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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 306
Granular Jets, Streams, and Droplets
Heinrich Jaeger, professor of physics, The University of Chicago,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Black History Month Film Screening: Eyes on the Prize

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Human Resources Workshop: “Getting Started in Your Workplace Savings Plan”

Beckman Institute Auditorium
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Keck 142
Entanglement and Ground State Cooling in Optomechanical Systems
David Vitali, professor of physics, University of Camerino, Italy,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Firestone 306
Thermal Superfluid Turbulence on the Brink of Revolution
Demosthenes Kivotides, professor of chemical engineering, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Toward Molecular Muscles: Synthesis of [c2] Daisy-Chain Dimers by Olefin Metathesis
Paul Clark, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar

Lauritsen Library
Deuteron E/M Form Factors
Dan Phillips, associate professor of physics, Ohio University,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Caltech Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 11:00pm
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Ballroom Dance Club Midterm Party

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
9:00pm – 11:00pm
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Midterm Ballroom Dance Party

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
7:30am – 6:00pm
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Tour of Lake Cachuma and Santa Ynez Wineries

8:00am – 5:00pm
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Fencing Tournament at UC Irvine

away game
9:30am – 12:30pm
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Men's Tennis: Caltech vs. Cal Lutheran

Tennis Courts
9:30am – 12:30pm
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Women's Tennis: Caltech @ Cal Lutheran

away game
11:00am – 5:00pm
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Baseball: Caltech vs. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (DH)

North Athletic Field
12:00pm – 6:00pm
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Men's and Women's Track and Field: Rossi Relays @ CMS

away game
12:00pm – 4:30pm
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Quinceañera Photography on Campus: Escatel Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:45pm – 1:45pm
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Bellydance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ballroom Dance Workshop

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ballroom Dance Workshop: Latin Technique

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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Women's Basketball: Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

away game
6:00pm – 11:45pm
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Spring Festival/Lantern Festival Celebration

Winnett Center
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Men's Basketball: Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

away game
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Bellydance Superstars

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Nancy McCallion

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Beginner Ballroom I Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
2:30pm – 4:30pm
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Intermediate Ballroom Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Merling Trio

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
7:00pm – 9:30pm
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Women's Club Event: Scrapbooking and Paper Crafting

Avery Conference Room
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Advanced-Beginner Tango

Winnett Lounge
Monday, February 25th, 2008
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Black History Month Speaker: Claudia Alexander

Avery Library
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Quantitative Analysis of Oncogenic Kinase Signaling Networks
Forest White, associate professor of biological engineering, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Linde 106
New Science with Large-Aperture Infrared Interferometry: First Fringes on Galactic Center Stars and the Near Future of the Keck Interferometer
Jörg-Uwe Pott, Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Frontiers in Fluorescence Imaging
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, head of the unit on organelle biology, cell biology and metabolism, National Institute of Child Health and Humann Development, National Institutes of Health,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Topic to be announced.
Michael Brainard, assistant professor of physiology, UC San Francisco,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Faculty Meeting—postponed to April

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Top Jets and Precision Measurements of the Top Quark Mass
Sean Fleming, assistant professor of physics, University of Arizona,
4:15pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Firestone 306
Topic to be announced.
5:15pm – 7:15pm
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Staff Education & Career Development Workshop: Learn to Speak Spanish (Level II)

Brown Gymnasium, Classroom
8:30pm – 9:30pm
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Beginner Modern Jive Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
10:00am – 11:45pm
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Jorgensen 74
Complementarity and Wave-Particle Duality
Berthold-Georg Englert, professor of physics, National University of Singapore,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
Electrohydrostatically Driven Flow of Thin Films
Thomas Ward, assistant professor of mathematics, UCLA,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Galaxies, Dark Matter and Black Holes at z=1
Alison Coil, postdoctoral researcher and Hubble Fellow, University of Arizona,
3:45pm – 5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Topic to be announced.
Sarah Milkovich, JPL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
Towards Fusion Energy for Space Propulsion
Setthivoine You, department of electrical engineering, University of Tokyo,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
A Periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits
Janna Levin, professor of physics and astronomy, Barnard College of Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Host/Pathogen Interactions in C. elegans
Emily Troemel, assistant in molecular biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248
Goodness-of-fit—Pitfalls and Power
Frank Porter, professor of physics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar

Moore 239
Formal Verification of Hybrid Systems
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Men's Basketball: Caltech vs. Whittier

Braun Gym
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Last day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections for Winter Term

10:00am – 12:00pm
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Wednesdays in the Park

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

Zeros of Heine-Stieltjes Polynomials and Critical Measures
Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein, professor of mathematics, Universidad de Almeria,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Laboratory Safety 101

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

Keck 142
Global Warming and the Weakening of the Tropical Circulation
Brian Soden, associate professor, meteorology and physical ocianography, The University of Miami,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
Sensing Nanomechanical Motion with a Resonant Microwave Interferometer
Konrad Lehnert, associate fellow, JILA, and assistant professor of physics , University of Colorado,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Old Disk of the Milky Way as Revealed by the SEGUE Survey
Connie Rockosi, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz, and assistant astronomer, UCO/Lick Observatory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computer Science Seminar

Jorgensen 74
Fighting Concurrency Bugs
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Feedback and Modularity in Cell Cycle Control
Jan Skotheim, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Drug Discovery at the Interface of Chemistry, Biology, and Engineering
Clay C. C. Wang, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and chemistry, USC,
6:15pm – 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, February 28th, 2008
8:00am – Ongoing
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Registration for Spring Term 2007–08

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

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Pasadena: Striving to Become a Sustainable Community
Mauricio Mejia, sustainable programs manager, department of water and power, City of Pasadena,
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.
11:00am – 3:00pm
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African American Historical Quilt Display

San Pasqual Walk