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Spring 2017-2018

Monday, May 21st, 2018

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105

Redemption of the High Frequencies

Associate Professor Laurent Demanet, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Neurodegeneration Reading Group

Beckman Behavioral Biology B101

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018

10:00am – 12:00pm

Coffee with Caltech alumni of Leadership Pasadena

Annenberg Center

10:00am – 11:00am

Towards a priori models for differential diffusion in turbulent non-premised flames

Gates-Thomas 115

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Ph.D Defense

Nicholas Burali,

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 4:00pm

Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Gradient Descent with Identity Initialization Efficiently Learns Positive Definite Linear Transformations by Deep Residual Networks

Annenberg 213

CMS Special Seminar

Phil Long, Research Scientist, Google,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131

The cohomology of the first omega alephs: some questions

Jeffrey Bergfalk, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Engineering Ultrasound Sensors with Lego-Like Proteins

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

2018 Everhart Lecture Series

Anupama Lakshmanan, Graduate Student, BioEngineering, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Classical simulation of quantum circuits by dynamical localization

Adrian Chapman, University of New Mexico,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

TBD

Megan Ansdell, Center for Integrative Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125

Selective Vulnerability in Frontotemporal Dementia: Onset, Progression, and Relationship to ALS

William (Bill) Seeley, Professor, Neurobiolgy, University of California, San Francisco,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Here be Dragons: SNO+ and the path to THEIA

Gabriel Orebi Gan, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Theory Group Meeting

Annenberg 322

Quantum lightning and applications

Andrea Coladangelo, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Estimating Signaling Games in International Relations: Problems, Solutions, and an Application to Economic Sanctions

Michael Gibilisco, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018

8:00am – 5:00pm

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

Academic

10:00am – 11:00am

TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 205

Explicit Binary Tree Codes with Polylogarithmic Size Alphabet

Leonard Schulman, Caltech,

11:00am – 4:00pm

Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Dish & Discuss #17

Avery Dining Hall

What Makes a Humanitarian?

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Humanities Brown Bag Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

A History of Horrendous Corruption for Our Time: Edmund Burke's Impeachment of Warren Hastings in Speech and Caricature

Noel Swerdlow, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science, University of Chicago; Visiting Associate, Caltech,

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Let's Talk! Sponsored by Counseling Services

Annenberg 243

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "Introduction to 3D Printing at the Caltech Library"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Weil Conjectures

Daxin Xu, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Personal Emergency Preparedness

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

KELT, TESS, and Gaia: The Era of Precision Stellar Astrophysics and Exoplanetology

Scott Gaudi, Ohio State,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "iThenticate in a Nutshell'

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Global Signatures of Phytoplankton Physiology

Michael Behrenfeld, Professor, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Exploring the 3D Nano and Atomic World: Coherent Diffractive Imaging and Atomic Electron Tomography

John Miao, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

When Chemistry asks Biological Questions: Total Synthesis on the Driving Seat

Nuno Maulide, Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Vienna,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Network Effects in Information Acquisition

Tommaso Denti, Assistant Professor (Salvatore Faculty Fellow), Department of Economics, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Young Investigators Lecture

Moore B280

Low-Complexity Modeling for Visual Data: Representations and Algorithms

Yuqian Zhang,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

NeuroTechers Cookies & Tea

Beckman Behavioral Biology B101

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Women's Investment Club

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Cahill Rooftop Observatory Open House

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Mikhail G. Shapiro - "Talking to Cells"

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, May 24th, 2018

12:00am – 12:00am

(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at NCAA Championships

8:00am – 6/8 5:00pm

Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

Academic

10:30am – 12:30pm

CATS Campus Tours

11:00am – 4:00pm

Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Has Performance Based Engineering Broken the Power Law?"

Thomas H. Heaton, Professor, Department of Mechanical & Civil Engineering, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213

Generalized Benders Cuts for Infinite-Horizon Control Problems

Joe Warrington, Senior Scientist, Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

3:30pm – 6:30pm

(Men's Tennis) Caltech vs. NCAA Championships

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125

Predictive coding and hallucinations

Philip R. Corlett, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University; Associate Research Scientist, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Yale School of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Liquid-liquid Phase Separation in Polyelectrolyte Solutions: Effects of Charge Connectivity, Ion Association, and Backbone Hydrophilicity

Jian Qin, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Galois deformation ring associated to a real quadratic field

Haruzo Hida, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Exploring the Energy Frontier at the Large Hadron Collider

Eva Halkiadakis, Professor of Physics, Rutgers University,

Friday, May 25th, 2018

12:00am – 12:00am

(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at NCAA Championships