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Winter 2015-2016

Sunday, February 21st, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Swimming and Diving) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Escher String Quartet with Jason Vieaux, Guitar

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Intermediate International Ballroom

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

Monday, February 22nd, 2016

9:30am – 10:30am

Personal Emergency Preparedness

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Neural coding of space and time in entorhinal cortex

Michael Hasselmo, Director, Center for Systems Neuroscience, Boston Univeristy,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment

Professor Randall J. LeVeque, Applied Mathematics Department, University of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Formation and Compositions of Planet Interiors and Atmospheres: Discoveries from Kepler, K2, and Beyond

Erik A. Petigura, Postdoctoral Scholar in Planetary Science, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Using a Metal's Secondary Coordination Sphere as a Design Element to Control Reductive Catalysis

Nathaniel Szymczak, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Michigan,

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Beginner West Coast Swing

Winnett Lounge

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Bioethics Forum: HeLa Cells in the Lab

Baxter Lecture Hall

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

10:00am – 12:00pm

Learning Seminar

The 1-dimensional case: algebraic Hecke characters

nathan Lawless, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Computational Information Games

Houman Owhadi, Professor, Applied & Computational Mathematics and Control & Dynamical Systems, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Sharply 3-transitive groups

Katrin Tent, Professor, Universität Münster,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium

TBD

Prof. Guineveve Kauffman, MPA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar -- CANCELED

Kerckhoff 119

Deep Imaging to Explore Genome Structure and Function

Tom Misteli, Senior Deputy Director for Research, CCR, NIH/HHMI,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

First Results from Advanced LIGO

Alan Weinstein, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

LUX and LZ: Dark Matter Searches and Beyond

Carmen Carmona-Benitez, UC Santa Barbara,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

A drunk walk in a drunk world

Ivan Corwin, Clay Research Fellow, Mathematics, Columbia University, Clay Mathematics Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Enceladus: The Hottest Little Moon in the Solar System

Andy Ingersoll, Professor, Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Dynamic Soft Materials: Gels, Bubbles, and Drops

Lauren Zarzar, Dynamic Soft Materials: Gels, Bubbles, and Drops, Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

"Body of Evidence: Tracing Photographic Identity in Victorian Law and Popular Culture"

Baxter Lecture Hall

Public Event

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

5:00pm – 6:00pm

HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture

Baxter B125

Body of Evidence: Tracing Photographic Identity in Victorian Law and Popular Culture

Jennifer Tucker, Associate Professor of History and Science in Society, Wesleyan University,

6:00pm – 7:30pm

Art + Tech Panel: Information Systems and Culture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Ricardo Dominguez, Artist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, UCSD,

Keller Easterling, Writer, Architect, and Professor in the Yale School of Architecture,

K. Mani Chandy, Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, Caltech,

7:30pm – 10:30pm

(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Ripples in Spacetime: Our New Window on the Universe

Beckman Auditorium

Wednesday, February 24th, 2016

9:00am – 5:00pm

Last day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections for Winter Term

Academic

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

A family of monotone quantum relative entropies

Julien Sabin, Mathematics, University Paris Orsay,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

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

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Kauffman Brackets on Surfaces

Francis Bonahon, Professor, Mathematics, USC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

THIS COLLOQUIUM HAS BEEN CANCELLED

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

In search of the elusive eastward inertio-gravity wave

George Kiladis, Research Scientist, Earth System Research Laboratory | Physical Sciences Division, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Stochastic quantum integrable systems

Ivan Corwin, Associate Professor, IHP Poincare Chair Packard Fellow , Mathematics, Columbia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Quantum Mechanics as Classical Physics

Chip Sebens, Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in the History and Philosophy of Physics, Caltech,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Combinatorics Seminar

Reconstruction of depth-3 circuits

Gaurav Sinha, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

5:30pm – 8:00pm

Talking The Talk: Beyond Borders "A Community Discussion On The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Islamophobia

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

8:30pm – 10:30pm

Beginner International Ballroom

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

9:00pm – 11:00pm

West Coast Swing Social

Winnett Lounge

Thursday, February 25th, 2016

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

(CANCELLED) Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Schlinger 101

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special TAPIR Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

nu Physics in the Early Universe

Daniel Green, Assistant Professor, CITA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Hurewicz isomorphisms for algebraic varieties

Johannes Anschuetz, Professor, Mathematics, University of Heidelberg,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution

Eric Betzig, HHMI Janelia Research Campus,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

Friday, February 26th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at Stro Div1A ROC and RJCC

12:00am – 2/27 12:00am

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at SCIAC Post-Season Tournament

9:00am – 4:30pm

Science & Society Conference

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213

Bi-Lipschitz Bijection between the Boolean Cube and the Hamming Ball

Gil Cohen, Caltech,

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Confronting the Standard Model with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Ryan Cooke, Hubble Fellow, Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics, U.C. Santa Cruz,

2:30pm – 5:30pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Occidental

2:30pm – 3:30pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Applications of Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Methods in the Synthesis of Organofluorine Compounds

Yufan Liang, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Fu group, Chemistry, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Thermal Fluctuations of Plates and Lipid Membranes

Prashant Purohit, Associate Professor , Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Heegaard Floer homology for tangles and cobordisms between them

Akram Alishahi, Ritt Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Polymerization Catalysis by Bimetallic Complexes

Jessica Sampson, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Casimir Effect, Theta Vacuum and Topological Order in QED

Charles Cao, Graduate Student, Physics, Caltech,

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Caltech Theater presents Boldly Go! (A Star Trek Musical Parody)

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, February 27th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at Stro Div1A ROC and RJCC

12:00am – 2/28 12:00am

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at SCIAC Post-Season Tournament

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at 20th Rossi Relays

8:00am – 11:00am

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech vs. Carthage

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) Occidental vs. Caltech

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