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Ongoing – 5/18 5:00pm
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Nike Reuse-a-Shoe Drive

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
10:30am – 11:30am
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics

Annenberg 105
Microstrip Reflectarrays for Large-Aperture Interferometric Radars
Sembiam Rengarajan, CSU Northridge/JPL,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Oringer Seminar -- A Special IST Lunch Bunch Event

Annenberg 105
A Perfect Storm of Opportunity
Bill Gross, Chief Executive Officer, Idealab,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Graphene Mechanical Resonators and Applications
Changyao Chen, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Digitally enhanced interferometry
Danielle Wucenich, ANU,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Evolution of RNA viruses in changing environments
Paul Turner, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences

South Mudd 365
Modeling Exotic Clouds In Cool Brown Dwarfs and Planets
Caroline Morley, Graduate Student, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz,
5:30pm – 9:00pm
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The First Annual FLoW Regional Clean Energy Awards

Athenaeum
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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A Conversation with Walter Isaacson: James Michelin Distinguished Lecture

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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James Michelin Seminar

Beckman Auditorium
A Conversation with Walter Isaacson: With Jed Buchwald
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
8:00am – 5/8 5:00pm
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Midterm Examination Period

9:00am – 4:30pm
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Staff Education & Career Development Workshop: "Crucial Conversations"

Avery Library
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech Red Door Tanka Poets Mid-Week + field trip

Red Door Cafe
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)
Formation of Rocky Planets, including a few remarkable results from WISE
Ben Zuckerman, UCLA,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Schrodinger Operators With Decaying Oscillatory Potentials
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Fighting Dengue in the Mosquito
Kelly Matzen, graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "Reaxys/SciFinder: Not Just for Chemists"

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

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Around Cool Stars
John Johnson, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Multiple constraints on net community production and its regulating factors in the Southern Ocean
Nicolas Cassar, Assistant Professor, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Surface Engineering in Nano-Fabrication, Catalysis, and Energy Conversion
Sundeep Mukherjee, Yale University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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L.A. Ruby Beginning Ruby On Rails Class

IMSS 120
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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SALSA DANCE CLASS (BEGINNER)

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission
Dr. Carol Raymond, Deputy Principal Investigator of the NASA Dawn Mission, JPL/Caltech,
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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SALSA DANCE CLASS (INTERMEDIATE)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

South Mudd 162
Seedbanks as Biodiversity Reserves: Not Your Typical Public Storage
Kaitlyn Lucey, Graduate Student, Environmental Science & Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Tech Walk 'n' Talk with Professor Robert Grubbs

Red Door Cafe
1:30pm – 3:30pm
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The Art and Science of Persuasion

Beckman Institute Auditorium
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Harnessing the Brain for Language and Music
Mark A. Changizi, Director of Human Cognition, 2AI Labs,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
An Error in Constitutive Equations Approach for Materials Identification
Wilkins Aquino, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Discovery of Majorana Fermions in Condensed Matter?
Jason Alicea, Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Benjamin Franklin's Book Shop
James N. Green, Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Everhart Lecture—cancelled

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Argentine Tango Dance Class (Intermediate level)

Winnett Lounge
Friday, May 4th, 2012
9:00am – 5:00pm
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IACUC Submission Deadline

11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
New SCFTs from M5-branes
Nikolay Bobev, Simons Center, SUNY Stony Brook,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 127
Bargaining and Power in Networked Markets
Emerson Melo, Graduate Student, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Adaptive Aeroelastic Tailoring using Variable Stiffness Approaches
Paolo Ermanni, Professor, ETH Zurich,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
New Physics Searches at the LHC with Razor Variables
Christopher Rogan, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Synthesis and Polymerization Behavior of Asymmetric Group IV Phenoxide(pyridine)anilide Complexes
Rachel Klet, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
History of Science and the Historiography of Astrology
Steven Vanden Broecke, University of Ghent,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech Red Door Poetry Club Meeting

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

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, May 5th, 2012
10:00am – 11:00am
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Good Morning Bellydance! With Leela and the Caltech Bellydance Club

Braun Gym
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karamian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, May 6th, 2012
10:00am – 11:00am
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Beginning Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
11:00am – 12:30pm
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Intermediate/Advanced Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
11:00am – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zakhari Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:30pm – 1:00pm
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Basic Pointe Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech Chamber Singers and Chamber Music

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Capitol Steps

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, May 7th, 2012
11:00am – 12:00pm
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DNA-mediated Charge Transport in a Biological Context: Cooperation Among Metalloproteins to Find Lesions in the Genome

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
DNA-mediated Charge Transport in a Biological Context: Cooperation Among Metalloproteins to Find Lesions in the Genome
Pamela Sontz, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Barton Group, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Thesis Defense.

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
DNA-mediated Charge Transport in a Biological Context: Cooperation Among Metalloproteins to Find Lesions in the Genome
Pamela Sontz, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Barton Group, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Design, Synthesis, and Application of Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts for the Preparation of Small Molecules and Polymers
Renee Thomas, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Grubbs group, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
How to tie peptide knots
A. James Link, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Exploring the Dark Side of Galaxies
Chris Fassnacht, UC Davis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Exceptional fossils and new technologies: revealing the big steps in our early evolution
John Long, Vice President, Research and Collections , Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Heavy Ions at the LHC
Bolek Wyslouch, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Functional Analogues of the FeFe Hydrogenases with an Emphasis on Hydride Intermediates
Thomas B. Rauchfuss, professor of chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Statistics and Computation in the Age of Massive Data
Michael Jordan, Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, EECS & Statistics, UC Berkeley,