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April 2009

Friday, April 24th, 2009

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Keeping Your Investment Strategy On Track

Avery Conference Room

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Aeronautics Research at Two Frontiers of Vehicle Development—Vibration Control in Rotorcraft and Hypersonic Aeroelasticity

Peretz Friedmann, professor of aerospace engineering, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar—cancelled

Crellin 151

Elizabeth Santori, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech World Fest Event: Sounds of Korea Preshow Reception

Center for Student Services, Lobby

4:40pm – 5:40pm

Caltech Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe

5:00pm – 10:00pm

Earth Day 2009—Panel Discussion and Movie Screening

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Pilates-based Strength Class: Core Strength of Athletes and Dancers

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

7:30pm – 10:00pm

Humanities and Social Sciences Film Screening: Vitus

Baxter Lecture Hall

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Sounds of Korea

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

9:00am – 5:00pm

Coleman Chamber Competition

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

12:15pm – 2:15pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Haylock Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Family Portrait Photography on Campus: Ruben Minasyan Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Seferian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Caltech Chamber Singers

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

10:00am – 11:00am

Beginning Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

11:00am – 12:30pm

Intermediate/Advanced Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

3:30pm – 6:00pm

Coleman Winners Concert

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, April 27th, 2009

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

HIgh-contrast Imaging of Evolved Stars with a Space-based Coronagraph

Justin Crepp, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Downs 107

135,137Ba NMR Investigation of the Field-Induced Phases of the S=1 Spin Dimer System Ba3Mn2O8

Stuart Brown, professor of experimental condensed matter, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Himalayan Mass Balance: A Bhutan Perspective

Nadine McQuarrie, assistant professor of geosciences, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Searching for New Physics with Light at CDF

Sasha Pranko, Fermilab,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Baxter B125

Variable Selection in Nonparametric Additive Models

Joel L. Horowitz, professor of market economics , Northwestern University,

4:15pm – 5:15pm

Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Sparse Remote Sensing—Helmholtz Meets Heisenberg

8:30pm – 9:30pm

Intermediate Ceroc Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

9:45pm – 10:45pm

Beginner Lindy Hop Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

9:30am – 11:30am

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library System Workshop: "EndNote For Beginners"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Jorgensen 74

Heralded Polynomial-Time Quantum State Tomography

Steve Flammia, postdoctoral reseacher, Perimeter Institute,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206

Finite-Wavelength Scattering of Incident Vorticity and Acoustic Waves

Arnab Samanta, postdoctoral scholar in mechanical engineering, Caltech,

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

What the Most Metal-Poor Stars Tell Us about the Early Universe

Anna Frebel, the University of Texas at Austin,

3:45pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Planet Formation in Transitional and Debris Disks

Eugene Chiang, associate professor of astronomy and Earth and planetary science, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104

Extending the Capability of Neutron Scattering

Roger Pynn, professor, Department of Physics, Indiana University and the Spallation Neutron Source,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Bohmian Mechanics with Complex Action: An Exact Formulation of Quantum Mechanics with Complex Trajectories

David J. Tannor, professor of physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Everhart Lecture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Rolling Out the Solar Carpet: Microwire Solar Cells in Flexible Polymer Layers

Joshua Spurgeon, graduate student in chemical engineering, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Synaptic vesicle endocytosis

Eric Jorgensen, molecular biology program, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and University of Utah,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248

Results of the Electron Neutrino Appearance Search in the Minos

Juan P. Ochoa, graduate student in high energy physics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Mathematics of Information Seminar

Moore 239

Beyond Convexity: Submodularity in Machine Learning Part II

4:00pm – 5:00pm

William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Rethinking in Worst (with Pasolini)

Rei Terada, professor of comparative literature, UC Irvine,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

8:00pm – 9:00pm

Bellydance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

8:00am – Ongoing

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

10:00am – 12:00pm

Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Eigenfunction Localization for the 2-D Periodic Schroedinger Operator

Wei-Min Wang, professor of mathematics, Universite Paris-Sud,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Hormonal Patterning of the Shoot Stem Cell Niche in Arabidopsis Thaliana

Sean Gordon, graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Asbestos Awareness Training

Keith Spalding 118

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Feedback in Starburst Galaxies

Todd Thompson, associate professor of astronomy, Ohio State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Understanding Ice Sheet Change: Towards Improved Prediction

Ginny Catania, research associate professor in geophysics, the University of Texas at Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Functional Metal-Organic Framework Materials

Joseph Hupp, Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Analyzing the Dynamic Glycome

Lara K. Mahal, assistant professor, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, the University of Texas at Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

The Humanities and Social Sciences Mellon Divisional Lecture

Baxter B125

Science, Inference, and Intuition: Markets, Laws and the Debate About Art Connoisseurship

John Brewer, Broad Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of history and literature, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Broad 100

Biophysical and Cell Biological Studies Characterizing the Vertebrate Iron Exporter Ferroportin

Adrian Rice, graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Caltech,

6:30pm – 7:30pm

Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge

8:00pm – 9:00pm

Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

9:00am – 10:00am

ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Exploring the Deep-Sea for Corals and Clues to Our Climatic Past

Jess Adkins, associate professor of geochemistry and global environmental science, Caltech,

10:00am – 1:00pm

Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library System Workshop: "Electronic Theses and Dissertations"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Engineering Protein Fitness Using Cellular Quality Control Mechanisms

Matthew DeLisa, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Cornell University,

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

The Hard X-ray View of AGN-Recent X-ray, Optical and IR Results from the Swift BAT Survey

Richard Mushotzky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Channels and Pores in Bacteria: A Structural Perspective

James Naismith, professor of chemistry, the University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar - CANCELED

Baxter B125

Matthew Botvinick, assistant professor of psychology, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Barefoot on Hot Ground: Environments of Human Evolution in East Africa Based on the Clumped Isotope in Carbonate (D47) Thermometer

Ben Passey, Dreyfus Postdoctoral Scholar in Environmental Geochemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

The Complexity, Simplicity, and Unity of Living Systems from Cells to Cities: A Physicist's Search for Quantitative, Unified Theories of Biological and Social Structure and Organization

Geoffrey West, president and distinguished professor, Santa Fe Institute,

8:00pm – 9:00pm

Jazz/Lyrical Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

9:00pm – 10:00pm

Hip Hop Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room