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March 2017

Thursday, March 23rd, 2017

10:30am – 12:30pm

Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Principia vs. Caltech

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

Brian Sanders, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Gray Research Group, CCE, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213

High-Resolution Image Inpainting using Multi-Scale Neural Patch Synthesis.

Yang Chao (Harry), PhD Candidate, Computer Science, University of Southern California,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Special Biology Seminar

Broad 100

Building Mirror-Image Biological Systems

Ting Zhu, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University - Beijing,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Nuclear transport of proteins and mRNAs

Murray Stewart, Program Leader, Structural Cell Biology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Medical Engineering Special Seminar

Annenberg 105

Blood, tears, and soap bubbles: Leveraging soft matter physics for fundamental discovery and global health

Saad Bhamla, PhD, Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering Department, Stanford University,

Friday, March 24th, 2017

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at NCAA Championships

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Colby vs. Caltech

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Equivariance and the cosmological constant

Tudor Dimofte, QMAP, UC Davis,

11:30am – 1:00pm

The Role of Leadership in the Journey to Gender Equity

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Cal Lutheran

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 213

Mathematical Studies of Extraordinary Field Enhancement in Subwavelength Structures

Professor Junshan Lin, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Redlands

4:00pm – 5:00pm

EE Seminar

Moore B280

Engineering 2D Materials for Nanoelectronic Devices in the Ultraclean Limit

Lei Wang, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Synthesis and Characterization of an S = 1/2 Thiolate-Bound Fe(H)(N2) Complex

Ms. Nina Gu, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Charge-spin mutual entanglement: A case study by exact diagonalization of the one hole doped t-J loop

Wayne Zheng, PhD Candidate, Tsinghua University ,

Saturday, March 25th, 2017

12:00am – 12:00am

(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at PLNU Invitational

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) Redlands vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Baseball) Redlands vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 4:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Rodriguez Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Sunday, March 26th, 2017

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Men's Tennis) UC Santa Cruz vs. Caltech

Monday, March 27th, 2017

9:00am – 10:00am

Caltech Space Challenge

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Space Mission Formulation and System Engineering

Steve Matousek, JPL,

10:00am – 11:00am

Caltech Space Challenge

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Orbital Mechanics: Designing a Mission to a Lunarport

Damon Landau, JPL,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Caltech Space Challenge

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Blue Origin: Vehicles and Technologies to Lower the Cost and Increase the Safety of Human Spaceflight

A.C. Charania, Blue Origin,

Tuesday, March 28th, 2017

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Whitworth vs. Caltech

11:00am – 1:00pm

Caltech Associates Luncheon: Ali Hajimiri

Athenaeum

11:00am – 12:00pm

Caltech Space Challenge

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Lunar Prospecting and Mining

Kris Zacny, Honeybee Robotics,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Caltech Space Challenge

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Robotic Refueling and Cryogen Replenishment for Future Space Applications

Brian Roberts, NASA Goddard,

1:00pm – 1:30pm

Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Advances, Challenges and Opportunities for direct C-H bond Functionalization in Materials Chemistry

Seth Marder, Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

More Light: Silicon Mirrors for LIGO Voyager

Christopher Wipf, LIGO, Caltech,

1:30pm – 2:00pm

Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

C-H Functionalization as a Strategic Tactic in Natural Product Synthesis

Sarah E. Reisman, Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Whitworth vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Seeking Opportunities for C-H Functionalization Methods in Natural Product Synthesis

Erik J. Sorensen, Arthur Allan Patchett Professor in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Stereoselective Radical C-H Functionalization via Metalloradical Catalysis

X. Peter Zhang, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Boston College,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

New Principles of Transcription-coupled DNA Repair

Evgeny Nudler, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Medical Engineering Special Seminar

Annenberg 105

Engineered Peptide Therapeutics as Next-Generation Medicines

Cesar de la Fuente, PhD., Postdoctoral Associate, Areces Foundation Fellow, Synthetic Biology Group, Department of Biological Engineering, Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, March 29th, 2017

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at Redlands

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

No ESE Seminar due to Spring Break

Thursday, March 30th, 2017

9:00am – 10:00am

Caltech Space Challenge

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Operational Issues in Lunar Polar Resource Exploration

Jay Trimble, NASA Ames,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Gates Annex B122

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151

David Bunck, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Heath Research Group, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

General randomness amplification with non-signaling security

Xiaodi Wu, University of Oregon,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Caltech Space Challenge

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Pegasus!

Antonio Elias, Orbital ATK,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Ruth and Eddie Hughes Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Robert Stroud—"Not THE E. W. Hughes?"... How voltage effects channel function; a cure for Ebola" David Eisenberg—"Extending the Caltech-Pauling-Corey-Beta-Sheet Axis to the Amyloid State of Proteins"

Robert Stroud, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco,

David Eisenberg, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Medical Engineering Special Seminar

Annenberg 105

Ultra-Low-Power Neural Interfaces: from Monitoring to Diagnostics and Therapy

Mahsa Shoaran, PhD, Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

Friday, March 31st, 2017

10:00am – 11:00am

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

C-H Bond Activation and Functionalization by Y, Hf, and Ir Catalysts

Kazushi Mashima, Prof., Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Abelianization in complex Chern-Simons theory

Andy Neitzke, University of Texas at Austin,

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Caltech Space Challenge

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Final Presentations

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Memorial Service & Reception for John D. (Jack) Roberts

Beckman Auditorium

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Rapidly rotating exoplanets, brown dwarfs and massive stars

Kotaro Fujisawa, Waseda University,

2:30pm – 5:30pm

(Men's Tennis) Occidental vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar

Moore B280

150 dB of Electromagnetic Spectrum: From Programmable RF and THz to Nano-optical Chip-scale Systems

Kaushik Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Princeton Unviersity,

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Why Stars Shine

Robyn Sanderson, NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR), Caltech,

Saturday, April 1st, 2017

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at SCIAC Multi-Dual

12:00am – Ongoing

Art of Science Submissions Open