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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Thursday, May 21st, 2015

8:00am – Ongoing

Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

Academic

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102

Bubbles, Bubbly Flows and Pseudo-Turbulence

Roberto Zenit, Professor, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,

11:00am – 12:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

New Catalytic Methods for the Preparation of Tryptophans and Pyrroloindolines: Total Synthesis of (+)-Naseseazines A and B and (–)-Aspergilazine A

Madeleine Kieffer, Graduate Student, Reisman group, Chemistry, Caltech,

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

Magnetic Field Effects on Charge Transport Through DNA

Theodore Zwang, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Development of Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling of Benzylic Electrophiles

Alan Cherney, Graduate Student, Reisman group, Chemistry, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special Bioengineering Seminar

Gates Annex B122

"Learning the Sequence Determinants of Exon Definition from Millions of Random Synthetic Sequences"

Georg Seelig, Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, University of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

The dendritic effect in coordination chemistry: fundamental investigations and applications to sustainable chemistry, engineering and materials (SusChEM)

Mamadou S. Diallo, Professor, Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water and Sustainability, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Visiting Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Cornelis Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology Lecture

Kerckhoff 119

The Serendipitous Path of Discovery: From Protein Folding to Cognition

Peter Walter, University of California, San Francisco,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Cornelis Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

"The Serendipitous Path of Discovery: From Protein Folding to Cognition"

Peter Walter, Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Sean Loyd

Sean Loyd, Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences, CSU Fullerton,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

The Galaxy in a new light: Gamma-ray astronomy with Cherenkov telescopes

Werner Hofmann, Director and Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Heidelberg, Germany,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

UPDATED | Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

A neurocomputational theory of cognitive control over learning

Sang Wan Lee, Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroscience, Caltech,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Beginning & Intermediate Salsa Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

The Search for Planets, Habitability, and Life in our Galaxy

Nick Siegler, Technology Manager, NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, JPL,

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Andrew Hodges: "Alan Turing: An Individual of the Twentieth Century"

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event