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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
6:00am – 4/20 6:00pm
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Alumni Pool Closed for Repairs

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
8:00am – 8:00pm
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Spring Blood Drive

Winnett Lounge
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

10:00am – 12:00pm
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
10:00am – 11:30am
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Staff Education & Career Development Workshop: "Coaching Employees the Caltech Way"

Avery Conference Room
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Broad 100
Structural Studies of the E. coli Methionine ABC Transporter MetNI and its Cognate Binding Protein MetQ
Neena S. Kadaba, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Jorgensen 74
The Physical Underpinnings of Privacy
Jean Christian Boileau, postdoctoral scholar in physics, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Consumer Antibacterial Soaps: Effective or Just Risky
Allison Aiello, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture

Gates Annex B122
Nanoparticle to Microparticle to Live Nerve Cell Tissue Aqueous Interfaces
Kenneth B. Eisenthal, professor of chemistry, Columbia University,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
8:00am – 8:00pm
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Spring Blood Drive

Winnett Lounge
10:00am – 11:00am
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Information Science and Technology Seminar

Broad 100
Programming Soft-materials in Engineered Systems: Merging Chemistry and Computation with Microfluidics
Manu Prakash, research fellow, Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT,
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

Matrix Convexity and "One Line" Proofs of Some Celebrated Quantum Inequalities
Edward Effros, professor of mathematics, UCLA,
1:30pm – 4:30pm
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Engineering for Space Exploration

Beckman Institute Auditorium
1:30pm – 4:30pm
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Engineering for Space Exploration

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Engineering for Space Exploration
3:40pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Keck 142
Topic to be announced.
Christopher Higgins, postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University,
3:45pm – 5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
Symmetry and Simulation: How Geometry Affects Scientific Computing, from the Solar System to Your Microwave Oven
Ari Stern, graduate student in applied and computational mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Eddington Limit in Cosmic Rays: An Explanation for the Observed Faintness of Starbursting Galaxies
Aristotle Socrates, postdoctoral researcher astrophysical sciences, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computer Science Seminar

Jorgensen 74
Reining in Fabrication Costs with Brick and Mortar Chips
6:15pm – 7:30pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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CIT-Knit Knitting and Crochet Evening

Spalding Laboratory 113
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.
1:00pm – 4/6 12:00pm
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Prefrosh Weekend

Steele House, 355 S. Holliston Ave., Carriage House
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Plasma Processing to Produce Silicon Nanocrystal Inks
Uwe Kortshagen, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, department of mechanical engineering, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Temperatures of The Earth's Deep Interior
Tom Ahrens, Fletcher Jones Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
How to Catch a Gravitational Wave
Rana Adhikari, assistant professor of physics, LIGO, Caltech,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Joey Altman: The Engineering of Cuisine

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Friday, April 4th, 2008
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
T-Folds and Generalized NS-NS Fluxes
Daniel Robbins, postdoctoral fellow in natural sciences, the University of Texas at Austin,
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Men's Tennis: Caltech vs. Redlands

Tennis Courts
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Women's Tennis: Caltech @ Redlands

away game
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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Baseball: Caltech @ La Verne

away game
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Firestone 306
Water Entry of Spinning Spheres with Hydrophobic/philic Surfaces
Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Bacterial Spore Detection: Ionic Radii and Competitive Ion Effects on the Stability of Lanthanide-Based Receptor Sites
Morgan Cable, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
8:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum

Baxter Lecture Hall
Biotechnology Venture Development: The New Rules of Engagement
9:30am – 5:00pm
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Men's and Women's Track and Field: Pomona Pitzer Invite @ Pomona Pitzer

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

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

away game
11:00am – 5:00pm
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Baseball: Caltech vs. La Verne (DH)

North Athletic Field
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Thelen/McCulloch Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm – 6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Pogosyan Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Joel Fafard

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Beginner Ballroom II Dance Class

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

Winnett Lounge
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Janaki String Trio

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, April 7th, 2008
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CIT-Knit and Crochet

Spalding Laboratory 113
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
Chip-scale Atomic Magnetometers and Applications
John Kitching, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Membrane Spatial Organization and the Mechanics of Cellular Signal Transduction
Jay T. Groves, assistant professor of chemistry, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Mass-dependent and Mass-independent Isotopic Fractionations in the Solar System
Frederic Moynier, assistant professor in isotopic cosmochemistry, Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Peaks and Valleys: Searching for Low-Mass Hidden Sectors at the LHC and in Cosmology
Kathryn Zurek, research associate in physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison,
4:15pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Firestone 306
Adaptive Computation of Electromagnetic Problems
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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JPL: The Fight Against Presidential Directive 12

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:30pm – 9:30pm
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Ballroom Dance Class: Beginner Lindy Hop

Winnett Lounge
9:30pm – 10:30pm
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Ballroom Dance Class: Intermediate West Coast Swing

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
6:00am – 10:00pm
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On-Campus Filming

See event detail for location
8:30am – 12:00pm
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Staff Education & Career Development Workshop: Transition to Leadership

Brown Gymnasium, Classroom
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Preschool Playgroup

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

Jorgensen 74
Out-of-Equilibrium Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Ulrich Schollwock, professor of physics, Technical University of Aachen,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Engineering and Applied Science

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Mechanical Engineering Education at MIT: Some Ongoing Experiments
Rohan Abeyaratne, professor of mechanical engineering, MIT,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes
Jason Kalirai, postdoctoral fellow, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar—cancelled

Kerckhoff 119
Pietro De Camilli, professor of cell biology, Yale University School of Medicine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Bosons, Dibosons
Andrew Askew, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Florida State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Pistols! Treason! Murder!: A Multimedia Assassination
Jonathan Walker, research fellow in history, University of Sydney,
5:15pm – 6:15pm
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CPET Panel Discussion: "Choosing a Teaching Career"

Baxter Lecture Hall