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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Massive SLEs
Nikolai Makarov, professor of mathematics, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Staff and Faculty Consultation Center Workshop: "Managing Grief"

Winnett Lounge
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Women's Center Workshop: "Setting Professional Boundaries"

Caltech Women's Center
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Electric Cart Safety Training

Keith Spalding 118
3:40pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Keck 142
Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: California and Beyond
David B. Lobell, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies
Joshua Simon, Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Metal-Mediated Reactions for Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation: Fragment Assembly via Carbometalation
Glenn C. Micalizio, assistant professor of organic and inorganic chemistry, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Conscience, Rights, and the 'Delirium of Democracy': Charles Brockden Brown's Inalienable Alien
Nancy Ruttenburg, professor of comparative literature, New York University,
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Human Resources Workshop: "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"

Winnett Lounge
9:00am – 10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Omnivor's Dilemma 3: Hunting and Gathering
Gretchen Keppel Aleks, graduate student in environmental science and engineering, Caltech,
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Career Development Center Workshop: "Interviewing Techniques Workshop for Students and Postdocs"

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Human Resources Workshop: "Getting Started in Your Retirement Savings Plan"

Beckman Institute Auditorium
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: Web of Knowledge

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Reception for Off the Clock: Art on Your Own Time

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Local Responses to Regional Climate Change in East Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene: The Isotopic Record of Pedogenic Carbonates from the Turkana and Awash Basins
Naomi Levin, fellow, department of geology and geophysics, University of Utah,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Men's Soccer vs. Pomona Pitzer

North Athletic Field
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
A Quantum Computer Can Determine Who Wins a Game Faster than a Classical Computer
Edward Farhi, professor of physics and director of the Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Y Friends Dinner with Ken Libbrecht

Athenaeum
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Amnesty International Monthly Meeting

8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Wendy Northcutt: The Darwin Awards: Giving Their All to Improve the Gene Pool

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
9:00pm – 10:00pm
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Hip Hop Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Friday, October 26th, 2007
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
A Cascading Quiver and the MSSM
John Heckman, Harvard University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Firestone 306
Simple and Two-Phase Supersonic Jets Impinging on Plates
Martin Rein, German Aerospace Center (DLR),
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
What Is Delocalization? The Creutz-Taube Ion as Delphic Oracle
Noel S. Hush, professor of chemistry, emeritus, The University of Sydney, Australia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Stable Boron and Phosphorus-Based Diradicals
Jean-Baptiste Bourg, postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar

East Bridge 114
Rotating Photons
Steven van Enk, associate professor of physics, University of Oregon,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar

Lauritsen Library
Particle Physics with a Torsion Pendulum: A New Axion Search
Seth Hoedl, postdoctoral fellow, Center for Experimental Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar

Moore B270
Making Better Use of Time in Mixed-Signal Circuits
Michael H. Perrott, associate professor of electrical and computer science, MIT,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech Family Night: Dinner and Movie

Beckman Auditorium, Exterior Promenade
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 10:00pm
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Film Screening: In July

Baxter Lecture Hall
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Volleyball Match at Pomona-Pitzer College

away game
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Men's and Women's Cross Country Meet: SCIAC Championships

away game
10:00am – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Davoody/Karakesisoglu Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am – 5:00pm
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Aero Association of Caltech/JPL Fall Picnic

Off Campus
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Men's Soccer vs. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

North Athletic Field
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Majich Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Shaw/Doucette Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:15pm – 5:15pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ruiz Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:15pm – 5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Maspero Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Volleyball vs. West Coast Baptist

Braun Gym
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
12:30pm – 2:00pm
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Ballroom Dance Class (Beginner I)

Winnett Lounge
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People
2:30pm – 4:30pm
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Ballroom Dance Class (Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Luma: Theater of Light

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
6:00pm – 7:30pm
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Jazz and Lyrical Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Argentine Tango Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge
Monday, October 29th, 2007
7:30am – 5:00pm
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Standard First-Aid/CPR/AED Training

Brown Gymnasium, Classroom
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Career Development Center Workshop: "Applying to Graduate School"

Winnett Lounge
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Linde 106
New Results on the Abundances and Kinematics in the M31 Halo from 10-150 kpc
Andreas Koch, postdoctoral scholar in physics and astronomy, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Memory, Sudoku, Action Potential Synchrony, and Not-Always-Correct Neural Computation
John J. Hopfield, professor of molecular biology, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Recycling of the Deep Lithosphere Beneath the North China Craton
Roberta Rudnick, Professor, Department of Geology, University of Maryland,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
GenEvA: A New Framework For Event Generation
Frank Tackmann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Men's Water Polo vs. Whittier

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
4:15pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Firestone 306
Augmentation Preconditioners for Saddle Point Linear Systems
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Clazzical Notes: Vibrations: The Best of Percussion

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:30pm – 9:30pm
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West Coast Swing Dance Class (Beginner and Advanced Beginner)

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
7:30am – 12:00pm
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Adult, Child, and Infant First-Aid and CPR Training

Brown Gymnasium, Classroom
8:00am – 8:15pm
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Winnett Lounge
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar

Topological Field Theory and Representation Theory
David Ben-Zvi, assistant professor in geometry research, The University of Texas at Austin,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Broad 100
Structural and Functional Exploration of an Artificial Family of Cytochromes P450
Christopher Otey, graduate student in biochemistry and biophysics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
Sound Waves and Shear Waves in Marine Sediments
Michael Buckingham, professor of ocean acoustics, Marine Physical Laboratory, UC San Diego,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Life Cycle of Baryons in Galaxy Groups
Jesper Rasmussen, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Electronics, Optoelectronics, and Plasmonics Based on Individual Nanostructures
Hongkun Park, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Patterns of Microbial Diversity within the Human Body
David Relman, assistant professor of medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Veterans Administration Medical Center,