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May 2008

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

3:40pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Keck 142

The "*" in IPCC Predictions of Ice Sheet Contributions to Sea-Level Change

Ian Joughin, applied physics laboratory, Polar Science Center, University of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104

Coherent Optics and Hybrid Silicon—III-V Devices

Amnon Yariv, Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and professor of electrical engineering, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Neil Cornish, assistant professor of physics, Montana State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Seminar

Firestone 306

Engineering Cardiac Myogenesis and Contractility

Adam Feinberg, postdoctoral fellow in disease biophysics, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Caltech Postdoc Association Workshop: "Networking Know-How: A Key to Career Success"

Winnett Lounge

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Nanomechanical Characterization and Modeling

Gang Feng, professor of engineering, Brown University,

6:15pm – 7:30pm

Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge

7:00pm – 8:30pm

CIT-Knit Knitting and Crochet Evening

Spalding Laboratory 113

7:30pm – 10:00pm

Picturing Slavery Film Series: Quilombo

Baxter 228

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

8:00am – Ongoing

Registration for Fall Term, 2008–09 and Registration for Summer Research

Academic

9:00am – 10:00am

ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

The Civil War Ends in Yosemite: Nature and Politics in 19th-Century America

Bill Deverell, director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,

9:00am – 5/24 5:00pm

Men's and Women's Track and Field: NCAA Championships @ University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

away game

9:00am – 11:30pm

Workshop for Supervisors and Faculty: Prevention of Harassment in the Workplace—cancelled

Beckman Institute Auditorium

10:00am – 1:00pm

Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.

11:00am – 1:00pm

Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum

1:30pm – 4:00pm

CANCELLED: Workshop for Supervisors and Faculty: Prevention of Harassment in the Workplace—cancelled

Beckman Institute Auditorium

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Caltech Library System Workshop: "Business Resources"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Photonics with Ultrafast Laser Pulses—From Basic Research to Medical Applications

Torsten Fiebig, assistant professor of chemistry, Boston College,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

New Insights into Protein Quality Control by the Ribosome Following Peptide Bond Formation

Rachel Green, HHMI Investigator and professor of molecular biology and genetics, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Molecular Signatures of Life at the Lost City Hydrothermal Field

Alex Bradley, graduate student in earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Quantum Spin Liquid: From Drought to Deluge

Patrick A. Lee, professor of physics, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Baxter B125

Nonlinear Pricing in Yellow Pages

Quang H. Vuong, professor of economics, Pennsylvania State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Origins of Morality—Empathy, Rules, and Causal Reasoning

Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology, UC Berkeley,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Awards Reception for the Art of Science Competition

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Amnesty International Monthly Meeting

9:00pm – 10:00pm

Hip-Hop Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Topic to be announced.

Nori Iizuka, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Broad 100

Characterization and Structure of mechanosensitive channels of small conductance

Yan Shuen Poon, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Counseling Center Workshop: "Anxiety: Friend or Foe?"

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute 134

Development and Evaluation of Protein Design Methods for Functional Targets

Christina Vizcarra, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Firestone 306

Modeling Earthquakes as Frictional Ruptures: Slip Pulses, Fault Stress, and Supershear Propagation

Nadia Lapusta, assistant professor in mechanical engineering and geophysics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151

Effects of Pendant Lewis Acids on the Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide

Alexander J. Miller, graduate student in chemistry, Chemistry, Caltech,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Malcom Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

7:30pm – 10:30pm

Humanities and Social Sciences Film Screening: Corn In Parliament

Baxter Lecture Hall

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

12:45pm – 1:45pm

Bellydance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

1:30pm – 4:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Duran Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:15pm – 10:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Doktor/Cummings Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Vizcarra/Rosales Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

2:00pm – 5:00pm

Skeptics Society Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall

Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs

2:30pm – 4:30pm

Intermediate Ballroom II Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

3:00pm – 10:00pm

Phoenix Mars Landing Event

Beckman Auditorium

Real-Time Video and Live Commentary

3:00pm – 10:00pm

Phoenix Mars Landing Event

Beckman Auditorium

4:30pm – 7:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Okhanes/Chavez Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:30pm – 7:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Tiangco Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, May 26th, 2008

8:00am – 5:00pm

Memorial Day (Institute holiday)

Academic

9:00am – 4:00pm

Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

10:00am – 12:00pm

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Palladium Mediated Activation of Molecular Oxygen

Jason M. Keith, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Caltech Library System Workshop: MathSciNet and Zentralblatt MATH

3:45pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Scaling Transitions in Rotating Convection

Jonathan Aurnou, assistant professor of planetology and geophysics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Networks of Microchannels: Mimicking the Microvasculature, Separating Blood Cells, and Immobilizing Worms

Sergey Shevkoplyas, postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

East Bridge 114

Detection Confidence in Searches for Gravitational-Wave Transients

Erik Katsavounidis, associate professor of physics, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Regulation of Developmental and Regenerative Growth in Drosophila

Iswar Hariharan, professor of cell and developmental biology, UC Berkeley,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

10:00am – 12:00pm

Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Operator Mobius Transformations of CMV Matrices and Orthogonal Rational Functions

Luis Velazquez, professor of applied mathematics, University of Zaragoza, Spain,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Self-Assembled Monolayers for the Study of Biological Targets

Christie A. Canaria, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

3:40pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Keck 142

Studies of Organic Aerosol Sources and Evolution with Aerosol Mass Spectrometry

Jose-Luis Jimenez, assistant professor of chemistry and fellow, the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

The Metallicity and Star-Formation History of Galaxies

Lisa Kewley, research fellow, Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Seminar

Firestone 306

Microfluidic Devices as Models of Biological Tissues

Raquel Perez-Castillejos, postdoctoral scholar, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

The Plaquette Polaron Paradigm for Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors

William A. Goddard III, Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics, Caltech,

Jamil Tahir-Kheli, senior staff scientist in chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Transatlantic Islam: Carlyle, Emerson, Irving

Wai Chee Dimock, professor of English and American studies, Yale University,

5:45pm – 8:00pm

2008 Mathematics Department Awards Banquet

Athenaeum

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

9:00am – 10:00am

ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

The Challenge of Converting Lignocellulose into Anything, Much Less Biofuel

Jared Leadbetter, associate professor of environmental microbiology, Caltech,

10:00am – 1:00pm

Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.

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