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Friday, November 20th, 2015
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Joel Watson

Baxter 125
Contractual Equilibrium: An Application to Conservation Agreements and Computational Issues
Joel Watson, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
The X-ray through optical fluxes of Tidal Disruption Events
Nathan Roth, Graduate Student, Dept of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Spacecraft Optical Navigation using a Planet's Lit Horizon
John Christian, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBA
Laura Starkson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics, Stanford University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Learning Seminar

Absolute Hodge Cycles
Matthias Flach, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Mechanistic Studies of Hydrogen Evolution by Cobaloximes
Sarah Del Ciello, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Atom-atom interactions in an ‘Alligator' photonic crystal waveguide
Jonathan Hood, Graduate Student, Kimble Group,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Molecular Programming Project Seminar

Moore B280
Self-assembly pathways of DNA origami
Fritz Dannenberg, Graduate Student, Computer Science, Oxford University,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Dow-Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA) Ceremony & Reception

Jorgensen Lobby
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Whitworth

7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech-Occidental Concert Band

Off Campus
  • Public Event
Saturday, November 21st, 2015
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Cross Country) Caltech at NCAA Championships

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Fencing) Caltech vs. IFCSC

8:00am – 11:00am
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(Men's Water Polo) Caltech at La Verne

12:00pm – 3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Le Wedding Photography Session

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm – 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mirzoyan Photography Session

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Whitman

8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech-Occidental Concert Band

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, November 22nd, 2015
2:30pm – 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hwang Photography Session

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Elias String Quartet

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, November 23rd, 2015
9:00am – 10:00am
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PhD Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Silicon Microwire Arrays for Fuel Production Using Solar Energy
Matthew Shaner, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
High energy analysis at KamLAND and application to dark matter search
Michinari Sakai, University of Hawaii,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The syzygies of some thickenings of determinantal varieties
Claudiu Raicu, Instructor, Mathematics, Norte Dame,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Sweet and sour with a little salt: perchlorate control of microbial sulfate reduction in oil reservoirs
John D. Coates, Professor of Microbiology, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Cosmological Seed Magnetic Field from Inflation
Bharat Ratra, Kansas State,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Membrane Geometry and Multi-Scale Dynamics
Hamid Noori, University of Heidelberg,
Tuesday, November 24th, 2015
9:30am – 10:30am
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Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
A new paradigm for binary black-hole spin precession
Michael Kesden, Professor, Department of Physics, UTDallas,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Colloidal Structures from Unexpected Interactions: From Dielectric Many-Body Effects to Non-Equilibrium Phase Behavior
Erik Luijten, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Materials Science and Engineering; Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

Annenberg 213
Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs - part 2 of 2
Gil Cohen, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
SeaQuest experiment at Fermilab
SuYin Wang, Femilab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

In a shadow of the Riemann Hypothesis: Approximation Problems on the Hilbert Multidisc
Nikolai Nikolski, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Bordeaux,
Wednesday, November 25th, 2015
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308
TBD
Piotr Indyk,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The LOFAR EoR project: science goals, foregrounds, processing challenges and status
Ger de Bruyn, Univ of Groningen,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Carlson-Landau inequalities and magnetic Schrödinger operators
Ari Laptev, Professor, Mathematics, Imperial College London and Mittag-Leffler Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
**NO SEMINAR due to the Thanksgiving Holiday**
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Combinatorics Semnar

TBA
Jed Yang, Postdoctoral Associate, Mathematics, University of Minnesota,
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Linfield vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Linfield vs. Caltech

Thursday, November 26th, 2015
8:00am – 11/27 5:00pm
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Thanksgiving (Institute holiday)

9:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room
Friday, November 27th, 2015
8:30am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Illinois Tech vs. Caltech

Saturday, November 28th, 2015
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) UC Merced vs. Caltech

5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Sarah Lawrence vs. Caltech

Monday, November 30th, 2015
8:00am – 4:30pm
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Standard First-Aid/CPR Training

Brown Gymnasium
11:00am – 12:00pm
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CPET Seminar with Professor Neil Garg (UCLA)

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
From Graduate School at Caltech to Juggling Research and Teaching at UCLA
Neil Garg, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar

TBA
Sam Gunningham, Postdoc, Mathematics, UT Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125
Complementarity in the Private Provision of Public Goods by Homo Pecuniarius and Homo Behavioralis
Yoram Halevy, Associate Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Combinatorics Semnar

Polynomials vanishing on Cartesian products
Orit Raz, PhD Student, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Earthquake Nucleation and Rupture Processes at the Base of the Seismogenic Zone
Jean Paul (Pablo) Ampuero Saenz, Assistant Professor of Seismology, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

The Joint LA Topology Seminar
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Interpreting Cosmic Ray Signals "Energy-peak" Way
Doojin Kim, Univ of Florida,
4:00pm – 8:00pm
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Microbial diners, drive-ins, and dives: deep-sea edition

Baxter Lecture Hall