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October 2016

Saturday, October 1st, 2016

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Caltech at Occidental

12:00pm – 12:00pm

Photography on Campus: Kim Wedding Photo Shoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Occidental vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Photography on Campus: Ochoa Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

5:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Associates Program: President's Circle Garden Party

President's Residence

Sunday, October 2nd, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at ITA West Regional

12:00am – 12:00am

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at ITA West Regional

Monday, October 3rd, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

Caltech Y Ninth Annual Golf Tournament & Auction

8:00am – 12:30pm

Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course

Beckman Institute Auditorium

What is Exploration Telepresence and How Can it Help Us Explore Planetary Surfaces of the Solar System?

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Graph Cohomology via Toric Geometry

Dagan Karp, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Delayed CO2 emissions from mid-ocean ridge volcanism as a possible cause of late-Pleistocene glacial cycles

Peter Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Naturalness from a Composite Top?

Yue Zhao, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Processes Underpinning the Production of Renewable Fuels

Jillian L. Dempsey, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Alpine Club Talk

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Climbing Attempt of the North Col Northeast Ridge Route of Mount Everest

Edmond Stevens, Caltech Alpine Club,

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105

"Predictably Rational: Coping with Uncertainly"

Angela Yu, UCSD,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Fractional Borel Chromatic Numbers

Connor Meehan, PhD Candidate, Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Discovering Chemistry From First Principles: The Ab Initio Nanoreactor

Todd Martinez, Ehrsam and Franklin Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

The Olfactory Circuit of Drosophila larva

Aravi Samuel, Professor, Physics & Center for Brain Science, Harvard,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125

The Politics of Sovereign Default under Financial Integration

Marina Azzimonti, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at La Verne

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Caltech Amateur Radio Club (CITARC) Meeting

Beckman Institute 121

FINDER: Radar for Locating Disaster Victims

James Lux, Telecommunications Specialist V, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

Wednesday, October 5th, 2016

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Dish & Discuss

Avery Dining Hall

Why Social Justice?

Hanna Song, Senior Director for Diversity, Office of the Probost, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Sharp Lieb–Thirring inequalities on the continuum and related spectral inequalities for Jacobi operators

Lukas Schimmer, Harry Bateman Research Instructor , Department of Mathematics , California Institute of Technology,

1:30pm – 5:00pm

Celebration Colloquium for Shri Kulkarni

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

AbbVie Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Veliparib: A PARP Inhibitor for the Treatment of Cancer

Thomas D. Penning, PhD, Research Fellow/Chemistry Team Leader, Oncology Discovery, AbbVie, Inc.,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

AbbVie Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Organic Photoredox Catalysis - Synthetic Applications and Beyond

David A. Nicewicz, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Preference Types and Welfare in Insurance Markets

Levon Barseghyan, Professor of Economics, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280

Streaming Communication: Information Theoretic Perspectives

Ashish Khisti, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Global climate impacts of fixing large long-standing shortwave radiation biases in the Community Earth System Model

Jennifer E. Kay, Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Gates-Thomas 135

Flat and Conformal Optics with Dielectric Metasurfaces

Andrei Faraon, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Applied Physics and Materials Science Department, Caltech,

4:30pm – 7:00pm

Club Fair

San Pasqual Walk

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence for Quantum Spectral Curves

Yan Soibelman, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Operational Thoughts on Data Driven Decision Making

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Thursday, October 6th, 2016

8:50am – 11:30am

International Scholar Orientation

East Bridge 114

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Phonon spectroscopy and thermal transport using predictive atomistic simulations"

Xiulin Ruan, Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University,

11:30am – 1:00pm

Caltech Rideshare Harvest Fair

Keith Spalding Building

11:30am – 1:30pm

Staff Education & Development Fair

Winnett Lounge

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Caltech Women's Club Fall Gathering

Athenaeum

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151

Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing via Digital Quantification of Nucleic Acids

Nathan Schoepp, Graduate Student, Ismagilov Research Group, CCE, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

SPECIAL TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Evolution of Supernova Remnants near the Galactic Center

Almog Yalinewich, Researcher, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Quantum Crystals, Quantum Computing and Quantum Cognition

Matthew P.A. Fisher, KITP/UC Santa Barbara,

4:40pm – 6:00pm

CMA presents "STRANDBEEST: Creating New Forms of Mechanical Life Walking on Wind Powerz"

JPL

Theo Jansen, artist,

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Fordham vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

Friday, October 7th, 2016

9:00am – 12:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Penn St.-Behrend vs. Caltech

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

From Hexagons to Heptagons: Bootstrapping Seven-Point Amplitudes in Planar N=4 super-Yang Mills Theory

Andrew McLeod, Stanford University,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Informal Biology Seminar

Broad 100

The Facilitated Diffusion Mechanism to Establish Morphogen Gradients

Greg Reeves, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Science History Seminar

Baxter 128

Logrolling for Private Interest: British MPs during the Railway Mania of 1845

Gabriel Mesevage, Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Oxford; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Beckman Room open (Caltech's Science Museum)

Beckman Institute 131

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) McKendree vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Building Coordinator & Floor Warden Training

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Complete Reionization Constraints from Planck 2015 Polarization

Chen He Heinrich, KICP Graduate Student, University of Chicago,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Computational Modeling and Experimental Characterization of the Damage and Fracturing Behavior of Textile Composites for Large Aeronautical Structures

Marco Salviato, University of Washington,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

The unlikely intersection theory and the cosmetic surgery Conjecture

BoGwang Jeon, Ritt Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

L^p norms of eigenfunctions and Kakeya-Nikodym averages

Matthew Blair, Associate Professor , Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of New Mexico,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Bringing Mother Nature to Your Rooftop: The Quest for Real Artificial Photosynthesis

Mr. Daniel Torelli, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

An Odd-Parity Hidden Order in a Perovskite Iridate Revealed Using Nonlinear Optics

Liyuan Zhao, Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics, Hsieh Group,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Ioannis Angelopoulos, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Mills vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall

Cosmic Explosions through the Ages: Supernovae Seen with the Naked Eye

Jacob Jencson, Graduate Student, Caltech,

Saturday, October 8th, 2016

8:00am – 11:00am

(Men's Water Polo) Connecticut Col. vs. Caltech

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