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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Creating Great Places to Bike!
Felicia Williams, advisory committee member, C.I.C.L.E. (Cyclists Inciting Change thru Live Exchange),
8:00pm – 8:30pm
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Salsa Dancing: Free Practice Session

Winnett Lounge
8:30pm – 9:30pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Beginner Casino Rueda)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.
10:00am – 3:00pm
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Take Our Children to Work Day

Winnett Lounge
10:30am – 12:30pm
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Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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Sustainability Town Hall Meeting

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Design vs. Screening—Searching for Nonlinear Effects, Conditions and Catalysts in Asymmetric Reactions
Matthew H. Todd, professor of chemistry, University of Sydney,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Understanding the Mechanisms of Generating Repressive Chromatin Structures
Geeta Narlikar, professor of biochemistry, UC San Francisco,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Silica Coatings in the Ka'u Desert, Hawai'i, and Implications for Mars (S. Chemtob); FISH-NanoSIMS Analysis of Nitrogen Utilization in Methane Consuming Deep-Sea Microbes (A. Dekas)
Steven Chemtob, graduate student in geological and planetary sciences, Caltech,
Anne Dekas, graduate student in geological and planetary sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Illuminating Strongly Coupled Field Theories with Black Holes
Shamit Kachru, permanent member, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, visiting professor, UC Santa Barbara, and professor of physics (on leave), Stanford University,
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Information Session: Research Opportunities in Singapore

Steele 214
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Amnesty International Monthly Meeting

Friday, April 23rd, 2010
11:00am – 2:00pm
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Earth Day 2010

San Pasqual Walk
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Y-system for Scattering Amplitudes
Amit Sever, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SFCC Friday Forum for Postdocs

Avery Conference Room
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Gates-Thomas 206
Characterizing and Preventing Wear of Atomic Force Microscope Probes
Kevin Turner, Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
3:00pm – 7:00pm
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Men's Baseball at Pomona-Pitzer

away game
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Avakyants Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Revisiting the 1960 Chilean Earthquake and Its Comparison with the Recent Chile Earthquake
Hiroo Kanamori, John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Film Screening: Bill Gates On Energy—"Innovating to Zero!"

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

Crellin 151
Electrocatalytic O2 Reduction by Surface-Immobilized Molecular Cu Complexes
Charles McCrory, postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Kroc Lecture

Kerckhoff 119
Gene Delivery, Structural Biology, and Its Applications to Medicine
Gary Nabel, director of the Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar

Moore B280
Manipulating Nanoparticles and Enhancing Spectroscopy with Surface Plasmons
Ken Crozier, associate professor of natural sciences, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Pepoian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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International Food Fair & Culture Show

Avery Courtyard
7:00pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Poets and Musicians Event at Ten Thousand Villages

See event detail for location
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 10:00pm
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HSS Film Screening: Flug in die Nacht—Das Unglück von Überlingen (On Collision Course)

Baxter Lecture Hall
11:00pm – 4/24 12:40am
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GAYpril 2010 LGBTQ & Ally Movie Night: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
Saturday, April 24th, 2010
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Coleman Chamber Competition

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:00am – 2:00pm
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Women's Water Polo at La Verne

away game
12:00pm – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Barrie Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Majia Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Men's Baseball vs. Cal Lutheran University

North Athletic Field
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Chamber Singers

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Priscilla Herdman

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
9:00pm – 4/25 1:00am
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GAYpril 2010: Rainbow Dance Party

Winnett Lounge
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Beginner International Ballroom Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Coleman Winners Concert

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Intermediate International Ballroom Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
Monday, April 26th, 2010
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CIT-Knit and Crochet

Spalding Laboratory 113
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Red but Not Dead!—Molecular Gas in Early-type Galaxies
Timothy Davis, graduate student in astrophysics, Oxford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Downs 107
Odd-parity Topological Superconductors: Theory and Application to Cu_xBi_2Se_3
Erez Berg, postdoctoral scholar in condensed matter physics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Once (and Future?) Forest: Vegetation-Climate Feedbacks in the Amazon Basin
Scott R. Saleska, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Arizona,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Cosmic Anomalies: A Skeptical Evaluation
Edward L. Wright, professor of astronomy, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Functional Conducting Metallopolymer Materials
Bradley Holliday, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, the University of Texas at Austin,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Compressed Sensing in Infinite Dimensions
8:30pm – 9:30pm
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Beginner Lindy Hop Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
9:30pm – 10:30pm
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Intermediate West Coast Swing Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
9:30am – 11:30am
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
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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GAYpril 2010: Special Lecture

Dabney Hall, Lounge
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Sense and Response Systems
K. Mani Chandy, Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 107
Numerical Algorithms for Simulating Interacting Fermionic Lattice Systems
Christina Kraus, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
Hilke Schlichting, postdoctoral fellow in theoretical astrophysics, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Astrochemistry: From H3+ to C60
Benjamin J. McCall, assistant professor of chemistry and astronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar—cancelled

Kerckhoff 119
Cell Competition
Ruslan Medzhitov, Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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American Tribal Style Fusion Belly-Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Is Pandora Possible?: A Discussion of the Science, Technology and Environmental Messages Behind AVATAR

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
8:00am – Ongoing
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Midterm Examination Period

10:00am – 12:00pm
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Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Human Resources Workshop: "Staying On Track In A Volatile Market"

Beckman Institute Auditorium
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

On Convergence to SLE_6
Helen (Guo-Ying) Lei, graduate student in mathematics, UCLA,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Suicide Prevention Workshop

Winnett Lounge
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Laboratory Safety 101

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

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Magnetar Oscillations
Yuri Levin, Leiden Observatory,