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Spring 2012-2013

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Caltech BikeLab Repair Session @ Winnett

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12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Thesis Defense.

Beckman Institute Auditorium

"Beyond Watson and Crick: programming the self-assembly and reconfiguration of DNA nanostructures based on stacking interactions"

Sungwook Woo, Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering, Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Folding under pressure: mechanical forces in development of native and engineered tissues

Celeste Nelson, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:15pm

CMS Seminar

Annenberg 105

Big Data, Deep Data, and the Effect of System Architectures on Performance

Peter M. Kogge McCourtney, Professor of CSE, Univ. of Notre Dame,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Frustrated Magnets and Quantum Spin Liquids

Steven White, UC Irvine,

5:00pm – 6:30pm

CPET Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Tales from the Trenches: Teaching Astronomy at a California Community College

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Thursday Office Hours

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7:30pm – 9:00pm

Amnesty International Monthly Meeting

Friday, May 24th, 2013

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Towards a holographic formulation of Cosmology

Gonzalo Torroba, Stanford University,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Special JCAP Seminar

Jorgensen 109

A Versatile Materials Platform from New Functional Epoxide Polymerizations

Nathaniel A. Lind, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California - Santa Barbara,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Friday Office Hours

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12:00pm – 1:00pm

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

Baxter 127

Individual Preferences for Privacy

Rachel Cummings, Northwestern University,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151

The Intramolecular Buchner Reaction of α-Diazo-β-Ketonitriles: Development and Application to the Total Synthesis of (+)-Salvileucalin B

Roger Rauhauser Nani, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Reisman Group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Glimpsing the Composition Distribution of Sub-Neptune-Size Exoplanets

Leslie Rogers, Hubble Postdoctoral Scholar, Astronomy, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Is the Sky Falling?

James Cutler, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

New Catalysis for Expanded Reactivity in Z-Selective Metathesis

Brendan Quigley, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Special Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Science and Human Values

Prof. G.V. Venkataraman, Physicist, Retired; Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences,

Saturday, May 25th, 2013

11:30am – 2:00pm

Professor Francis Clauser Memorial Lunch

Athenaeum

12:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech Bike Lab -- Bike Ride to Angel City Brewery / Food Truck Party on Sat May 25

See event detail for location

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Dawson Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Kiledjian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Morataya Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Duong Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 6:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Torousian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Sunday, May 26th, 2013

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Srabian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Kivork Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Movsessian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Abrahamian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

5:20pm – 7:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Tahmasian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, May 27th, 2013

8:00am – 5:00pm

Memorial Day (Institute Holiday)

Off Campus

Academic

9:00am – 4:00pm

Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114

Topological Viscosity Response due to Torsion and the Bulk-Boundary Correspondence

Taylor Hughes, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champagne,

Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

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12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Tuesday Noon Office Hour

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2:00pm – 3:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248

New Results from CMS

Frank Wuerthwein, UCSD,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Center for the Mathmatics of Information and the Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 107

Fourier sparsity, spectral norm, and the Log-rank conjecture

Shengyu Zhang, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

TBA

Prof. Risa Wechsler, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

CANCELLED: Adiabatic and Diabatic Treatments of Vibronic Coupling: The NO₃ Molecule as an Example

John F. Stanton, George W. Watt Centennial Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Fluid Mechanics Research Conference

Guggenheim 202

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125

Phil Sharp, Institute Professor , Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research , Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science

South Mudd 365

Extrasolar Cosmochemistry

Michael Jura, Professor and Vice Chair, Astronomy , Department of Physics and Astronomy , UCLA,

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Tuesday Evening Office Hours

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Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

10:00am – 11:30am

Investing for Women Workshop

Winnett Lounge

10:00am – 11:00am

Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Broad 100

Studying conscious and unconscious vision with fMRI: the BOLD promise

Julien Dubois, Graduate Student, Compuation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology,

10:30am – 11:30am

Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Synthetic Applications and Methodological Developments of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes

Alexander Goldberg, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz Group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

11:30am – 1:30pm

4th Annual Caltech Student Health Fair

San Pasqual Walk

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Thesis Defense.

Steele 102

"Architecture, Limits, and Tradeoffs in Biology"

Fiona Chandra, Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering, Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology,