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October 2015

Thursday, October 8th, 2015

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

On a Filtration of CH0 for an Abelian Variety A

Valia Gazaki, University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

The Winding Road to Topological Insulators

Eugene Mele, Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

Unveiling an Alien World: Dawn at Ceres

Carol Raymond, DAWN Deputy Principal Investigator, JPL,

7:30pm – 10:30pm

(Women's Volleyball) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

Friday, October 9th, 2015

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Quantum Hydrodynamics from Large-N Supersymmetric Gauge Theories

Peter Koroteev, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Brendan Lucier

Baxter 125

Near-Optimal Outcomes in Markets Large and Small

Brendan Lucier, Researcher, Microsoft Research, New England,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Safe Zone Ally Training for Students - Part 2

Avery Library

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Sweating the small stuff: simulating dwarf galaxies, ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, and their own tiny satellites

Coral Wheeler, Graduate Student, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Construction of Non-equilibrium Hydrodynamic Models for Atmospheric Entry Plasmas

Marco Panesi, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBA

Corrin Clarkson, Zorn Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Indiana University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar

Moore B280

Analog Generators and the 60Gb/s RX Front-End

Elad Alon, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA

Ben Krause, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics, University of British Columbia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Superconductivity in Uranium and Plutonium revealed by NMR

Andrew Mounce, Los Alamos National Labs/Sandia Labs,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA

Bartosz Trojan, Mathematics, University of Wroclaw,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)

Unveiling an Alien World: Dawn at Ceres

Carol Raymond, DAWN Deputy Principal Investigator, JPL,

Saturday, October 10th, 2015

9:00am – 12:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Caltech at Chaffey

10:00am – 4:00pm

Auditions for "Boldly Go!"

TACIT House, 275 S. Hill Ave.

10:30am – 1:30pm

(Men's Water Polo) Ventura vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Monica Thomas & Michael Rathbun

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

1:30pm – 4:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Bronsozian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:30pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Babakhanyan & Khanzratyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Arutyunyan Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 7:00pm

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

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Photography on Campus: Oganesyan Wedding Photo Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

5:30pm – 7:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Mardikian/Sutlian Photography Session

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Laurie Lewis and Kathy Kallick

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, October 11th, 2015

12:00pm – 3:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Mills vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Mills vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Mills vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Family Photography on Campus: Keeslar Family

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:30pm – 6:40pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachatoorians Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachatoorians Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, October 12th, 2015

9:00am – 4:00pm

Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Red Door Cafe

12:00pm – 8:00pm

Eighth Annual Caltech Y Golf Tournament & Auction

Off Campus

12:00pm – 5:00pm

Explore JPL - Seminar #2

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Safe Zone Ally Training for Staff & Faculty - Part 1

Avery Conference Room

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

K-Stability for Fano Varieties with Torus Action

Nathan Ilten, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Simon Fraser University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

What does ‘high precision' mean anymore? Probing and pushing the limits of geochronology

Noah M. McLean, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, The University of Kansas,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Tracking DNA Damage Repair with DNA Chips

Jason Slinker, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Texas, Dallas,

6:30pm – 7:30pm

Alpine Club Talk

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Cycling to Hell and Back: My Race Across America

Vito Rubino, Research Scientist, Caltech,

Tuesday, October 13th, 2015

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Grid of the Future: Is Distributed Control the Answer?

Sonja Glavaski, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E),

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Recovering elliptic curves from their p-torsion

Jacob Tsimmerman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Surrogate Models of Numerical Relativity Binary Black Hole Waveforms

Jonathan Backman, TAPIR, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Logic Seminar

Weak containment of measure preserving group actions

Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Andre-Oort and other problems in Unlikely intersections

Jacob Tsimerman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,

7:30pm – 10:30pm

(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Cal Lutheran

Wednesday, October 14th, 2015

10:00am – 11:00am

TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308

How to refute a random CSP

Ryan O'Donnell, CMU,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Regularity theory for fully nonlinear integro-differential equations

Tianling Jin, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Safe Zone Ally Training for Staff & Faculty - Part 2

Avery Conference Room

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Whittier vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Tuning the Clock: Making Sense of Stellar Rotation with Kepler

Jennifer van Saders, Carnegie,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Next Generation of Polymeric Membranes and Media for Sustainable Water Purification and Resource Recovery

Mamadou S. Diallo, Associate Professor & Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Systems for Water Sustainability, Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water and Sustainability, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

In Situ Materials Science: Probing Microstructural Evolution of Metallic Materials in Real-Time

Nik Chawla,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

No Strain, No Gain: Advances in the Synthesis and Use of Cyclobutanes

M. Kevin Brown, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University,

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Paul Weissman - Back to the Beginning: The Rosetta Comet Rendezvous Mission

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, October 15th, 2015

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Towards Exascale Simulation of Turbulent Combustion"

Jackie Chen, Sandia National Laboratories, Combustion Research Facility,

11:30am – 1:30pm

Caltech Personal Preparedness Fair

San Pasqual Walk

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Reading Women

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen

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

Cracking the Codes for Cellular Identity at the Single Cell Transcript Level

Ahmet F. Coskun, Dr., Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Logic Seminar

Furstenberg-Poisson boundary 101

Omer Tamuz, Assistant Professor of Economics, Humanities and Social Science, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Microbial fermentation for health and fashion

John Dueber, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

The powerful magnetic fields of red giant stars

Jim Fuller, Postdoctoral Scholar in the TAPIR Group, Caltech,

4:40pm – 6:00pm

CMA presents Special Effects Wizardry in "The Martian"

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

Chris Lawrence, Visual Effects Supervisor and Head of Computer Graphics, Framestore,

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