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Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Greenstein Lecture: Hearing the Stars: New Insights into Stellar Interiors from Asteroseismology
Lars Bildsten, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Liver Targeted HIF-PHD Inhibitors for Anemia
Christopher J. Sinz, Dr., Ph.D., Research Fellow, Merck & Company, Inc.,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University

Baxter B125
High Frequency Market Making
Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Otto A. Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

CANCELLED
Ben Barres, Professor of Neurobiology, of Developmental Biology, of Neurology and, by courtesy, of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar

Distinct perpendicular bisectors
Ben Lund, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Rutgers,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Neural and hormonal systems underlying human reward-seeking behavior
Simon Dunne, Graduate Student, Computation & Neural Systems, Caltech,
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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An Ounce of Prevention

Annenberg 105
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Paul Rothemund - DNA Origami: Folded DNA as a Building Material for Molecular Devices

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Thursday, May 26th, 2016
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track & Field) Caltech at NCAA Championships

8:30am – 2:30pm
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The Mentoring Effect: Conference on Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers

Avery House
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
(CANCELLED) - "Manufacturing and applications of carbon nanotube surfaces"
(CANCELLED) John Hart, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
Discovery of a Carbohydrate Ligand for an Orphan Receptor
Matthew Griffin, Mr., Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Resolution of the Band Gap Prediction Problem: Providing a New Tool for Materials Design
Jason Crowley, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard group, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Ultrafilters and a problem of Ellis
Andy Zucker, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon,
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Protein-Glycan Interactions in Bacterial Recognition by Fc-gamma Receptor I and in Bitter Taste Receptor Activation by Steviol Glycosides
Fan Liu, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Diophantine Stability
Barry Mazur, Professor, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Adventures in quantum optimization with noisy qubits
Daniel Lidar, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chemistry and Physics, USC,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
Dynamics and Information Processing of Competitive Market Behavior: Science and Application of Extracting the Wisdom of Crowds
Charles R. Plott, William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Political Science, California Institute of Technology,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room
Friday, May 27th, 2016
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track & Field) Caltech at NCAA Championships

8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Presenting Theses for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer

9:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day of Classes for Seniors and Graduate Students

9:00am – 6:00pm
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MTI Workshop

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
The Political, and Unpolitical, Lives of Things
Alexandre Dubé,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Chiral algebra of Argyres-Douglas theory from M5 brane
Wenbin Yan, Harvard University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Agonist Binding Studies at Two Subtypes of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Involved in Parkinson's Disease and Addiction
Michael Post, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group, Chemistry, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Shang-Hua Teng

Baxter 125
Interplay between Influence Dynamics and Social Networks: Centrality, Cooperative Games, and Scalable Algorithms
Shang-Hua Teng, Seeley G. Mudd Professor, Computer Science Viterbi School of Engineering, USC,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Renormalized Volume
Andrew Waldron, UC Davis,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Ion Transport in Polymer Electrolytes: Principles for Design
Michael Webb, graduate student, chemical engineering, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Mechanistic Studies on the Trimethyl Lock Cyclization of Sulfur-Substituted Benzoquinones Triggered by Visible-Light
Clinton Regan, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Parametrizing general linear cosmological perturbations
Macarena Lagos, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Imperial College London,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tunable adhesion of soft elastomers
Kevin Turner, Gabel Family Term Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), University of Pennsylvania,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBA
Yang Huang,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Off Campus
TBA
Yifeng Yu, Professor, Mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Mechanistic Insights of Photoinduced, Transition Metal Mediated Catalysis
Tanvi Ratani, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Many-body localization: a dynamical perspective
Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Off Campus
TBA
Joel Tropp, Professor, Applied & Computational Mathematics, Caltech,
Saturday, May 28th, 2016
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track & Field) Caltech at NCAA Championships

8:00am – 5/31 5:00pm
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Study Period for Seniors and Graduate Students

1:00pm – 9:00pm
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Techstock 2016: Battle of the Bands & Music Festival

Winnett Quad
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Herrera Quinceanera Photo Shoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm – 6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Meschyan Wedding Photoshoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm – 6:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Mejia Wedding Photo Shoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Castellanos Wedding Photoshoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, May 29th, 2016
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Panossian Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, May 30th, 2016
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Memorial Day (Institute Holiday)

Off Campus
9:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Decay of correlations and absence of superfluidity in the disordered Tonks-Girardeau gas
Robert Seiringer, IST Austria,
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Building the Next Generation Power Grid
Pedro Pizarro, PhD, President, Southern California Edison,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Size-Driven Quantum Phase Transitions
Johannes Bausch, University of Cambridge,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

TBA
Artem Chernikov, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Understanding and predicting materials for sustainable energy sources: The role of density functional theory and first principles simulations
Giulia Galli, Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering, The Institute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Amino-Terminal Acetylation of Proteins in Human Health and Disease
Gholson Lyon, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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HSS Graduate Students' Third-Year Presentations

Baxter B125
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
The Geophysics and Geochemistry of Dwarf Planets
Steve Desch, Professor, Arizona State University,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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"Tides of Gravity"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Wednesday, June 1st, 2016
8:00am – 6/3 5:00pm
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Final Examinations for Seniors and Graduate Students for Spring Term

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Lieb-Thirring bounds for infinite gap Jacobi matrices
Jacob Christiansen, Mathematics, Lund Univeristy,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
A Total Synthesis of (+)-Ryanodol
Kangway Chuang, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Reisman group, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Chebyshev and orthogonal polynomials on dynamically defined Cantor sets
Maxim Zinchenko, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Universty of New Mexico,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Structure-Based Design of Protein-Protein Inhibitors
Sean P. Brown, Dr., Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Amgen, Inc.,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Two questions, one answer: A multi-scale view of tripical convection
Da Yang, Miller Research Fellow, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Joseph Gerakos, University of Chicago

Baxter B125
Prediction Versus Inducement and the Informational Efficiency of Going Concern Opinions
Joseph Gerakos, Associate Professor of Accounting and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Library Friends' Senior Thesis Prize Awards

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
The Trouble with Numbers: The Drama of Mathematics in the Age of Shakespeare
Carla Mazzio, Associate Professor of English, University of Buffalo,