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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Ongoing

All Day Ongoing

Voting Open for the Caltech Y Photo Contest

Thursday, May 19th, 2016

12:00am – 5/22 12:00am

Reunion Weekend

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

8:00am – Ongoing

Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

Academic

11:00am – 12:00pm

(CANCELLED) Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Carbon-based nanomaterials: from combustion nanoparticles to chiral"

(CANCELLED) Angela Violi, Professor, Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biophysics, University of Michigan,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Reading Women

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

1:00pm – 2:00pm

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

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Broad 100

"Multiplexed analysis of diverse RNA classes via hybridization chain reaction"

Aneesh Acharya, Bioengineering Ph.D. Candidate, Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Mechanisms of regulation and fidelity in tail-anchored membrane protein targeting

Meera Rao, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125

Oscillatory Mechanisms Underlying Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

Ming Hsu, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

When bad is good: directed evolution using negative selection can result in proteins with superior properties

Marc Ostermeier, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Medical Engineering Special Speaker

Annenberg 105

Optical Microscopy Techniques for Mapping the Brain Connectome with Nanoscale Resolution

Emmanouil Karagiannis, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Synthetic Neurobiology Group, Medial Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Cycles in the de Rham cohomology of abelian varieties over number fields

Yunqing Tang, Mathematics, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Quantum Physics of Information

Fernando Brandao, Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy Division, Caltech,

6:00pm – 7:30pm

Art + Tech Panel: The Prosthetic Imaginary

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Sara Hendren, Artist, Design Researcher, and Assistant Professor of Design, Olin College of Engineering,

Ken Pickar, Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

Fire and Ice...and Methane—Exploring Mars and Titan using laboratory and field analogues on Earth

Morgan Cable, Assistant Project Science Systems Engineer, Cassini Mission and Technologist, Instrument Systems Implementation and Concepts Section, JPL,