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Spring 2015-2016

Monday, March 28th, 2016

8:00am – 5:00pm

Beginning of Instruction for Spring Term

Academic

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

The Pluto-Charon System: Geology, Geophysics, and Origins

William B. McKinnon, Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Decoherence as a way to measure extremely soft collisions with low-mass dark matter

Jess Reidel, Perimeter Institute,

Tuesday, March 29th, 2016

9:00am – 5:00pm

Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

Academic

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

11:00am – 12:00pm

Women's History Month Event

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

Panel: Creating an Organization Where Both Men and Women can Thrive

Susan Murphy, Author and Management Consultant,

Beverley McKeon, GALCIT Associate Director, Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,

Robert Papppalardo, EUROPA Project Scientist, JPL,

Serina Diniega, Scientist/System Engineer, JPL,

Cinzia Zuffada, Moderator of the Panel and Associate Chief Scientist , JPL,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Reverse Engineering Supernovae

Dan Milisavljevic, Center for Asirophysics, Harvard University,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Special Chemical Physics Seminar

Crellin 151

A Priori Gas Phase Kinetics and the Foundations of Chemical Modeling

Dr. Stephen Klippenstein, Argonne National Laboratory,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Where are the branches in a many-body wavefunction?

Jess Riedel, Perimeter Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

"Thinking Big (and Small): Frontier Science in an Era of Wide Field Lensing Surveys"

Prof. Alexie Leauthaud, IPMU,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMI Seminar

Annenberg 213

Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 1 of 2)

Hu Fu, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Making Beer and Making it in Beer, a Chemist's Perspective

Dr. Diego Benitez, Owner, Progress Brewing,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Hidden sectors: a window on the dark universe

Bertrand Echenard, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Norman Davidson Lecture

Kerckhoff 119

The Central Dogma De-centralized: Local Control of Protein Synthesis at Synapses

Erin Schuman, Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Celestial mechanics, impacts, and observations of small body populations

Sarah Greenstreet, Department of Physics, UCSB,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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

Baxter B125

Helping Friends or Influencing Foes: Electoral and Policy Effects of Campaign Finance Contributions

Keith Schnakenberg, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Kentucky,

Wednesday, March 30th, 2016

11:00am – 12:00pm

CPET Spring Seminar with Professor Laura Tucker

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

3:30pm – 4:15pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Combinatorics of F_1

Koen Thas, Professor, Mathematics, Ghent University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Galaxy Death and the Role of "Red Geysers"

Kevin Bundy, Kavli IPMU, Tokyo,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biotechnology Leadership Seminar - Phil Romero

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Data-driven protein engineering

Phil Romero, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Private Learning and Exit Decisions in Collaborations

Yingni Guo, Assistant Professor of Economics, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Drug Discovery and Development from Biological Target Identification through Phase 2

Todd K. Jones, Dr., Ph.D.,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lectures

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

The Dark Side of Artificial Photosynthesis

Manny Soriaga, Visiting Faculty Associate and Principal Investigator , Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis , Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

No ESE Seminar

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Norman Davidson Lecture

Kerckhoff 119

Do Dragons Dream?

Gilles Laurent, Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Overdetermination and non-reductive physicalism

John Donaldson, Lecturer, Philosophy Department, University of Glasgow,

4:30pm – 5:15pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

F_1-Schemes, zeta functions and automorphisms

Koen Thas, Professor, Mathematics, Ghent University,

6:00pm – 9:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

Thursday, March 31st, 2016

11:00am – 12:00pm

(CANCELLED) - Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

(CANCELLED) Allen Fuhs, Distinguished Professor (Emeritus), Naval Postgraduate School,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Crellin 151

Pursuing the Molecular Medicine Potential of Natural Products through Precision Synthesis

Karl A. Scheidt, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Pacific Lutheran vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation through diverse co-activators

Robert G. Roeder, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Optical Tweezers: Gene Regulation, Studied One Molecule at a Time

Steven Block, S.W. Ascherman Professor of the Sciences, Stanford University,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture

Baxter B125

Publius and Political Science

John A. Ferejohn, Samuel Tilden Professor of Law, New York University School of Law,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Publius and Political Science

Baxter B125

Public Event

6:30pm – 8:00pm

City of Pasadena Meeting: Presentation About Proposed Landmark Districts

Beckman Institute Auditorium

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

Friday, April 1st, 2016

9:30am – 10:30am

Jeffrey Vinokur, The Dancing Scientist: So You Think You Can Do Science

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

A stereoscopic look into the bulk

Lampros Lamprou, Stanford University,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Special Seminar in Applied Physics and Materials Science

Steele 125

Nanophotonics for Tailoring the Flow of Thermal Radiation

Ognjen Ilic, Postdoctoral Researcher, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT,

11:30am – 12:30pm

Jeffrey Vinokur, The Dancing Scientist: So You Think You Can Do Science

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CANCELLED | Linde Institute/SISL Seminar

Baxter 125

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Whittier vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Dark Matter in the Cosmic Context

Katherine Mack, DECRA Fellow, Astro Group, School of Physics, University of Melbourne,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:00pm

• High Enthalpy Hypervelocity Experiments: Bridging the Scales

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Susan and James Wu Lecture in Aerospace

Joanna Austin, Professor of Aerospace, GALCIT, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

New Catalysis for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

Sonja Francis, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Revealing the Dirac fluid in graphene

Andy Lucas, Graduate Student, Subir Sachdev's group, Harvard University,

Saturday, April 2nd, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech vs. SCIAC Multi-Dual

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Occidental

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

11:00am – 2:00pm

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

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

2:00pm – 4:30pm

Photography on Campus: Shandaryan Wedding Photoshoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Women's History Month Event

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

Dinner and a Movie: Code Girl

8:00pm – 10:00pm

John McCutcheon

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, April 3rd, 2016

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Enso String Quartet with Clive Greensmith, Cello

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, April 4th, 2016

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Gaypril Event

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

ISP Discussion Group: LGBTQ Identity and the International Community

1:00pm – 2:00pm

MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Kinematics and Local Motion Planning for Quasi-static Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation

Krishna Shankar, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CANCELLED - Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium

"Molecular Structure and Organism Fitness from Genomic Sequences"

Debora Marks, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Information-Theoretic Lower Bounds for Distributed Function Computation

Assistant Professor Maxim Raginsky, ECE Department and Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

A Theory for Atmospheric Oxygen

Daniel P. Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor School of Engineering and Applied Sciences:, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Z2 solutions to the Strong CP problem

Anson Hook, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Molecular Interactions and Reactions in Metal Organic Framework Materials

Yves Chabal, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas, Dallas,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Talk with a Techer

Gates-Thomas 135

Gil Elbaz, Founder and CEO, Factual,

Tuesday, April 5th, 2016

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Multi-Use Applications for Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations

Seyed Madaeni, Principal, Energy Storage, Grid Engineering Solutions, SolarCity,

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