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March 2016

Monday, March 7th, 2016

8:00am – 8:00pm

Caltech Blood Drive

San Pasqual Walk

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Special Seminar in Mathematics

Higher Pentagram Maps via Cluster Mutations and Networks on Surfaces

Michael Gekhtman, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

A holistic approach to the preparation of composites of polymers and nanoparticles: from molecule to manufacture

Tony McNally, Professor and Chair in Nanocomposites, International Institute for Nanocomposites Manufacturing, WMG, University of Warwick, England,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Weird neurons for high cognitive functions

Stefano Fusi, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Oxygen, Manganese, and Early Life on Earth

Joan S. Valentine, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Chemistry & Bichemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

New results from the LHC at 13 TeV

Frank Golf, UC Santa Barbara,

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Beginner West Coast Swing

Winnett Lounge

Tuesday, March 8th, 2016

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 2:00pm

ME 72 Contest

Brown Gymnasium

12:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech Blood Drive

San Pasqual Walk

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Women's History Month Event

Center for Student Services, Lobby

International Women's Day Celebration and Photography Opening Lunch Reception

Azita Emami, Professor of Electrical Engineering , Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,

Simona Bordani, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Quantum Limits in Interferometers.

Belinda , Pang, Tapir, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Coffee and Conversation

Kerckhoff 234

Gender Beyond the Binary

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

A linear time algorithm for quantum 2-SAT

Sevag Gharibian, Virginia Commonwealth University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Describing finite groups by short first-order sentences

Andre Nies, Professor, Computer Science, University of Auckland,

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Penn St.-Behrend vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104

Atomic-Layer Semiconducting Crystals for Emerging 2D Devices and Nanosystems

Philip Feng, Assistant Professor, Case School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium

First Results from Advanced LIGO

Prof. Alan Weinstein, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

MULTI-MESSENGER MONSTERS!!!

Sarah Burke Spolaor, National Radio Astronomy Observatory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Towards homological mirror symmetry for hypersurfaces in toric varieties

Denis Auroux, Professor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

The Masses, Densities, and Orbital Dynamics of Exoplanets

Lauren Weiss, Department of Astronomy , UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Stable Endosymbiosis Drives the Evolution of Complex Cellular and Genomic Mosaics

John McCutcheon, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Sciences , University of Montana,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Stable endosymbiosis drives the evolution of complex cellular and genomic mosaics

John McCutcheon, Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), University of Montana,

Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day of Classes for Winter Term

Academic

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Modeling the stretch blow moulding process: from plastic bottles to biomedical scaffolds

Gary Menary, Director, Blow Moulding Technolgies, Belfast, Northern Ireland,

1:30pm – 3/11 2:30pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Gravity Dual of Relative Entropy and Comments on Bulk Reconstruction

Jennifer Lin, IAS,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Eta Invariant and Analytic Torsion

Xianzhe Dai, Professor, Mathematics, UCSB,

3:30pm – 6:30pm

(Men's Tennis) Wabash vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Thinking Big (and Small) : Frontier Science in the Era of Wide Field Lensing Surveys

Alexie Leauthaud, Kavli IPMU, Tokyo,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Beckman Lecture

Gates Annex B122

Global Approaches for Protein and Ligand Discovery in Native Biological Systems

Benjamin Cravatt, Chairman, Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biosafety & Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) Training

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Bacteria as electrochemical catalysts

Sarah Glaven, Research Biologist, Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, United States Naval Research Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Finance Seminar: David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine

Baxter B125

Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Norms and Undersaving

David Hirshleifer, Merage Chair in Business Growth, Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Combinatorics of shallow water waves

Lauren Williams, Associate Professor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Alpine Club Talk

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Peter Croft

7:30pm – 9:30pm

German Film: Das finstere Tal (The Dark Valley)

Baxter Lecture Hall

7:30pm – 9:30pm

German Film: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick

Baxter Lecture Hall

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Rana Adhikari - Listening to the Thunder of Gravity in the Cosmos

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

8:30pm – 10:30pm

Beginner International Ballroom

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

9:00pm – 11:00pm

West Coast Swing Social

Winnett Lounge

Thursday, March 10th, 2016

8:00am – 3/13 5:00pm

Study Period

Academic

8:50am – 11:30am

International Scholar Orientation

East Bridge 114

8:50am – 11:30am

International Scholar Orientation

East Bridge 114

10:00am – 11:00am

CD3 Seminar

Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)

Data-driven, Interactive Scientific Articles in a Collaborative Environment with Authorea

Alberto Pepe, Co-founder of Authorea,

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Black hole degeneracies from brane-instantons

Sameer Murthy, King's College ,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Small is Different: Accelerating Innovation in Microrobotics through Biology"

Nick Gravish, Postdoctoral Fellow, Microbiotics Lab, Harvard University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Schlinger 101

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Resnick Institute Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

ARPA-E: Opportunities for Students and Faculty and an Overview of its Portfolio

David Brown, PhD, Fellow, ARPA-E,

Isik C. Kizilyalli, PhD, Program Director, ARPA-E,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

TBA

Nicolas Templier, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Cornell,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125

Neural Mechanisms in the Amygdala for Innate, Learned and Regulated Emotional Behavior

Daniel Salzman, Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Excitons, disorder, and nonequilibrium transport in semiconductor nanomaterials

William A. Tisdale, Charles and Hilda Roddey Career Development Professor, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 3/12 5:00pm

General Relativity at One Hundred: The Sixth Biennial Bacon Conference

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Motives, Periods, and Special Values of Zeta-Functions

Stephen Lichtenbaum, Professor, Mathematics, Brown University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Strategies for Scalable Synthesis of Precise Polymers and Control of Topology in Polymer Networks

Jeremiah A. Johnson, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Women's History Month Event

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

Her Story: a 6-episode new-media series that looks inside the dating lives of trans & queer women as they navigate the intersections of desire & identity.

Friday, March 11th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track & Field) Caltech at Occidental Distance Carnival/Sprints Festival

10:00am – 11:00am

Fire Ants: The Invincible Army

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

10:00am – 11:30am

Student Shop Safety Hands-on Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Robert Kleinberg, Cornell

Baxter B125

Inference-Based Privacy Guarantees for Differentially Private Mechanisms, or: The Physics of Differential Privacy

Robert Kleinberg, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Exploring the Link Between Galaxy Evolution Parameters and Pulsar Timing Array Observations

Joseph Simon, Graduate Student, Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Towards the Synthesis and Characterization of High Spin Fe and Co Compounds with a Terminal Sulfide Ligand

Mark A. Nesbit, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)

Volcanic DLPs in Japan and cooling magma model

Naofumi Aso, Postdoctoral Scholar in Geophysics, Caltech,

Saturday, March 12th, 2016

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Alumni vs. Caltech

11:00am – 3:00pm

Photography on Campus: Ramsaran Engagement Photo Shoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

1:30pm – 3:30pm

Photography on Campus: Mochado and Franco Wedding Photo Shoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caladh Nua

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

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