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Friday, October 10th, 2008
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Beginner Argentine Tango Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group Monthly Meeting

Downs 107
8:00pm – 11:00pm
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Entomology Club 2008 Kick-Off Party

Off Campus
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Jazz/Lyrical Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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RESCHEDULED TO JANUARY: Matthew Bogdanos: Thieves of Baghdad: The Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures

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

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Friday, October 10th, 2008
11:00am – 2:00pm
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Benefit Providers Available to Discuss 2009 Enrollment

Winnett Center
11:00am – 8:00pm
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Caltech Y Golf Tournament and Auction

Off Campus
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Holographic Superconductors
Gary Horowitz, professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
EnVE: A Consistent Hybrid Ensemble/Variational Estimation Strategy for Environmental Turbulent Flow Systems
Thomas R. Bewley, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Fine Arts and Crafts Club

Red Door Cafe
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Social Affective Neuroscience in Japan
Hidehiko Takahashi, Department of Molecular Neuroimaging, clinical neuroimaging section, National Institute of Radiological Sciences,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Quark Masses: An Environmental Impact Statement
Alejandro Jenkins, research associate, Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
C-H, C-C, and Si-H Bond Transformations with ϐ-Diiminate Pt Complexes
Nathan (Ned) West, postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, Caltech,
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 – 10:00pm
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Joshua Kane: in Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Terror

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
8:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum

Baxter Lecture Hall
Successful Companies through Incubation: SoCal Incubators Serve the High-Tech Industry
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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El Ritmo Del Mar - Rhythm of the Sea: In Collaboration with The Orchestras of Pasadena

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cheng Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Sara Grey & Kieron Means

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 11:00pm
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TACIT Film Festival: Films from the Nuclear Age

Sherman Fairchild Library, Amphitheatre
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
10:00am – 11:00am
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Beginning Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
11:00am – 5:00pm
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Aero Association of Caltech/JPL Fall Picnic

Off Campus
11:00am – 12:30pm
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Intermediate/Advanced Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Beginner Ballroom I Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Cecilia String Quartet

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
6:15pm – 7:15pm
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Bellydance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Monday, October 13th, 2008
8:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
From Caltech to the Space Station and Back
Garrett Reisman, astronaut, NASA Space Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
From Particle to Kinetic and Hydrodynamic Descriptions of Flocking
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Femtosecond Laser Nanosurgery from Shedding Light on Nerve Regeneration to Aiding in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy
Adela Ben-Yakar, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Science Behind the Great Southern California ShakeOut
Lucy Jones, chief scientist, U. S. Geological Survey, Pasadena,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Electroweak Corrections Using Effective Field Theory: Applications to the LHC
Randall Kelley, graduate student, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Men's Soccer vs. Haverford

home game
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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Women's Volleyball vs. La Sierra

home game
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Tap Dance Class

North Catalinas Recreation Room
8:30pm – 9:30pm
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Beginner Modern Jive (Ceroc) Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
9:45pm – 10:45pm
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Beginner Hustle Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
8:30am – 12:00pm
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Staff Education & Career Development Workshop: "Transition to Leadership"

Brown Gymnasium, Classroom
11:00am – 1:30pm
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Women's Club Fall Gathering: Activity Fair and Lunch

Athenaeum
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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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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Mechanical Engineering Seminar--CANCELLED

Gates-Thomas 206
Topic to be announced.
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Demographics of Extrasolar Planets with Gravitational Microlensing
Scott Gaudi, Ohio State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Nipah: A New Virus in Malaysia and Some More Recent Updates on Worldwide Activity
Thomas Ksiazek, special pathogens branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248
Observation of the Bottomonium Ground State, ETA_B(1S), in the Decay Y(3S) --> Gamma ETA_B
Veronique Ziegler, research scientist in physics, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Baxter B125
Arming, Negotiating and Fighting
Adam Meirowitz, associate professor of politics, Princeton University,
6:45pm – 9:00pm
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National Coming Out Day: "Making a Difference: How Authentic Leaders Change Their Worlds"

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Christopher Paolini: Brisingr - Presentation & Book Signing

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Amnesty International Letter-Writing Meeting

Athenaeum, Rathskeller
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park
10:30am – 2:30pm
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Fall Career Fair 2008

Beckman Mall
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Fine Arts and Crafts Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Support Group Meeting

Crellin 156
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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2009 Annual Enrollment Meeting for Faculty, Postdoctoral Scholars, and Staff

Avery Conference Room
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Abbott Symposium, Session I

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Abbott Symposium, Session I

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Benzothiadiazine Hepatitis C NS5B Polymerase Inhibitors
Keith F. McDaniel, Department of Infectious Disease Research, Abbott Laboratories,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Abbott Symposium, Session II

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Ring-Forming Strategies in Asymmetric Catalysis
Tomislav Rovis, associate professor of chemistry, Colorado State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Abbott Symposium, Session II

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Keck 142
Reconstructing Climate Deep in Earth history
John Eiler, Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and professor of geochemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Men's Soccer vs. Redlands

home game
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
The Wason Task and the Paradox of Confirmation
Branden Fitelson, associate professor of philosophy, UC Berkeley,
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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SASS Debate Watch: Presidential Debate

6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Dabney Hall, Lounge
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Ralph Adolphs: The Neuroscience of Social Behavior

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
9:00am – 10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
A History of Water Use in the West: Lessons from Cadillac Desert
Ashley Jones, Ph.D. Candidate, ESE, Caltech,