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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

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3:00pm 5:45pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karimian Wedding Party

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

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2:00pm 5:00pm
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Brown Bag/Graduate Student Seminar

Wealth and Death in Paris 1807–1937
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor in Business Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

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

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

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

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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Materials Research Lecture

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

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

Low Scale Flavor Gauge Symmetries
Giovanni Villadoro, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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

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

Local Gossip and Inter-generational Family Transfers: Comparative Political Economy of Insurance Provision
Yuki Takagi, Department of Government, Harvard University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

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

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

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

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

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

Consequences of Aneuploidy
Angelika Amon, Center for Cancer Research, MIT,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Revealed Political Power
Roger Lagunoff, professor of economics, Georgetown University,
7:30pm 9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

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

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

Process Research and Development of Drug Candidates at Abbott Labs
Yi-Yin Ku, GPRD Process R&D, Abbott Laboratories,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Abbott Symposium

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

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

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

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

Changing Nutrient Biogeochemistry in a Warmer, More Acidic Future Ocean
David Hutchins, professor of marine environment biology, USC,
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
9:00am 10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

The Sustainability of Worldwide Population Growth
Ramla Gabriel, graduate student in environmental science and engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

High-Contrast Imaging and Atmospheric Modeling of Luminous Planets and Low-Mass Brown Dwarfs
Thayne Currie, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,