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Friday, May 12th, 2017
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Gaining insight about the mortgage process

Live Webinar
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Juba Ziani, Caltech

Baxter 127
Efficiently characterizing games consistent with perturbed equilibrium observations
Juba Ziani, Graduate Student, Computer Science, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Feedback and its Role in Shaping (dwarf) Galaxies
Ferah Munshi, VIDA Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Multifunctional Composites for Fly-By-Feel Autonomous Electric Vehicles
Fu-Kuo Chang, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Conway mutation and knot Floer homology
Peter Lambert-Cole, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University ,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Nonstoichiometric Oxides for Solar-Driven Thermochemical Fuel Production
Michael Ignatowich, graduate student, Chemical Engineering Department, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 4:45pm
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BMB Seminar

Broad 100
Histone-binding of DPF2 mediates its repressive role in myeloid differentiation.
Ferdinand Huber, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--POSTPONED

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Mechanism of N-N Bond Cleavage in a Phosphine-Supported Fe-N2 Complex
Mr. Niklas Thompson, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Short-Wavelength Infrared Photon Detector Based on Charge Injection

Moore B280
Caltech's Young Investigator Lecture Series
Vala Fathipour, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering , University of California at Berkeley,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Glee Club and Caltech Symphony

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, May 13th, 2017
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at All on the Line Open

12:40pm – 3:50pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gevorkyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm – 9:00pm
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Techstock 2017: Battle of the Bands & Music Festival

Winnett Quad
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Ben Miller and Anita MacDonald

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Glee Club and Caltech Symphony

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, May 14th, 2017
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles: Mother's Day Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Monday, May 15th, 2017
9:00am – 9:00am
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Due Date for Midterm Deficiency Notices

9:00am – 10:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Effective toughness of heterogeneous materials
Chun Jen Hsueh, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CANCELLED | Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter 125
This talk has been cancelled.
Marina Agranov, Assistant Professor of Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Characterizing the Dust Environment on Mars During Powered Descent
Jason Rabinovitch, Ph.D., Jet Propulsion laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Noncoding RNA-Mediated Genome Rearrangement
Laura Landweber, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biological Sciences , Colombia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
A metabolic constraint on marine biogeography in past and future climates
Curtis Deutsch, Associate Professor, School of Oceanography, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Non-WIMP dark matter and the structure of galaxies
Katelin Schutz, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Bioengineering Seminar

Beckman Institute
Making Micro-Biology Interactive, Accessible, and Programmable: Biotic Games, Cloud labs, and Synthetic Cell-Cell Adhesion
Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Bioengineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Getting the best reward: neuronal mechanisms for utility maximisation
Wolfram Schultz, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience, Univerity of Cambridge, UK,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Physical Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Nanostructured Materials for Energy and Biomedical Applications
Jackie Ying, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Cassini's Grand Finale: Capstone for Saturn Exploration

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday, May 16th, 2017
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Associates Luncheon: Virtually Exploring Mars

Athenaeum
Virtually Exploring Mars with Bethany Ehlmann
12:00pm – 5/31 12:00pm
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Caltech Y Photo Contest Voting Open

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dish and Discuss #19 The Science of Religion

Avery Dining Hall
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105
Computational Literature How can a computer generate literary text?
Eran Hadas, Lecturer in Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Humanities and Social Sciences, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, CALTECH,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Graduate Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar

Affine Grassmannian and Geometric Stake
Jize Yu, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Quantum and private capacities of low-noise channels
Graeme Smith, JILA, CU Boulder,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy of Molecular, Biological and Materials Dynamics
Graham R. Fleming, Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

On the arithmetic degree of Shimura curves
Xinyi Yuan, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Uma Gorti,
4:45pm – 6:00pm
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CMA presents "Exploring the Deep Sea Aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor"

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Carlie Wiener, Schmidt Ocean Institute,
Victor Zykov, Schmidt Ocean Institute,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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SURF Orientation

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday, May 17th, 2017
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track & Field) Caltech at Redlands Final Qualifier

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Asian Pacific Heritage Month STEMinar

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Meeting

Annenberg 213
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SURF Orientation

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Continuous categories and continuous logic
Ronnie Chen, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Laboratory Safety Orientation/Lab Safety 101

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special Seminar in CMS

Annenberg 213
Trade-offs in Convex Optimization
Volkan Cevher, EPFL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Exploring the low surface brightness sky with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array
Pieter van Dokkum, Yale,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture

Broad 100
On Growth and Form: From Macromolecular Assemblies to Multicellular Tissues
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Professor, Departments of Physics and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CANCELLED | Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125
This talk has been cancelled.
Asher Wolinsky, Professor, Department of Economics, Northwestern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Transition Metal Signaling in the Brain and Beyond
Christopher Chang, Professor, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar

Downs 103
The critical exponent of a graph
Apoorva Khare, Department of Mathematics & Department of Statistics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Nonconvex Optimization for High Dimensional Learning: From Phase Retrieval to Submodular Maximization
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Assistant Professor, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
The global atmospheric loading of desert dust: Implications for climate and human health
Jasper Kok, Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
TBD
Harry Atwater, Professor, Applied Physics and Materials Science, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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"A hidden dimension in cell-cell communication"

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Everhart Lecture Series
Sandy Nandagopal, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
Thursday, May 18th, 2017
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track & Field) Caltech at Redlands Final Qualifier

12:00am – 5/21 12:00am
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Reunion Weekend

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
2:00am – 4:00am
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Caltech Annual Bike to Work Day 2017

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

Gates-Thomas 135
"Machine Learning + Physics"
Julia Ling, 2017 Caltech Young Investigator Lecturer in Engineering and Applied Science,
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
Annet Blom, Graduate Student, Dougherty Research Group, CCE, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 314
Random variables, entanglement and nonlocality in infinite translation-invariant systems
Miguel Navascues, University of Vienna,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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ABCs of Course Design - A CTLO Short Course for the Caltech Community

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
How cells use chemistry and physics to break the bones that power their movement
Enrique M. De La Cruz, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Convex Geometry for Structured Signal Recovery: Super-Resolution and Total Variation Minimization
Weiyu Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
The Role of the Regolith in the Current Martian Atmosphere
Renyu Hu, Hubble Fellow, Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

On the Gross-Stark Conjecture
Samit Dasgupta, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Remarkable Power of General Relativity
Gary Horowitz, Distinguished Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara,