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Spring 2015-2016

Thursday, April 21st, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Skin-inspired organic electronic materials and devices

Zhenan Bao, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Boundary cohomology of Shimura varieties

Benoit Stroh, Mathematics Research Fellow, Mathematics, Institut Galilée Université Paris 13,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Antineutrino reactor monitoring and applications to nuclear non-proliferation safeguards

Patrick Huber, Associate Professor of Physics, Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech,

5:00pm – 6:30pm

Earth Week Speaker Event

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Investing in the Future of Transportation

Paul Yeh, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

CubeSats: Big Goals, Tiny Package

Andrew Klesh, Chief Engineer for Interplanetary Small Spacecraft, JPL,

Friday, April 22nd, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at Triton Invitational

12:00am – 4/23 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at Triton Invitational

8:00am – 11:00am

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Ojai Valley Tournament

8:00am – 11:00am

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Ojai Valley Tournament

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Entanglement and nonlocality in quantum gravity

Will Donnelly, UCSB,

11:30am – 1:30pm

Earth Week Campus Events

San Pasqual Walk

Earth Day Resource Fair

12:00pm – 3:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech vs. Occidental

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213

Information-theoretic bounds and phase transitions in community detection and high-dimensional clustering

Cristopher Moore, Santa Fe Institute,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

East Bridge 114

Cosmology beyond the power spectrum and how to keep it simple

Marcel Schmittfull, Postdoctoral Fellow, Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP), U.C. Berkeley,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Earth Week Speaker Event

Annenberg 105

Accelerating Innovation: Physical Science Startups at Cyclotron Road

Raymond Weitekamp, polySpectra project lead, Cyclotron Road Accelerator , PhD in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Studies in Aquatic Locomotion: Discovery through simulations

Iman Borazjani, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo SUNY,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBA

Sam Ballas, RTG Visiting Assistant Present, Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Off Campus

Finite time blowup for semilinear wave equations

Terry Tao, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Iron Hydride Complexes Supported by Simple Triphosphine Ligands as Precatalysts for the Catalytic Conversion of Dinitrogen to Ammonia

Trixia Marie Buscagan, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Atom waveguide QED for efficient multiphoton sources

Alejandro González-Tudela, Postdoctoral Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)

Lithosphere structure and dynamics beneath mainland China revealed by the CEArray

Fenglin Niu, Rice University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Assessing Scientific Theories

Stephan Hartmann, Professor of Philosophy of Science and Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Off Campus

Harmonic maps and heat flows on hyperbolic spaces

Marius Lemm, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)

CubeSats: Big Goals, Tiny Package

Andrew Klesh, Chief Engineer for Interplanetary Small Spacecraft, JPL,

7:30pm – 9:30pm

German Film: Habermann

Baxter Lecture Hall

Saturday, April 23rd, 2016

12:00am – 4/24 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at TBD

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at Triton Invitational

12:00am – 4/24 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at Triton Invitational

8:00am – 11:00am

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Ojai Valley Tournament

8:00am – 11:00am

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Ojai Valley Tournament

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

12:00pm – 3:00pm

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

1:00pm – 6:00pm

16th Annual Caltech Jazz Festival

Gates Annex Patio

Public Event

1:30pm – 4:30pm

(Baseball) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Jayme Stone's Lomax Project

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, April 24th, 2016

8:00am – 11:00am

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Ojai Valley Tournament

8:00am – 11:00am

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Ojai Valley Tournament

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Shaerzadeh Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, April 25th, 2016

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Steele 102

"Synthetic circuits for feedback and detection in bacteria"

Victoria Hsiao, Bioenigineering PhD Candidate, Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

A new proof of the decomposition theorem

Brad Drew, Department of Mathematics, USC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Perception as an inference problem

Bruno Olshausen, Professor, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and School of Optometry, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Planet Nine from Outer Space

Michael Brown, Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and Professor of Planetary Astronomy, Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Inflatable Dark Matter and the Diphoton Resonance: New Phenomenology with a Simple Lagrangian

Sam McDermott, SUNY Stony Brook,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High-level verifiable robotics

Annenberg 105

CMS Seminar

Hadas Kress-Gazit, Associate Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Informal Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125

Investigating Filaments of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton by CryoEM

Jan Lowe, Structural Studies Division Head and Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Dynamic Materials: From Cephalopods to Shapeshifters

Alon A. Gorodetsky, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Irvine,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Everhart Lecture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Building and controlling complex interconnected systems

Nikolai Matni, Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Computing & Mathematical Sciences,

Tuesday, April 26th, 2016

10:00am – 11:00am

PhD Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Increased Brain Uptake of Targeted Nanoparticles by Adding an Acid-Cleavable Linkage Between Transferrin and the Nanoparticle Core

Andrew Clark, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Davis group, Chemistry, Caltech,

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