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January 2018

Friday, January 26th, 2018

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Higgs branches and chiral algebras of 4d N=2 theories -- a progress report

Leonardo Rastelli, SUNY Stony Brook,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Bulk Entanglement Gravity

Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics, Caltech,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

6D SCFTs and Group Theory

Tom Rudelius, Institute for Advanced Study,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Merging black holes in non-spherical nuclear star clusters

Cristobal Petrovich, Postdoctoral Fellow and Gruber Foundation Fellow, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA),

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Toward harnessing the full potential of urban winds: a case study of Hess Tower

Daniel Araya, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Hilbert Structure on the universal Teichmuller space and its Weil-Petersson curvature operator

Zeno Huang, Department of Mathematics, CUNY CSI,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA

Semyon Dyatlov, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Coupling Innovations in Thin-Film and Catalytic Materials to Designs for Stable Photoelectrochemical Cells

Kimberly M. Papadantonakis, Scientific Research Manager, Chemistry, Caltech,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA

Alexey Miroshnikov, Mathematics Department, UCLA,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

When Galaxies Collide: Snapshots of the Universe's Largest Battles

Anne Medling, Hubble Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

German Film: Fitzcarraldo

Baxter Lecture Hall

Movie screening for German 130a & 132a // In German with English subtitles

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

Saturday, January 27th, 2018

12:00am – 12:00am

(Outdoor Track & Field) Intrasquad/Alumni Meet vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Life: Challenges of Life

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Chapman vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Chapman vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Jim Malcolm

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, January 28th, 2018

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

Monday, January 29th, 2018

12:10pm – 12:50pm

Chair Yoga

Annenberg 107

3:00pm – 6:30pm

Demonstration of the VR work of Nonny de la Peña

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

K3 categories, cubic 4-folds, and the Beauville-Voisin conjecture

Junliang Shen, Departement Mathematik, ETH Zurich,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

BELS

Kerckhoff 119

"A Tale of Two Codes: Directed Evolution of the Genetic Code for Unnatural Amino Acid Incorporation"

Andrew Ellington, Professor, Molecular Biosciences, Applied Research, University of Texas at Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Pluto's Bright Heart as a Clue to Ocean Worlds in the Kuiper Belt

Bonnie Buratti, Senior Research Scientist, Principal Scientist and Supervisor: Comets, Asteroids and Satellites Group, Division of Earth and Space Sciences, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Lepton Universality Violation in B-Meson Decays and Inclusive vs Exclusive |Vcb|

Ben Grinstein, UC San Diego,

7:00pm – 8:30pm

Art + Tech Panel: Games and Art

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Nonny de la Peña, Founder & CEO, Emblematic ,

Johnnemann Nordhagen, Founder of Dim Bulb Games; Co-founder of Fullbright ,

Brian Schrank, Professor of Game Development, Theory and Design, Depaul University ,

Tuesday, January 30th, 2018

8:30am – 6:30pm

Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105

The Growing Role for Artificial intelligence for Space Exploration and the Search for Life Beyond Earth

Steve Chien, Artificial Intelligence Group, JPL/Caltech , JPL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CANCELLED | William Bennet Munro History Seminar Series

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

This talk has been cancelled.

Wim Decock, Research Professor of Legal History, Universities of Leuven and Liège; Associate Researcher, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History; Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

TBD

Samuel Howell, Postdoctoral Scholar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Listening to binary stars through cosmic history: astrophysics with GW

Astrid Lamberts, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Stability in the homology of Torelli groups

Jennifer Wilson, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,

Wednesday, January 31st, 2018

10:00am – 11:00am

TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 205

Optimization, Complexity and Math (through the lens of one problem and one algorithm)

Avi Wigderson, Princeton University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Emotional Well-Being Workshop for Students: Coping with Grief and Loss

Avery Library

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Research Software Best Practices and Citation Workshop

Caltech Hall 9th Floor

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 105

Measure reducibility of countable Borel equivalence relations (after Conley and Miller)

Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Analysis Seminar

Building 15, Room 131

Oscillation of Holder continuous functions

Artur Nicolau, Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Quantifying virtual properties of 3-manifold groups

Michelle Chu, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Forging binary black holes in dense star clusters

Carl Rodriguez, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280

Some Applications of Extreme Value Theory in Signal Processing and Data Analysis

Vahid Tarokh, Moore Distinguished Scholar, Electrical Engineering, CALTECH,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

The atmospheric life cycle of pollen

Allison Steiner, Associate Professor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Topological Heterostructures by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Susanne Stemmer, Professor, Materials Department, UC Santa Barbara,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

7:00pm – 10:00pm

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

7:00pm – 7:45pm

CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry

Annenberg 105

ObEN -- AI & Blockchain: Where Futures Meet -- Speaker: Mark Harvilla, Chief Engineer