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Friday, December 9th, 2011
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Chinese Corner - November

Red Door Cafe
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
2012 and the End of Days Phenomena
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
9:00am – 11:00am
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum

Baxter Lecture Hall
Untold Facets of an Entrepreneur's Success: Failure, Timing, Dumb Luck & Advice (Good and Bad)
Milton Chang, Former CEO, Newport Corporation,
Steve O’Conner, Founder, Nanostream and Clinical Micro Sensors,
Roberta Jacobs, Founding CEO, and Chief Operating Officer, Cobaltcard from American Express and GreenWare Technologies,
Ari Mir, Founder and CEO, Lunch Money,
12:00pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chhen Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm – 3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bargegyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm – 3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Fragoso Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Challenges of Life

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 12/11 12:00am
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End of Term Ballroom Party

Dabney Hall, Lounge
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Kevin Burke

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything
Margaret Wertheim, science writer,
Monday, December 12th, 2011
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125
Neural Activity Reveals Preferences Without Choices
Alec Smith, Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics, HSS, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "Web of Science"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370
Taking Census of Extreme Hearschel-bright Starbursts at High-z
Caitlin Casey, IfA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Dynamical functional organization of the human brain
Vinod Menon, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Neuroscience, Sanford,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Numerical modeling of landquakes
Anne Mangeney, Professor of Geoscience, University Paris Diderot-PRES Sorbonne Paris Cite , Head of the Seismology Group, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Topic to be Announced
Nathan Seiberg, Institute for Advanced Study,
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
10:30am – 11:30am
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding Building
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
LHC results of Higgs boson searches using 2010 and 2011 data
Harvey Newman, Caltech,
1:15pm – 3:30pm
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IACUC Meeting

Location to be announced
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "Crystallographic Databases"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B125
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

East Bridge 114
Electromagnetic and Gravitational Waves Together
Tony Piro, Tapir, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Inferring Genetic Architecture from “Systems Genetics” Studies
Norbert Perrimon, Professor, Genetics, Harvard Medical School - Broad Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Baxter B125
Smart Markets for Hydrological Resources
Robert F. Raffensperger, Senior Lecturer in Management Science, University of Canterbury, New Zealand,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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Third and Final TACIT auditions for The Rover

Ramo Auditorium
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:15pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Science in Cyberspace
S. George Djorgovski, Professor, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
8:00am – 8:00pm
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Winnett Quad
8:00am – 8:00pm
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Winnett Lounge
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Instructors' Final Grade Reports for Fall Term

10:00am – 11:00am
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Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Cellulase Engineering: Recombinatorial and Predictive Methods
Russell Komor, graduate student, chemical engineering, california institute of technology,
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)
Planck - The Long Lagrangian Road
Ben Rusholme, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Martha Constantine-Paton, Professor of Biology, McGovern Institute, MIT,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "Reaxys and SciFinder"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
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
Piecing Together the Epoch of Reionization
Steve Furlanetto, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New Chemical Approaches for Developing Selective and Non-Selective Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Nathanael S. Gray, professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology, Harvard Medical School,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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L.A. Ruby Study Group Meeting

IMSS 120
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding Building
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "Patents"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Career Development Workshop: Finding Non-Traditional Jobs in Science

Beckman Institute Auditorium
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation

Keith Spalding Building
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Noncanonical amino acids in the interrogation of cellular protein synthesis
John Ngo, graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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CPA Group Trip: Ice Skating

Off Campus
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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Tango Workshop

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Alpine Club Presentation

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Jed Brown Slideshow: first ascent in China
Jed Brown,
Friday, December 16th, 2011
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 237
Incentive Compatibility of Large Centralized Matching Markets
Sang Mok Lee, Graduate Student, Caltech,
12:00pm – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Walkup Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Statistical models of the protein fitness landscape: applications to protein evolution and engineering
Philip Romero, graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Dihydrogen Cleavage and Catalytic Hydrogenation by an Iron Metallaboratrane
Henry Fong, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe
6:00pm – 10:00pm
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CPA Monthly Social Hour

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
6:00pm – 10:00pm
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CPA Monthly Social Hour

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Tango Workshop

Dabney Hall, Lounge
10:00pm – 12/17 3:00am
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All-Night Milonga hosted by Caltech Tango Club

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Saturday, December 17th, 2011
12:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Walkup Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm – 5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sardariani Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm – 5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vardanyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 6:30pm
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Tango Workshop

Winnett Lounge
Sunday, December 18th, 2011
10:30am – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kiledjian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography