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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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SALSA DANCE CLASS (ADVANCED BEGINNER)

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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SALSA DANCE CLASS (INTERMEDIATE)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.
10:20am – 3:00pm
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The Great California ShakeOut

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding Building
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Information Session: University of Redlands Evening Degree Programs

Winnett Quad
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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T.A. Training

Moore B270
1:30pm – 3:00pm
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The Caltech Alternative PhD Careers Club - Inaugural Speaker

Crellin 151
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation

Keith Spalding Building
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum Magnetism with Ultracold Atoms A Microscopic View on Artificial Quantum Matter
Markus Greiner, Assistant Professor of Physics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate

Baxter B125
Forcing Consent: Information and Power in Non-Democratic Elections
Arturas Rozenas, Graduate Student, Duke University,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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Net Impact Film Screening and Discussion of "Secrets Beneath the Ice"

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Tango Dance Class (Beginner I Series)

Winnett Lounge
9:00pm – 10:30pm
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Tango Workshop

Winnett Lounge
Friday, October 21st, 2011
9:00am – 5:00pm
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(IRB) Institutional Review Board Deadline for IRB Submissions

1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Towards non-classical mechanical states in an optomechanical whispering gallery mode resonator
Warwick Bowen, Professor, Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
From Concept to Orbit: Developing a Student Satellite Program at The University of Texas
Glenn Lightsey, Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics , University of Texas at Austin,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Memorial observance honoring W. Barclay Kamb, Barbara and Stanley R. Rawn, Jr., Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Emeritus

Athenaeum
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Mo and W Alkylidene Species for Catalytic Enantio-, Z-, and E-Selective Olefin Metathesis Reactions
Smaranda Marinescu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar

Moore B280
Efficiency and Flexibility
Dejan Marković, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles.,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate

Baxter B125
Income and Representation in the United States Congress
Christopher N. Tausanovitch, Graduate Student, Department of Poltical Science, Stanford University,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe
4:30pm – 8:00pm
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Family Night Dinner and Movie (rescheduled)

Beckman Auditorium
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Tango Workshop

Winnett Lounge
10:00pm – 10/22 3:00am
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All-Night Milonga hosted by Caltech Tango Club

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
12:00pm – 3:00pm
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Humanities Conference

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Reid's Account of Perception as a Two-Stage Process
Marina Folescu, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California,
12:00pm – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Agakhanyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm – 6:00pm
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Tango Workshop

Winnett Lounge
1:00pm – 2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kouyoumdjian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nalbandian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm – 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nalchadjian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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The Journey of a River From Mountain to Sea: Planet Earth: Fresh Water

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
9:00pm – 11:59pm
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CPA/GSC Halloween Party

Winnett Lounge
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Beginner International Ballroom Dance

Winnett Lounge
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Dr. Steven Pinker, psychologist, Harvard University,
Monday, October 24th, 2011
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Manipulation of light by strong interactions in nanostructures
Tal Ellenbogen, Dr., Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard,
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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(IBC) Institutional Biosafety Committee Meeting

Location to be announced
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Puzzle of LINERs and the Warm Ionized Gas in Early-type Galaxies
Renbin Yan, NYU,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Mechanisms of Biological Dynamics Determined from Studies of Virus Particle Maturation
Jack Johnson, Eldon R. Strahm Endowed Chair in Structural Virology, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114
Transport through Andreev Bound States in a Superconductor-Quantum Dot-Graphene System
Nadya Mason, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Illinois,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Reconstructing the body temperatures of dinosaurs
John M. Eiler, Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and Professor of Geochemistry, GPS, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Scale without Conformal Invariance
Jean-Francois Fortin, UCSD,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Upconversion Photochemistry: Sensitized Triplet Fusion
Felix N. Castellano, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry & Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125
Debt Policy Under Constraints Between Philip II, the Cortes and Genoese Bankers
Christophe Chamley, Department of Economics, Boston University,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Inverse Problems for Non-Self-Adjoint Operators
Mark Embree, Professor, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University,
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Basic bike repair course

Student Activities Center
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Consulting Club - Final Case Interview Practice Night

Broad 200
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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CIT Amateur Radio Club Get-together

See event detail for location
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Beginning West Coast Swing Class

Winnett Lounge
9:15pm – 10:15pm
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Intermediate West Coast Swing Dance Class: Technique and Styling

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
9:30am – 10:30am
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Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
10:30am – 11:30am
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding Building
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Donaldson-Thomas invariants and wall-crossing formulas
Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Write or Radiate
Christopher Rose, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B125
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar in American Studies

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Why Printing Precedes Manuscript
Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professer in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow, Huntington Library,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125
*This seminar has been cancelled* Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil
Tommaso Nannicini, Bocconi University,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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"CPA join the board" meeting

Central Catalinas Recreation Room
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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"The American Rocketeer"

Beckman Auditorium
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
8:00am – Ongoing
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Midterm Examination Period

9:00am – 10:30am
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Caltech Women's Club Welcoming

Red Door Cafe
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Wednesdays in the park

Tournament Park
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Fiber Scrambling for Extreme Doppler Precision
Julien Spronck, Yale,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Asymptotic Properties of Extremal Polynomials