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May 2009

Ongoing

Ongoing – 5/5 5:00pm

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

Friday, May 1st, 2009

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Spiky Strings and Spin Chains

Nick Dorey, professor of theoretical physics, University of Cambridge,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Fine Arts and Crafts Club Meeting and Fair

Red Door Cafe

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Numerical Simulation and Subgrid-Scale Modeling of Mixing and Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows

Daniel Chung, graduate student in aeronautics, GALCIT, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Unraveling Fine-Scale and Cell-Type Specificity of Cortical Circuits

Edward M. Callaway, professor of systems neurobiology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.

Beyond Galton: J.S. Mill, Charles Darwin, and the 19th Century British Debate over Inherited Differences?

Diane Paul, professor emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston, visiting professor, UCLA Center for Society and Genetics,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151

Outer Membrane Protein A: From Folding to Electron Transfer

Tsun Yin (Bert) Lai, postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, Caltech,

4:15pm – 5:30pm

Caltech Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Pilates-based Strength Class: Core Strength of Athletes and Dancers

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

9:00am – 5:00pm

JPL Open House

JPL

9:00am – 2:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Huang Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

11:00am – 5:00pm

Baseball vs. Occidental (DH)

North Athletic Field

1:00pm – 4:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Berberian/Matosian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

9:00am – 5:00pm

JPL Open House

JPL

10:00am – 11:00am

Beginning Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

11:00am – 12:30pm

Intermediate/Advanced Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

11:30am – 4:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Balakrishnan/Rosenthal Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech-Occidental Symphony Orchestra: Concerto Winners Concert

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, May 4th, 2009

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Multi-scale and Multi-physics Computational Framework for Nano- and Bio-systmes

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Multi-scale and Multi-physics Computational Framework for Nano- and Bio-systmes

Hyungjun Kim, Graduate Student in Chemistry,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Downs 107

"An Optical Gas Microscope for Quantum Simulation"

Simon Foelling, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Calibrating the Cryongenian in the Yukon

Francis A. Macdonald, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Hidden Fermionic Dark Matter in Neutrino Detectors

Jennifer Kile, Brookhaven National Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Information Science and Technology Seminar

Moore B270

Achieving Complex Global Objectives via Simple Local Rules: Applications in Networking and Medical Imaging

Yi Lu, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Hydrogen Storage Systems Exploiting the Kubas Interaction

David M. Antonelli, professor of chemistry, University of Windsor,

4:15pm – 5:15pm

Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Hidden Structures in Homogenization and Inverse Homogenization

8:30pm – 9:30pm

Intermediate Ceroc Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

9:45pm – 10:45pm

Beginner Lindy Hop Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

8:00am – 5/6 8:00pm

Red Cross Blood Drive

Winnett Quad

9:30am – 11:30am

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151

Ultrafast Electron Crystallography: Principles and Applications

Ding-Shyue Yang, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Jorgensen 74

Quantum Multi Prover Interactive Proofs with Communicating Provers

Avinatan Hassidim, postdoctoral associate, Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206

Tensile Strength and Fracture Toughness of Brittle Materials

Francisco Emmerich, professor, Laboratory of Carbon and Ceramic Materials, Department of Physics, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil,

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

Finding the Goodies in the SDSS Quasar Archive

Todd Boroson, National Optical Astronomy Observatories,

3:45pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Titan's Mobile Surface: Eolian Activity, Erosion, and Tectonism on Titan from Cassini Radar

Jai Radebaugh, Brigham Young University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104

Semiconductor Nanowires for Electronics and Sensors

Ted Kamins, principal scientist, Quantum Science Research Group, Hewlett-Packard Labs,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Gas-Surface Chemical Reactions and Molecule Survival at High Collision Energies

Konstantinos P. Giapis, associate professor of chemical engineering, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Dengue Pathogenesis: From Mice to Humans

Eva Harris, Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248

Recent Developments in Heavy Flavor Meson Spectrscopy

Alexander Rakitin, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Mathematics of Information Seminar

Moore 239

Some Topics in Algorithmic Mechanism Design Part I

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

8:00pm – 9:00pm

Bellydance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

10:00am – 12:00pm

Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Stratified Analyticity of the Lyapunov Exponent and the Global Theory of One-Frequency Schrodinger Operators

Artur Avila, Centre Nationale de Recherche,

2:15pm – 3:15pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

The Power of Gold

Norbert Krause, professor of organic chemistry, Dortmund University of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Ptolemy's Cosmology, the First Scientific Cosmology

Noel Swerdlow, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Modern Protein Chemistry

Ronald T. Raines, Professor of chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Aerosols in the United States: Observation from Space and Pollution-Climate Interactions

Daniel Jacob, professor of atmospheric chemistry and environmental engineering, Harvard University,

6:30pm – 7:30pm

Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge

8:00pm – 9:00pm

Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

9:00am – 10:00am

ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Greening Pasadena: The City's Plans for a Sustainable Future

Alice Sterling, Green City Coordinator, City of Pasadena,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Career Development Center Workshop: Networking and Resume Writing

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library System Workshop: "Electronic Theses and Dissertations"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Characterizing the Resistance Generated by a Molecular Bond as it is Forcibly Separated

L. Ben Freund, professor of engineering, Brown University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar

Baxter B125

Single Neurons and Decision Making in the Primate Brain

Daeyeol Lee, Yale University School of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

UHP Terranes: Race Car or School Bus?

Andrew Kylander-Clark, development engineer, Department of Earth Sciences, UC Santa Barbara,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Seeing the Beginning of the Universe

Benjamin Wandelt, Associate Professor of Physics, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, currently on sabbatical at Caltech and JPL,

8:00pm – 9:00pm

Jazz/Lyrical Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

9:00pm – 10:00pm

Hip Hop Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

Friday, May 8th, 2009

10:00am – 11:30am

Spirit of Exploration

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Nuclear Force from String Theory

Koji Hashimoto, senior research scientist, RIKEN,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics

Yonggang Huang, professor of civil and environmental engineering, Northwestern Universtiy,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Persons and Explanations by Mechanisms

Peter Machamer, professor of the history and philosophy of science, University of Pittsburgh,

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