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Spring 2018-2019

Tuesday, May 7th, 2019

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310

The Johnson filtration is finitely generated

Andrew Putnam, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Special Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Alcohol and Amine Derivatives Guide Position-Selective C-H Functionalization Reactions

Jenny Roizen, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Duke University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Interferon Tournament: Credit Markets and Economies of Honor in the First Age of Biotech

Nicolas Rasmussen, Professor, Programs in History and Environment & Society, School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

The Political Economy of Discrimination

Torun Dewan, Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics & Political Science,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

7:30pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Playreaders 68th Season: "The Last Romance" by Joe DiPietro

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates

Wednesday, May 8th, 2019

10:00am – 11:30am

Shop Safety Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Emotional Well-Being Workshop Series - How to make friends

Avery Library

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Lower bounds for Extremal Polynomials

Maxim Zinchenko, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Professional Development Series: Scientific Illustrations-BioRender

1:30pm – 3:00pm

Professional Development Series: Scientific Illustrations Workshop-BioRender

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Ph.D. Thesis Defense

Annenberg 243

Impact of Transmission Network Topology on Electrical Power Systems

Linqi (Daniel) Guo, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Moore 139

Oxygen Transporter and Generator Devices to Treat Diabetic Retinopathy

Nicholas Scianmarello, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 387

The stable cohomology of the moduli space of curves with level structures

Andrew Putman, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Lab Safety Orientation Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Organic Chemistry—Bristol Myers Squibb Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Employing an Interest in Chemistry to Positively Impact Patient Lives

Dr. Bruce Ellsworth, Director, Head of Fibrotic Diseases Discovery Chemistry, Bristol Myers Squibb,

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Coffee & Career: Shiz Aoki

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Dwarf Galaxies and Their Dark Matter Content

Laura Sales, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

The Atlantic-Pacific salinity asymmetry and the hydrological cycle

Johan Nilsson, Stockholm University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Homotopy Type Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Justin Campbell, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Additive Manufacturing of Glass Optics

Rebecca Dylla-Spears, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry—Bristol Myers Squibb Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Shining light on the dark matter of natural products: Structure and function of colibactin

Seth Herzon, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Yale University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Attention and Selection Effects

Colin Stewart, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Movie Screening: The S-Word

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

Thursday, May 9th, 2019

8:00am – 2:00pm

2nd Caltech Wellness Day

Bechtel Residence Dining Hall

8:30am – 11:00am

International Scholar Orientation

Moore 239

9:30am – 2:00pm

2nd Caltech Wellness Day

Avery House

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Extracellular Matrix Viscoelasticity and its Impact on Cells

Ovijit Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMI Faculty Lunch (invitation only): Adam Wierman

Annenberg 121

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Project for Effective Teaching (CPET) Discussion Group

Gates Annex 126 (Library)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Li-ion and Li-air batteries: harnessing oxygen redox and understanding interfacial reactivity in high energy batteries

Bryan McCloskey, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms

Antoine Browaeys, CNRS Research Director, Institut d'Optique, Paris,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

MACH 33: "Bones of the Sea"

Off Campus

Public Event

Friday, May 10th, 2019

12:00am – 12:00am

(Baseball) Caltech at SCIAC Tournament

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Admission to Candidacy for the Degrees of Master of Science and Engineer

Academic

8:00am – 5:00pm

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

Academic

10:00am – 11:00am

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing via Measurement of Nucleic Acid Quantity and State

Nathan Schoepp, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

The Weak Gravity Conjecture and Repulsive Forces

Ben Heidenreich, UMass Amherst,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Entanglement, Decoherence, & Quantum Ising Systems

P.C.E. Stamp, Professor, University of British Columbia,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Japanese Tea Ceremony

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Demonstration and Discussion

12:00pm – 1:00pm

MACH 33 Symposium

Hameetman Center 206 - Frautschi Rehearsal Hall

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 125

Intertemporal Consumption With Risk: A Revealed Preference Analysis

Songfa Zhong, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore; 2018-2019 NUS Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Tech Talks Toastmaster Club: Practice Speaking Confidently About Your Research, Improve Your Communication Skills

Beckman Institute Auditorium

1:00pm – 2:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Flavor Mixing of Quarks and Leptons

Harald Fritzsch, LMU Munich,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Interpreting the range of spectral properties from the tidal disruptions of stars by super-massive black holes

Nathan Roth, Space-Science Institute Fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland and NASA Goddard,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Workplace Violence Prevention Facilitator Training

Annenberg 213

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255

Local dynamics of maps tangent to the identity

Sara Lapan, Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Boundary Layer Ingestion and Power Balance: Analysis Framework for Highly-Integrated Aircraft Configuration

Alejandra Uranga, Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

PT-symmetry breaking in microscopic gain-loss systems

Peter Rabl, Assistant Professor, Theoretical Quantum Optics (TQO), TU Wien,