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October 2018

Monday, October 22nd, 2018

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Explore JPL Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Rob Rosenberg, JPL Data Scientist, JPL Section 398,

Larry Matthies, Senior Research Scientist, JPL Computer Vision Group , JPL,

Kiri Wagstaff, Principal Researcher in Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning, JPL,

Katherine Siegel, Mechanical Engineer , JPL,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room)

Nonlocal spin-exchange interactions in a near-concentric cavity

Emily Davis, Graduate Student, Schleier-Smith Group, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387

The Monsky-Washnitzer site

Dingxin Zhang, Mathematics Department, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Emotional Intelligence Toolkit: Workshop on Identifying Your Emotions

Avery Library

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

How big data and artificial intelligence are transforming seismology

Zachary E. Ross, Postdoctoral Scholar in Geophysics, Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Subleading Power Resummation from Effective Field Theory

Ian Moult, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105

Polynomial Optimization and Dynamical Systems

Amir Ali Ahmadi, Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Financial Engineering , Princeton University ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Merck-Banyu Lectureship Award

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Chemistry Empowered by Unique Heterocycles

Naoya Kumagai, Ph.D., Division of Chemistry, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo,

6:00pm – 7:00pm

CPA STEM for Families

Moore 239

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship - Screening

Sherman Fairchild Library, Amphitheatre

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 12:50pm

Meditation Mob

Caltech Hall 9th Floor

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Coffee & Career

Red Door Cafe

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CMI Seminar

Annenberg 314

Complexity, Noise, and Emergent Properties of Learning Deep Representations

Alessandro Achille, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Counseling Group

Counseling Center

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Let's Walk

Counseling Center

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310

Hypersurfaces of low entropy

Lu Wang, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar and Reception with Cheryl Dartt

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Embracing the Crooked Path

Cheryl Dartt, Director of Analytics, Facebook,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Election Coverage and Slant in Television News

Gregory Martin, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University,

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship - Discussion and Screening

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Redlands vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Alpine Club Talk

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Climbing/Sailing in Newfoundland

Dustin Lagoy, JPL,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby

Wednesday, October 24th, 2018

8:30am – 3:00pm

Benefits Fair and Flu Shot Clinic

Avery Courtyard

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop: Introduction to 3D Printing at the Caltech Library

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Dwarf Galaxies in the Southern Sky: Dark Matter Annihilation and the Connection to the Large Magellanic Cloud

Andrew Pace, Postdoc and Mitchell Astronomy Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University,

3:00pm – 4:30pm

ABCs of Course Design - A CTLO Short Course

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Let's Talk

Annenberg 243

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Occidental vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Recent Observational Puzzles from Tidal Disruption Flares: Towards Viable Probes in the LSST Era

Brad Cenko, NASA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

No Seminar

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Making the World Go 'Round: How Urbano Monte Created his Map of 1587

Chet Van Duzer, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Excited Electronic States: Dielectric Screening and Hot-Electron Mediated Ion Diffusion

Andre Schleife, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Development and Applications of New Synthetic Strategies for Polymer Science

Brett Fors, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Efficient Coding and Risky Choice

Lawrence Jin, Assistant Professor of Finance, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Whittier vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Soccer) Caltech at Occidental

Thursday, October 25th, 2018

10:30am – 12:30pm

Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Some Recent Developments in Simulation of Stochastic Processes and Fields

George Deodatis, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University,

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

"Noninvasive neuromodulation with Acoustically Targeted Chemogenetics"

Jerzy Szablowski, Postdoctoral Scholar, Shapiro Group, CCE, Caltech ,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105

Google -- Two Short Talks! 1: Understanding the Web: Topic Modeling, Hierarchical Content Labeling, and Sensitive Content Detection // 2: Programming Google's Quantum Computers

Jen Iofinova, Google,

Dave Bacon, Google,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Grad Chats: Connection and Discussion for Under-represented Minority Graduate Student and Postdocs

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Conference Room

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

2:30pm – 4:00pm

Decoupling Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 289

The Cordoba-Fefferman argument as Bilinear restriction theory

Andrei Shubin, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 255

Countable Borel equivalence relations and weak choice principles

Assaf Shani, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Teaching Old Active Sites New Tricks

Justin Notestein, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Finance Seminar

Baxter B125

Capital Market Anomalies and Quantitative Research

Justin Birru, Associate Professor, Fisher School of Business, Ohio State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Water Isotopes: Windows into Earth's Past, Present, and Future Atmosphere

Sylvia Dee, Assistant Professor, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Rice University,

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