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Fall 2019-2020

Friday, December 6th, 2019

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

The TTbar and JTbar deformations as topological gravity and gauge theory

Edward Mazenc, Stanford University,

11:00am – 3:30pm

T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Symposium

Baxter B125

New Approaches to Brain Imaging

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Fusion rules from entanglement

Kohtaro Kato, Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 115

Observations of Ground Deformation along the 2019 Ridgecrest Ruptures: Implications for Fault Displacement Hazard Analysis

Kate Scharer, Dr., United States Geological Survey,

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

Tidal resonance in Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Béatrice Bonga, Postdoctoral Researcher, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Solid-Liquid Impact Phenomena

Rouslan Krechetnikov, Associate Professor, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

The topology of representation varieties

Maxime Bergeron, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Catalytic Ammonia Oxidation to Dinitrogen with an Iron Complex

Michael Zott, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special CMX Seminar

Annenberg 213

Consensus Based Models and Applications to Global Optimization

José Antonio Carrillo, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London,

4:00pm – 12/13 11:00pm

Stress Free Library for Finals Week

Sherman Fairchild Library, Lobby

4:30pm – 5:20pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310

On maximal and variational Fourier restriction

Vjekoslav Kovac, Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb/Georgia Tech,

5:30pm – 6:20pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310

PDE aspects of incompressible fluid flows and simpler model equations

Vladimir Sverak, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota,

6:30pm – 10:30pm

CPA Holiday Party 2019

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

The Solar System's Volcanic Wonderland

Katherine de Kleer, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

Public Event

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Caltech Theater Presents Storytelling and Improv

Hameetman Center 206 - Frautschi Rehearsal Hall

Public Event

7:30pm – 9:00pm

German Film Screening: Three Penny Opera

Baxter Lecture Hall

Film screening for German 130a & 132a // In German with English subtitles

Saturday, December 7th, 2019

8:00am – 12/10 5:00pm

Study Period, Fall Term

Academic

7:00pm – 8:30pm

Caltech A Cappella Winter Concert

Ramo Auditorium

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Holiday Celebration: Movie Screening and Faculty Concert

Beckman Auditorium

Monday, December 9th, 2019

11:00am – 12:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100

Zhannetta Gugel, Graduate Student, Neurobiology, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Nanophotonic Phenomena in Dielectric Photonic Crystals

Ryan Ng, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Dec Leadership Workshop: Building Relationships as a Leader Part I: Collaboration

Crellin 151

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Toward End-to-End Quantum Applications

Xiaodi Wu, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

An optomechanical architecture for dark matter detection

Dan Carney, University of Maryland & FNAL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Towards Control of Electronic Excited States in 3d Metal Complexes

Kelly J. Gaffney, Chemical Sciences Division Director, Photon Science Associate Professor, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special ACM/CMS Seminar

Annenberg 213

The Universe in a Computer: How mathematical and numerical methods are essential

Dr. Christian Klingenberg, Professor, Mathematics Department, Würzburg University, Germany,

Tuesday, December 10th, 2019

10:00am – 11:00am

Liuchi Li, Applied Mechanics, Ph.D. Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 115

Linking micro-structure to macro-behavior of granular matter: from flowing heterogeneously to morphing adaptively

Liuchi Li, Graduate Student, Applied Mechanics, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

11:30am – 1:00pm

Neuro Lunch Meeting

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Curve Counting Reading Seminar

Linde Hall 183

12:00pm – 12:50pm

Meditation Mob

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Geometry and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 255

Rigorous results about Relative entropy in QFT

Feng Xu, Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Questions about phase spaces of minimal Boolean flows

Dana Bartosova, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida,

3:00pm – 4:45pm

BMB Fall Rotation Seminar

Crellin 151

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Inflation as a Cosmological Collider

Yi Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela

Brian Knight, Professor of Economics, Brown University,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187

The Quantum Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism

Tamir Hemo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

Wednesday, December 11th, 2019

8:00am – 12/13 5:00pm

Final Examinations

Academic

10:00am – 11:30am

Shop Safety Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop

11:00am – 2:00pm

Caltech Associates Event: On a Mission, Exploring Mars

Athenaeum

11:30am – 1:30pm

pre-Hanukkah Pop-Up

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)

Public Event

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - You and Your Thesis

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Jaeyun Moon, Mechanical Engineering, PhD. Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 135

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Lab Safety Orientation Training

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Science with the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph: The Local Group

Rosemary Wyse, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from Medicare Bundled Payments

Liran Einav, Professor of Economics, Stanford University,

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Watson Lecture - How to Deceive Society: An Insect Masterclass

Beckman Auditorium

Joseph Parker, Assistant Professor Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,

Public Event

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

8:30am – 11:00am

International Scholar Orientation

Moore 239

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Training

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Decision weights based on visual salience

Devdeepta Bose, Postdoctoral Scholar in Psychology and Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radioactive Material Handling Training

Keith Spalding B117

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Condensed Mathematics Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Coherent Duality

Justin Campbell, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Presentation Skills Workshop

Annenberg 107

Figure Design for Presentations

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Proteins in Motion: Going beyond Bragg Diffraction

Nozomi Ando, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Finance Seminar

Baxter B125

A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions

Jessica A. Wachter, Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management, Professor of Finance, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania,

Public Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Isolation of L^2 spectrum

Yifeng Liu, Department of Mathematics, Yale University,

Friday, December 13th, 2019

8:00am – 5:00pm

End of Fall Term

Academic

9:00am – 10:00am

PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100

Facilitating miniaturized bioanalytical assays in microfluidic devices

Dmitriy Zhukov, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Tailoring interactions between a diamond color center and phonons

Srujan Meesala, Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Physics and Materials Science, Painter Group,

2:00pm – 6:00pm

LA Area Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Evidence that 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua) was composed of molecular hydrogen ice

Darryl Seligman, Graduate Student and Gruber Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Yale University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255

Conformal Welding of Dendrites

Peter Lin, Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook University,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

Saturday, December 14th, 2019

8:00am – 1/5 5:00pm

Winter Recess

Academic

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