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January 2014

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January 2014

Thursday, January 16th, 2014

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

New imaging approaches to understand the rhizosphere

Lionel Dupuy, James Hutton Institute,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Exploring Mission Concepts with the JPL Innovation Foundry A-Team

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

John Ziemer, Concept Innovation Methods Chief, Innovation Foundry, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

7:30pm – 10:30pm

(Men's Basketball) Whittier vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Jean E. Ensminger - Aiding and Abetting a Culture of Corruption

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, January 16th, 2014

8:40am – 11:30am

Adjustment and Family Orientation and International Scholars Services Orientation

East Bridge 114

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206

Characterizing the Deformation Signatures of Human Neutrophils in Two and Three-Dimensional Environments

Christian Franck, Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, Brown 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

Binding Site Organization and Subunit Stoichiometry in 5-HT(3) Receptors

Tim Miles, Mr., Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Bimetallic Olefin Polymerization Catalysis: Mechanisms and Applications of Proximal Effects

Madalyn Radlauer, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie Group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104

Photonic generation of ultrastable microwave signals

Scott Diddams, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Does the Orbitofrontal Cortex Signal Value?

Geoffrey Schoenbaum, MD, Phd, Cellular Neurobiology Research Branch, Behavioral Neurophysiology Research Section,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

A Fixation with Biological Nitrogen Fixation

Douglas Rees, Dickinson Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

From regeneration to parasitism: systems approaches to understand stem cells in human parasite schistosomes and their free-living planarian cousins

Bo Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Probing Dark Matter with the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large-Scale Structure

Cora Dvorkin, Postdoctoral Member, Institute for Advanced Study,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Throwaway Society? A New Look at the History of Waste and Wasting in Modern and Contemporary History

Frank Trentmann, Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

The Mars Exploration Rovers: A Decade of Exploration

John Callas, Project Manager, Mars Exploration Rover Project, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

von Kármán Lecture: The Mars Exploration Rovers: A Decade of Exploration

Beckman Auditorium

7:30pm – 10:30pm

(Women's Basketball) Whittier vs. Caltech

Friday, January 17th, 2014

12:00am – 1/18 12:00am

(Fencing) North America Cup

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

Characterizing Anisotropy in the Gravitational Wave Background with Pulsar Timing Arrays

Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Graduate Student, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Toward Solving Eisenhower's Atomic Dilemma (and Climate Change): A Strategy for U.S. Civil Nuclear Leadership

Victor Reis, Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Assembling the H-Cluster of [FeFe] Hydrogenase

R. David Britt, Professor and Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Chemistry, University of California, Davis,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)

The Mars Exploration Rovers: A Decade of Exploration

John Callas, Project Manager, Mars Exploration Rover Project, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Saturday, January 18th, 2014

12:00am – 1/19 12:00am

(Fencing) North America Cup

2:30pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Keshishian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:30pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Serjik Yeroomian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

5:00pm – 8:00pm

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

Sunday, January 19th, 2014

12:00am – 1/20 12:00am

(Fencing) North America Cup

3:30pm – 5:30pm

David Finckel and Wu Han

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, January 20th, 2014

8:00am – 5:00pm

Martin Luther King Day (Institute Holiday)

Academic

Tuesday, January 21st, 2014

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

11:30am – 12:30pm

Systems Biology SuperGroup Meeting

Broad 100

Rob Phillips, Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics and Biology, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Course Ombuds Lunch for Winter Term

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Molecular Programming with Synthetic Nucleic-Acid Systems

Lulu Qian, Bioengineering, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Pasadeana Unified Education Series: STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art and Math) Initiative

Avery Library

2:00pm – 2:00pm

Physics and Geometry Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Compactness theorems for sequence of bounded energy SL(2;C) connections in dimensions 3 and 4

Clifford Taubes, Harvard University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Measuring the neutron-star equation of state with gravitational waves from binary inspiral

John Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114

Symmetry Protected Topological Phases: Prediction, Construction, and Classification

Xie Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Fluid Mechanics Research Conference

Guggenheim 202

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Computational design of self-assembling protein nano materials with atomic-level accuracy

Neil King, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science

South Mudd 365

A New Model for Distal Impact Ejecta and, Perhaps, Chondrules

Brandon Johnson, Graduate Stuent, Physics, Purdue,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Excitons in Organic Semiconductors: Elucidating the Mechanism of Singlet Fission

Timothy C. Berkelbach, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop - "EndNote For Beginners"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Laboratory Safety Orientation/Lab Safety 101

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Extra-solar planetary system formation and evolution in the golden age of high contrast imaging

Dimitri Mawet, ESO,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biosafety & Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) Training

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Scaling controls on carbon cycling from organisms to ecosystems: Insights from novel isotopic measurements in temperate forests and thawing permafrost wetlands

Scott Saleska, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Exposing and Exploiting Novel Metabolic Pathways in Normal and Diseased Biology

Raymond Moellering, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute,

7:30pm – 10:30pm

(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

10:30am – 12:30pm

Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Crellin 151

2:00pm – 5:30pm

Perpall Speaking Competition Finals

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Mechanisms and Consequences of Individual Variation in Value Based Learning

Catherine Hartley, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biophysics Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Reconstructing regulatory circuits: lessons from immune cells

Aviv Regev, Associate Professor, HHMI and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

A Little Big Bang: Strong Interactions in Ultracold Fermi Gases

Martin Zwierlein, Silverman Family Career Development Professor of Physics, MIT,

7:30pm – 10:30pm

(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Veritas Forum at Caltech

Baxter Lecture Hall

(Meta)Physics: An Atheist and a Christian Discuss Physics and Philosophy

8:00pm – 9:00pm

KNI Nanoscience Conference Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium

The Next Life of Silicon

Gabriel Aeppli, Director, London Centre for Nanotechnology,

Friday, January 24th, 2014

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

Academic

8:30am – 6:00pm

2014 Frontiers in Nano Science and Technology

Beckman Institute Auditorium

9:00am – 10:00am

James K. Knowles Lecture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Model Reduction in Multiscale Problems Focusing on Polar Ice

Pierre M. Suquet, Senior Researcher, National Center of Scientific Research in Marseille,