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April 2008

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

10:00am – 12:00pm

Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Spin Glasses and Stein's Method

Sourav Chatterjee, assistant professor of statistics, UC Berkeley,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Monthly Caregivers' Support Group Meeting

Crellin 156

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium—CANCELED

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium

CANCELED

3:40pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Keck 142

Roles of Redox-Active "Antibiotics" in Iron Acquisition and Microbial Physiology

Yun Wang, postdoctoral scholar in biology, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Characterizing the ISM of High z Star-forming Galaxies with GRB Afterglow Spectroscopy

Jason Prochaska, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Development of Novel Approaches to the Synthesis of Structural Complex Natural Products and Nonnatural Compounds

Rich G. Carter, associate professor of chemistry, Oregon State University,

5:00pm – 6:30pm

Women's Water Polo: Caltech vs. Occidental

Braun Athletic Center, Pool

6:15pm – 7:30pm

Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge

7:00pm – 8:30pm

CIT-Knit Knitting and Crochet Evening

Spalding Laboratory 113

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge

8:00pm – 10:00pm

CARMA: Raising Our Sites: Anneila I. Sargent

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

9:00am – 10:00am

ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

One Fish Two Red Fish No Fish: A Discussion on Fishing Around the World

Zachary Lebo, graduate student in environmental science and engineering, Caltech,

10:00am – 1:00pm

Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.

11:30am – 1:30pm

Information Session: University of Redlands Bachelor of Science in Business Program

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Counseling Center Workshop: "How to Thrive in Your Love Life: Making Relationships Work"

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Caltech Library System Workshop: Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Peptide-based Vectors for Gene Delivery to Neurons

Suzie Pun, assistant professor of bioengineering, University of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Evolution of Developmental Pathways: A Case Study of the Sea Urchin Germline

Cassandra Extavour, assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Deglacial Changes in Marine N2 Fixation—Evidence from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea

Nele Meckler, postdoctoral scholar in oceanography, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Cooking with Quarks and Gluons: Recipes from the String Theory Kitchen

Clifford Johnson, professor of physics, USC,

7:00pm – 10:30pm

Gaypril Comedy Night

Dabney Hall, Lounge

9:00pm – 10:00pm

Hip-Hop Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

Friday, April 18th, 2008

3:00am – 6:00pm

Baseball: Caltech vs. Cal Lutheran

North Athletic Field

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

Academic

9:00am – 4/19 5:00pm

Men's Tennis: SCIAC Championships @ Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

away game

9:00am – 4/19 5:00pm

Women's Tennis: SCIAC Championships @ Redlands

away game

10:00am – 11:30am

Ballet Folklorico Quetzalli de Veracruz: School Group Performance

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

11:00am – 1:00pm

Physics and Geometry Seminar

Lauritsen 469

The Formalism of Twisted Loop Groups in Gromov-Witten Theory

Alexander Givental, professor of mathematics, UC Berkeley,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute 121

Development of Enantioselective Organocatalytic Technologies for the Alpha-Functionalization of Aldehydes and Ketones

Teresa Beeson, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium: Thesis Defense

Firestone 306

On the Nonlocal Geometry of Turbulence

Ivan Bermejo Moreno, graduate student in aeronautics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151

Asymmetric Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis

Jean Li, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Moral Intuitions as Heuristics

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, professor of philosophy, Dartmouth College,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Development of Enantioselective Organocatalytic Methods and Progress toward the Total Synthesis of Minfiensine

Jamison Tuttle, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

6:00pm – 7:30pm

Women's Water Polo: Caltech vs. Chapman

Braun Athletic Center, Pool

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

7:30pm – 10:30pm

Humanities and Social Sciences Film Screening: Dunki-Schott

Baxter Lecture Hall

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Ballet Folklorico Quetzalli de Veracruz

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

9:00am – 1:00pm

Women's Basketball Team Car Wash

Brown Gymnasium

11:00am – 5:00pm

Baseball: Caltech @ Cal Lutheran (double-header)

away game

11:00am – 12:30pm

Women's Water Polo: Caltech vs. Redlands—CANCELLED

Braun Athletic Center, Pool

12:45pm – 1:45pm

Bellydance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Keshishian/Tarkhanian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Ballroom Dancing Workshop: Latin Elements and Drills

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Beginner Ballroom II Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

2:30pm – 4:30pm

Intermediate Ballroom II Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

6:30pm – 7:30pm

Amnesty International Book Discussion Group

See event detail for location

Monday, April 21st, 2008

11:00am – 1:00pm

Physics and Geometry Seminar

Topic to be announced.

Alexander Givental, professor of mathematics, UC Berkeley,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Viscoelastic Properties of Ultrathin Polymer Films and Polymer Surfaces: Novel Nanometer Scale

Gregory B. McKenna, professor of chemical engineering, Texas Tech University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CIT-Knit and Crochet

Spalding Laboratory 113

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Tea Talk

Linde 106

'First Light' from New 21-cm Probes of the Dark Ages and Reionization

Judd Bowman, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Functional Materials in Regenerative Medicine and Immunotherapeutics

Jeffrey Hubbell, professor of applied mathematics, Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine and Pharmacobiology, Institute of Bioengineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

New Insights into Bacterial and Viral Ultrastructure from Electron Cryotomography

Grant Jensen, assistant professor of biology, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Titan's Geology and Interior Structure

Christophe Sotin, JPL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

The Fragility of Higgs Boson Predictions for the LHC

James Wells, theoretical physicist, CERN,

4:15pm – 5:00pm

Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Firestone 306

Sparse Optimization Algorithms and Applications

8:30pm – 9:30pm

Ballroom Dance Class: Beginner Lindy Hop

Winnett Lounge

9:30pm – 10:30pm

Ballroom Dance Class: Intermediate West Coast Swing

Winnett Lounge

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

10:00am – 12:00pm

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Jorgensen 74

Designing the Next Generation of Seismographic Network

Tom Heaton, professor of engineering seismology, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Quantum Wavepacket Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics: Applications to Hydrogen Tunneling in Biological Enzymes and Vibrational Properties in Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters

Srinivasan S. Iyengar, assistant professor of chemistry and adjunct professor of physics, Indiana University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206

Heat Transfer Enhancement in Nanofluids

Jacopo Buongiorno, assistant professor of nuclear science and engineering, MIT,

3:45pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Radar as a Tool for Planetary Study

Tom Farr, research scientist, JPL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Conscious and Unconscious Memory Systems of the Mammalian Brain

Larry Squire, professor of psychiatry, neurosciences, and psychology, UC San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248

Searching for Gravitational Waves from Spinning Neutron Stars with LIGO

Joseph Betzwieser, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Linear and Nonlinear Rheology of Entangled, Branched Polymers

L. Gary Leal, professor of chemical engineering, UC Santa Barbara,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

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