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Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308
2-Server PIR with sub polynomial communication
Zee Dvir,
11:30am – 12:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Dirac Type Operators and Lie Groupoids
Pedram Hekmati, Mathematics, University of Adelaide,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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MLK Week 2015: "We'll Never Turn Back: Pursuing Happiness from Freedom Summer to Ferguson"

Avery Library
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building
1:00pm – 5:30pm
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The Raymond & Beverly Sackler Foundation -- Caltech-UCLA T-Cell Immunotherapy Symposium -- Hosted by Dr. David Baltimore

Beckman Institute Auditorium
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Laboratory Safety Orientation/Lab Safety 101

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Probing Cosmic Acceleration with the Dark Energy Survey
Joshua Frieman, Fermilab and U. Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety & Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Life at pH 12: being educated by cultivated organisms and geochemistry -- being surprised and mystified by metagenomics.
Kenneth H. Nealson, Wrigley Professor of Environmental Science, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Gene regulation through tRNA-mRNA recognition— a tale of two intertwined non-coding RNAs
Jinwei Zhang, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health,
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Occidental

8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Julia R. Greer - Size Matters: The Importance of Building Small Things

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:30pm – 11:00pm
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West Coast Swing Social

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
10:30am – 12:30pm
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Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102
Interaction as Manipulation
Anca Dragan, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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"Those Who Lived It: Finding the People Who Were Changed By Freedom Summer and Telling Their Stories"

Avery Library
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Enhanced Ultraviolet Cancellations in Gravity Theories
Zvi Bern, UCLA,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture

Crellin 151
The evolution of renormalization group theory
Garnet Chan, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop: "Business Resources"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Perpall Speaking Competition Finals

Beckman Institute Auditorium
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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JCAP Seminar

Jorgensen 109
Photosensitization of Single Crystal Semiconductors: From Photography to Multiple Excitons
Bruce Parkinson, Professor, Department of Chemistry and the School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Family Floer cohomology and mirror symmetry
Mohammed Abouzaid, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Biology Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Exploiting Orthogonality in Chemical Biology and Materials Science
Ellen Sletten, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Nanomembranes and Soft Fabrication Methods for High Performance, Low Cost Energy Technologies
Ralph Nuzzo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Searches for Particle Dark Matter
Tim Tait, Professor of Physics, Physics, UC Irvine,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Beginning & Intermediate Salsa Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room
Friday, January 23rd, 2015
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Umbral Moonshine and K3 Surfaces
Sarah Harrison, Harvard University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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"Freedom Summer: A Fight for Civil Rights in Mississippi"

Beckman Institute Auditorium
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Investigating the Redox Properties of Human DNA Primase
Elizabeth (Liz) O'Brien, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
A novel application of flame hole dynamics to consistent turbulent nonpremixed combustion modeling
Carlos Pantano, Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Off Campus
A Random Pointwise Ergodic Theorem with Hardy Field Weights
Benjamin Krause, Teaching Assistant, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:30pm – 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Superfluid Optomechanics
Laura DeLorenzo, Graduate Student, Schwab Group, Applied Physics, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Off Campus
Academic Wages, Singularities, Phase Transitions and Pyramid Schemes
Robert McCann, Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Saturday, January 24th, 2015
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Men's Swimming and Diving) Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Men's Swimming and Diving) Whittier

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Women's Swimming & Diving) Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Women's Swimming & Diving) Whittier

10:00am – 3:30pm
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The personal side of science

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Heidi Hood & Frances Mena Assc #4626

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm – 3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus:Kang Party

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

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at La Verne

4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at La Verne

8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Jim Malcolm

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, January 25th, 2015
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Beginner/Intermediate International Ballroom: Tango and Samba

Winnett Lounge
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Dornan Engagement Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Skeptics Event: Bill Nye the Science Guy, in conversation with Michael Shermer

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Monday, January 26th, 2015
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture

Crellin 151
Embedding theories in quantum chemistry
Garnet Chan, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
2:00pm – 2:00pm
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CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Analog and Stochastic Computation in Living Cells and Supercomputing Chips
Rahul Sarpeshkar, Professor, RLE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The birational geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves on the plane
Izzet Coskum, Professor, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, UIC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Predictive Stochastic Modeling of Spatiotemporal Fluctuations in Signal-Activated Gene Regulation
Professor Brian Munsky, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering, Colorado State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Triggered seismicity in Oklahoma: Probing fluid flow, fault zone structure, and fault interactions
Kathleen M. Keranen, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Latest results from Planck
Charles Lawrence, JPL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
TBA
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Professor, Chemistry, Umea University, Sweden; Visiting Associate, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial / History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Credit, Thanks, and Blame in Print: the Strategies of Conrad Gesner (1516-65)
Ann Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Harvard University,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Beginner/Intermediate West Coast Swing with Demetre Souliotes - Week 3

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
9:30am – 10:30am
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Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Engineering Our Moving Image Systems
Gary Demos,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
The use of recent advances in electron microscopy to study ribosome structure
Venki Ramakrishnan, Joint Head, Structural Studies Division, Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop: "Chemical Information Resources"

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)
2:45pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

One-ended subforests and strong treeability
Andrew Marks, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Wigner functions negativity and contextuality in quantum computation
Nicolas DelFosse, University of Sherbrooke,