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Spring 2018-2019

Friday, May 3rd, 2019

12:00am – 12:00am

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

8:00am – 5/4 5:00pm

Junior Theory Retreat at Caltech

Baxter B125

8:30am – 9:30am

PhD Thesis Defense

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Chemical Tools for Protein Imaging in Live Bacterial Cells

Samuel Ho, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

10:00am – 11:00am

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

To the Heart of Neutrinos with CUORE and CUPID

Yuri Kolomensky, UC Berkeley,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

New and Old Exact Dualities

Djordje Radicevic, Perimeter Institute,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Room temperature photo-induced electron-hole gas-to-liquid transition in 2D materials

Alexander Kemper, Assistant Professor, Physics Department, North Carolina State University,

1:30pm – 3:30pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100

How single cells sense Smad3 signal

Christopher Frick, Graduate Student, BMB, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Building Coordinator & Floor Warden Training

Keith Spalding B117

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Applications of the Enantioselective Allylic Alkylation Toward the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products

Steven A. Loskot, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

The NICER mission and the Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Sky

Andrea Lommen, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Haverford College,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Special Math Colloquium

Linde Hall 310

New roots of Lie theory

Andrei Okounkov, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Chapman

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

A Scalable Monolithic Computational Framework for Large-scale Simulation of Hydraulic Fracture

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

A scalable monolithic computational framework for large-scale simulation of fluid-driven fracture propagation

Bianca Giovanardi, Postdoctoral Associate, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Single Photon Detectors, Parity Measurements and Heralded Cat States in the Microwave Domain

Andreas Wallraff, Professor for Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Steele 125

Dielectric Metasurfaces from Fundamentals to Applications

Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Renormalized volume of hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Kenneth Bromberg, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

H2 Evolution from a Ni(III) Hydride

Nina X. Gu, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:30pm – 5:20pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310

High frequency limits and Burnett's conjecture in general relativity

Jonathan Luk, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,

5:30pm – 9:30pm

Beer Tasting and Pub Quiz Night

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.

5:30pm – 6:20pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310

The First-Order Planning Problem in Mean Field Games

Jameson Graber, Department of Mathematics, Baylor University,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

7:30pm – 9:00pm

German Film: So weit die Füsse tragen

Baxter Lecture Hall

Movie screening for German 130c & 132c // In German with English subtitles

Saturday, May 4th, 2019

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 12:00am

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) Chapman vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Mirzakhanyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:30pm – 5:30pm

(Baseball) Chapman vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 5:00pm

The Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

4:00pm – 7:00pm

Family Music Festival: Child Educational Center's 30th Annual Benefit and Auction

Off Campus

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

The Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, May 6th, 2019

11:00am – 12:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Copper and Nickel Catalysis for the Construction of Novel C−N and C−C Bonds

Carson Matier, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 255

Random walks, harmonic functions, 0-1 laws, and the Poisson boundary of groups

Joshua Frisch, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Metabolic bi-stability and hysteresis in a model microbiome community

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151

Mechanistic Study of Photoinduced C–S Bond Formation and Electrochemical Ammonia Production by a Surface-Attached Iron Complex

Kareem Hannoun, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

How to assemble a microbial ecosystem? – the role of behavior, microdiversity and interactions

Otto Cordero, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

New accelerator experiments for dark sectors

Stefania Gori, UC Santa Cruz,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Bioinspired Coordination Complexes and Polymers for Energy Applications

Smaranda Marinescu, Gabilan Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice

Jean-Robert Tyran, Professor of Economics, Director of the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics, and Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs, University of Vienna,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

The SPHEREx All-Sky Infrared Spectral Survey Satellite

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Tuesday, May 7th, 2019

11:00am – 12:00pm

Workplace Violence Prevention Facilitator Training

Annenberg 213

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMX Lunch Seminar: James Saunderson

Annenberg 213

12:00pm – 1:00pm

STEMinar: Dr. Samuel Garcia

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

12:15pm – 12:45pm

Outdoors Guided Meditation

Beckman Institute Lawn

3:00pm – 4:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Non-Innocent Anthracene-Based Ligand Towards Zr(IV)-Catalyzed Coupling of Alkynes and Nitriles to N-Heterocycles

Choon (Marcus) Heng Low, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CANCELED -- General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125

CANCELED

Amy Gladfelter, Associate Professor, Biology, University of North Carolina,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMI Seminar: Alistair Sinclair

Annenberg 213

The Lee-Yang Theorem and the Ising Model

Alistair Sinclair, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Evolving Worlds: A Story of Planetary Evolution and Bi-Stability

Dr. Matthew B. Weller, Postdoc, Institute of Geophysics, University of Texas, Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Gravitational Wave Sources at the Heart of Galaxies

Smadar Naoz, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics/CS Special Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Title: Software Engineering for Data Science and Big Data Analytics

Miryung Kim, UCLA,

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