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May 2015

Ongoing

Ongoing – 5/5 5:00pm

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

Friday, May 1st, 2015

12:00am – 5/2 12:00am

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

9:00am – 5:00pm

Caltech + Finance Symposium

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

10:00am – 11:30am

MTI Working Group Talk: Rachael King

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

'The foreign letters say': Newsletters and Newspapers in the Long Eighteenth Century

Rachael King, Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara,

10:30am – 11:30am

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"Biological activity of Py-Im polyamides in vivo"

Jerzy Szablowski, PhD Candidate, Bioengineering, Califoria Institute of Technology,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213

Set membership with two bit probes

Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TBC),

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Beckman Room open (Caltech's Science Museum)

Beckman Institute 131

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Men's Tennis) Chapman vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Forkhead (Fox) transcription factors open a new dimension in understanding the epigenetic control of replication origins in S. cerevisiae

Oscar Aparicio, Professor of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Program, University of Southern California,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

On the Statistics of Biased Tracers in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures

Zvonimir Vlah, Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics, Stanford University,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

(Baseball) Caltech at SCIAC Post Season Tournament

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Prosthetic heart valves: ideas for improvement

Roberto Zenit, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Heegaard Floer contact invariants for positive rational surgery

Tom Mark, Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of Virginia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Derivatization of Corroles for Surface Functionalization

Carl Blumenfeld, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:30pm – 5:15pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals: long range interactions and photon molecules

James Douglas, Postdoctoral Scholar, Theoretical Quantum-Nano Photonics, ICFO, Barcelona,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA

Sung Jin Oh, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

6:10pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Spring Fun on ICE

Saturday, May 2nd, 2015

12:00am – 5/3 12:00am

(Baseball) Caltech at SCIAC Post Season Tournament

12:00am – 12:00am

(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Occidental

12:00am – 12:00am

(Track) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 5/3 12:00am

(Women's Tennis) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

10:00am – 1:00pm

(Men's Tennis) SCIAC Championships vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Abnoosian Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:00pm – 4:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Ohrn/Bitton Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Tsaturyan Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, May 3rd, 2015

12:00am – 5/4 12:00am

(Baseball) Caltech at SCIAC Post Season Tournament

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, May 4th, 2015

10:00am – 10:00am

CPET Seminar - Putting Theory into Practice as a New Professor

Putting Theory into Practice as a New Professor - Professor Suzanne Kern

10:00am – 11:00am

MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Firestone 306

Shock Wave Behavior of Particulate Composites

Michael Rauls, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Free Jazz Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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

Baxter 125

Do Online Social Networks Increase Welfare?

Mallesh Pai, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The Decomposition Theorem and Parity Sheaves

Carl Mautner, Mathematics, UC Riverside,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Recent Results from PICO

Hugh Lippincott, Fermilab,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

The Design, Discovery, and Applications of Catalytic Reactions Involving C-C, C-O, or C-N Bond Activation

Christopher J. Douglas, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Medical Philosophers: Nicolas Hartsoeker and Cartesian Physicians in the Dutch Republic

Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Lecturer, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Thomas J. and Earleen Ahrens Lecture

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Protons to Planets: Materials Simulation as a Window into Earth and Planetary Interiors

Lars Stixrude, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London,

Tuesday, May 5th, 2015

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 1:00pm

PUES: Get Ready for Kinder!

383 S. Hill Ave., Annex

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Topics in adiabatic quantum computing

Tameem Albash, USC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

TBA

Dr. Yue Shen, Carnegie Observatories,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore B270

Recovery from Linear Measurements via Denoising and Approximate Message Passing

Dror Baron, Assistant Professor, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125

Redistribution of Synaptic Strength and Subcellular Components during Long-term Potentiation

Kristen Harris, Professor of Neuroscience, Center for Learning and Memory, The University of Texas at Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

SESAME- A POSSIBLE SOURCE Of LIGHT IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Eliezer Rabinovici, Hebrew University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

KNI-MDL Seminar

Steele 125

Two talks: The Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon: future UV observations of the circumgalactic medium AND High Performance Silicon Detectors for UV/Visible/NIR Applications

Erika T. Hamden, Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics, Caltech,

April D. Jewell, Postdoctoral Scholar, Advanced Detectors, Systems & Nanoscience, JPL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

Microlocal Analysis on Representations, and Applications To Number Theory

Akshay Venkatesh, Professor, Mathematics, Stanford,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

From cloudy to cloudless hot Jupiters

Vivien Parmentier, Postdoctoral Sagan Fellow, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics , University of California Santa-Cruz,

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Playreaders: "The Underpants" by Steve Martin and Carl Sternheim

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates

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