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May 2013

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Materials Research Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Novel Materials, Computational Spectroscopy, and Multiscale Simulation in Nanoscale Photovoltaics

Marco Bernardi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA,

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Wednesday Office Hours

See event detail for location

8:00pm – 9:00pm

Shu-ou Shan: Decision Making and Quality Control in Early Moments of a Protein's Life

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

5:00am – 8:00am

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at NCAA D-III Women's Tennis Championship

8:00am – Ongoing

Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

Academic

9:30am – 3:00pm

From Data to Discovery: A One Day Symposium on the Emerging Science of Big Data Visualization

Beckman Auditorium

10:30am – 12:30pm

Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum

10:30am – 11:30am

Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Earth-Abundant Materials for Solar Hydrogen Generation

James Robert McKone, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Lewis Group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206

Thermal Transport in Nanostructured Materials for Solid State Energy Conversion

Jonathan Malen, Assitant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Caltech BikeLab Repair Session @ Winnett

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Thesis Defense.

Beckman Institute Auditorium

"Beyond Watson and Crick: programming the self-assembly and reconfiguration of DNA nanostructures based on stacking interactions"

Sungwook Woo, Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering, Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Folding under pressure: mechanical forces in development of native and engineered tissues

Celeste Nelson, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:15pm

CMS Seminar

Annenberg 105

Big Data, Deep Data, and the Effect of System Architectures on Performance

Peter M. Kogge McCourtney, Professor of CSE, Univ. of Notre Dame,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Frustrated Magnets and Quantum Spin Liquids

Steven White, UC Irvine,

5:00pm – 6:30pm

CPET Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Tales from the Trenches: Teaching Astronomy at a California Community College

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Thursday Office Hours

See event detail for location

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Amnesty International Monthly Meeting

Friday, May 24th, 2013

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Towards a holographic formulation of Cosmology

Gonzalo Torroba, Stanford University,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Special JCAP Seminar

Jorgensen 109

A Versatile Materials Platform from New Functional Epoxide Polymerizations

Nathaniel A. Lind, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California - Santa Barbara,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Friday Office Hours

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 127

Individual Preferences for Privacy

Rachel Cummings, Northwestern University,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151

The Intramolecular Buchner Reaction of α-Diazo-β-Ketonitriles: Development and Application to the Total Synthesis of (+)-Salvileucalin B

Roger Rauhauser Nani, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Reisman Group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Glimpsing the Composition Distribution of Sub-Neptune-Size Exoplanets

Leslie Rogers, Hubble Postdoctoral Scholar, Astronomy, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Is the Sky Falling?

James Cutler, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

New Catalysis for Expanded Reactivity in Z-Selective Metathesis

Brendan Quigley, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Special Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Science and Human Values

Prof. G.V. Venkataraman, Physicist, Retired; Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences,

Saturday, May 25th, 2013

11:30am – 2:00pm

Professor Francis Clauser Memorial Lunch

Athenaeum

12:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech Bike Lab -- Bike Ride to Angel City Brewery / Food Truck Party on Sat May 25

See event detail for location

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Dawson Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Kiledjian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Morataya Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Duong Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 6:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Torousian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Sunday, May 26th, 2013

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Srabian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Kivork Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Movsessian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Abrahamian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

5:20pm – 7:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Tahmasian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, May 27th, 2013

8:00am – 5:00pm

Memorial Day (Institute Holiday)

Off Campus

Academic

9:00am – 4:00pm

Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114

Topological Viscosity Response due to Torsion and the Bulk-Boundary Correspondence

Taylor Hughes, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champagne,

Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Tuesday Noon Office Hour

See event detail for location

2:00pm – 3:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248

New Results from CMS

Frank Wuerthwein, UCSD,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Center for the Mathmatics of Information and the Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 107

Fourier sparsity, spectral norm, and the Log-rank conjecture

Shengyu Zhang, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

TBA

Prof. Risa Wechsler, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

CANCELLED: Adiabatic and Diabatic Treatments of Vibronic Coupling: The NO₃ Molecule as an Example

John F. Stanton, George W. Watt Centennial Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Fluid Mechanics Research Conference

Guggenheim 202

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Phil Sharp, Institute Professor , Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research , Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science

South Mudd 365

Extrasolar Cosmochemistry

Michael Jura, Professor and Vice Chair, Astronomy , Department of Physics and Astronomy , UCLA,

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Tuesday Evening Office Hours

See event detail for location

Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

10:00am – 11:30am

Investing for Women Workshop

Winnett Lounge

10:00am – 11:00am

Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Broad 100

Studying conscious and unconscious vision with fMRI: the BOLD promise

Julien Dubois, Graduate Student, Compuation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology,

10:30am – 11:30am

Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Synthetic Applications and Methodological Developments of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes

Alexander Goldberg, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz Group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

11:30am – 1:30pm

4th Annual Caltech Student Health Fair

San Pasqual Walk

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Thesis Defense.

Steele 102

"Architecture, Limits, and Tradeoffs in Biology"

Fiona Chandra, Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering, Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Gone with the Wind? Galactic winds and star formation quenching

Christy Tremonti, Wisconsin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Title TBD

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Accessing and Harnessing Metalated Intermediates toward Synthetic Utility

Eric M. Ferreira, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry Department, Colorado State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

The Next Wave of Wireless Communications

Annenberg 105

The Wouk Lecture

Lawrence Larson, Dean of School of Engineering, Brown University,

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Wednesday Office Hours

See event detail for location

Thursday, May 30th, 2013

9:00am – 10:00am

Thesis Defense Seminar

South Mudd 254

Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds

Yi-Chun Chen, Graduate Student , Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech,

10:00am – 11:00am

58th Annual Staff Service Awards

Beckman Auditorium

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