Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

April

Day

Week

Month

Term

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Wednesday, April 10th, 2024

9:00am – 5:00pm

Lutron "Magic Show" with Interactive Technology Display

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3

10:00am – 11:30am

CANCELED Faculty Short Course - Course Design Basics (Learning Objectives)

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

More on Torus Wormholes in 3d Gravity

Cynthia Yan, Stanford University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Finding Common Ground

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 254

Stress drop estimation: In deep-focus earthquakes and assessing the influence of source complexity

Meichen Liu, Seismo Lab, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Tackle the Term - Free Pizza!!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room

12:45pm – 5:00pm

Bill Gross Business Plan Competition

Chen 100

1:00pm – 2:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Massive Particles at Spatial Infinity

Suvrat Raju, ICTS, Tata Institute,

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Transforming Your Research Into Teaching for Postdocs-Spring 2024

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Caltech Library Workshop – You & Your Thesis

Online Event

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Multiple radial SLE(0) system and classical Calogero-Sutherland model

Jiaxin Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

White Dwarfs as Probes of Convective Overshoot and Evolved Exoplanetary Systems

Tim Cunningham, NASA Hubble Fellow, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

New ice cores from coastal West Antarctica to constrain climate forcing on Amundsen Sea regional ice shelves and outlet glaciers: initiating a Ross-Amundsen Ice Core Array (RAICA)

Peter Neff, University of Minnesota,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310

Predictive coding in neural networks can recover the environment's map

James Gornet, Electrical Engineering Department, Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Fertile ground for quantum materials, and how to grow them

Daniel Shoemaker, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

A Radical Approach to Organic Chemistry

Julian West, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Rice University,

Internal Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Making Molecular World: Building a practice-based account of modern chemistry

Dr. Catherine M. Jackson, Associate Professor and Director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Oxford,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125

Deep Learning for Individual Heterogeneity: An Automatic Inference Framework

Max Farrell, Associate Professor of Economics and Mellichamp Chair of Mind and Machine Intelligence, UC Santa Barbara,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Trivia Night - Boba & Popcorn Chicken!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room

6:30pm – 7:45pm

Financial Literacy: Investing - Grad Students

Central Catalinas Recreation Room

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Behind The Book: April 10, 2024 - Dr. David Zierler and Prof. Paul Wennberg discuss Zierler's "The Invention of Ecocide"

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event