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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
2:00pm – 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Darbinyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Parunakian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 5:45pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karimian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Big Love: Theater Arts at Caltech

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
  • Public Event
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Theatre Arts at Caltech presents Big Love

Dabney Hall, Lounge
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Patrick Ball

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
10:00pm – 11/7 12:00am
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Big Love: Theater Arts at Caltech

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
  • Public Event
10:00pm – 11:59pm
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Theatre Arts at Caltech presents Big Love

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
1:00pm – 5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Oghamian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mt. Washington Plein Aire Painters - permission to visit

See event detail for location
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
Kevin Kelly: What Techology Wants
2:30pm – 4:30pm
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Big Love: Theater Arts at Caltech

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
  • Public Event
2:30pm – 4:30pm
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Beginner Social Ballroom Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
2:30pm – 4:30pm
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Theatre Arts at Caltech presents Big Love

Dabney Hall, Lounge
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Calder Quartet

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
6:30pm – 10:30pm
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Diwali 2010

Beckman Institute, Glanville Courtyard
Monday, November 8th, 2010
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Standard First Aid/CPR/AED Training

Brown Gymnasium, Classroom
9:00am – 9:00pm
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Midterm Deficiency Notices Due

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Brown Bag/Graduate Student Seminar

Baxter B125
Wealth and Death in Paris 1807–1937
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor in Business Economics, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CIT-Knit and Crochet

Spalding Laboratory 113
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Faculty Board Meeting

Caltech Hall Board Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Constraints on Black Hole Growth, Quasar Lifetimes, and Eddington Ratio Distributions from the SDSS Broad Line Quasar Black Hole Mass Function
Brandon Kelly, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114
Universal Dynamics in Thermally Isolated Systems
Anatoli Polkovnikov, assistant professor of condensed matter physics, Boston University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar

Baxter B125
Adverse Selection and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts
Benjamin Handel, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Lunar Magma Ocean: Reconciling the Solidification Process with Lunar Petrology and Geochronology
Lindy Elkins-Tanton, assistant professor of geology, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar

Steele 125
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Keck 142
Scattering of Neutrons and X-rays in Functional Materials
Raphael P. Hermann, professor, Institute for Solid State Research, JCNS and JARA-FIT, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and, University of Liège, Belgium,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Numerical Methods for Geometric Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
Adam Oberman, associate professor of mathematics, Simon Fraser University,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Low Scale Flavor Gauge Symmetries
Giovanni Villadoro, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
8:30pm – 9:30pm
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Beginner West Coast Swing Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
9:40pm – 10:40pm
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Beginner Modern Jive ("Ceroc") Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
8:00am – 11/11 12:00pm
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Adult, Child, and Infant First Aid and CPR Training

Brown Gymnasium, Classroom
10:30am – 11:30am
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding Building
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
Energy Dynamics
Igor Mezic, professor of mechanical and civil engineering, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Whither Smartphone Research?
Ramesh Govindan, professor of computer science, USC,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate

Baxter B125
Local Gossip and Inter-generational Family Transfers: Comparative Political Economy of Insurance Provision
Yuki Takagi, Department of Government, Harvard University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "IEEE Xplore"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TEDTalk Tuesday

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 107
Quantum Limits on Estimating a Waveform
Carlton Caves, professor of physics, University of New Mexico,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Charged-Particle Astronomy
Alexander Kusenko, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Annenberg 105
Dissipative Solitons: New Nonlinear Waves in Ultrafast Fiber Lasers
Frank Wise, professor of applied physics, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar

Annenberg 213
Adaptive Submodularity: A New Approach to Active Learning and Stochastic Optimization
Daniel Golovin, postdoctoral scholar, Center for the Mathematics of Information, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Orbital-free Embedding Theory and Its Applications in Numerical Simulations of the Electronic Structure in Condensed Phase
Tomasz A. Wesolowski, professor of physical chemistry, University of Geneva,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar

Moore B280
A Generalized Coupon Collector Problem
Weiyu Xu, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Consequences of Aneuploidy
Angelika Amon, Center for Cancer Research, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Presentation and Discussion with NASA Chief Technologist Robert Braun

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125
Revealed Political Power
Roger Lagunoff, professor of economics, Georgetown University,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Amnesty International Letter-Writing Meeting

Athenaeum, Rathskeller
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
8:00am – 12:00pm
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CPR/AED Recertification Class

Brown Gymnasium, Classroom
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Keely Finkelstein, Texas A&M University,
Steve Finkelstein, Texas A&M University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Feedback and Control in Biological Circuit Design
Richard M. Murray, Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor and Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Abbott Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Abbott Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Process Research and Development of Drug Candidates at Abbott Labs
Yi-Yin Ku, GPRD Process R&D, Abbott Laboratories,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Laboratory Safety 101

Keith Spalding 118
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Abbott Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Stereoselective Strategies for Activating C─H Bonds, Simple Olefins, and Carbon Dioxide
Vy M. Dong, professor of chemistry, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Do Massive Stars Explode?
Christopher Kochanek, Ohio State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125
Improving Efficiency in Matching Markets with Regional Caps: The Case of the Japan Residency Matching Program
Fuhito Kojima, assistant professor of economics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture

Annenberg 105
All Pairs Shortest Path in Quadratic Time with High Probability
Benny Sudakov, professor of mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Changing Nutrient Biogeochemistry in a Warmer, More Acidic Future Ocean
David Hutchins, professor of marine environment biology, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Introductory Self-Defense Workshop (for Women Only)

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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LA-Style Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Net Impact Event: "Create Your Own Backyard Orchard"

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
7:45pm – 8:45pm
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LA-Style Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge
9:00pm – 10:00pm
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Cuban-Style Salsa Rueda Dance Class (Beginner/Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
9:00am – 10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
The Sustainability of Worldwide Population Growth
Ramla Gabriel, graduate student in environmental science and engineering, Caltech,
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding Building
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
High-Contrast Imaging and Atmospheric Modeling of Luminous Planets and Low-Mass Brown Dwarfs
Thayne Currie, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "Life Sciences Information Resources"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation

Keith Spalding Building