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Winter 2015-2016

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Polar Molecules

Nick Hutzler, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Literary Dimensions Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Genre and the Longue Durée

Lauren Goodlad, Professor of English and Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Campaign 9 of Kepler's Extended K2 Mission: A Simultaneous Space- and Ground-based Microlensing Survey

Calen Henderson, Dr, Exoplanet Discovery and Science, JPL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Evolutionary Pressure to Control the Epithelial Phenotype

Angela Nieto, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, CSIC‐UMH,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics

Annenberg 107

Efficient Spectral Methods for Learning Mixture Models

Qingqing Huang, Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Playreaders 65th Season: "Postmortem" by Ken Ludwig

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016

8:00am – 2/9 5:00pm

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

12:00pm – 1:00pm

"Words Are Obsolete": Explaining and Understanding in the Dynamic Medium

Beckman Institute Auditorium

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Rational approximation of functions with logarithmic singularities

Alexander Pushnitski, King's College London,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "Overview of Library Resources"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Making the Connection Between Silicon and Molecules: Mechanisms and Praxis

Jillian Buriak, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics

Annenberg 213

Ground State Patterns and Phase Transitions for Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates, Numerics and Analysis

Professor I-Liang Chern, Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Probing the Dawn of Galaxies

Pascal Oesch, Yale,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Clouds and the (extra-)tropical circulation response to climate change

Aiko Voigt, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | Ocean & Climate Physics, Columbia University | Earth Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Kellogg Seminar

Lauritsen Library

"Who triggered electroweak baryogenesis"

Wei Chao, Research Fellow, Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Chemistry-Driven Biological Discovery"

Christina Woo, Department of Chemistry , Stanford University,

7:30pm – 10:30pm

(Men's Basketball) Occidental vs. Caltech

8:30pm – 10:30pm

Beginner International Ballroom

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

9:00pm – 11:00pm

West Coast Swing Social

Winnett Lounge

Thursday, February 4th, 2016

9:00am – 10:00am

PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

The Design and Synthesis of Transition Metal Complexes Supported by Non-innocent Ligand Scaffolds for Small Molecule Activation

Kyle Horak, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie group, Chemistry, Caltech,

9:00am – 10:00am

PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

The Design and Synthesis of Transition Metal Complexes Supported by Non-innocent Ligand Scaffolds for Small Molecule Activation

Kyle Horak, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie group, Chemistry, Caltech,

11:00am – 12:00pm

CANCELLED - Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Schlinger 101

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151

Elucidating the Functional Role of the DNA Polymerase δ [4Fe-4S] Cluster

Phillip Bartels, Mr., Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Neural Mechanisms for Dynamic Acoustic Communication in Flies

Mala Murthy, Assistant Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Counting genus-2 curves with split Jacobians

Everett Howe, Center for Communications Research,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 107

Does looking inside the circuit help?

Antonina Kolokolova, Memorial University of Newfoundland,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Order and disorder in light-responsive materials for energy applications

Bradley F. Chmelka, Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Slopes of overconvergent modular forms over boundary of the weight space

Ruochuan Liu, Professor, Mathematics, BICMR,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

The Large Hadron Collider: Awakening at the next energy frontier

Anyes Taffard, Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Dissecting Human Transcription Dynamics by Single-Molecule Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Zhengjian Zhang, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Transcription Imaging Consortium, Janelia Research Campus of HHMI,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Reading

Laila Lalami, Author,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

7:30pm – 10:30pm

(Women's Basketball) Occidental vs. Caltech

Friday, February 5th, 2016

10:00am – 11:00am

MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Firestone 306

Topology optimization of silicon anode structures for lithium-ion battery applications

Sarah Mitchell, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

The Fluid Manifesto: Topological sigma models and dissipative hydrodynamics

Mukund Rangamani, UC Davis,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213

Algorithms from natural lower bounds

Valentine Kabanets, Simon Fraser University,

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Beckman Room open (Caltech's Science Museum)

Beckman Institute 131

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Building Coordinator / Floor Warden Training

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

From GUT scale to galaxies: probing the early universe with large-scale structure

Fabian Schmidt, Scientific Staff Member, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA),

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Biola

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Dynamics and suppression of instabilities in magnetohydrodynamic implosions

Wouter Mostert, Postdoctoral Researcher, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories , California Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBA

Jonathan Hanselman, PhD student, Mathematics, UT Austin,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 213

Informational bottlenecks in control systems

Gireeja Ranade, Postdoctoral Scholar, Microsoft Research, Redmond,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Theory of arrested spinodal decomposition: physical gels, porous glasses, and the glass transition

Magdaleno Medina-Noyola, Professor, Instituto de Fisica "Manuel Sandoval Vallarta", Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Exponential Lifetime Improvement in Topological Quantum Memories

Charles Edouard Bardyn, Postdoctoral Scholar, Condensed Matter Theory,

Saturday, February 6th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at IFCSC South vs. South

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) All-Comers Meet vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Photography on Campus: Ter-Grigorian Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Jazz Band

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, February 7th, 2016

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Pianist Nadia Shpachenko Presents Six West Coast Premieres

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Intermediate International Ballroom

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

Monday, February 8th, 2016

3:00pm – 4:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151

Design, Synthesis, and Study of Novel Platforms for Iron-N2 Chemistry and Photoinduced, Copper-Mediated C-N Bond Formation

Sid Creutz, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Peters group, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification for Solutions to Differential Equation Models

Dave Campbell, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, and Director, Management and System Science, Simon Fraser University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Dry Ice on Mars

Candice Hansen, Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Maximal representations and projective structures on iterated sphere bundles

Anna Wienhard, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics & Physics, University of Heidelberg,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Type Ia Supernovae and Heavy Metals From Dark Matter

Joseph Bramante, Notre Dame University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Informational Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

3D Chromatin and Chromosome Conformations and Gene Expression Control

Peter Fraser, Nuclear Dynamics Programme, The Babraham Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

II_1 Factors with Non-isomorphic Ultrapowers

Adrian Ioana, Professor, Mathematics, UCSD,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Reading Seminar

Computational and descriptive complexity

Martino Lupini, Bateman Research Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Chern--Simons theory, surface separability, representation volumes, and dominations of 3-manifolds

Shicheng Wang, Peking University,

7:30pm – 10:30pm

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Redlands

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Beginner West Coast Swing

Winnett Lounge

Tuesday, February 9th, 2016

10:00am – 11:00am

Learning Seminar

An introduction to Weil groups

Andrei Frimu, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Modeling and Control of Online Advertising

Niklas Karlsson, VP, Research and Development, AOL/ Verizon,

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