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Fall 2017-2018

Wednesday, October 18th, 2017

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Analysis Seminar

Building 15, Room 131

TBA

Zaher Hani, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Laboratory Safety Orientation/Lab Safety 101

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Insights into dark matter from the stellar halos of galaxies

Robyn Ellyn Sanderson, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Modeling of Cloud Microphysics. Can we do better?

Wojciech Grabowski, Senior Scientist, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory, NCAR,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Fireside Chat with Max Levchin of Affirm

Annenberg 105

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Imaging electronic states in van der Waals heterostructures

Brian LeRoy, Associate Professor, Physics, University of Arizona,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Rational Synthesis of Semiconductor Fragments

Rebekka Klausen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

The Cushioning Benefits of Biased Beliefs

Lawrence Jin, Assistant Professor of Finance, Caltech,

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Caltech Debate Club Meeting

IMSS 120

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

Thursday, October 19th, 2017

8:30am – 10:00am

CardQuest Goods and Services Training

Keith Spalding 118

10:20am – 10:20am

Great California ShakeOut

See event detail for location

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Dynamics, Feedback, and Transient Antibiotic Resistance in Single Cells"

Mary Dunlop, Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department, Boston University,

11:30am – 1:30pm

Caltech Personal Preparedness Fair

Avery Courtyard

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Fall Brown Bag Lunch # 2 Stress Reduction

383 S. Hill Ave., Annex

1:30pm – 3:30pm

CardQuest Travel Training

Keith Spalding 118

3:00pm – 4:00pm

CS Theory Seminar

Annenberg 314

Testing Linearity against No-Signaling Strategies

Peter Manohar, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125

Neuroimaging of pain and distress: From biomarkers to brain representation

Tor Wager, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Asymmetry in Molecular Machines

Gino Cingolani, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Drugs and metal: using directed evolution to engineer biocatalysts for facile pharmaceutical production

Kari Hernandez, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology ,

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

multiple zeta-half values, double shuffle equation, and connection with cusp forms

Ming Da, Department of Mathematics, Duke University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science

Mikhail Lukin, Professor of Physics, Harvard University,

5:30pm – 6:40pm

Fall 2017 Walking Campaign

Counseling Center

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

7:40pm – 10:30pm

Our Town - Pasadena Playhouse

Off Campus

Friday, October 20th, 2017

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

The Markov property of the CFT vacuum and the entropic proof of the a-theorem

Eduardo Teste Lino, Centro Atomico Bariloche,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Exactly Solvable Model for Two Dimensional Topological Superconductor

Zitao Wang, Graduate Student, Xie Chen Group,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Safe Zone Training

Avery Dining Hall

Safe Zone Training - Faculty & Staff

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Searching for Biases in Observations of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies Using Simulations

Andrew Graus, Graduate Student, UC Irvine,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Caltech Project for Effective Teaching (CPET) Discussion Group

Gates Annex 126 (Library)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Turbulence in stratified flows: wakes of submersibles and flow over underwater topography

Sutanu Sarkar, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California at San Diego,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Concordance invariants from truncated Heegaard Floer homology

Linh Truong, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar-CANCELLED

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

!! This talk will be rescheduled for a later date

Yigong Shi, Professor, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Eigenvalue Asymptotics for Dirichlet-to-Neumann Operator

Victor Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA

Konstantin Tikhomirov, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Cosmic Fireworks

Mansi Kasliwal, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Saturday, October 21st, 2017

9:00am – 5:30pm

SURF Seminar Day

9:00am – 5:30pm

SURF Seminar Day

9:00am – 11:30am

The CEC's Fall Used Clothing and Toy Sale

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Occidental

Sunday, October 22nd, 2017

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) IFCSC Collegiate Open vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 4:00pm

(Women's Soccer) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Sandrosyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Heath Quartet

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, October 23rd, 2017

10:00am – 11:00am

MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Coherent structures, their interactions, and their effects on passive scalar transport and aero-optic distortion in a turbulent boundary layer

Theresa Saxton-Fox, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Alumni Career Webinar Series

What Makes A Great Leader? Introduction to Leadership

Corinne Bendersky, PhD, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations , Anderson School of Management, UCLA ,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Explore JPL - Seminar #3

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Synthesis of Pillar-Shaped Macrocyclic Compounds "Pillar[n]arenes" Providing Supramolecular Assemblies

Tomoki Ogoshi, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Kanazawa University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Categorification at prime roots of unity

You Qi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Deconstructing the Neural Dynamics of Anticipation

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

CNS Seminar

Sotiris Masmanidis, Assistant Professor, Neurobiology, UCLA Brain Research Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Of Babies and bathwater: can we reconstruct the global carbon cycle using the chemistry of ancient carbonate sediments?

John A. Higgins, Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Dark Matter and the LZ Experiment

Carter Hall, University of Maryland,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Electoral Competition with Rationally Inattentive Voters

Filip Matejka, Associate Professor with Tenure, CERGE-EI; Research Affiliate, Center for Economic and Policy Research,

Tuesday, October 24th, 2017

8:30am – 3:00pm

Benefits Fair and Flu Shot Clinic

Avery Courtyard

10:30am – 11:30am

English Conversation Group

Olive Walk

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105

When is Biological Science Information Science?

Lior Pachter, Bren Professor of Computational Biology and Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Biology and Biological Engineering, CALTECH,

12:10pm – 12:50pm

Guided Meditation

Beckman Institute, Glanville Courtyard

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Comparing SSS17a with GW170817

Michael Coughlin, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Entanglement transformation and the structure of matrix space

Yinan Li, University of Technology Sydney,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131

A recursion theoretic property of analytic equivalence relations

Howard Becker, Visiting Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Special Combinatorics Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Simple 3-designs constructed from finite classic groups and Preparata codes

Hao Shen, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"Models of phenotypic plasticity and its role in the transition to metastasis"

Herbert Levine, Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering, Co-Director, Center of Theoretical Biological Physics, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMI Seminar

Annenberg 314

Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing and Isolation Lemma (1st of 2 parts)

Rohit Gurjar, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,

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