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Friday, March 13th, 2015
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

From one Reeb orbit to two
Daniel Gardiner, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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14th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture 2015

The Monge-Ampere equation
Alessio Figalli, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New Ligand Platforms for Iron-Dinitrogen Chemistry
Sidney (Sid) Creutz, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
Saturday, March 14th, 2015
11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at Long Beach St.

12:30pm – 3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Casados Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Marist vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Boys of the Lough - CANCELLED

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Paddy Keenan

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, March 15th, 2015
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Macalester vs. Caltech

1:20pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Balyans Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 7:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Sandoval Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm – 6:30pm
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(Women's Water Polo) VMI vs. Caltech

3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Jupiter String Quartet with James Dunham, viola

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, March 16th, 2015
8:00am – 3/18 5:00pm
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Final Examinations for Winter Term

10:00am – 11:00am
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Thesis Seminar

Broad 100
Ferrous iron sensing and responding in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Naomi Kreamer, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Determinantal representations of hyperbolic polynomials and hyperbolic varieties
Cynthia Vinzant, Assistant Profrssor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar

Baxter B125
Optimal Sup-norm Rates, Adaptive Estimation, and Inference in Nonparametric Instrumental Variables Estimation
Timothy Christensen, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, New York University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Solar Energy Conversion and Electrocatalysis Using Earth-Abundant Nanomaterials
Song Jin, Pofessor of Chemistry, Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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An Evening Lecture on Life at JPL

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Greg Davis, Chief Technologist for the Mechanical Systems Division at JPL,
7:30pm – 10:00pm
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Banff Mountain Film Festival

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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MTI Working Group Talk: Melissa Lo

Huntington Library, Seaver Classroom 3
'Proper Coordinates' and Dynamic Histories: Books, Scribbles, Things, and Ideas at the Huntington's Burndy Library
Melissa Lo, Assistant Curator of the Dibner Collections at the Huntington,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Systems Biology Supergroup Meeting

Broad 100
Experimental And Computational Analysis Of A Large Protein Network That Controls Fat Storage Reveals The Design Principles Of A Signaling Network
Bader Al-Anzi, Zinn Lab, Caltech,
1:00pm – 2:30pm
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Logic Seminar

TBA
Maciej Malicki, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Economics, Warsaw School of Economics,
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Beckman Institute Visibility Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
High Throughput Discovery Using The Caltech Center for Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis
Scott Virgil, Director, Caltech Center for Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Beckman Institute Visibility Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
High Throughput Discovery Using The Caltech Center for Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis
Scott Virgil, Director, Caltech Center for Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar

Broad 100
When Not to Let Your Heart Decide: Insights from Cardiac Systems Biology
Jeff Saucerman, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering , Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
TBD
Lior Eldar, MIT,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Quantum systems with approximation-robust entanglement
Lior Eldar, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Charge dynamics and molecular intermediates of photo-catalytic interfaces
Tanja Cuk, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Faculty Scientist, Chemical Sciences Division, LBNL, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125
Politics and Administration
Michael M. Ting, Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Department of Political Science, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wiersma Lecture

Kerckhoff 119
Reading the Neural Code in Behaving Animals, ~1000 Neurons at a Time
Mark Schnitzer, Associate Professor of Biology and Applied Physics & Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Biology and Applied Physics, Stanford University,
Wednesday, March 18th, 2015
8:00am – 5:00pm
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End of Winter Term

10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308
Cryptographic Graded-Encoding Schemes: Recent Developments
Shai Halevi,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop: "CODA: If You Publish, You Need CaltechAUTHORS"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
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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Biosafety & Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Search for Efficiency in Synthesis: From Natural Products to Catalysis
Silas Cook, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University,
4:50pm – 6:00pm
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CMA presents "The Science and Speculations of Interstellar"

JPL
Kip S. Thorne (BS '62), Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, Caltech,
Jonathan Nolan, writer of film, fiction, and television,
Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and author,
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Wash. & Jeff. vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Women's History Month 2015--A NIGHT AT THE PLAYHOUSE: PYGMALION

Off Campus
Thursday, March 19th, 2015
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Fencing) NCAA Championship

8:00am – 3/29 5:00pm
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Spring Recess

8:30am – 12:30pm
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Winnett Lounge
10:00am – 7:00pm
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New Horizons in Biology Symposium

Beckman Institute Auditorium
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117
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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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
Tuning of α-synuclein Aggregation by Small Molecules and Proteins: In Vitro Mechanisms and a Few Mice
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Umea University, Sweden,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Patience and the Wealth of Nations
Armin Falk, Director, Center for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Beginning & Intermediate Salsa Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room
Friday, March 20th, 2015
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Bulk-Boundary Duality, Gauge Invariance, and Precursors
Vladimir Rosenhaus, UC Santa Barbara,
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Providence Christian

2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Earlham vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
The Promise of Strong-field General Relativity with Black Hole Binaries
Deirdre Shoemaker, Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Tech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Molybdenum-Quinonoid Complexes and Small Molecule Reactivity
Justin Henthorn, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Neural Circuits for Elementary Motion Detection
Alexander Borst, Director, Department of Systems and Computational Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology,
Saturday, March 21st, 2015
11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Baseball) Providence Christian vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 4:00pm
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(Baseball) Providence Christian vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Wood Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Pacific Lutheran vs. Caltech

10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Pacific Lutheran vs. Caltech

10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Pacific Lutheran vs. Caltech