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April 2013

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special Bioengineering Seminar

Broad 100

"Analog and Digital Approaches for Programming Living Cells"

Tim Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

The Neurophysiology of Decision-Making in the Foraging Rat

David Redish, Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Establishing cell-free biology for the production of therapeutics, materials and chemicals

Michael Jewett, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Unveiling the High Energy X-ray Sky with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array

Fiona Harrison, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Caltech,

4:30pm – 6:00pm

Caltech World Fest Event: International Food Fair & Culture Show

Avery Courtyard

5:00pm – 4/27 12:00am

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament

5:00pm – 4/27 12:00am

(Women's Water Polo) SCIAC Championships vs. Caltech

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Thursday Office Hours

See event detail for location

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Amnesty International Monthly Meeting

Friday, April 26th, 2013

12:00am – 4/27 12:00am

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament

12:00am – 4/27 12:00am

(Track/Field) SCIAC Championships

8:00am – 4:30pm

Standard First Aid Training

Brown Gymnasium, Classroom

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

to be announced

John McGreevy, UC San Diego,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

2013 Earth Week Lunchtime Speaker

Annenberg 121

Sustainability at Caltech

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Beating Burnout: A Lunch for TAs

Avery Library

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Friday Office Hours

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech World Fest Event: In Their Own Words International Student GAYPRIL Panel

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 127

All Men Are Created Unequal -- A Wiser Wisdom of the Crowd

Pietro Perona, Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering, EAS, Caltech,

1:00pm – 4:00pm

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

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Deformation and Failure Under Extreme Conditions Enabled by Pulsed Laser Loading

Marc Meyers, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Ultra Low-Density DNA Monolayers for Protein Detection

Ariel Furst, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

5:00pm – 4/28 12:00am

(Baseball) TBA vs. Caltech

5:00pm – 4/28 12:00am

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

7:30pm – 9:00pm

German Film

Baxter Lecture Hall

Das Vaterspiel (Austria – 2009) (Kill Daddy Goodnight)

Michael Glawogger, Director,

Saturday, April 27th, 2013

12:00am – 4/28 12:00am

(Track/Field) SCIAC Championships

9:00am – 5:00pm

Coleman Chamber Music Ensemble Competition

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Occidental

1:00pm – 4:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Chapman vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 4:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Chapman vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Far From a Cold Case: Solving the Riddles of Ice on Planet Earth

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

2:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Simonyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

5:00pm – 4/29 12:00am

(Women's Water Polo) SCIAC Championships vs. Caltech

Sunday, April 28th, 2013

1:00pm – 4:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Linfield vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at Cal Lutheran

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Coleman Competition Winners Concert

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, April 29th, 2013

11:00am – 12:00pm

Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206

Integrating Nonlinear Site Effects in Broadband Ground Motion Simulations

Dominiki Asimaki, Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Aerospace Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

The Juno Mission to Jupiter

Dr. Steve Matousek, JPL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium

"Expanding the language to program cells"

Christopher Voigt, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114

Spin-Orbit Tuned Ground States in Single-Crystal Iridates

Gang Cao, Professor, University of Kentucky,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

The role of ocean chemistry in regulating Earth surface oxygen levels

Matthew Hurtgen, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences , Northwestern Univeristy,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Thinking Fast, Building Big: Opportunities for Neutrino Physics Using Fast Timing and Large Area Photodetectors

Matthew Wetstein, University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Fluorinated Pincer Ligand Applications in Alkane Dehydrogenation Catalysis

Dean M. Roddick, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125

Divided Majority and Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment

Laurent Bouton, Assistant Professor of Economics, Boston University,

4:15pm – 5:15pm

CANCELED Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Annenberg 105

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Monday Office Hours

See event detail for location

Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Tuesday Noon Office Hour

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Decoding Natural Images in the Visual Brain

Diane Beck, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Chapman vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 107

Building one-time memories from isolated qubits

Yi-Kai Liu, Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Structure and Mechanics of Silk and Silk-inspired Materials

Markus J. Buehler, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Fluid Mechanics Research Conference

Guggenheim 202

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

CLARITY and beyond: towards complete structural and molecular investigation of the intact brain.

Kwanghun Chung, BWF-CASI Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering Dept. , Stanford School of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science

South Mudd 365

TBD

Channon Visscher, Postdoctoral fellow, Lunar and Planetary Institute,

4:30pm – 7:30pm

(Women's Tennis - networked) Occidental vs. Caltech

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Tuesday Evening Office Hours

See event detail for location

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Y Spring Friends Dinner: Selections from "The Great American Song Book"

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates

7:00pm – 8:00pm

GAYPRIL KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY RETIRED U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE VAUGHN R. WALKER

Beckman Institute Auditorium

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

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