skip to main content
Caltech
Home  /  Campus Life & Events  /  Institute Calendar

Institute Calendar

Previous

November 2008

Next
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Atomic Force Microscopy to Examine the First Step of Lesion Detection by Base Excision Repair Proteins
Pamela Sontz, graduate student in chemistry, caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Kellogg Seminar

Lauritsen Library
Noble Liquids—The Revolution in Direct Dark Matter Searches
Cristiano Galbiati, assistant professor of physics, Princeton University,
4:20pm – 5:20pm
Add to Cal

Caltech Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Add to Cal

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Add to Cal

Rocket Girl: Theatre Arts at Caltech

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
11:00am – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Men's Soccer vs. Alumni

home game
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Add to Cal

Planet Earth — Seasonal Forests

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

Women's Volleyball vs. Alumni

home game
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Add to Cal

Women's Basketball vs. Alumni

home game
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Add to Cal

Rocket Girl: Theater Arts at Caltech

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
10:00am – 11:00am
Add to Cal

Beginning Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
11:00am – 12:30pm
Add to Cal

Intermediate/Advanced Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
12:00pm – 2:00pm
Add to Cal

Beginner Ballroom I Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
1:00pm – 4:30pm
Add to Cal

NARSAD Symposium on Mental Illness

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
3:30pm – 5:30pm
Add to Cal

Rocket Girl: Theater Arts at Caltech

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
6:15pm – 7:15pm
Add to Cal

Bellydance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Add to Cal

Andy M. Stewart & Gerry O'Beirne

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, November 10th, 2008
9:00am – 9:00pm
Add to Cal

Midterm Deficiency Notices Due

10:00am – 3:30pm
Add to Cal

Research at the Dow Chemical Company

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Research at the Dow Chemical Company
Bob Maughon, Rik Tunistra, Tom Kalantar, Jim Stevens Jack Kruper, Simon Yeung, and Bill Kleshick, research scientists, the Dow Chemical Company,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Add to Cal

CACR Seminar

Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Making and Using VO Tools to Study the QSO Distribution
Giuseppe Longo, professor of physics, University Federico II (Naples, Italy),
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Add to Cal

Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151
Programming Protein Patterns on DNA Nanostructures with Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamides
Justin Cohen, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Faculty Board Meeting

Caltech Hall Board Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Firestone 306
Swarming by Nature and by Design
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Social Environment Affects the Expression of Chemical Signals and the Frequency of Mating in Drosophila Melanogaster
Joel Levine, assistant professor of biology, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Probing Planetary Materials with Nuclear Resonant Spectroscopy
Wolfgang Sturhahn, visiting associate in geophysics, Argonne National Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Precision Muon Physics: New Results and Future Prospects
David Hertzog, Univesity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 4:30pm
Add to Cal

Special Organic Chemistry Seminar, Part I

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
FI Catalysts: Unique Olefin Polymerization Catalysis for the Creation of Value-Added Polymers
Terunori Fujita, Catalysis Science Laboratory, Mitsui Chemical, Inc.,
4:30pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Special Organic Chemistry Seminar, Part II

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Bis(phenoxy-imine) Group 4 Metal Alkyls: Synthesis, Activation, and Olefin Polymerization
Haruyuki Makio, Catalysis Science Laboratory, Mitsui Chemical, Inc.,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
Add to Cal

Tap Dance Class

North Catalinas Recreation Room
8:30pm – 9:30pm
Add to Cal

Beginner Modern Jive (Ceroc) Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
9:45pm – 10:45pm
Add to Cal

Beginner Hustle Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
9:30am – 11:30am
Add to Cal

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
10:00am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

Physics and Geometry Seminar

Coulomb Gas in 2-D
Nikolai Makarov, professor of mathematics, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Add to Cal

Caltech Library System Workshop: "Electronic Theses and Dissertations"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
Key Scales and Mechanisms in Fluid Particle Systems
Michele Guala, postdoctoral scholar in aeronautics, Caltech,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
Brant Robertson, Spitzer Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, the University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

East Bridge 114
Gravitational Radiation from Pulsar Glitches: Nuclear Physics with LIGO
Andrew Melatos, lecturer in physics, University of Melbourne,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Integrated Tempering, Sampling, and Understanding of Water/Air Inferface Structure
Yi-Qin Gao, assistant professor of chemistry, Texas A&M University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
The Branching Program of Lung Development
Mark Krasnow, professor of biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248
Latest Results from Borexino
Andrea Pocar, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Stanford University,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
Add to Cal

Amnesty International Letter-Writing Meeting

Athenaeum, Rathskeller
7:30pm – 9:00pm
Add to Cal

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
10:00am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Caltech Fine Arts and Crafts Club

Red Door Cafe
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Toda Flows
Christian Remling, assistant professor of mathematics, University of Oklahoma,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Keck 142
Pollen and Asthma
Richard Flagan, Irma and Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemical Engineering, professor of environmental science and engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
A Taxonomy of Nets and Crystal Design
Michael O'Keeffe, professor of chemistry, Arizona State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New Twists on Nazarov Cyclization: Application to Natural Product Synthesis
Alison J. Frontier, assistant professor of chemistry, University of Rochester,
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Add to Cal

Optical Society of Southern California (OSSC) Meeting

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
6:30pm – 7:30pm
Add to Cal

Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Dabney Hall, Lounge
8:00pm – 9:30pm
Add to Cal

Leslie Tamppari: The Phoenix Mission

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 9:00pm
Add to Cal

Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
9:00am – 10:00am
Add to Cal

ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Innovations in Environmental Education (aka: "Are You Smarter than a 6th Grader?")
Lindsay Yee, graduate student in environmental science and engineering, Caltech,
10:00am – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.
10:00am – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

The Great California ShakeOut Earthquake Drill

See event detail for location
1:00pm – 6:00pm
Add to Cal

Caltech Postdoctoral Association Presents a Project-Management Workshop by Franklin Covey

Beckman Institute Auditorium
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar

Baxter B125
Learning and the ACC
Tim Behrens, research lecturer in experimental psychology, University of Oxford,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Discovering New Minerals in the Early Solar System: A Nano-Mineralogy Investigation
Chi Ma, member of the professional staff, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Information Processing in Living Cells: Beyond First Approximations
Ido Golding, assistant professor of physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Add to Cal

Beginner Argentine Tango Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Add to Cal

San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group Monthly Meeting

Downs 107
7:00pm – 8:00pm
Add to Cal

Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
New Discoveries from the Spitzer Telescope
8:00pm – 9:00pm
Add to Cal

Jazz/Lyrical Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
9:00pm – 10:00pm
Add to Cal

Hip Hop Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Friday, November 14th, 2008
10:00am – 11:30pm
Add to Cal

Lakota Sioux Dance Theatre: School Group Performance

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Towards M2 Branes Probing Generic Toric Singularities
Diego Rodriguez-Gomez, visiting postdoctoral research associate in physics, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Caltech Poetry Club

Red Door Cafe
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Downs 107
Gaps in Our Understanding of High Temperature Superconductors
Eric Hudson, professor of physics, MIT,