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Spring 2014-2015

Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Innovate or die

Chris House, Vice President, Advanced Concepts and Technology Research, BlackBerry,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Resnick Institute Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Solar Geoengineering and Climate Risks

Douglas MacMartin, Computing + Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

The Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction in SAPO-34 and SSZ-13: The Effect of Heteroatom Concentration

Mark Deimund, graduate student, chemical engineering, california institute of technology,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Chapman vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) TBD vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

TBA

Prof. James Lloyd, Cornell,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

On Some Master Equation Models Involving Pre-Reactive Complexes

John R. Barker, Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMA presents "Synthetic Biology: Faster, Better, Weirder"

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

Andrew Hessel, Distinguished Research Scientist, Autodesk, Inc.,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125

Zelda Activates the Zygotic Genome in Drosophila

Christine Rushlow, Professor, Department of Biology, New York University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

The microlocal codimension-three conjecture

Kari Vilonen, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Driving the very first steps to metabolism along mineral-laden paths

Michael Russell, Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125

Inequality and Social Comparisons

Elizabeth Maggie Penn, Associate Professor of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Worrying about Weeds: Exotic Plants and Biological Invasions in the Early Medieval Mediterranean

Paolo Squatriti, Associate Professor of Italian, University of Michigan,

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Occidental vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Charles and Thomas Lauritsen Memorial Lecture: "The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload"

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Wednesday, April 29th, 2015

8:00am – 5/5 5:00pm

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "EndNote For Beginners"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

The Turbulent Frontier in Massive Stellar Death

Sean Couch, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Inter-hemispheric asymmetries in climate and ITCZ migrations

John Marshall, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

High Efficiency Lanthanide-based Thermoelectric Materials for Space Power Generation Applications

Sabah Bux, Technologist, Thermal Energy Conversion Technologies Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Scalar Curvature for the Noncommutative 4-Torus and its Functional Relations

Farzad Fathizadeh, Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

C–C and C–H Functionalization Based on Common Functional Groups

Guangbin Dong, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas-Austin,

6:00pm – 8:00pm

"At the Intersection of Art and Science" - A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates and Charlie Gross

Baxter Lecture Hall

Public Event

6:00pm – 7:00pm

James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Baxter Lecture Hall

"At the Intersection of Art and Science" - A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates and Charles Gross

Joyce Carol Oates, Author,

Charles Gross, Neuroscientist,

Thursday, April 30th, 2015

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102

Soft Control: How cilia-generated flows affect bacteria-host associations

Eva Adnan Kanso, Associate Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Engineering entropy in nanomaterials: the bad, the ugly, and the good

Fernando A. Escobedo, Marjorie L. Hart Professor of Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125

Memory Engram Cells Have Come of Age

Susumu Tonegawa, Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, MIT Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Biology and Neuroscience, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Georgy Manucharyan

Georgy Manucharyan, WHOI,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

"In vivo" Multiphoton Imaging of Mouse Brain

Chris Xu, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Beginning & Intermediate Salsa Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

Friday, May 1st, 2015

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 5/2 12:00am

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

9:00am – 5:00pm

Caltech + Finance Symposium

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

10:00am – 1:00pm

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

10:00am – 11:30am

MTI Working Group Talk: Rachael King

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

'The foreign letters say': Newsletters and Newspapers in the Long Eighteenth Century

Rachael King, Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara,

10:30am – 11:30am

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"Biological activity of Py-Im polyamides in vivo"

Jerzy Szablowski, PhD Candidate, Bioengineering, Califoria Institute of Technology,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213

Set membership with two bit probes

Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TBC),

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Beckman Room open (Caltech's Science Museum)

Beckman Institute 131

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Chapman vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Forkhead (Fox) transcription factors open a new dimension in understanding the epigenetic control of replication origins in S. cerevisiae

Oscar Aparicio, Professor of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Program, University of Southern California,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

On the Statistics of Biased Tracers in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures

Zvonimir Vlah, Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics, Stanford University,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at SCIAC Post Season Tournament

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Prosthetic heart valves: ideas for improvement

Roberto Zenit, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Heegaard Floer contact invariants for positive rational surgery

Tom Mark, Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of Virginia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Derivatization of Corroles for Surface Functionalization

Carl Blumenfeld, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:30pm – 5:15pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals: long range interactions and photon molecules

James Douglas, Postdoctoral Scholar, Theoretical Quantum-Nano Photonics, ICFO, Barcelona,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA

Sung Jin Oh, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

6:10pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Spring Fun on ICE

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