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CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Vol. 40 No. 34
PMA Seminar Calendar
May 14 - 18, 2012



MONDAY, May 14
Last Day for Seniors to Remove Conditions and Incompletes, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, no location
3rd Annual Caltech Student Health Fair, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, San Pasqual Walk
Many off-campus and Caltech health related groups and resources will provide info, interactive activities and demos on leading healthy lifestyles with free chair massages, healthy snacks and dancing! This is in conjunction with the American Red Cross blood drive. Groups participating: Huntington Hospital and Cancer center residents, nurses, sleep technician; Las Encinas Hospital, Whittier Rio Hondo AIDS Project, Active Minds, Caltech Counseling, Health Education, Health Center, Y Outdoors, etc.
Astronomy Tea Talk, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
"Resonant Shattering of Neutron Star Crusts," Dave Tsang, Caltech.
Bioengineering Lecture Series, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Beckman Institute auditorium
"Mechanics-based self-organization of cell shapes and tubular patterns" Chin-Lin Guo, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Bioengineering Option, California Institute of Technology.
High Energy Physics Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 469 Lauritsen
"How the CMB challenges cosmology's standard model" Glenn Starkman, Case Western Reserve University.
Applied Mathematics Colloquium, 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM, 105 Annenberg
"Implicit Sampling, with Applications to Data Assimilation" Alexandre Chorin, Professor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley.



TUESDAY, May 15
IST Lunch Bunch, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, 105 Annenberg
"Design and Analysis of Safety Critical Systems" Peter Seiler, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, University of Minnesota.
Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
TBD, Kaspar von Braun, IPAC Refreshments at 3:30pm
Chemical Physics Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 147 Noyes, Sturdivant Lecture Hall
"Ab initio Modeling of CO2 Reduction and CO2 Capture" Laura Gagliardi, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota.
High Energy Physics Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 469 Lauritsen
"Search for Higgs boson decaying to WW and ZZ at CMS" Si Xie, MIT.
Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
"The Brown Dwarf Desert: A Tale of Some Stars Engulfing Their Massive Close-in Companions" Tristan Guillot, Research Scientist, Observatoire de la Cˆote d’Azur, CNRS (France).




WEDNESDAY, May 16
Mathematical Physics Seminar, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, 351 Sloan
"Conformal mappings and spectral theory," Jacob S. Christiansen, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
Astronomy Colloquium, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
"The 11 Gyr Evolution of Star-forming galaxies: the HiZELS/H-alpha view" David Sobral, Leiden Observatory.
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Beckman Auditorium
Beverly McKeon, assistant professor of aeronautics, will give a lecture entitled "Taming Turbulence."




THURSDAY, May 17
Physics Research Conference, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 201 E. Bridge
"Beyond Watson and Crick: Recent advances in the use of DNA as a building material" Paul Rothemund, Senior Research Associate, Caltech.





FRIDAY, May 18
High Energy Theory Seminar, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 469 Lauritsen
"The cusp anomalous dimension at three loops and beyond" Johannes Henn, IAS.
SEMANA LATINA TALK: "ENGINEERING & POLITICS: PERSPECTIVES FROM SENATOR ALEX PADILLA” , 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Avery Dining Hall
At noon on Friday, May 18 in Avery Dining, Senator Alex Padilla, representing the 20th Senate District, will discuss his educational experiences as a Mechanical Engineering student at M.I.T., his career working for Hughes Aircraft, and his transition from engineering into public office in the California Senate. Lunch will be provided. RSVP online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RSVPSenatorPadillaLecture
IQIM Seminar, 4:30 PM - 5:10 PM, 114 E. Bridge
"Nonlinear optics with the new UHQ planar disk resonators," Jiang Li, Vahala group.



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