

2:30pm – 4:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Hwang Photography Session

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Elias String Quartet

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, November 23rd, 2015

9:00am – 10:00am

PhD Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Silicon Microwire Arrays for Fuel Production Using Solar Energy

Matthew Shaner, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

High energy analysis at KamLAND and application to dark matter search

Michinari Sakai, University of Hawaii,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The syzygies of some thickenings of determinantal varieties

Claudiu Raicu, Instructor, Mathematics, Norte Dame,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Sweet and sour with a little salt: perchlorate control of microbial sulfate reduction in oil reservoirs

John D. Coates, Professor of Microbiology, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Cosmological Seed Magnetic Field from Inflation

Bharat Ratra, Kansas State,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Membrane Geometry and Multi-Scale Dynamics

Hamid Noori, University of Heidelberg,

Tuesday, November 24th, 2015

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

A new paradigm for binary black-hole spin precession

Michael Kesden, Professor, Department of Physics, UTDallas,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Weak containment of measure preserving group actions

Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Colloidal Structures from Unexpected Interactions: From Dielectric Many-Body Effects to Non-Equilibrium Phase Behavior

Erik Luijten, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Materials Science and Engineering; Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMI Seminar

Annenberg 213

Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs - part 2 of 2

Gil Cohen, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

SeaQuest experiment at Fermilab

SuYin Wang, Femilab,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Taussky-Todd Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

In a shadow of the Riemann Hypothesis: Approximation Problems on the Hilbert Multidisc

Nikolai Nikolski, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Bordeaux,

Wednesday, November 25th, 2015

10:00am – 11:00am

TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308

TBD

Piotr Indyk,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

The LOFAR EoR project: science goals, foregrounds, processing challenges and status

Ger de Bruyn, Univ of Groningen,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Carlson-Landau inequalities and magnetic Schrödinger operators

Ari Laptev, Professor, Mathematics, Imperial College London and Mittag-Leffler Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

**NO SEMINAR due to the Thanksgiving Holiday**

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Combinatorics Semnar

TBA

Jed Yang, Postdoctoral Associate, Mathematics, University of Minnesota,

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Linfield vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Linfield vs. Caltech

Thursday, November 26th, 2015

8:00am – 11/27 5:00pm

Thanksgiving (Institute holiday)

Academic

9:00am – 4:00pm

Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

Friday, November 27th, 2015

8:30am – 4:00pm

Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

1:00pm – 4:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Illinois Tech vs. Caltech

Saturday, November 28th, 2015

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Women's Basketball) UC Merced vs. Caltech

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Sarah Lawrence vs. Caltech

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