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January 2018

Friday, January 12th, 2018

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy group for depression and anxiety

Counseling Center

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Signatures of a 3D quantum liquid crystal

David Hsieh, Assistant Professor of Physics, Caltech,

Friday, January 12th, 2018

8:00am – 5:00pm

SoCal NEGT Conference

Beckman Institute Auditorium

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Three applications of topology to physics

Dan Freed, UT Austin,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

From many modes to many bodies

David Schuster, Physics Department and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM/Applied Physics Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

From Many Modes to Many Bodies

David Schuster, Assistant Professor, Physics, University of Chicago,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Tackle the Term - Workshop on productivity without procrastination

Annenberg 105

1:00pm – 2:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity

Daniel Harlow, MIT,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Project for Effective Teaching Community Meeting

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Straighten up and fly right: mechanisms for long distance dispersal in insects

Michael Dickinson, Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Biology, Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Symplectic and exotic 4-manifolds via positive factorizations

R. Inanc Baykur, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

RF and Microwave Seminar

Moore B280

Frontiers in Power Electronics: From Clean Energy to Wireless Powering of Vehicles

Khurram Afridi, Assistant Professor and the Goh Faculty Fellow , Department of ECEE , University of Colorado ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Structure/Function Correlations Over Heterogeneous Catalysis and Bioinorganic Chemistry

Ryan G. Hadt, Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

TecherTalk: Diverse "Life After Caltech" Stories from PMA Alumni

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103

The (Euclidean) Fractal Uncertainty Principle and its proof

Ruixiang Zhang, Mathematics Department, Institute for Advanced Study,

5:30pm – 6:30pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103

Describing Blaschke products by their critical points

Oleg Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Reel Rock Film Tour

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, January 13th, 2018

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at Western Invitational

12:00am – 12:00am

(Swimming & Diving) Caltech at Whittier

1:00pm – 3:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Akopian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Men's Basketball) La Verne vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Basketball) La Verne vs. Caltech

Sunday, January 14th, 2018

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at Western Invitational

12:00am – 12:00am

(Swimming & Diving) Mills vs. Caltech

Monday, January 15th, 2018

12:00am – 12:00am

Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

8:00am – 5:00pm

Martin Luther King Day (Institute Holiday)

Academic

Tuesday, January 16th, 2018

8:40am – 12:30pm

Short Course: Science, Source Modeling, and Data Analysis for the Space-Based Gravitational-Wave Observatory LISA

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

9:00am – 4:00pm

Frontiers in Biochemistry Search Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

10:30am – 12:00pm

Quantum Spacetime Group Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Possibilities for Probabilities and Reasoning about Boltzmann Brains

Don Page, University of Alberta,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Safe Use of Cryogenics

Beckman Auditorium

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105

Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers in Retrospective and Perspective

Alexander Lipton, Alexander Lipton is founder and CEO of StrongHold Labs and Connection Science Fellow at M.I.T.,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Safe Use of Cryogenics

Beckman Auditorium

1:30pm – 3:00pm

TechMart Training

Keith Spalding 118

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 105

Section problems for surface bundles

Lei Chen, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

TBD

Ellen Leask, Graduate Student, Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,

Jennifer Buz, Graduate Student, Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

POSTPONED - Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

This talk has been rescheduled to Wednesday, January 24, 2018.

Kirill Evdokimov, Assistant Professor, Princeton University,

Wednesday, January 17th, 2018

10:00am – 11:00am

U.S. Bank Card Fraud Overview Webinar

12:00pm – 1:00pm

MLK Week 2018: Keynote Address by Dr. Melina Abdullah

Dabney Hall, Lounge

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "Introduction to Zotero"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 105

A refined Cantor-Bendixson rank for presented Polish spaces

Vibeke Quorning, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Analysis Seminar

Building 15, Room 131

Differentiability and rectifiability on metric planes

Guy C. David, Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Lab Safety 101 Training

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Welcome to the multi-messenger era: a report on the first binary neutron star merger detection

Jennifer Barnes, Columbia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment: A Vision to Enable Decentralized Water Treatment and Address Growing Challenges of the Water Energy Nexus

Pedro J.J. Alvarez, George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University; Director of the NSF ERC on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Finance Seminar: Alexander Lipton, StrongHold Labs & MIT

Baxter B125

Modern Monetary Circuit Theory and Stability of Financial Ecosystem

Alexander Lipton, Founder and CEO, StrongHold Labs; Connection Science Fellow, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Fundamental Neutron Physics at the ILL

Peter Geltenbort, Institut Laue-Langevin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Halide Perovskites: Poor man's high performance semiconductors

Mercouri Kanatzidis, Professor, Chemistry, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Moore Lecture

Kerckhoff 119

"How to Hit HIV Where it Hurts"

Arup Chakrabirty, Founding Director, Institute for Medical Engineering & Science; Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry and Biological Engineering, MIT, Founding Steering Committee Member, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, & Harvard, Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Shuttle Catalysis - a Conceptual Blueprint for Reversible Functional Group Transfer

Bill Morandi, Associate Professor, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung,

4:15pm – 5:15pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280

Deterministic Random Matrices

Ilya Soloveychik, Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University,

5:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Associates Panel Discussion & Reception: The Future of Autonomous Technology

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Caltech Debate Club Meeting

IMSS 120

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Cal Lutheran

7:00pm – 7:45pm

CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry

Annenberg 105

Topological Quantum Computation -- Professor Xie Chen, Caltech

7:00pm – 9:10pm

JPL SURF Information Session

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Andrei Faraon - "Flat Metasurface Optics"

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, January 18th, 2018

8:00am – 5:00pm

Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience Hiring Symposium

Beckman Institute Auditorium

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Physics based modeling and data analytics for infrastructure system resilience

Elnaz Esmaeilzadeh Seylabi, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

TBD

TBD ,

11:30am – 12:30pm

CMA presents: The Art of Science Communication

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

Paula Apsell, Senior executive producer, NOVA, PBS,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Reading Women

Keith Spalding 118

Author Discussion with Van Choat, Author of Undaunted A Memoir

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 12:50pm

Course Ombuds Training and Lunch - Winter 2018

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

TecherTalk: GPS Alumni Panel

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special Lecture: The Art of Science Communication

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Public Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Unification from Scattering Amplitudes

Clifford Cheung, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech,