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Spring 2009-2010

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Intermediate International Ballroom Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

Monday, April 26th, 2010

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CIT-Knit and Crochet

Spalding Laboratory 113

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Red but Not Dead!—Molecular Gas in Early-type Galaxies

Timothy Davis, graduate student in astrophysics, Oxford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Downs 107

Odd-parity Topological Superconductors: Theory and Application to Cu_xBi_2Se_3

Erez Berg, postdoctoral scholar in condensed matter physics, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

The Once (and Future?) Forest: Vegetation-Climate Feedbacks in the Amazon Basin

Scott R. Saleska, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Arizona,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Cosmic Anomalies: A Skeptical Evaluation

Edward L. Wright, professor of astronomy, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Functional Conducting Metallopolymer Materials

Bradley Holliday, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, the University of Texas at Austin,

4:15pm – 5:15pm

Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Compressed Sensing in Infinite Dimensions

8:30pm – 9:30pm

Beginner Lindy Hop Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

9:30pm – 10:30pm

Intermediate West Coast Swing Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

9:30am – 11:30am

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Fine Arts and Crafts Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe

12:00pm – 1:00pm

GAYpril 2010: Special Lecture

Dabney Hall, Lounge

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Sense and Response Systems

K. Mani Chandy, Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 107

Numerical Algorithms for Simulating Interacting Fermionic Lattice Systems

Christina Kraus, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

Topic to be announced.

Hilke Schlichting, postdoctoral fellow in theoretical astrophysics, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Astrochemistry: From H3+ to C60

Benjamin J. McCall, assistant professor of chemistry and astronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar—cancelled

Kerckhoff 119

Cell Competition

Ruslan Medzhitov, Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

8:00pm – 9:00pm

American Tribal Style Fusion Belly-Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

8:00pm – 9:00pm

Is Pandora Possible?: A Discussion of the Science, Technology and Environmental Messages Behind AVATAR

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

8:00am – 5/4 5:00pm

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

10:00am – 12:00pm

Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Human Resources Workshop: "Staying On Track In A Volatile Market"

Beckman Institute Auditorium

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

On Convergence to SLE_6

Helen (Guo-Ying) Lei, graduate student in mathematics, UCLA,

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Suicide Prevention Workshop

Winnett Lounge

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Laboratory Safety 101

Keith Spalding 118

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Magnetar Oscillations

Yuri Levin, Leiden Observatory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

How Enzymes Work

Daniel Herschlag, professor of biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Compound-Specific Amino Acid Fractionation Patterns: A New Approach to Tracing Organic Nitrogen Source and Transformation

Matthew McCarthy, associate professor of ocean sciences, UC Santa Cruz ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Solution-Processed Inorganic Photovoltaics from Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Matt Law, assistant professor of chemistry, UC Irvine,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Caltech Alpine Club Presents Floris van Breugel

Beckman Institute Auditorium

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa Dance Social

Winnett Lounge

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

8:30am – 12:00pm

Staff Education & Career Development Seminar: "Customer-Centered Service"

Winnett Lounge

10:00am – 1:00pm

Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Beckman Institute 121

Elucidating Membrane Protein Function through Long-Timescale Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Ron Dror, MSC, Chemistry, D.E. Shaw Research,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

GAYpril 2010 Keynote Address: Homosexuality, Morality, and Diversity

Dabney Hall, Lounge

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

High-Temperature Transport in Lanthanum Telluride and Other Modern Thermoelectric Materials

Andrew May, graduate student in chemical engineering, Caltech,

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium—CANCELED

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

CANCELED

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar

Baxter B125

Dynamics of Decision Making: Optimality, Human Performance and the Competing Accumulator Model

James L. McClelland, professor of psychology, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Isotope Separation by Diffusion in Geological Liquids

James Watkins, graduate student in Earth and planetary sciences, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: Non-Canonical Amino Acids in Protein Design, Evolution and Analysis

David A. Tirrell, Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor and professor of chemistry and chemical engineering, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

The Kuiper Belt, Zodiacal Dust, Debris Disks: It's All About Collisions

Marc Kuchner, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,

Friday, April 30th, 2010

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Instanton Effects in F-theory

Ralph Blumenhagen, Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Baseball vs. La Verne

North Athletic Field

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Effects of In Situ Animal-fluid Interactions on Transport and Mixing

Kakani Young, GALCIT, Caltech,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Mirzakhanian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Varoujan/Hormozi Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254

Geological and Non-Geological Factors Contributing to Damage in Port-au-Prince during the 12 January 2010 M7.0 Haiti Earthquake

Susan Hough, seismologist, US Geological Survey,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151

Direct Simulation of Electron Transfer Dynamics

Artur R. Menzeleev, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar

Moore B280

Spin Transistor and Beyond

Supriyo Datta, professor of electrical and computer engineering, Purdue University,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Film Screening: Earth Day—The Seeds of a Revolution

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

12:30pm – 3:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Sinovec/Bond Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Men's Baseball at Redlands

away game

4:30pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Mayer Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

9:00am – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Simonian Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

1:00pm – 3:00pm

Beginner International Ballroom Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

2:00pm – 5:00pm

Skeptics Society Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall

How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes, and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Roger E. A. Farmer, professor of economics, UCLA,

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Intermediate International Ballroom Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

10:00am – 11:00am

Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Life in Extreme Environments: Lanthanide-Based Detection of Bacterial Spores and Other Sensor Design Pursuits

Morgan Cable, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CIT-Knit and Crochet

Spalding Laboratory 113

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Semana Latina Event: Tacos and Mariachi Band

Winnett Quad

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Chemistry Club Seminar

Gates Annex B122

Multiplicative Expansion of the Pool of Complex Molecules for Therapy in Human Disease by Adopting Convergence as a Strict Requirement in Synthetic Planning

Andrew G. Myers, professor of chemistry, Harvard University,

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