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Winter 2018-2019

Friday, February 8th, 2019

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Let's Talk

Jorgensen 126

4:00pm – 5:00pm

inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Nickel-Catalyzed Secondary Alkylations and Fluoroalkylations via C–H Activation

Sebastian Lackner, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:30pm – 5:15pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310

Uniform Bounds for the bilinear Hilbert transform

Gennady Uraltsev, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,

5:30pm – 6:30pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310

An introduction to Boolean-valued analysis

Asgar Jamneshan, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby

7:00pm – 8:30pm

The World of Scientific Ballooning

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, February 9th, 2019

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at UCI-ASU IFCSC Mini Meet

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Fencing) Caltech at UCI-ASU IFCSC Mine Meet

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Fencing) Caltech at UCI-ASU IFCSC Mini Meet

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Fencing) Caltech at UCI-ASU IFCSC Mini Meet

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Swimming & Diving) La Verne vs. Caltech

12:00am – 12:00am

(Swimming & Diving) La Verne at Caltech

12:00am – 12:00am

(Women's Fencing) Caltech at UCI-ASU IFCSC Mine Meet

12:00am – 12:00am

(Women's Swimming & Diving) La Verne vs. Caltech

6:00am – 10:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Forillo Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

9:30am – 11:00am

Child Educational Center Open House

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:30pm

The Great Feast

Beckman Auditorium

5:00pm – 8:00pm

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

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

Sunday, February 10th, 2019

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, February 11th, 2019

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

TBD

Graham Giovanetti, Princeton University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Learn to Create Origami

Annenberg 107

12:30pm – 1:30pm

INQNET Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Direct characterization of ultrafast energy-time entangled photon pairs

Jean-Philippe Maclean, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), University of Waterloo, Canada,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Ramification of $p$-adic etale sheaves coming from ordinary

Joe Kramer-Miller, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Arc-continent collisions in the tropics set Earth's climate state

Francis Macdonald, Professor, Department of Geology, University of California, Santa Barbara,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model with underground detectors

Graham Giovanetti, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Literary Dimensions Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

"Watch Your Back!" Saul Bellow, The Dean's December, and the Gromer Case

Zachary Leader, Professor of English Literature, University of Roehampton,

Tuesday, February 12th, 2019

7:00am – 3:00pm

Filming on Campus

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

11:30am – 1:00pm

Neuro Lunch Meeting

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Yon Jong, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,

Dong-Wook Kim, Graduate Student, Computation & Neural Systems, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Fast large-deformation elastodynamics with accurate materials and consistent meshes

Jernej Barbic, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Associate Professor , Computer Science, University of Southern California,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

VLBI Dynamical Analysis of L Dwarf Binary 2M J0746+2000

Qicheng Zhang, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, Caltech,

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Postdoctoral Math Seminar

Linde Hall 387

A structure theorem for the orbits of $\Homeo_0(M)$

Lei Chen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Wednesday, February 13th, 2019

11:00am – 12:30pm

Shop Safety Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Emotional Well-Being Workshop Series - Emotion Regulation, Eating, and Food

Avery Library

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Science of Benefits TIAA Webinar

Inside Money: Managing Income and Debt

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop: You and Your Thesis

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Bayesian analysis for compact binaries

Yann Bouffanais, Research Assistant, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Padova,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Lab Safety Orientation Training

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Building quiescent galaxies

Sandro Tacchella, Harvard,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Decoupling Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Polynomial Method 2

Nets Katz, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Plant Drought Tolerance: New Frontiers from Cells to Ecosystems

Lawren Sack, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 255

The Springer correspondence

Lingfei Yi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 6:00pm

IQIM/High Energy Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310

New Technologies for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Searches

John Doyle, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Tailoring Instability at the Atomic Limit for Novel Material Properties

SungWoo Nam, Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Data Intensive Physical Organic Chemistry

Matthew Sigman, Professor of Organic Synthesis & Asymmetric Catalysis, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at La Verne

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Basketball) La Verne vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 9:30pm

Caltech Associates East Coast Event: Challenges for the Next 50 Years of Space Exploration

Off Campus

with Bethany Ehlmann, Professor of Planetary Science and JPL Research Scientist

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Elliot Meyerowitz - Plant Growth: How Stem Cells Make Stems

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, February 14th, 2019

8:30am – 11:00am

International Scholar Orientation

Moore 239

9:00am – 4:30pm

2nd Caltech workshop on AI for Science

Beckman Auditorium

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Higher Order Methods for Simulating Curvilinear Crack Propagation

Maurizio Chiaramonte, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , Princeton University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Beckman Institute Auditorium

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151

Patrycja Kielb, PostDoc, Gray Group, CCE, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105

Barnabas Robotics -- Confessions of a Real-World Engineer: From Hardware Designer to Start-Up CEO (& the things in between)

Edward Li, Barnabas Robotics,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 255

Small Gaps Between Primes

Alex Perozim De Faveri, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

12:10pm – 12:50pm

Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Rigorous Systems Research Group Seminar

Annenberg 243

Towards Private, Distributed, and Safe Autonomous Systems

James Anderson, Senior Research Scientist, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Normal and abnormal termination of translation in bacteria.

Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, and Group Leader, Structural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Caltech Project for Effective Teaching (CPET) Discussion Group

Gates Annex 126 (Library)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Smart Grid Seminar

Annenberg 121

Building Efficient, Sustainable & Resilient Grid by Controlling the Edge

Dr. Sonja Glavaski, Program Director, ARPA-E,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore B270

General adversarial channels: When do large codes exist?

Sidharth Jaggi, Associate Professor, Department of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Leveraging Cretaceous Great Valley forearc deposits to target the Jurassic arc: an integrated detrital ZTE/field-based geochronologic investigation of the southern Sierra Nevada batholith

Diane Clemens-Knott, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Fullerton,

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