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Sunday, May 8th, 2005
9:00pm – 5/8 2:00am
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Salsa Party

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Sunday, May 8th, 2005
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Beginning-Level Standard and Latin Dances

Winnett Lounge
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Student Chamber Concert: Annual Mother's Day Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Monday, May 9th, 2005
7:00am – 5/15 6:00pm
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Child Educational Center's Exciting and Educational Summer Program

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last day for seniors to remove conditions and incompletes

9:00am – 4:00pm
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Midterm deficiency notices due - 9:00 a.m.

10:00am – 11:00am
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Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Chemical Characterization and Charge Carrier Dyamics of Cyrstalline Silicon (III) Surfaces Modified with Surface-Bound Organic Functional Groups
Lauren Webb, graduate student, Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
12:30pm – 2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Zeros of Random Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle
Mihai Stoiciu, Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
An Asynchronous Circuit Model of the Lambda Virus
Chris F. Myers, Associate Professor, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
P450 BM3 Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis
Andrew K. Udit, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Faculty Board Meeting

Caltech Hall Board Room
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Thesis Seminar

Lax Pairs for the Ablowitz-Ladik System via Othogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle
Irina Nenciu, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – Ongoing
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2005 Summer Recreation Program Enrollment

Braun Gym
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Biogeochemistry and Residual Mean Circulation of the Southern Ocean
Takamitsu Ito, Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Nonperturbative Approach to SU(2)/SU(3) Yang-Mills Thermodynamics and Some of Its Implications for Particle Physics and Cosmology
Ralf Hofmann, Universitaet Heidelberg and Universitaet Frankfurt,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Raman Microscopy of Pigments: A Key Technique for the Scientific Investigation of Artwork
Robin J. H. Clark, Professor, Christopher Ingold Laboratories, University College London,
9:00pm – 11:00pm
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Floorball Club

Brown Gymnasium
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech Women's Club Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CIT Knitters Group Meeting

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Inorganic Nanotubes and Nanofluidic Transistors
Peidong Yang, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Joint Biology/Beckman Institute Informal Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Personal Genomics and Synthetic Biology
George Church, Dr., Harvard University School of Medicine,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Jorgensen 74
Bipartite Entanglement in the Stabilizer Formalism
David Fattal, Department of Physics, Stanford University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
The Dynamics of Debris Flows and Avalanches
Richard Iverson, Professor, U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA,
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Beginning Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Wnt Signaling during Animal Development
Roel Nusse, Professor, HHMI, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University Medical Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125
Side-Effects of Campaign Finance Reform
Mattias Dahm, Northwestern University,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Amnesty International Letter Writing

Athenaeum, Rathskeller
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech Women's Club Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Removable and Nonremovable Zero Lyapunov Exponents
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar

Moore B270
Space-Time Reed-Muller Codes for Noncoherent MIMO Transmission
Alexei Ashikhmin, Bell Labs,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Analysis, Design, and Construction of Nucleic Acid Devices
Robert Dirks, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Thesis Seminar

On p-Adic Estimates of Weights in Abelian Codes over Galois Rings
Daniel Katz, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:40pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar - CANCELLED

Keck 142
Fe-NOM Interactions and the Photodegradation of Natural Organic Matter
Patricia Maurice, Professor, Director, Center for Environmental Science and Technology, Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
From Cores to Disks with Spitzer
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Facilitated Chemical Genetics Using Tagged Small Molecule Library
Young-Tae Chang, Professor, Department of Chemistry, New York University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar / Theory Workshop

Baxter B125
Minimizing the Worst Slowdown: Off-Line and On-Line
Herve Moulin, Professor, Department of Economics, Rice University,
5:30pm – 7:30pm
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Caltech/JPL Toastmasters Club Meeting

JPL
7:30pm – 11:00pm
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Salsa Dance Classes

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, May 12th, 2005
9:00am – 10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
How to Deal with Radioactive Waste: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle?
Ashley Jones, Caltech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151
Structure and Reaction Dynamics of Biomolecules in the Gas Phase
Heather Cox, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMI Faculty Lunch ~ Statistical Theory of Changepoint Detection

Parsons-Gates 112
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Thesis Seminar

Descriptive Properties of Measure Preserving Actions and the Associated Unitary Representations
Tzer-Jen Wei, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Understanding Bistability in Complex Enzyme-Driven Reaction Networks
Martin Feinberg, Professor, department of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Ohio State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Thermal State, Dynamics, and Tectonic Evolution of the Canadian Cordillera
Stephane Mazzotti, Geological Survey of Canada,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Systems Biology: Deciphering the Networks of Life
Leroy Hood, President, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Baxter B125
Censored Regression Quantiles with Endogenous Regressors
James Powell, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group

Downs 107
7:30pm – 10:00pm
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Real Women Have Curves: Ethnic Visions Film Series

Baxter Lecture Hall
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Intermediate-Level Standard and Latin Dances

Winnett Lounge
9:00pm – 10:30pm
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Beginning-Intermediate Hip-Hop

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Friday, May 13th, 2005
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum

Off Campus
DesignTech CONNECT
9:00am – 1:00pm
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Fidelity Investments One-on-One Meetings

Human Resources
10:00am – 11:00am
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Space - Star Stuff: School-Day Event

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
10:00am – 11:00am
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Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Ultrafast Photoreduction of Nitric Oxide Synthase by Electron Tunneling Wires
Wendy Belliston Bittner, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Molecular Recognition of DNA by Novel Heterocycles
Michael A. Marques, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar

Moore 239
An Entropy Technique in Combinatorics
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
The Competitive Oxidation and Protonation of Aqueous Monomethylplatinum(II) Complexes: A Comparison of Oxidants
David Weinberg, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar

Lauritsen Library
Lattice QCD with Domain-Wall Fermions
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Baxter B125
Slavery and the Missouri Crisis Revis'd
Sean Wilentz, Professor of History; Director, Program in American Studies, Department of History, Princeton University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Art Talk

Moore B270
8:00pm – 10:30pm
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Caltech Chess Club

Page House, Dining Room
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Hookslide: Vocal Concert

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Student Chamber Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Saturday, May 14th, 2005
8:45am – 9:30pm
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Skeptics Conference: Brain, Mind, and Consciousness

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
9:00am – 5:00pm
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JPL Open House

JPL
12:00pm – 8:00pm
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