Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

skip to main content

March 2016

Day

Week

Month

Term

Custom Date Range

to

March 2016

Sunday, March 13th, 2016

12:00am – 3/14 12:00am

(Men's Tennis) Salisbury vs. Caltech

12:00am – 3/14 12:00am

(Women's Tennis) Salisbury vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Intermediate International Ballroom

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

Monday, March 14th, 2016

8:00am – 3/16 5:00pm

Final Examinations for Winter Term

Academic

8:40am – 3/15 5:40pm

Ten Years of DNA Origami Symposium

6:30pm – 8:30pm

New Media Art Exhibition

Jorgensen Lobby

7:30pm – 10:00pm

Banff Mountain Film Festival

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBA

Leo Brunswic, University of Avignon,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

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

Prof. Alexie Leauthaud, IPMU,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

How Aneuploidy Drives Cancer

Steve Elledege, Professor, Department of Genetics Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School,

Wednesday, March 16th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Swimming and Diving) Caltech at NCAA Championships

8:00am – 5:00pm

End of Winter Term

Academic

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Laboratory Safety Orientation/Lab Safety 101

Keith Spalding B117

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Feynman Periods: Numbers and Geometry

Dmitry Doryn, IBS, Center for Geometry and Physics,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

The Missing Pages of Cosmic History

Anastasia Fialkov, Harvard/CfA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

No ESE Seminar

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Quantum Field Theory and the Limits of Knowledge

Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,

5:30pm – 7:30pm

Photography on Campus: Camara Wedding Photoshoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Thursday, March 17th, 2016

12:00am – 3/18 12:00am

(Baseball) Spring Break Trip vs. Caltech

12:00am – 12:00am

(Swimming and Diving) Caltech at NCAA Championships

8:00am – 3/27 5:00pm

Spring Recess

Academic

9:00am – 5:30pm

New Horizons in Biology 2016 Faculty Hiring Symposium

Beckman Institute Auditorium

9:00am – 3/20 5:00pm

Workshop on Surface Group Representations

Workshop on Surface Group Representations

Various Speakers ,

10:00am – 11:00am

CD3 Seminar

Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)

Interactive Modelling of Search Intent for Exploratory Search

Antti Kangasrääsiö, Aalto University, Finland,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Towards greater autonomy in small flying vehicles: multicopter actuator failsafe, fast trajectory generation, and state estimation

Mark Müller, PhD Candidate, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Reading Women

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Schlinger 101

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

Friday, March 18th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Swimming and Diving) Caltech at NCAA Championships

10:00am – 11:00am

PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Design and Applications of a Terahertz Frequency Comb Spectrometer: Rotational Spectroscopy of Methanol

Jacob Good, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Blake group, Chemistry, Caltech,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Deformation quantization from superconformal symmetry in three dimensions

Chris Beem, IAS,

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Principia vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

The link between fluid instabilities in a core-collapse supernova and asymmetric accretion flows in a collapsing progenitor

Kazuya Takahashi, JSPS Fellow, High-Energy Astrophysics Group, Waseda University,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Augsburg vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Asymmetric Direct Transformations of Aromatic Compounds

Shuli You, Professor of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

In-situ Spectroscopic Detection of an Active Iron(VI) Oxo Intermediate in Nickel-Iron Water Oxidation Catalysis

Bryan Hunter, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech vs. Augsburg

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

What Causes the Northern Lights? A Tour of Aurorae on Different Planets

Sebastian Pineda, Graduate Student, Caltech,

Saturday, March 19th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Swimming and Diving) Caltech at NCAA Championships

9:00am – 12:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Macalester vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Southwestern (Tex.) vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Puget Sound vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 4:00pm

(Women's Water Polo) Connecticut College vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech vs. Macalester

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Puget Sound vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 6:30pm

Photography on Campus: Ramos Wedding Photo Shoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:30pm – 7:30pm

(Baseball) Macalester vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, March 20th, 2016

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Stevens vs. Caltech

Monday, March 21st, 2016

12:00am – 3/22 12:00am

(Baseball) Spring Break Trip vs. Caltech

9:00am – 9:00am

Due Date for Instructors' Final Grade Reports

Academic

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Pacific (Ore.) vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Tennis) Pacific (Ore.) vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Beckman Institute Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Image Processing and Analysis at CAMBIA

Alexandre Cunha, Director, Center for Advanced Methods in Biological Image Analysis,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Women in Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

Precision Glycocalyx Editing as a Strategy for Cancer Immunotherapy

Carolyn Bertozzi, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology and Radiology (by courtesy), Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Women's History Month Event

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

LGBTQ Meet and Greet with Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi

Carolyn Bertozzi, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology and Radiology at Stanford Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Stanford,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Off Campus

Compact quotients of pseudo-Riemannian hyperbolic spaces

Nicolas Tholozan, Professor, Mathematics, University of Luxembourg,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Off Campus

The Homfly skein and elliptic Hall algebras

Peter Samuelson, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Iowa,

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016

8:00am – 11:00am

(Women's Tennis) UC Santa Cruz vs. Caltech

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Men's Tennis) St. Lawrence vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Tennis) UC Santa Cruz vs. Caltech

⟨⟨
⟨-
1
2
3
4
5
-⟩
⟩⟩