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May 2014

Ongoing

Ongoing – 5/6 5:00pm

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

Thursday, May 1st, 2014

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102

Theory and Applications of Bacterial Surface Polarizability

Cullen Buie, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

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

The Iron-Sulfur Cluster in Dna2: Implications for DNA Charge Transport in Eukaryotes

Helen Segal, Ms., Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Computational Enzyme Design

Crellin 151

Thesis defense

Bernardo Sosa Padilla Araujo, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Orbitofrontal Cortex: Beyond Value

Jonathan D. Wallis, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CANCELED: Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

TBA

Isaac Larsen, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Open compact subgroups of SO_{2n+1}(F)

Pei-Yu Tsai, OLGA TAUSSKY-JOHN TODD INSTRUCTOR, Mathematics, Caltech,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114

Measurement of attosecond electron tunnel ionization times

Hadas Soifer, Weizmann Institute,

Friday, May 2nd, 2014

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) SCIAC Championships

9:30am – 5:00pm

Materialities, Texts and Images (MTI) Workshop

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

BUILDING STORIES: Intersections of Writing and Architecture

10:00am – 1:00pm

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

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Caltech vs. Pomona-Pitzer

10:00am – 11:00am

Physical Biology of V(D)J recombination and Genome Packaging: In singulo studies of the RAG recombinase, HMGB1 and TFAM

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Thesis defense

Goeffrey Lovely, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

New Exact Results in Calabi-Yau, D-branes, and Orientifoulds

Sungjay Lee, University of Chicago,

11:00am – 12:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Functional Evaluation of Noncovalent Interactions in Neuroreceptors and Progress Toward the Expansion of Unnatural Amino Acid Methodology

Kristina Daeffler, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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

Baxter 127

The Design, Laboratory Testing, and Implementation of Large Constrained Auctions: The Victoria, Australia, Gaming Machine Auction

Charles R. Plott, William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Political Science, Caltech,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

T-duality and scattering of stringy states

Jnan Maharana, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India,

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Caltech vs. Redlands

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Caltech vs. TBA

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

The Cosmic Dawn - Physics of the First Luminous Objects

Ken Chen, IAU-Gruber Fellow, Astronomy and Astrophysics, U.C. Santa Cruz,

2:30pm – 5:30pm

(Women's Tennis) Whittier vs. Caltech

2:30pm – 3:30pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Mechanistic Studies of Reactions at Single-Molecule Level Using Microfluidics with Applications in Molecular Diagnostics

Bing Sun, Graudate Student in Chemistry, Ismagilov group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Geometry and topology of finite volume, bounded negatively curved manifolds

Yunhui Wu, Professor, Mathematics, Rice University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Transcriptional Network Control of Blood Cell Development

Bertie Gottgens, Professor, Dept of Molecular Haematology, Cambridge University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Electron Transfer and DNA Replication: Assessing the Functional Role of the Yeast DNA Polymerase delta [4Fe-4S] Cluster

Phil Bartels, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Dance Show

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, May 3rd, 2014

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) SCIAC Championships

9:00am – 3:00pm

Portrait Photography on Campus: Ruiz Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Caltech vs. Occidental

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Caltech vs. Cal Lutheran

10:00am – 2:00pm

Midterms Open Kitchen

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Abrahamyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Mkrtchyan & Boyadzhyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

4:00pm – 5:50pm

Family Photography on Campus: Bugarin Family

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 5:30pm

MACH 33 Play Reading: They Promised Her the Moon

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Public Event

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Batdorj & Zuend Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Yetemian & Tafesh Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Dance Show

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, May 4th, 2014

10:00am – 2:00pm

Midterms Open Kitchen

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Cornell Engagement Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, May 5th, 2014

9:30am – 10:30am

Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Development of Semicrystalline Morphology of Poly(L-lactic acid) during Processing of a Vascular Scaffold

Artemis Ailianou, graduate student, chemical engineering, california institute of technology,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Experiences from two years of MOOCs at Caltech: A WEST Public Seminar

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Aerospace Engineering Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Seminar Title TBA

Will Pomerantz,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

The Development of a Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Conjugate Addition and Its Application Toward the Synthesis of Taiwaniaquinoid Natural Products

Jeffrey Holder, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biophysics Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Curiosity's Mission of Exploration at Gale Crater

John Grotzinger, Professor of Geology, Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114

Symmetry protection beyond band theory: models of bosonic symmetry-protected phases in 3D

Fiona Burnell, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dow Lecture in Organometallic Chemistry

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Molecular Oxygen as a Reagent in Late Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry

Karen Goldberg, Nicole A. Boand Endowed Professor of Chemistry and Director, Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis, Chemistry, University of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

'Isotopes of Disease'

Francis Albarede, Professor of Geochemistry ENS Lyon, Department of Earth and Science, ENS Lyon - Université de Lyon 1 - CNRS,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

The cosmological constant problem in scalar gravity and a naturally light dilaton

Prateek Agrawal, Fermilab,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Teaching Statement Workshop - 2-Part Event

Moore B270

4:15pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Highly magnetic neutron stars: bewildering astrophysical laboratories and cosmological tools

Rosalba Perna, Stony Brook,

Tuesday, May 6th, 2014

10:00am – 11:00am

Charting Your Course… Exclusively for Women

Winnett Lounge

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

1:30pm – 2:30pm

Thesis Defense.

Gates Annex B122

"Design and Analysis of Nucleic Acid Reaction Pathways"

Brian Wolfe, Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering, Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CANCELLED General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Hopi Hoekstra, Professor, Dept. Zoology, Dept. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

The Search for Young Planets

Prof. Russel White, Georgia State Univ.,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Excitonic Dynamics in Conjugated Molecular Materials

Peter J. Rossky, Marvin K. Collie-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Fluid Mechanics Research Conference

Guggenheim 202

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science

South Mudd 365

ot and Shiny: Atmospheric Characterization of the Hot Jupiter Exoplanet Kepler-13Ab

Avi Shporer, Sagan Fellow, Caltech/JPL,

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