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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
Saturday, October 10th, 2009
8:00am 12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum

Successful Entrepreneurial Leaders: From Scrappy Founders to Polished Professional Managers
Susan Resnick West, associate professor, USC Annenberg School of Communication,
11:30am 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zamarripa Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm 10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Emily Miller Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lenna Vanerian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sookiassian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm 5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Talin Zomdjian/Vosgan Naccashian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
Monday, October 12th, 2009
9:00am 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

New Results for Giant Arc Statistics in ~100 Clusters Observed with HST
Assaf Horesh, graduate student, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture

The How, the Where, and the Why of Oscillations in Cell Signaling
Andre Levchenko, professor of biomedical engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Ground States and Excitations of Spatially Anisotropic Quantum Antiferromagnets
Oleg Starykh, associate professor of physics, University of Utah,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Isotope Discrimination by Phylogenetically Diverse RubisCO Enzymes
Kathleen M. Scott, assistant professor of biology, University of Southern Florida,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Life Emerged to Quicken the Hydrogenation of CO2 to CH3COOH and CH4
Michael J. Russell, senior research fellow in planetary science, JPL,
4:15pm 5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Testing Eternal Inflation with Cosmic Bubble Collisions
Matthew Johnson, postdoctoral scholar in theoretical physics, Caltech,
7:30pm 9:00pm
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Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture

Right to Remain: New Orleans Residents Combat Attempts to Price Them Out of the City
Sakura Kone, director, Rebuild Green New Orleans,
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Finding Structure with Randomness: Stochastic Algorithms for Computing Approximate Matrix Decompositions
Joel Tropp, assistant professor of applied and computational mathematics, Caltech,
3:30pm 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
James Bullock, associate professor of cosmology, UC Irvine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Exploring Molecular Wheel Nanotubes Inside and Out: A Xenon Atom's View
Clifford R. Bowers, associate professor of chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Revealing the Complexity of Structure-Function Relationships along the Insulin-Secretory Pathway Using 3-D Cellular Atlases at the Nanometer Scale
Brad Marsh, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia,
7:30pm 9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Universality Limits of a Reproducing Kernel for a Half-Line Schrodinger Operator and Clock Behavior of Eigenvalues
Anna Maltsev, graduate student in mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks
John Carpenter, deputy director, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, and senior research associate in astronomy, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Large-Scale Ocean Dynamics in the Eddying Regime
Christopher Wolfe, postgraduate researcher, UC San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules and Pigments Probed via Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
Judy Kim, Professor, University of California, San Diego,
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
10:15am 10:30am
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The Great California ShakeOut

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
11:00am 12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Progress Toward an Enantioselective Synthesis of Ineleganolide
Jennifer Roizen, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Discovery and Development of New Catalysts for the Synthesis of Small Molecules and Polymers
Geoffrey W. Coates, professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar

'Value-System' Mediators of Expectancy Effects on Pain
Tor Wager, assistant professor of psychology, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Incremental Growth of a Large Magma Chamber: Field and Analytical Studies of the Cretaceous Tuolumne Batholith, California
Vali Memeti, lecturer in geology, Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

Fermi LAT Pulsars: The New Gamma-ray View of the Pulsar Machine
Roger Romani, professor of physics, Stanford University,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: "How to Drive a Robot"

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Autonomous Mobile Robotics
Andrew Howard, senior member of technical staff, Computer Vision Group, JPL,
Friday, October 16th, 2009
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

AdS/CFT with small extra dimensions
Eva Silverstein, Kavli Insitute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

The Superstring in AdS4xCP3
Linus Wulff, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Rome,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Bio-Inspired Aerial and Underwater Vehicles for Distributed Mobile Sensor Networking
Kamran Mohseni, associate professor of aerospace engineering sciences, University of Colorado,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Synthetic Modeling of Iron-Containing Nitrile Hydratase (Fe-NHase) and its Photoregulation by Nitric Oxide (NO): The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Michael J. Rose, postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, Caltech,
7:00pm 9:00pm
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7:00pm 8:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: "How to Drive a Robot"

Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
"How to Drive a Robot"
Andrew Howard, senior member of technical staff, Computer Vision Group, JPL,