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Spring 2015-2016

Tuesday, April 5th, 2016

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar

Geometry, Analysis and Topology of Feynman Amplitudes

Emad Nasrollahpoursammi, Mathematics, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

New regulatory mechanisms in genome duplication

Xiaolan Zhao, Ph.D., Molecular Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres

Hannes Bernien, Harvard University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Percolation and invariant random subgroups

Yair Hartman, Mathematics, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

TBD

Prof. Charles Badenes, Univ. of Pittsburgh,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Process Chemistry Development of Ledipasvir − NS5A Inhibitor in Harvoni® for Hepatitis C Treatment

Robert W. Scott, Dr., Ph.D., Senior Director, Process Development, Gilead Sciences, Inc.,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMI Seminar

Annenberg 213

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

Hu Fu, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Decoding the Human Genome: 2016-2020

John Stamatoyannopoulos, Professor, Genome Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington, School of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Flavor Physics and CP Violation as Probes for New Physics Effects at the High-Luminosity B Factory Experiment Belle 2

Markus Rohrken, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Bistatic Radar Observations of the Moon using Mini-RF on LRO and the Arecibo Observatory

Wes Patterson, Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125

Climate, Geography, and the Evolution of Economic and Political Institutions

Stephen Haber, A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor of Political Science, Stanford University,

4:40pm – 6:00pm

CMA presents "Planet Nine from Outer Space"

JPL

Konstantin Batygin, Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

5:30pm – 7:30pm

Auditions for "Planet Between the Stars"

TACIT House, 275 S. Hill Ave.

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Playreaders 65th Season: "Other Desert Cities" by Jon Robin Baitz

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates

Wednesday, April 6th, 2016

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Energy of Heavy Atoms: The Leading Correction

Heinz siedentop, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, LMU Munich,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar

Feynman Integrals, Associated Arrangements and Their Motives

Ozgur Ceyhan, Mathematics, University of Luxembourg,

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

"Next Generation Cosmological Constraints on the Dark Sector and Gravity."

Rachel Bean, Cornell,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

New Sources of Methane in the Biogeosphere and Beyond

Frank Keppler, Professor, Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Finance Seminar: Hongjun Yan, Rutgers Business School

Baxter B125

Financial Intermediation Chains in an OTC Market

Hongjun Yan, Associate Professor of Finance, Rutgers Business School,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Informal Biology Seminar

Broad 100

Metabolic Oscillations and Electrical Signaling in a Bacterial Biofilm

Gurol Suel, Associate Professor , Molecular Biology, Univeristy of San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Is Diamond the Best Conductor of Heat?

David Briodo, Professor, Department of Physics, Boston College,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar - CANCELLED

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Development of New Transformations for Organic Synthesis and Material Science

Javier Read de Alaniz, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara,

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Getting Beyond a Blind Date with Science

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Recent Theoretical and Experimental Progress on Near-Field Thermal Radiation"

Zhuomin Zhang, Professor, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

Survivor Support: How to Help Someone You Care About

Jenny Mahlum, Health Educator , Counseling Center , California Institute of Technology,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Physics at SNOLAB

Art McDonald, SNOlab,

2:30pm – 4:00pm

Memorial Service for Charlie Barnes

Athenaeum

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Coffee and Conversation

Kerckhoff 234

Multicultural Caltech: International Student Experiences

3:30pm – 4:30pm

CD3 Seminar

Off Campus

Data Science: Machine Learning, Statistics, and Beyond

Padhraic Smyth, Director, UCI Data Science Initiative, Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Cellular control in a couple of clicks

Kristi Anseth, Distinguished Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Hodge classes on products of quaternionic Shimura varieties

Kartik Prasanna, Professor, Mathematics, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

The Biard Lecture: Basic Components of Solid-State Quantum Computing Hardware

Charles M. Marcus, Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor, Center for Quantum Devices, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

POSTPONED | Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

Friday, April 8th, 2016

9:30am – 5:00pm

Manuscript Ecologies Symposium

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

10:00am – 11:30am

Student Shop Safety Hands-on Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

The Many Dimensions of the Weak Gravity Conjecture

Tom Rudelius, Harvard University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Gaypril Event

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

PFLAG Panel and Discussion

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Undergraduate Math Club Seminar

Quantum Computation

Jacob Alex Stark, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Using Quasars and the CMB to Probe Quantum Entanglement

Jason Gallicchio, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Harvey Mudd College,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Redlands

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Adaptive Communication Networks and Cybersecurity for Heterogeneous Teams of Robots

Stephanie Gil, Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Knot Floer Homology and Khovanov-Rozansky Homology of Singular Links

Nathan Dowlin Filip, Mathematics, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 7:00pm

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

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Efforts Toward an Accurate Structural and Functional Model of the Oxygen Evolving Complex in Photosystem II

Heui Beom Lee, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Dance Show

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, April 9th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer Invitational

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at Whittier

8:00pm – 10:00pm

The Intergalactic Nemesis: Target Earth: A Live-Action Graphic Novel

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Dance Show

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, April 10th, 2016

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Redlands

2:00pm – 3:30pm

How Sticky is Your Gecko?

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

2:30pm – 5:30pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Redlands

9:00pm – 4/11 12:00am

Gaypril Event

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates

Pride Prom – Glitter Ball

Monday, April 11th, 2016

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar (Special Date)

Gates-Thomas 135

Control of agile robots in complex environments with formal safety guarantees

Anirudha Majumdar, PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

11:00am – 12:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Development of Chemoenzymatic Labeling Approaches for the Detection of Fucosylated Biomarkers

Jean-Luc Chaubard, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Chemistry, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Jazz Waltz Recital

Dabney Hall, Lounge

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Complex varieties with infinite Chow groups modulo 2

Burt Totaro, Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Cancelled CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Aude Oliva, Massachusetts Institute of Techology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Can Embedded Boundary Methods Compute High Reynolds Number Flow?

Professor Marsha Berger, Computer Science Department, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar

Baxter B125

History Dependence in Networks of Close Relationships: Theory and Applications

James Rauch, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Hierarchical analysis of extinction resistance in marine animal genera

Michael J. Foote, Professor, Geophysical Sciences, Committee on Evolutionary Biology and College, Department of the Geophysical Sciences , University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

New ideas for dark matter detection

Kathryn Zurek, LBNL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

TBA

T. Brent Gunnoe, Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, University of Virginia,

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