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June 2016

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June 2016

Ongoing

Ongoing – 6/3 5:00pm

Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

Academic

Wednesday, June 1st, 2016

8:00am – 6/3 5:00pm

Final Examinations for Seniors and Graduate Students for Spring Term

Academic

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Control and Dynamical Systems Tea

Annenberg Lounge (2nd Floor)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Two questions, one answer: A multi-scale view of tripical convection

Da Yang, Miller Research Fellow, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley,

Thursday, June 2nd, 2016

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213

Transportation Network Resilience: Strategic Routing and Value of Information

Saurabh Amin, Robert N. Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT,

3:30pm – 4:00pm

Theory Tea

Annenberg Lounge (2nd Floor)

Friday, June 3rd, 2016

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day of Classes for Undergraduates

Academic

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day to Register for Summer and Fall Term

Academic

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213

Faster Algorithms for the Constrained k-means Problem

Ragesh Jaiswal, University of California, San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

DOLCIT Discussion Group

Annenberg 314

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Boson condensation and instability in the tensor network representation of topological states

Sujeet Shukla, Graduate Student, Preskill Group,

Saturday, June 4th, 2016

8:00am – 5:00pm

JSNC 2016: Joint Symposium on Neural Computation

Off Campus

8:00am – 6/7 5:00pm

Study Period for Undergraduates

Academic

8:30am – 6:00pm

SOCAMS 2016 (Southern California Applied Mathematics Symposium)

Off Campus

Monday, June 6th, 2016

9:00am – 9:00am

Due Date for Instructors' Final Grade Reports for Seniors and Graduate Students

Academic

9:00am – 12:00pm

Resnick Sustainability Institute Battery Symposium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Smart Grid Seminar

Annenberg 213

Optimizing the Coordinated Control of Distributed Generation, Storage and Demand Response Based on Decision Trees

Panayiotis Moutis, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Network dynamics of control over enhancement versus suppression in sustained attention

Agatha Lenartowicz, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA,

Wednesday, June 8th, 2016

8:00am – 6/10 5:00pm

Final Examinations for Undergraduates, Spring Term

Academic

9:00am – 5:00pm

Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

Location to be announced

Academic

10:00am – 5:00pm

Curriculum Committee Meeting

Location to be announced

Academic

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Special Seminar in CDS/CMS

Annenberg 213

Low Complexity Stochastic Optimization with Applications to Advanced Wireless Communications and Networked Control Systems

Michael Fan Zhang, Future Network Theory Lab, Huawei,

2:00pm – 5:00pm

Faculty Meeting

Location to be announced

Academic

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Control and Dynamical Systems Tea

Annenberg Lounge (2nd Floor)

Thursday, June 9th, 2016

10:00am – 11:00am

CD3 Seminar

Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)

Computational Rediscovery of Some Classical Force Laws

Mark Stalzer, Principal Computational Scientist, CD3, Caltech,

Friday, June 10th, 2016

8:00am – 5:00pm

End of Spring Term

Academic

10:00am – 12:00pm

Commencement

Beckman Mall

Academic

4:00pm – 5:00pm

DOLCIT Discussion Group

Annenberg 314

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

9:00am – 9:00am

Due Date for Instructors' Final Grade Reports for Undergraduates

Academic

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Control and Dynamical Systems Tea

Annenberg Lounge (2nd Floor)

Thursday, June 16th, 2016

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Reading Women

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

2015-2016 El Niño Winter and California Water: What did we see from space?

Tom Painter,

Tom Farr,

Jay Famiglietti,

Duane Waliser,

Friday, June 17th, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Anomalous Floquet-Anderson Insulator as a Nonadiabatic Quantized Charge Pump

Paraj Titum Bhattacharjee, Graduate Student, Refael Group,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Theodore von Karman Lecture

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

2015-2016 El Niño Winter and California Water: What did we see from space?

Tom Painter,

Tom Farr,

Jay Famiglietti,

Duane Waliser,

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016

9:00am – 5:00pm

Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

Location to be announced

Academic

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

High temperature mechanical performance of metallic and metal-ceramic nanoscale multilayers

Quanshui Zheng, Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics, and Applied Mechanics Lab, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Control and Dynamical Systems Tea

Annenberg Lounge (2nd Floor)

Monday, June 27th, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 213

The Diamond Norm as an Improved Regularizer for Low Rank Matrix Recovery

Richard Kueng, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Germany,

Tuesday, June 28th, 2016

8:30am – 12:30pm

In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) on Mars - Can Photoelectrochemical Production of Fuel and Oxygen Play a Role?

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Wednesday, June 29th, 2016

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Control and Dynamical Systems Tea

Annenberg Lounge (2nd Floor)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213

Achievable Performance of Blind Policies in Heavy Traffic

Bart Kamphorst, National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI),