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Winter 2014-2015

Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

10:00am – 11:00am

TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308

Catalytic space

Harry Buhrmann,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Meet the Outreach Guys: James & Julius

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Renormalized volume and pseudo Anosovs

Greg McShane, Mathematics, Institut Fourier, France,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

What drives the Star Formation History of the Universe?

Fabian Walter, MPIA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CANCELED - Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Dave Penneys, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Atmospheric signatures of changing global biogeochemistry

Ralph Keeling, Professor, Department of Geosciences Research, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Towards the Assembly of a Synthetic Bacterial Cell

Kumaran Ramamurthi, Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Tomography from Entanglement

Bogdan Stoica, Physics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Mapping protein conformational ensembles and folding pathways with temperature-jump two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy

Carlos R. Baiz, Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Baxter B125

The Knowledge Society as a Practical Utopia and its Hidden Impact on Higher Education

Liviu Matei, Provost and Pro-Rector; Professor in the Department of Public Policy , Central European University,

8:00pm – 9:30pm

John P. O'Doherty - How the Brain Learns from the Past and Makes Good Decisions for the Future: A Tour of Neural Reinforcement Learning

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

8:30pm – 11:00pm

West Coast Swing Social

Winnett Lounge

8:30pm – 11:00pm

West Coast Swing Social

Winnett Lounge

Thursday, February 5th, 2015

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:15am – 12:15pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102

Precision Motion Control with Manufacturing Applications

Andrew Alleyne, Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151

Heterologous Expression and Nonsense Suppression of a Nicotinic Receptor Involved in Parkinson's Disease and Addiction

Michael Post, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Distribution of orders in number fields

Ramin Takloo-Bighash, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Interstellar: A Physicist's Adventures in Hollywood

Kip Thorne, The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, Caltech,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Beginning & Intermediate Salsa Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

Friday, February 6th, 2015

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

BIG J

Simeon Hellerman, IMPU, Univ of Tokyo,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Thermalization time bounds for Pauli stabilizer Hamiltonians

Paul Kristan Temme, Postdoctoral Scholar, Theoretical Physics, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Proposal Writing Workshop

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Beckman Room open (Caltech's Science Museum)

Beckman Institute 131

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

The Fluctuating Intergalactic Ionizing Background Across Cosmic Time

Frederick Davies, Graduate Student, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Edward E. Zukoski Lecture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Multi-physics Modeling for Fire Protection

Sergey B. Dorofeev, Assistant Vice President and Director of Fire Hazard and Protection Research, FM Global,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore 239

Online Robust PCA or Online Sparse + Low-Rank Matrix Recovery

Namrata Vaswani, Associate Professor, ECE, Iowa State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Seminar Title TBA

Alex Iosevich, Professor, Mathematics, University of Rochester,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Flat strips in rank one CAT(0) spaces

Russell Ricks, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Multifunctional Materials via Photolithographic Olefin Metathesis Polymerization

Raymond Weitekamp, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

The Stability Problem for Extremal Black Holes

Stefanos Aretakis, Veblen Research Instructor, Mathematics, Princeton University,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

Saturday, February 7th, 2015

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) IFCSC Teams

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Swimming and Diving) Cal Lutheran

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track) Caltech All-Comers Meet

12:00am – 12:00am

(Women's Swimming & Diving) Cal Lutheran

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Biola vs. Caltech

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Whittier vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Whittier vs. Caltech

Sunday, February 8th, 2015

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Beginner/Intermediate International Ballroom: Tango and Samba

Winnett Lounge

Monday, February 9th, 2015

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Faculty Board Meeting

Caltech Hall Board Room

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Universal unipotent local systems and Maurer-Cartan systems of algebraic cycles

Majid Hadian-Jazi, Scott Russell Johnson Research Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Efficient Optimal Strategies for Online Prediction

Professor Peter Bartlett, Division of Computer Science and Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280

New matrix decompositions for Gaussian communication networks

Anatoly Khina, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Accreting the Earth and Forming its Core: Experimental and Theoretical Constraints

James Badro, Professor and Research Director, Research Department Experimental Geophysics, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Renormalization Group Evolution of Dimension Six Operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory

Elizabeth Jenkins, UC San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Novel Small-Molecule Activation Pathways Exploiting Late-Metal/Silicon Cooperation

Matthew T. Whited, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Carleton College,

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Beginner/Intermediate West Coast Swing with Demetre Souliotes - Week 4

Winnett Lounge

Tuesday, February 10th, 2015

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Humanities Brown Bag Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Detachable Pockets and Epistolary Narrative: Material Spaces of Interiority in Samuel Richardson's Pamela

Julie Park, Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

From sampling to fluid dynamics through geometric discretization

Mathieu Desbrun, John W. and Herberta M. Miles Professor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Vacuum Squeezing in a Vacuum Envelope

Andrew Wade, Australian National University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Topological quantum computation with anyons

Claire Levaillant, UCSB,

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Logic Seminar

The countable admissible ordinal equivalence relation

William Chan, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104

Nanoscale Cavity Optomechanics for Quantum Optics and Sensing: Diamond, Si and More

Paul Barclay, Assistant Professor and Alberta Innovates Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMI Seminar

Annenberg 213

Tools from Optimization Theory and Applications to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, part 1

Dvijotham ("Dj") Krishnamurthy, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Gravitational Astronomy - Prospects and Challenges a Century after Einstein

B Sathyaprakash (Sathya), School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff Universtiy,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

Are children's drawings good for anything?

Mehrdad Shahshahani, Professor, School of Mathematics, IPM,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Stellar Tides As a Probe of Hot Jupiters' Origin and Fate

Francesca Valsecchi, CIERA Fellow, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Molecular Catalysis of CO2 Reduction

Jean-Michel Saveant, Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Laboratory of Electrochemistry, UMR CNRS, University of Paris Diderot,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

Wednesday, February 11th, 2015

10:00am – 11:30am

Student Shop Safety Hands-on Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Spectral properties of the Fourier restriction operator and applications

Julien Sabin, Mathematics, U. Paris Sud Orsay,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Understanding Palladium Ligation, Activation and Turnover in the Development of Novel Approaches to a Complex Clinical Candidate

Martin D. Eastgate, Dr., Ph.D., Director, Early-Phase Chemical Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Resnick Institute Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Development of Materials for Future Energy Systems using Combinatorial Synthesis of Thin Film Materials Libraries and High-Throughput Characterization

Alfred Ludwig, Professor, Institute for Materials, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Precision Stellar Astrophysics: Asteroseismology and Large Spectroscopic Surveys

Marc Pinsonneault, Ohio State,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Mechanistically Promiscuous Metals

Cristina Nevado, Professor Dr., Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Zurich,

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