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The Newsletter for the EAS Community
Selected Upcoming Events
Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Getting Better Sleep - Free Pizza!! (1-hour workshop for graduate and undergraduate students who have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep)
Location: Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Consciousness & Reality Colloquium - Bioelectricity: The Body's Cognitive Glue
Location: Online
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series: Bob Iger (Register here)
Location: Athenaeum
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
Location: Chen 100
Monday, April 22, 2024, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Earth Day Resource Fair
Location: San Pasqual Walk
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Watson Lecture - Voices of the Ice: A Seismic Odyssey to the South Pole - Zhongwen Zhan (PhD '13), professor of geophysics
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Friday, April 26, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
EE Distinguished Speaker: William J. Dally
Location: Annenberg 105
EAS New Horizons Award - Call for Nominations
With the New Horizons Award, the Division of Engineering and Applied Science annually recognizes and honors individuals within the EAS community who have actively contributed to our goal to be a diverse, equitable, and inclusive engineering community. The award is available to members of the EAS community, including current students, postdoctoral scholars, staff, and faculty, whose activities have impact and may include demonstrated leadership, advocacy and community organizing, development of equity and inclusion resources, and engagement in engineering outreach to local schools or communities. Nomination period closes May 10, 2024. Learn more and nominate!
Spotlight On Our People
Pio Ong
Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanical and Civil Engineering
I have been at Caltech for two years under the supervision of Professor Aaron Ames. My research focus is on the intelligent resource-aware control for nonlinear systems, with the goal of reducing resource usage in autonomous systems. Currently, I study resource-constrained control systems and formulate control policies to reduce the frequency of resource-consuming control actions. For example, I use nonlinear control theory to analyze and formulate event-triggered designs for satellites to reduce the number of thruster firings. In addition to this exciting research, Caltech also provided me with the opportunity to instruct an undergraduate course as a lecturer. I really enjoyed the teaching experience and the freedom to craft my own syllabus in the way I believed would best benefit students. Outside of my career, I enjoy listening to K-Pop music, watching math videos, and playing chess/Go.
Divesh Soni
Graduate Student, GALCIT
Hello everyone! I am Divesh, currently a 3rd year graduate student in Professor Sergio Pellegrino’s lab. I am doing my PhD in Space Engineering. Before joining Caltech, I worked as a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). In ISRO, I worked on structural design and analysis of solar arrays, reflectors, and other spacecraft appendages. I was always surprised about how things would almost never behave as they should in experiments. This made learning pleasurable and as exciting as solving a puzzle. Here at Caltech, I am working on understanding slew maneuvers of spacecrafts with large lightweight flexible structures relevant to the Space Solar Power Project. When not working on my research, I tend to drift away to the mountains, hiking and enjoying the burst of fresh air. I am grateful for the opportunities here at Caltech and the way I am challenged every day
makes me feel alive!
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Calls for Nomination & Funding Opportunities
Caltech’s Office of Foundation Relations maintains an online database and email subscription service of primarily non-federal funding opportunities as a resource for the Caltech community. Opportunities include calls for proposals released by private foundations, public charities, associations, corporations, internal Caltech opportunities and federal limited opportunities.
KNI Catalyst Award - Call for Nominations
The Kavli Nanoscience Institute (KNI) established the KNI Catalyst Awards to recognize individual contributors or small teams who are change agents, community leaders, and/or allies for the advancement of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility efforts on campus or in STEM fields. Candidates for the KNI Catalyst Award are nominated by their peers or advisors. The award comes with a $1,000 prize to support the honorees continued efforts. Eligibility: Nominees have an active status at Caltech or JPL; are involved in the KNI community (e.g., active KNI lab users within the past year) or participate in KNI-related programs; demonstrate concrete plans or are actively involved in building a more equitable, inclusive or diverse environment on campus or in a STEM-related field (e.g., K-12, higher education, scientific organizations, etc.). Nomination deadline: Sunday, April 21, 2024. Learn more here and nominate yourself or your colleagues.
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