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Spring 2015-2016

Friday, May 27th, 2016

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Parametrizing general linear cosmological perturbations

Macarena Lagos, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Imperial College London,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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

Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBA

Yang Huang,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Off Campus

TBA

Yifeng Yu, Professor, Mathematics, UC Irvine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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

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

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Off Campus

TBA

Joel Tropp, Professor, Applied & Computational Mathematics, Caltech,

Saturday, May 28th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at NCAA Championships

8:00am – 5/31 5:00pm

Study Period for Seniors and Graduate Students

Academic

1:00pm – 9:00pm

Techstock 2016: Battle of the Bands & Music Festival

Winnett Quad

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Photography on Campus: Herrera Quinceanera Photo Shoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:30pm – 6:00pm

Photography on Campus: Meschyan Wedding Photoshoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:30pm – 6:30pm

Photography on Campus: Mejia Wedding Photo Shoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:30pm – 6:00pm

Photography on Campus: Castellanos Wedding Photoshoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Sunday, May 29th, 2016

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Photography on Campus: Panossian Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, May 30th, 2016

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

3:00pm – 5:00pm

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

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Building the Next Generation Power Grid

Pedro Pizarro, PhD, President, Southern California Edison,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Size-Driven Quantum Phase Transitions

Johannes Bausch, University of Cambridge,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

TBA

Artem Chernikov, Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125

Amino-Terminal Acetylation of Proteins in Human Health and Disease

Gholson Lyon, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

HSS Graduate Students' Third-Year Presentations

Baxter B125

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

The Geophysics and Geochemistry of Dwarf Planets

Steve Desch, Professor, Arizona State University,

7:30pm – 9:30pm

"Tides of Gravity"

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Wednesday, June 1st, 2016

8:00am – 6/3 5:00pm

Final Examinations for Seniors and Graduate Students for Spring Term

Academic

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Lieb-Thirring bounds for infinite gap Jacobi matrices

Jacob Christiansen, Mathematics, Lund Univeristy,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

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

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

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

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

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

Library Friends' Senior Thesis Prize Awards

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Combinatorics Seminar

Multiplicative orders and distribution of points on varieties mod p

Mei-Chu Chang, Mathematics, UC Riverside,

Thursday, June 2nd, 2016

10:00am – 12:00pm

61st Annual Staff Service & Impact Awards

Beckman Auditorium

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151

Quantifying protein isoforms in single cells using next-generation sequencing

Chang Ho Sohn, Dr., Department of Chemistry, California institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Broad 100

Genome Engineering Technology Combined with Single-Cell Genomics for Interrogation of Tumor Immunology

Le Cong, Broad Institute MIT and Harvard,

Friday, June 3rd, 2016

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day of Classes for Undergraduates

Academic

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day to Register for Summer and Fall Term

Academic

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Tunneling into Black Hole Microstates

Andrea Puhm, UCSB,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Linde Institute/SISL Seminar

Baxter 125

Market Dynamics of Best-Response with Lookahead

Krishnamurthy (Dj) Dvijotham, Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Science, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213

Faster Algorithms for the Constrained k-means Problem

Ragesh Jaiswal, University of California, San Diego,

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Beckman Room open (Caltech's Science Museum)

Beckman Institute 131

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 102

Ultrashort self-assembling peptides for diverse biomedical applications

Charlotte A.E. Hauser, Professor of Bioscience, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Chem 82 Senior Thesis Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Is Hierarchical Merging Broken?

Charles Steinhardt, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, IPAC, Caltech,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Strongly symplectic fillability of contact torus bundles

Youlin Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,