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Sunday, November 20th, 2011
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Glee Club and Caltech Chamber Singers: Fall Concert

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Rita Hosking and Cousin Jack

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Beginner International Ballroom Dance

Winnett Lounge
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Dr. Michael Gazzaniga, psychologist, UC Santa Barbara,
2:30pm – 4:30pm
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The Memorandum: Theater Arts at Caltech

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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Tango Workshop

Winnett Lounge
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech-Occidental Symphony Orchestra: Fall Concert

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Amnesty International Book Discussion Group

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Monday, November 21st, 2011
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Just Say N,O. Amidates and Ureates as Simple Chelates for Complex Chemistry
Laurel L. Schafer, Associate Professor, Chemistry, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Early-type galaxies: the last 8 billion years
Sugata Kaviraj, Imperial College,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Hydrologic Gradients, Climatic Extremes, and Surface Erosion in the Himalaya
Bodo Bookhagen, Assistant Professor , Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
A Solution to the mu/Bmu Problem in Gauge Mediation with Hidden Gauge Symmetry
Norimi Yokozaki, Univ of Tokyo,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Analysis of Large-Scale Interconnected Dynamical Systems
Igor Mezic, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara,
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Beginning West Coast Swing Class

Winnett Lounge
9:15pm – 10:15pm
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Intermediate West Coast Swing Dance Class: Technique and Styling

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
1:30am – 3:00pm
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Caltech Poetry Arts and Literary Club Midweek Meeting

Red Door Cafe
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Special Astronomy Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Gravitational Lensing : an Astrophysical Tool
Georges Meylan, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Imaging voltage: from E. coli to neurons
Adam E. Cohen, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics, Department of Physics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAs
Howard Chang, professor of epithelial and cancer biology, Stanford University School of Medicine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
First Results from the Double Chooz
Arthur Franke, Columbia University,
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
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

Dynamics of the Support of the Equilibrium Measure in a Quartic Field
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Price competition in spectrum trade in cognitive radio networks
Saswati Sarkar, Associate Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering Dept., University of Pennsylvania,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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SALSA DANCE CLASS (BEGINNER)

Winnett Lounge
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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SALSA DANCE CLASS (ADVANCED BEGINNER)

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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SALSA DANCE CLASS (INTERMEDIATE)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
8:00am – 11/25 5:00pm
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Thanksgiving (Institute Holiday)

9:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
9:00am – 11/25 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Friday, November 25th, 2011
8:30am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
12:00pm – 4:00pm
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Christening Photography on Campus: Grigoryan Party

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

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tutunjian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe
10:00pm – 11/26 3:00am
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All-Night Milonga hosted by Caltech Tango Club

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
1:30pm – 4:30pm
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Christening Photography on Campus: Grigoryan Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
12:30pm – 3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Garabedian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Asatryan Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, November 28th, 2011
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
The role of pesticide-induced aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibition in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease
Arthur G. Fitzmaurice, Graduate student, Environmental Science and Engineering, UCLA (Detached Duty Caltech),
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Lights... Camera... Chemistry! Single-Molecule Imaging Tools for Synthetic Chemists & Dual Catalysis with Gold
Suzanne A. Blum, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of California, Irvine,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Faculty Meeting

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 113
Computational approaches for linking comparative genomics to biochemistry and evolution
David A. Liberles, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Kate Whitaker, Yale,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Rewiring and evolving bacterial signaling pathways
Michael T. Laub, Associate Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
The MEG Experiment
William Molzon, The MEG experiment, UC Irvine,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Perspectives on Quantifying Uncertain Mechanisms in Dynamical Systems
Jinqiao Duan, Associate Director, IPAM, UCLA,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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CIT Amateur Radio Club Get-together

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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Design and Analysis of High-Performance Compressed Sensing Receivers
Azita Emami, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Caltech,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Understanding the SEDs of Galaxies"
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Advanced LIGO - What, Why, How, When
Dave Reitze, LIGO, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Working at the Interface of Science and Art: Collections Research at the Getty
Karen Trentelman, Senior Scientist, Collections Research, Getty Conservation Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125
Some Unpleasant Bargaining Arithmetics (joint with Hulya Eraslan)
Antonio Merlo, Lawrence R. Klein Professor and Chair of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Student Shop Safety Hands-on Training: Woodworking Equipment

See event detail for location
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Wednesdays in the park

Tournament Park
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Multiwavelength observations of dust-obscured galaxies revealed by gamma-ray bursts
Daniel Perley, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Jacobi Matrices and Their Generalizations in Pade Approximation
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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AltC-PhD Speaker: Brian Jackson - RAND Corporation

Crellin 151
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Moving mesh cosmology: the hydrodynamics of galaxy formation
Debora Sijacki, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Let it rain: A convergence of carbon and biodiversity hotspots in the wettest of tropical forests
Alan Townsend, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Highly Monodisperse Core-Shell Particles Created by Solid-State Reactions in Alloys
Mark Asta, Professor , Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Berkeley , Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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L.A. Ruby Study Group Meeting

IMSS 120