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October 2012

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

8:00am – 12:00pm

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum

Baxter Lecture Hall

9:00am – 11:00am

Photography on Campus: Flydog Photography(Pet Photo)

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

11:00am – 2:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

2:00pm – 5:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Bike Tour of Pasadena

See event detail for location

2:00pm – 5:00pm

BikeLab Tour of Pasadena

Student Activities Center

3:30pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Meenasian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Jez Lowe

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, October 14th, 2012

9:30am – 12:30pm

(Men's Water Polo) Connecticut Col. vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 3:00pm

Beginner International Ballroom Week 2

Winnett Lounge

8:00pm – 11:00pm

Argentine Tango Workshops

Winnett Lounge

Monday, October 15th, 2012

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125

How Better Information Can Garble Experts' Advice (joint with Ben Golub and Andrei Kirilenko)

Matthew Elliott, Assistant Professor of Economics, Caltech,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Mars Science Laboratory: Robot at work

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Special Seminar in Computer Science

Annenberg 105

Engineering Challenges at Quora

Adam D'Angelo, Chief Executive and Co-Founder, Quora,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

The structural evolution of galaxies between z=0 and z=2.5

Daniel Szomoru, Leiden,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Magmatic volatile reservoirs on the Moon as inferred from apatite

Francis McCubbin, Senior Research Scientist 3, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences , University of New Mexico,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Universality and Inflation

Sean Downes, Texas A&M,

4:15pm – 5:15pm

Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Computational Complexity of Convex Bodies

Alexander Barvinok, Professor, Mathematics, University of Michigan,

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Beginning West Coast Swing Week 2

Winnett Lounge

Tuesday, October 16th, 2012

8:30am – 3:00pm

Benefits Fair

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates

8:30am – 3:00pm

Flu Shot Clinic

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates

10:00am – 12:00pm

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

The Potts/Tutte Connection with an External Field

Joanna Ellis-Monaghan, Professor, Mathematics, Saint Michael's College,

2:00pm – 4:00pm

(IBC) Institutional Biosafety Committee Meeting

Location to be announced

2:30pm – 5:00pm

Wedding/Engagement Photography on Campus: Sholtz Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 107

A classical leash for a quantum tiger: Key distribution with minimal assumptions

Ben Reichardt, Professor, Electrical Engineering , University of Southern California,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Time-resolved Molecular Imaging with a Femtosecond Hard X-ray Laser

John C.H. Spence, Regents' Professor, Department of Physics, Arizona State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

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

Topic to be Announced

Sara Ellison, Prof., University of Victoria,

Sara Ellison,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Fluid Mechanics Research Conference

Guggenheim 202

Nick Parziale, "Hypervelocity Boundary Layer Transition",

Jeesoon Choi, "Dynamics and Energy Extraction in Surging / Plunging Airfoils",

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Part I - Design Principles in Biology

Uri Alon, Professor, Dept Molecular Cell Biology & Dept Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics

Annenberg 105

Bulk and Thin Film Electrical Contacts, RF Heating and Field Enhancement

Y.Y. Lau, Professor, University of Michigan,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125

Gridlock and Delegation in a Changing World

Steve Callander, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University,

5:15pm – 6:15pm

General Biology Seminar - Part II

Kerckhoff 119

Part II - Love and Fear in the Lab: guitar and discussion of the importance of the subjective and emotional sides of doing science

Uri Alon, Professor, Dept Molecular Cell Biology & Dept Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute,

5:30pm – 7:00pm

CPET Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Teaching & Learning at Caltech: Evidence, Values, and Vision

Cassandra Horii, Director of Teaching and Learning Programs, Office of the Provost, California Institute of Technology,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

Wednesday, October 17th, 2012

10:00am – 12:00pm

Wednesdays in the park

Tournament Park

10:30am – 2:30pm

Caltech Travel Fair 2012Date change due to rain

San Pasqual Walk

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Monthly Caregivers' Group

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library System Workshop: "EndNote For Beginners"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Men's Soccer) Caltech at Occidental

4:00pm – 7:00pm

(Men's Water Polo) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Black Hole Spin, Accretion, and Jets

Ramesh Narayan, Harvard,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Yeon-Koo Che, Kelvin J. Lancaster Professor of Economic Theory, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

The plumbing of ice sheets

Ian Hewitt, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

A Logical Structure for Scientific and Technological Innovation

David A. Pensak, Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Drexel University College of Medicine,

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Wednesday Office Hours

See event detail for location

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Beginning Salsa Class

Winnett Lounge

8:00pm – 9:00pm

Intermediate Salsa Class

Winnett Lounge

Thursday, October 18th, 2012

10:00am – 1:00pm

Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.

10:20am – 1:30pm

The Great California ShakeOut!

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 8:00pm

Caltech Y Annual Golf Tournament and Auction Raffle

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151

Imaging the E. coli Chromosome by Super-Resolution Microscopy

Timur Zhiyentayev, Mr., Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Mechanism of Subunit Coordination Within a Ring-shaped Hexameric Molecular Machine

Xiaojiang Chen, Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Squeezing DNA into small spaces

Kevin Dorfman, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Neural computations in the retina

Markus Meister, Harvard University,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech eClub General Meeting

Annenberg 121

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Thursday Office Hours

See event detail for location

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Tango Beginner Class

Winnett Lounge

9:00pm – 10:30pm

Argentine Tango Workshops

Winnett Lounge

Friday, October 19th, 2012

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

Academic

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Topic to be Announced

Chris Beem, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, SUNY Stony Brook,

12:00pm – 3:00pm

(Women's Volleyball) Mills vs. Caltech

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech BikeLab Friday Office Hours

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 127

Fractional Matching Markets

Vikram Manjunath, Assistant Professor of Economics, Universite de Montreal,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

An Experiment to Demonstrate an alpha-omega Dynamo in the Accretion Disk leading to Galaxy and MBH formation

Stirling Colgate, Los Alamos National Lab,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Ernest E. Sechler Lecture in Aerospace

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Mechanisms of Oxygen Reduction Reactions Mediated by Rhodium and Iridium Hydride Complexes

Thomas Teets, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,

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