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March 2019

Thursday, March 7th, 2019

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae

Ariel Goobar, Stockholm University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Beckman Lecture

Gates Annex B122

New Polymers from Old Monomers: Advances Enabled through Catalyst Discovery

Geoffrey W. Coates, Tisch University Professor, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Decoupling Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Decoupling for moment curve 1

TBA ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

EE Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Thomas Kailath

Annenberg 105

On the process of making breakthroughs in engineering

Thomas Kailath, Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Trends in Earth System Modeling and Emerging Data Science Opportunities

Christiane Jablonowski, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Literary Dimensions Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Thomas Jefferson's Networks of Knowledge

Barbara Oberg, Senior Research Scholar, Department of History, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Smart Materials from Programmable Polymers

Grigory Tikhomirov, Senior Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology & Biological Engineering, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Bioengineering Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

"Why the world is simple"

A. A. (Ard) Louis, Professor, Rudolph Peierls Center for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Collective Hold-Up

Santiago Oliveros, Professor of Economics, University of Essex,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) La Verne vs. Caltech

Thursday, March 7th, 2019

8:00am – 12:00pm

First Aid Training/CPR/AED - Child/Infant/Adult - Day 2 of 2

Beckman Institute 121

10:00am – 5:00pm

Advances in AFM Scanning - Nanoelectrical, Nanomechanical and Automation Technology

Beckman Institute Auditorium

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Instabilities and Phase Transitions in Multiphase Flow through Porous Media.

Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu, Miller Fellow, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at UC Berkeley,

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

"Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells"

Arash Farhadi, Graduate Student, Shapiro Group, CCE, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105

Internship and Job Search Workshop

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMX Special Seminar: Gitta Kutyniok

Annenberg 213

Deep Learning and Modeling: Taking the Best out of Both Worlds

Gitta Kutyniok, Einstein Professor of Mathematics, TU Berlin,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Probing the 2D Fermi-Hubbard Model Under a Quantum Gas Microscope

Matt Nichols, PhD student, Zwierlein Group, MIT,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Rigorous Systems Research Group Seminar

Annenberg 107

Non-Convex Learning: Optimization and Robustness

Hongyang Zhang, Ph.D. candidate, Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University,

12:10pm – 12:50pm

Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Mental Health First Aid Training

Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Dust to Dirt: The Microbiome of the Air and Soil

Emma Aronson, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California Riverside,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Humanities Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Oil Under the Sea: Technological Vision and Visual Persuasion across the French Mediterranean

Brian Jacobson, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and History, University of Toronto,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Taylor-Wiles-Kisin patching and mod l multiplicities in Shimura curves

Jeff Manning, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Physics and Energy

Washington Taylor IV, Professor of Physics; Director, Center for Theoretical Physics; Division Head, Theoretical and Nuclear Particle Physics, MIT,

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Connect Training - Working Effectively With Students in Distress

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room

Friday, March 8th, 2019

12:00am – 12:00am

(Indoor Track & Field) NCAA Indoor Championships

9:50am – 5:00pm

2019 Student Faculty Conference

Ramo Auditorium

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

TBD

Emily Nardoni, UCLA,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Anomaly Inflow for M5-branes Wrapping a Riemann Surface

Emily Nardoni, UCLA,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

International Women's Day

Red Door Cafe

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Heterogeneity of Gain-Loss Attitudes and Expectations-Based Reference Points

Charlie Sprenger, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Simulations for Cluster-Based Cosmology

Camille Avestruz, KICP Fellow, KICP, University of Chicago,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Simulations for Cluster-Based Cosmology

Camille Avestruz, KICP Fellow, KICP, University of Chicago,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Mary Washington vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Enabling a New Age in Spaceflight and Space Exploration Through Space Traffic Management and Autonomous Space Systems

Richard Linares, Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

A Monstrous(?) Moduli Space

Philip Engel, Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia,

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Let's Talk

Jorgensen 126

4:00pm – 4:50pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Local smoothing estimates for Fourier Integral Operators

David Beltran, BCAM,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Isolation of a Terminal Fe(III)-Oxo in a Tetranuclear Cluster

Christopher (Chris) Reed, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

5:00pm – 5:50pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Refinements of Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem

Ciprian Demeter, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Bloomington,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

A Cappella Concert: Love Sucks

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Theater Presents Storytelling and Improv

Hameetman Center 206 - Frautschi Rehearsal Hall

7:30pm – 9:00pm

German Film: Der Himmel über Berlin

Baxter Lecture Hall

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

Saturday, March 9th, 2019

12:00am – 12:00am

(Indoor Track & Field) NCAA Indoor Championships

12:00am – 12:00am

(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at Oxy Invite

9:30am – 11:00am

Cooperative Preschool at Caltech Open House

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

12:00pm – 3:00pm

(Baseball) Whitman vs. Caltech

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Caltech Orchestra

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, March 10th, 2019

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at NCAA West Regional

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Fencing) Caltech at NCAA West Regional

12:00am – 12:00am

(Women's Fencing) Caltech at NCAA West Regional

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Vassar vs. Caltech

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech Orchestra

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, March 11th, 2019

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CANCELLED | Humanities Seminar

Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.

This seminar has been cancelled

Chaokang Tai, PhD Researcher, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam,

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Take a faculty to lunch - Prof. Joe Parker (BBE)

Athenaeum

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Aerospace Engineering Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

The Stability of Orbital Resonances for Europa Quarantine Design

Martin Lo, Senior Mission Design Engineer, Outer Planets Mission Analysis Group, Mission Design and Navigation Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Swarthmore vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

BELS

Kerckhoff 119

"Design, Function and Evolution of Eukaryotic Regulatory Circuits"

Ahmad 'Mo' Khalil, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Nuo Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Isotopic fractionation of moderately volatile elements during Moon formation

Haolan Tang, Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 269

Quest for the QCD Axion: DM Radio and Quantum Limits of Electromagnetic Detection

Saptarshi Chaudhuri, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Materials and Interface Design for Electrochemical Technology

Yi Cui, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, of Photon Science, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Prof, by courtesy, of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

New Media Art Exhibition

Jorgensen Lobby

Public Event

Tuesday, March 12th, 2019

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 1:00pm

Caltech Entrepreneurship & Management Club Pop-Up

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)

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