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Spring 2015-2016

Wednesday, May 11th, 2016

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

Geometric picture for scattering amplitudes

Jaroslav Trnka, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, UC Davis,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Toward an Understanding of Exoplanetary Composition

Jonathan Fortney, UC Santa Cruz,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biosafety & Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) Training

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

The Development and Application of Metal-Catalyzed Reactions in Drug Discovery

James Craig Ruble, Dr., Ph.D., Research Advisor and Catalysis Lab Leader, Eli Lilly and Company,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Investigation of methane sources in the Netherlands and in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf with isotope measurements

Thomas Röckmann, Professor, Department of Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry, Utrecht University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Control Thermal Radiation with Nanophotonic Structures

Shanhui Fan, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Thomas Miller - Signed, Sealed, Delivered: How Proteins Get Where They're Supposed to Go in Cells

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, May 12th, 2016

8:00am – 4:00pm

Medical Engineering-HMRI/DEI/JPL Collaborative Workshop

Keck Center

8:50am – 11:30am

International Scholar Orientation

East Bridge 114

10:00am – 10:00am

Thesis Seminar

Annenberg 107

Quantum of Vision: the speed vs accuracy tradeoff in visual recognition

Bo Chen, Graduate Student, Computation & Neural Systems, Caltech,

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"M -2.5 to M -8 Laboratory-Generated Earthquakes Recorded From Calibrated Rock Deformation Experiments"

Gregory McLaskey, Professor, Cornell University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

"Nanofabricated Neural Probe System for Dense 3-D Recordings of Brain Activity"

Gustavo Rios, Bioenigineering PhD Candidate, Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Atomic Resolution Electron Microscopy: A New Tool for Organic Chemists

Eiichi Nakamura, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers

Ana Maria Rey, Fellow of JILA, NIST and Assistant Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, JILA,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

Friday, May 13th, 2016

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Scheduling Examinations for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer

Academic

10:00am – 11:30am

Student Shop Safety Hands-on Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop

11:00am – 11:50am

Bechtel Residence Campus Meeting

Beckman Institute Auditorium

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

4D N=1 Superconformal Bootstrap

Andreas Stergiou, Yale University,

12:00pm – 12:50pm

Bechtel Residence Campus Meeting

Beckman Institute Auditorium

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Leonard Schulman, Caltech

Baxter 125

The Invisible Hand of Laplace: the Role of Market Structure in Price Convergence and Oscillation

Leonard Schulman, Professor of Computer Science, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,

12:00pm – 5/31 12:00pm

Voting Open for the Caltech Y Photo Contest

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Ni–Catalyzed Intramolecular C–O Bond Formation and A Unified, Stereodivergent Approach to the Synthesis of Communesin F and Perophoramidine

Seojung Han, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz group, Chemistry, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Setting the Stage for the Era of Gravitational Wave Discovery

Wen-fai Fong, Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Steward Observatory, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Arizona,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

How not to prove the smooth 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture

David Gay, Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of Georgia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--CANCELLED

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Caltech Orchestra and Caltech Glee Club

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

The Air We (Can't) Breathe: A History of Air on Venus, Earth, and Mars

Jackie Villadsen, Graduate Student, Astronomy, Caltech,

Saturday, May 14th, 2016

2:30pm – 4:30pm

Photography on Campus: Newland Wedding Photo Shoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Staged Reading: Heart of the Stars

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

5:00pm – 8:00pm

Photography on Campus: Sarkissian Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Caltech Orchestra and Caltech Glee Club

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, May 15th, 2016

2:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech Chamber Music Marathon

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

Monday, May 16th, 2016

10:00am – 11:00am

PhD Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151

Chemical Reaction Dynamics of the Liquid/Vapor Interface Studied by Mass Spectrometry

Daniel Thomas, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Beauchamp group, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium

"Molecular Structure and Organism Fitness from Genomic Sequences"

Debora Marks, Assistant Professor of Systems Biology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Rethinking microbial heterotrophy: A geochemist's perspective

Ann Pearson, Murray and Martha Ross Professor of Environmental Sciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Probing extended Higgs sector in the intensity and energy frontiers

Chien-Yi Chen, University of Victoria and Perimeter Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Structure, Bonding and Mechanism in Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling

Michael L. Neidig, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Rochester,

Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

9:00am – 5:00pm

SoCal Grad Strings and Fields

East Bridge 114

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Using data to Inform, Drive and Scale STEM Instructional Reform

Marco Molinaro, Assistant Vice Provost for Educational Effectiveness, Student Success Through Evidence-Based Actions, University of California, Davis,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Thin-film coatings for use in future gravitational wave detectors

Peter Murray, IGR, University of Glasgow ,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Thesis Seminar

Moore 139

Christos Thrampoulidis, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Coffee and Conversation

Kerckhoff 234

Intersections of Sexuality and Science

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

Galaxy Mergers on FIRE: Mapping Star Formation

Prof. Jorge Moreno, Cal Poly Pomona,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Group IV two-dimensional materials: Novel electronic and structural properties

Angel Rubio, Professor and Director, Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

MegaRNPs and Monosomes: Reassessing Structure and Function

Melissa Moore, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Seeing the Solar System through Robot Eyes: The International Community of Space Image Data Artists and the Golden Age of Planetary Exploration

Emily Lakdawalla, The Planetary Society,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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

Baxter 125

How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, Not Engaged Argument

Molly Roberts, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Dabney Hall, Lounge

An Evening of Poetry and Music: Ciaran and Deirdre Carson

Ciaran and Deirdre Carson,

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at Redlands Last Chance Invitational

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections for Spring Term

Academic

9:00am – 10:00am

MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Shock wave propagation in composites and electro-thermomechanical coupling of ferroelectric materialsExploring thermal phonon transport from atomic to macroscopic scales for energy conversion and management

Chengyun Hua, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical and Civil Engineering,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Indirect Coulomb Energy with Gradient Correction

Elliott Lieb, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Princeton University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Laboratory Safety Orientation/Lab Safety 101

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151

Electrochemical Methods for Studying Iron-Sulfur Cluster Proteins

Helen Segal, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Rees group,, Chemistry, Caltech,

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar

Vector Bundles for "Matrix Algebras Converge to the Sphere"

Marc Rieffel, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

The Origins and Implications of Turbulence in Galaxies

Blakesley Burkhart, Harvard,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

An Innovative Approach to Kinase Inhibitor Drug Discovery: The Power of a Fully Annotated Library

Brian L. Hodous, Dr., Ph.D., Director, Blueprint Medicines,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Earthquakes, Landslides, Floods: Non-Steady-State C, Fe, S Diagenesis in Coastal Marine Sediments

Will Berelson, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences and Environmental Studies, University of Southern California,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

A Quantum of Light for Materials Science: Merging QED and TDDFT

Angel Rubio, Director, Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Institute ,

Thursday, May 19th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at Redlands Last Chance Invitational

12:00am – 5/22 12:00am

Reunion Weekend

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

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