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February 2018

Thursday, February 1st, 2018

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Personalized model of kinematic and dynamic of physical activities"

Ruzena Bajcsy, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Weak subconvexity without a Ramanujan hypothesis

Jesse Thorner, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

From Moonshine to Black Holes, Number Theory in Physics

Jeffrey Harvey, Professor, Physics Department, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Predicting and Understanding Initial Play

Drew Fudenberg, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, MIT,

6:00pm – 8:45pm

Caltech Associates Reception and Dinner with Caltech's Tenth Provost

Athenaeum

Friday, February 2nd, 2018

12:00am – 12:00am

(Indoor Track & Field) Caltech vs. Mountain T?s Invitational

8:00am – 2/8 5:00pm

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

10:00am – 2:00pm

I-Corps Lean Startup Workshop

Avery Library

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Hecke operators for characters of Rational Conformal Field Theory

Jeffrey Harvey, University of Chicago,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Dish & Discuss #9

Avery Dining Hall

What is the Prison Industrial Complex?

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Continuous measurements and quantum trajectories in circuit QED

Arian Jadbabaie, Graduate Student, Hutzler Group,

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Caltech Science Museum's Beckman Room Open for Walk-Ins

Beckman Institute 131

1:00pm – 2:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Exact Bulk Operators and the Fate of Locality

Jared Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Building Coordinator & Floor Warden Training

Keith Spalding B117

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

From Cosmic Dust to Planetesimals: Models vs. Observations

Paola Pinilla, NASA Hubble Fellow, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Tricks used for Aerodynamic Experiments

Markus Raﬀel, Leibniz University ,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

Existence of closed geodesics through a regular point on translation surfaces

Weixu Su, School of Mathematical Science, Fudan University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 131

Constancy of generalized Hodge-Tate weights of a p-adic local system

Koji Shimizu, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Emotional Intelligence Toolkit: Workshop on Open-Mindedness

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

Saturday, February 3rd, 2018

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at Northwestern Duals

12:00am – 12:00am

(Indoor Track & Field) Caltech vs. Mountain T?s Invitational

12:00am – 12:00am

(Swimming & Diving) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

12:00am – 12:00am

(Swimming & Diving) Caltech vs. Cal Lutheran

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

12:00pm – 3:00pm

(Baseball) Occidental vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Saint Katherine vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Aivazian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Shakhbandaryan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Jazz Band Guest Artist Concert

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, February 4th, 2018

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at Northwestern Duals

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

Monday, February 5th, 2018

5:00am – 7:00pm

Filming on Campus

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

8:00am – 9:00am

PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151

Elucidating the Role of [4Fe4S] Clusters in DNA Replication and Repair

Phillip Bartels, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Proposal Writing Workshop

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:10pm – 12:50pm

Chair Yoga

Annenberg 107

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Aerospace Engineering Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Gas-Turbine Heat Transfer – Challenges and Opportunities

Tom I-P. Shih, J. William Uhrig and Anastasia Vournas Head and Professor , School of Aeronautics and Astronautics , Purdue University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104

The small quantum group in type A and the diagonal coinvariants

Anna Lachowska, EPFL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

From Negative Index Metamaterials to Topological Light Sources

Boubacar Kante, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

BELS

Kerckhoff 119

Microfluidics for 3D Tissue Engineering and Personal Health Diagnostics

Samuel Sia, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Minerology vs. thermodynamics, or, why are extracellular electron transfer pathways so complicated?

Daniel R. Bond, Associate Professor, CBS Plant/Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Meta Material, First Direct Observation of Reverse Cherenkov Radiation, and Test of Babinet Principle

Min Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Proteins in nanoporous hydrogels: adsorption, diffusion, and folding

Lydia Kisley, Beckman-Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology,

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

5:00am – 7:00pm

Filming on Campus

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

10:30am – 11:30am

English Conversation Group

Athenaeum

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

Special Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 131

Vertex algebras and three dimensional gauge theories

Kevin Costello, Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Institute,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105

Nonlinear control and estimation theory for multi-agent autonomy and autonomous flying ambulances

Soon-Jo Chung, Associate Professor of Aerospace and Bren Scholar; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist, Engineering and Applied Science, CALTECH,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 5:00pm

FPTL Playdates

Off Campus

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Thoughts on the Potential of Quantum Computing for Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Problems

Martin Savage, University of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CTLO-Physics-Mathematics Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Taking a scientific approach to teaching science and engineering

Carl Wieman, Department of Physics, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

TBD

Fred Adams, Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

The Electronic-Structural Barrier to Higher Photoconversion Efficiency in Semiconductors

Scott Cushing, DOE EERE Postdoctoral Fellow , Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Skewness, Tax Progression, and Demand for Redistribution: Evidence from the UK

Kirill Pogorelskiy, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,

Wednesday, February 7th, 2018

5:00am – 7:00pm

Filming on Campus

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

9:00am – 10:00am

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics Enabled Integrity Assessment of Urban Buildings

Hao Sun, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Lab for Infrastructure Sensing and Data Science, University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). ,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Alumni Career Webinar Series

How A Caltech Faculty Member Engages with the Wider World Through Social Media

Sean Carroll, PhD, Research Professor of Physics, Division of Physics, Math, and Astronomy, Caltech,

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Keith Spalding B117

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 105

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

Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Eric Ashley, Ph.D.; Danielle Schultz, Ph.D.; Christopher Sinz, Ph.D. , Merck,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

American History Job Candidate Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Crime Capital: Public Safety, Urban Development, and Black Politics in Post-Civil Rights Atlanta

Danielle Wiggins, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Emory University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Circumgalactic Matter Matters for Galaxy Evolution

Jessica Werk, Univ of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Climate Change in the West African Monsoon: Confusion, Consensus, and the Way Forward

Michela Biasutti, Lamont Associate Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Exciton-phonon interactions: theoretical techniques for light-induced structural changes

David Strubbe, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, UC Merced,

4:15pm – 5:15pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280

Deep optimization: from learning deep models to tuning hyper-parameters

Meisam Razaviyayn, Assitant Professor, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering , USC Machine Leaning Center,

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