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Caltech Thank-a-thon

Student Activities Center
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
10:00am – 8:00pm
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Caltech Thank-a-thon

Student Activities Center
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

Poisson Statistics for Eigenvalues of Continuum Random Schrodinger Operators
Abel Klein, professor of mathematics, UC Irvine,
12:15pm – 1:15pm
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Caltech Fine Arts and Crafts Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Back Safety Training

Keith Spalding 118
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
21 cm Cosmology and Astrophysics: The Road to Reionization
Judd Bowman, postdoctoral scholar in astrophysics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Keck 142
Meridional Energy Transport in the Atmosphere-Ocean System
Geoff Vallis, senior scientist and professor, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University,
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Jess Adkins: Exploring the Deep-Sea for Corals and Clues to Our Climatic Past

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

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.
1:00pm – 4/5 12:00pm
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Prefrosh Weekend

Steele House, 355 S. Holliston Ave., Carriage House
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Passage to Permease
H. Ronald Kaback, professor of physiology, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Early Mars: Crustal Composition and Processes
John Mustard, professor of geological sciences, Brown University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Laser Driven Acceleration of Electrons: From 0 to 1 GeV in 3 Cm and Beyond
Wim Leemans, program head of LOASIS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Beyond $\eta/s = 1/4\pi$
Rob Myers, Perimeter Institute,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Deconstructing Dark Matter through Strong Gravitational Lensing Observations
Leonidas Moustakas, JPL,
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Women's Tennis vs. Whittier

Tennis Courts
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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Baseball vs. La Verne

North Athletic Field
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Aerodynamic Flow Control Using Trapped Vorticity
Ari Glezer, professor of mechanical engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 8:00pm
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Around the World in 80 Telescopes

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Mixed Organic Monolayers on Silicon Surfaces
Leslie O'Leary, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar

Moore B280
Synthetic Micro/Nanosystems for Rapid Biomolecule Analysis and Stem Cell Research
Jianping Fu, postdoctoral fellow in bioengineering , the University of Pennsylvania,
4:40pm – 5:40pm
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Caltech Poetry Club

Red Door Cafe
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Ragamala Music and Dance Theater: Sva (Vital Force)

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
9:30am – 12:30pm
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Men's Tennis vs. Pomona-Pitzer

Tennis Courts
11:00am – 11:30am
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Water Polo vs. LaVerne

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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The Great Natural Wonders of the World

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Water Polo vs. Chapman

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
Sunday, April 5th, 2009
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Chamber Music Palisades

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, April 6th, 2009
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Student-Faculty Conference

Ramo Auditorium
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Quantitative Spectroscopy of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Applications
Luc Dessart, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Chasing Streams: How One Decade of Scientific Discoveries Redefined Hydrology and Biology of Glaciated Continents
Slawek Tulaczyk, professor of Earth and planetary sciences, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Towards Precision Models of Collider Physics
Peter Skands, Femilab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Baxter B125
Global Market Integration: An Alternative Measure and Its Application
Richard Roll, professor and Japan Alumni Chair in Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
8:00am – 11:30pm
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Filming on Campus: NUMB3RS

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
9:30am – 11:30am
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
11:00am – 12:00pm
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CACR Seminar

Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics with Optical Imagery
Sebastien Leprince, postdoctoral scholar in geology, Caltech,
12:15pm – 1:15pm
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Caltech Fine Arts and Crafts Club

Red Door Cafe
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Jorgensen 74
Quantum Algorithms for Testing Properties of Probability Distributions
Sergey Bravyi, IBM,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Modelling the Origins of the Hubble Sequence
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
pH of the Liquid Water Surface: Selective Adsorption of Hydroxide and Hydronium
Richard J. Saykally, professor of chemistry, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Better Chemistry through Imaging—Lymphocyte Recognition and Membrane Structure
Mark Davis, Stanford Institute for Immunith, Transplantation and Infection, Stanford School of Medicine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Elucidating the Physiological Role and Biosynthesis of Hopanoids in an Anoxygenic Phototroph
Paula Welander, postdoctoral fellow in biology, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248
The Pamela Space Experiment
Mirko Boezio, senior researcher in physics, INFN Trieste,
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Bellydance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Office Ergonomics Training

Keith Spalding 118
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Postdoc Association Lecture: "Structuring Your Scientific Paper"

Beckman Institute Auditorium
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Using Intracluster Light to Probe Galaxy Clusters
Chris Mihos, professor of astronomy, Case Western Reserve University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Exploring and Exploiting the Biological Roles of Carbohydrates
Laura L. Kiessling, professor of chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Subglacial Hydraulics: Process Modeling and Implications for Ice Dynamics
Gwenn Flowers, assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Glaciology, Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
The Interior of Single Molecules: The Uncharted Territory of MaterialsÂ’ Future
Wilson Ho, professor of chemistry and physics, UC Irvine,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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CMA Presents "Data + Art: Art and Science in the Age of Information"

See event detail for location
Dan Goods, Exhibition curator,
David Delgado, Exhibition curator,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Water Polo vs. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Emily Pilloton: Design Revolution: Solutions that Enable and Empower

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

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
9:00am – 10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
What I Learned about Public Power in Pasadena
Carol Carmichael, member of Pasadena's Environmental Advisory Commission and faculty associate, engineering and applied science, Caltech,
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Career Opportunities in the Life Science Industries
Toby Freedman, president, Synapsis Search,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "Quick Overview of Information Resources"

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)
Engineered Agonists of Sphingosine 1-Phosphate (S1P) Receptors for Therapeutic Neovascularization and Bone Repair
Edward Botchwey, professor of biomedical engineering, University of Virginia,