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May 2008

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Norman Davidson Lecture

Kerckhoff 119

Revolutionize the Practice of Clinical Medicine through Innovations and Cost-Effective Technologies

Ron Davis, Genome Technology Center, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

American Pastorals: Philip Roth and the Mid-Century Discourse of Happiness

Mary Esteve, visiting associate professor of English, Caltech, and associate professor of English, Condordia Univeristy,

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

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

9:00am – 10:00am

ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Energy, Climate Change and Sustainability: Financial Choices for a Research University

Dean Currie, vice president, Business and Finance, Caltech,

9:00am – 10:00am

Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Multijunction Solar Cells on Epitaxial Templates

Melissa Archer, graduate student in chemical engineering, Caltech,

10:00am – 1:00pm

Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.

12:00pm – 1:00pm

International Week Event: "Nigeria—At the Trigger of Africa"

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Caltech Library System Workshop: Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

The Structure and Function of Group II Introns: Early Catalysts of Evolution

Anna Marie Pyle, HHMI Investigator and professor of molecular biophysics, Yale University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar

Baxter B125

Dissociation of Neural Signals Related to Expected and Unexpected Reward in Orbitofrontal Cortex, Basolateral Amygdala and Midbrain Dopamine Neurons

Matthew Roesch, School of Medicine, University of Maryland,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Rainfall and Erosion in the Himalaya—Processes, Timescales, and Rates

Bodo Bookhagen, assistant professor, Institute for Computational Earth System Science, UC Santa Barbara,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Double-beta decay and the Quest for Neutrino Masses

Giorgio Gratta, professor of physics, Stanford University,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Semana Latina Event: Gustavo Arellano, author of Ask a Mexican!

Winnett Lounge

7:00pm – 9:00pm

San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group Monthly Meeting

Downs 107

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Picturing Slavery Film Series: The Last Supper

Baxter 228

9:00pm – 10:00pm

Hip-Hop Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

Friday, May 9th, 2008

9:00am – 4:00pm

The Friends of Caltech Libraries Book Sale

Winnett Center

10:00am – 11:30am

Cracking the Code of Life

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Non-Supersymmetric String Theory

Sav Sethi, associate professor of physics, University of Chicago,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Semana Latina Event: Brazilian Samba Music and Dancers

Winnett Quad

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Staff and Faculty Consultation Center Workshop: "Personality Type: A Way to Understand Your Child"

Spalding Laboratory 102

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium: Thesis Defense

Firestone 306

Large-Eddy Simulation of Molecular Mixing in a Recirculating Shear Flow

Georgios Matheou, graduate student in aeronautics, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Spatially-Organized Bifunctional Mesoporous Silicas for Cooperative Catlaysis

Eric Margelefsky, graduate student in chemical engineering, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium

In Pursuit of the Gene

James Schwartz, author,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151

Resonating Nanocantilever Chemical Vapor Sensors

Heather McCaig, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

4:30pm – 7:00pm

International Food Fair and Culture Show

Avery Courtyard

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club—cancelled

Winnett Lounge

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Bandorama

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

8:00am – 12:00pm

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum

Baxter Lecture Hall

Online Advertising: Get Up-Close and Personal

10:00am – 2:00pm

The Friends of Caltech Libraries Book Sale

Winnett Center

11:00am – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Kwan Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

12:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Wong/Fong Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

12:45pm – 1:45pm

Bellydance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

1:00pm – 5:00pm

Men's and Women's Track and Field: Oxy Invite @ Occidental

away game

4:00pm – 7:00pm

Women's Club Family Potluck

Tournament Park

8:00pm – 11:00pm

Ballroom Dance Party

Dabney Hall, Lounge

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Bandorama

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Beginner Ballroom II Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

2:30pm – 4:30pm

Intermediate Ballroom II Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Caltech Student Chamber Ensembles: Mother's Day Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

Monday, May 12th, 2008

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Seniors to Remove Conditions and Incompletes

Academic

9:00am – 9:01am

Due Date for Midterm Deficiency Notices

Academic

9:00am – 10:00am

Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151

Akt phosphorylation of Drosophila Heat Shock Factor: A Signature for Stress-Resistance

Sarina Mohanty, graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Caltech,

10:00am – 11:00am

Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Engineering RNA Devices for Gene Regulation, Biosensing, and Higher-Order Cellular Information Processing

Maung Nyan Win, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CIT-Knit and Crochet

Spalding Laboratory 113

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Structural Hierarchies in Cardiac Morpho- and Pathogenesis

Kevin Parker, associate professor of biomedical engineering, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

The Blue Brain Project

Henry Markram, project director, Blue Brain Project, and director, Center for Neuroscience and Technology, École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip: Insights from Fault Models Governed by Lab-derived Friction Laws

Nadia Lapusta, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and geophysics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

The Gravity B Experiment

Francis Everitt, professor of physics, Stanford University,

4:15pm – 5:00pm

Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Firestone 306

The Key Role of Systems Engineering in Reaching the Energy and Environment Dream

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, May 13th, 2008

10:00am – 12:00pm

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Jorgensen 74

Anyonic Interferometry and Protected Memories in Atomic Spin Lattices

Liang Jiang, graduate student in physics, Harvard University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206

Memory-encoding Shape Vibrations in a Disconnecting Air Bubble

Wendy Zhang, assistant professor of physics, the James Franck Institute and the University of Chicago,

3:45pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

CO Self-Shielding in the Solar Nebula and Parent Molecular Cloud and SO2 Self-Shielding as the Source of Sulfur Mass-Independent Fractionation in Arcehan Rocks

James Lyons, assistant research geochemist, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Responsive Nanoporous Organic-Inorganic Colloidal Materials

Ilya Zharov, assistant professor of chemistry, University of Utah,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Contending with Transcription Obstacles: Fatal Stops and Rear-End Collisions

Jesper Svejstrup, researcher, Cancer Research U.K., Clare Hall Laboratories, London Research Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248

Spin Physics from the STAR Experiment at RHIC

Stephen Trentalange, researcher in astronomy and astrophysics, UCLA,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Amnesty International Letter-Writing Meeting

Athenaeum, Rathskeller

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

10:00am – 12:00pm

Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Spectral Properties of a q-SturmLiouville Operator

Jacob Christiansen, Harry Bateman Research Instructor in Mathematics, Caltech,

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Paul Polak: Out of Poverty: Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series

See event detail for location

Public Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Semana Latina Event (Rescheduled): Gustavo Arellano, Ask A Mexican!

Winnett Lounge

3:40pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Keck 142

Known and Unexplored Organic Constituents in the Earth's Atmosphere

Allen Goldstein, professor of biogeochemistry, UC Berkeley,

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