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Thursday, December 1st, 2005
8:00am – 12/15 4:00pm
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2005 Haven House Holiday Collection

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Caltech Beckman Institute Day

Beckman Institute Auditorium
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Caltech Beckman Institute Day

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Looking Forward from the First Fifteen Years
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Baby Furniture and Household Equipment Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library System: A Quick Overview of Electronic Theses

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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ME 72 Power-On Contest: An Energy Cook-Off

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
3:10pm – 4:15pm
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Engineers for a Sustainable World @ Caltech

Gates-Thomas 306
Designing Products for Humanitarian Demining: Countering the Effects of Conflict to Save Lives
Ben Linder, Dr., Mechanical Engineering, Olin College,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar

Keck 142
Mechanical Signaling Pathways in Cells: The Emerging Field of Mechanobiology
Roger Kamm, Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering , MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Enhancing Protein Secretion: The Old, the New, and the Unexpected
Kelvin H. Lee, Professor, Director, Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Dissecting Neural Circuits for Feeding Behavior
Scott Sternson, Department of Molecular Genetics, Rockefeller University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Recent Development of Gas Isotope Modeling and Hydrocarbon Oxidation under Subsurface Condition
Yongchun Tang, Director, Power, Environment, and Energy Research Center, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Exploring the Final Frontier of the Solar System
Edward C. Stone, David Morrisroe Professor of Physics; Vice Provost for Special Projects, Caltech,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Lauritsen Lecture: Ken Deffeyes: The Peak of World Oil Production: Thanksgiving Day, 2005

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Friday, December 2nd, 2005
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day of Classes for Fall term

9:00am – 1:00pm
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Fidelity Investments One-on-One Meetings

Human Resources
10:00am – 11:30am
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School-Day Event: Mystical Music: The Yuval Ron Ensemble: Mystical Music of the Middle East

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
10:30am – 12:30pm
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Swimming & Diving

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

Lauritsen 469
Coarse-Graining Gravity: Black Holes and Singularities
Joan Simon, Univ of Pennsylvania,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group - CANCELLED

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Javier Soliz, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Downs 107
Chiral Spin Resonance and Spin-Hall Conductivity in the Presence of the Electron-Electron Interactions
Arcadi Shehter, Dr., Physics, Weizmann Institute, Israel,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Twistor Space, Amplitudes, and Unitarity Methods
N.E.J. Bjerrum-Bohr, Swansea,
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar

Moore 239
Optimization, Computational Geometry, Graphs, and High-Dimensional Data
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Gauge Theories and Gravity on Noncommutative Spacetime
Xavier Calmet, Universite Libre de Bruxelles ,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
Neurobotics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding and Assisting Humans
Yoky Matsuoka, Assistant Professor, Robotics Institute, Mechanical Engineering, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, and Biomedical, Carnegie Mellon University,
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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E/ME 105 Final Presentations: Design for the Developing World

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Ruthenium-Catalyzed Hydrogen Transfer Involving Amines and Imines. Mechanistic Studies and Synthetic Applications
Joseph Samec, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar

Lauritsen Library
Lattice Calculation of Hadronic Contributions to the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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CPA Social Hour

North Catalinas Recreation Room
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 10:00pm
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German Language Film Series

Baxter Lecture Hall
8:00pm – 10:30pm
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Caltech Chess Club

Page House, Dining Room
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Glee Clubs Holiday Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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The Yuval Ron Ensemble: Mystical Music of the Middle East

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
10:00am – 3:00pm
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Caltech Robotics Outreach Group's Middle-School Robotics Conference

Beckman Institute Auditorium
10:00am – 3:00pm
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Caltech Robotics Outreach Group's Middle-School Robotics Conference

Beckman Institute Auditorium
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Glee Clubs Holiday Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Swimming & Diving

away game
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Topic to be announced
Peter Oelschlaeger, Postdoctoral Scholar, USC, Chemistry, University of Southern California,
5:00pm – 9:00pm
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ASCIT BBQ and Concert

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Sunday, December 4th, 2005
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Helen Callus, viola: with Robert Koenig, accompanist

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Monday, December 5th, 2005
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture - CANCELED

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
CANCELLED
Nicholas Cozzarelli, Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Results from Belle (and Plans for the Future)
Tom Browder, University of Hawaii,
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CIT Knitters Group Meeting

Spalding Laboratory 113
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Convergent Methods for Synthesizing Rings in the Context of Natural Product Synthesis
Uttam K. Tambar, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Jorgensen 74
New Upper and Lower Bounds for Randomized and Quantum Local Search
Shengyu Zhang, Princeton University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
Coalescence of Liquid Drops: Physics, Challenges, and Bouncelets!
H. Pirouz Kavehpour, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy: From Molecular Monolayers to Magnetic Thin Films
Charles A. Schmuttenmaer, Professor of Physical Chemistry, Chemistry Department, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Cone Snails and Their Toxins: Learning How to Develop Drugs from Biodiversity
Baldomero Olivera, Dr., Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Utah,
6:00pm – 9:30pm
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A Special Athenaeum Holiday Dinner Sponsored by the Friends of Caltech Libraries

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
8:00am – 12/9 5:00pm
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Final Examinations, Fall Term 2005-06

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

Reflections on the 3D Navier-Stokes System on R3
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Bloodborne Pathogens

Keith Spalding 118
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Role of Starbursts in the Evolution of Galaxies
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar

Jorgensen 74
Approximation Algorithms for Confluent Flow
Robert Kleinberg, Professor, Computer Science, Cornell,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Bis-amino Acids: A New Technology for Synthesizing Macromolecules with Designed Shapes
Christian E. Schafmeister, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Baxter B125
Moral Hazard with Limited Liability
Jeroen Swinkels, Professor of Economics , Washington University, St. Louis,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Mozart Festival Concert: Pasadena Conservatory of Music

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Thursday, December 8th, 2005
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Baby Furniture and Household Equipment Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMI Faculty Meeting

Parsons-Gates 112
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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SGVLUG Monthly Meeting

Downs 107
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Spitzer Space Telescope: Exploring the Infrared Universe
Michael Werner, project scientist, Spitzer Space Telescope Project, JPL,
Friday, December 9th, 2005
8:00am – 5:00pm
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End of Fall term 2005-06

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

Lauritsen 469
A Bethe Ansatz for a Quantum, Conformal Supercoset Model
Nelia Mann, UCSB,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Is Academia Right For Me?

Winnett Lounge