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October 2016

Friday, October 21st, 2016

8:00am – 6:00pm

Southern California Control Workshop (SCCW)

Off Campus

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Science History Seminar

Baxter 128

The Rise of Europe and Atlantic Trade

Daudin Guillaume, Professor of Economics, Université Paris-Dauphine,

1:30pm – 4:30pm

(Men's Water Polo) Caltech at Concordia (Cal.)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

The Destructive Birth of Massive Stars and Massive Star Clusters

Anna Rosen, Graduate Student, UC Santa Cruz,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Microscale "Turbulence" induced by Electrochemical Interfaces

Ali Mani, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBA

Hrant Hakobyan, Mathematics Department, Kansas State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

2D to 1D Oxide interfaces: superconductivity, magnetism and ballistic transport effects

Alon Ron, Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group,

4:30pm – 8:00pm

Caltech Family Night Dinner & Movie

Beckman Auditorium

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Redlands vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

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

Asteroid Anchors, Rock Climbing Robots, Gecko Grippers, and Other Ways to Stick in Space

Aaron Parness, Extreme Environment Robotics Group, JPL,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Film Screening: Der Kaiser von Kalifornien

Baxter Lecture Hall

Saturday, October 22nd, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

(Fencing) Caltech at IFCSC North v South

9:00am – 12:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Caltech at Chaffey

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Caltech at Whittier

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Caltech vs. San Diego Miramar

11:00am – 2:30pm

Photography on Campus : Nichols Wedding Photoshoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:30pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Bandari/Manoukian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:30pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Kendirjian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Chapman

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Photography on Campus : Khatcherian Wedding Photoshoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

5:30pm – 9:00pm

2016 Caltech C Moon Festival Gala

Ramo Auditorium

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Rita Hosking

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, October 23rd, 2016

3:30pm – 7:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Antonious/Alfi Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, October 24th, 2016

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Explore JPL - Seminar #3

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Development of Automated Reaction Path Search Methods toward Systematic Understanding and Design of Organic Reactions

Satoshi Maeda, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Hokkaido University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Next Generation Computer Simulations for Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Electromagnetic Applications

Professor Jin-Fa Lee, ElectroScience Lab., ECE Dept. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Reducing the Earth to Simple Physical Models: From Antarctica to the Core

Victor C. Tsai, Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Cosmology & Effective Field Theories: Higgs Evolution in Inflation and Large Scale Structure

Kathyrn Zurek, LBNL,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Caltech at Chapman

Tuesday, October 25th, 2016

9:30am – 10:30am

Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

Number Theory Seminar - please note date & time

Zeta polynomials for modular forms

Ken Ono, Mathematics & Computer Science, Emory University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105

How Bitcoin enables a Machine-Payable Web

Balaji S. Srinivasan, CEO of 21.co and a Board Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Safe Zone Ally Training for Staff & Faculty - Part 1

Avery Conference Room

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 265

Observing coating Brownian noise in silicon optics at the zero-expansion point

Johannes Eichholz, LIGO, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Adiabatic optimization versus diffusion Monte Carlo

Stephen Jordan, NIST,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Logic Seminar

Logical aspects of profinite groups

André Nies, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland ,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Memorial Service & Reception for Tom Apostol

Athenaeum, Main Lounge

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

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

TBD

Dr. Alan Dressler, Carnegie Observatories,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Directed assembly in liquid crystalline environments

Juan J. de Pablo, Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Early Decisions in Neural Fate Determination

Kenneth Kosik, Harriman Professor of Neuroscience , Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Joint Seminar of the Walter Burke Institute of Theoretical Physics and the Einstein Papers Project

Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.

Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes

Lars Brink, Professor Emeritus, Chalmers University of Technology; Former Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125

Centralization versus separation of regulatory institutions

Dana Foarta, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Stanford Graduate School of Business,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

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

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Alpine Club Talk

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Cielo Y Terra

Marja Seidel, Caltech Alpine Club,

Wednesday, October 26th, 2016

8:00am – Ongoing

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

10:00am – 11:00am

TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308

Local search yields approximation schemes for k-means and k-median in Euclidean and minor-free metrics

Claire Mathieu, ENS,

11:50am – 1:00pm

Leading Cultural Change to Improve Undergraduate STEM Teaching and Learning at Research Universities: The AAU STEM Education Initiative

Beckman Institute Auditorium

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Safe Zone Ally Training for Staff & Faculty - Part 2

Avery Conference Room

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Weight Watchers Open House

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Using NSF's "Broader Impacts" Criterion to Improve Undergraduate Education and Instruction

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Redlands vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Fast radio bursts from across the Universe?

Vikram Ravi, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280

Extreme Power Density and Efficiency Power Converters for Grid Interfaced Applications—New Circuit Topologies and Control Techniques to Leverage Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Devices

Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Tropical energetic and precipitation responses to sea surface temperature perturbations: Zonal mean and the African Sahel

Spencer Hill, NSF Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Gates-Thomas 135

Extending the Range of the Glassy State in Metals

A. Lindsay Greer, Head of the School of Physical Sciences, Professor of Materials Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

What is ‘orthodox' quantum mechanics?

David Wallace, Professor of Philosophy, USC,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Combinatorics Seminar

Cokernels of Random Matrices and Sandpile Groups

Nathan Kaplan, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,

5:15pm – 8:00pm

Associates Program: The Techer Species

Athenaeum

A Day in the Life of Caltech Students

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Rustem Ismagilov - Diagnostics for Global Health and Antimicrobial Stewardship

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, October 27th, 2016

10:30am – 12:30pm

Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum

10:30am – 11:30am

Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Scaling Limits in Networked Control System"

Bassam Bamieh, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara,

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

Adam Boynton, Graduate Student, Barton Research Group, CCE, Caltech,

1:30pm – 2:30pm

Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213

On Probabilistic Checking in Perfect Zero Knowledge

Michael Forbes, MIT,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Mod p isogeny classes on Shimura varieties with parahoric level structure

Rong Zhou, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,

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