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Sunday, October 7th, 2012
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, October 7th, 2012
9:00am – 3:00pm
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BikeLab ride to CicLAvia

Student Activities Center
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Beginner International Ballroom

Winnett Lounge
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Emerson String Quartet

Beckman Auditorium
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Monday, October 8th, 2012
9:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Constraints on protoplanetary disk turbulence from radiative transfer models
Daniel Szomoru, Leiden,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Can we see earthquakes before they happen?
Brendan Meade, Associate Professor , Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences , Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Topic to be Announced
Michael Salem, Stanford,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Advancing Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: New Molecules, Materials, Measurements and Modeling
Thomas Hamann, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Baxter B125
Expectations as Reference Points? From Theoretical Appeal to Empirical Problems
Lorenz Goette, Professor of Business and Economics, Department of Economics, University of Lausanne,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) Wall Turbulence: A Systems Approach
Beverley McKeon, Professor of Aeronautics, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT), Caltech,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Soccer) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Beginning West Coast Swing Week 1

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
9:00am – 3:30pm
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Huntington Hospital Blood Drive

Winnett Quad
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
10:30am – 11:30am
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Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Ligan-Gated Ion Channels: Structure-Function Studies & Crosstalk with Other Receptors
Walrati Limapichat, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Topic to be announced.
Chaitanya Swamy, Associate Professor, Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo,
1:15pm – 3:30pm
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IACUC Meeting

Location to be announced
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Empirical Laws of Galactic Rotation
Stacy McGaugh, University of Maryland,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
A Molecule to Detect and Perturb the Confinement of Charge Carriers in Colloidal Quantum Dots
Emily A. Weiss, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference

Guggenheim 202
Sebastian Liska Cabrera, "An Immersed Boundary Method for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations Based on the Lattice Green's Function Method",
Joe Jewell, "Transition within a hypervelocity boundary layer on a,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science

South Mudd 365
Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Orbiting Cool M Dwarfs
John Johnson, Astronomy Department, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Making the best medicines possible to treat the greatest number of patients

Annenberg 121
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125
Do Political Blogs Matter? Corruption in State-controlled Companies, Blog Postings, and DDoS Attacks
Maria Petrova, UBS Assistant Professor of Economics, New Economic School, Moscow, Visiting Associate Research Scholar, Ctr. for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University,
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Women's Volleyball) Redlands vs. Caltech

7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Amnesty International Letter-Writing Meeting

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

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
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)
TBA
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Biosafety & Bloodborne Pathogens

Keith Spalding 118
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Controlled Substances Training

Broad 100
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Men's Soccer) La Verne vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Men's Water Polo) Chapman vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
From the IMF to the S-Process in Early-Type Galaxies
Charlie Conroy, UCSC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125
A Canonical Model of Choice with Initial Endowments (joint with Yusufcan Masatlioglu)
Ahmet Efe Ok, Department of Economics, New York University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Microscale X-ray Imaging Applications of Synchrotron Radiation: Peering into the Earth with X-ray Vision
Samuel Webb, Scientist, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Stanford University,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Beginning Salsa Class

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Intermediate Salsa Class

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
10:00am – 11:00am
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Controlled Substances Training

Broad 100
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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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
Real-Time Predictions for Decision Using Reduced-Order Models
David Amsallem, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University,
11:30am – 1:30pm
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Women's Club Fall Gathering and Activities Fair

Athenaeum
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Crellin 151
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Teaching Assistant Orientation

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Discovery of New Roles for Chondroitin Sulfate in Neurotrophin Signaling and Retinotopic Development

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Discovery of New Roles for Chondroitin Sulfate in Neurotrophin Signaling and Retinotopic Development
Claude Rogers, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Hsieh-Wilson group, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Predictive Coding in Balanced Spiking Neural Networks
Sophie Deneve, Group for Neural Theory, Laboratoire de Neurosciences cognitives, Ecole Normale Superieure,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
A Converted Skeptic: Climate Change and its Human Origins
Richard Muller, UC Berkeley,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Office Hours

See event detail for location
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group Monthly Meeting

Downs 107
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Herschel Opens Up the Cool Universe
Paul Goldsmith, JPL,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Tango Beginner Class

Winnett Lounge
9:00pm – 10:30pm
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Argentine Tango Workshops

Winnett Lounge
Friday, October 12th, 2012
12:00am – 10/13 12:00am
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(Cross Country) SCIAC Multi-Duals

9:00am – 5:00pm
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(IRB) Submission Deadline

9:00am – 3:30pm
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Staff Education & Career Development Workshop: "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"

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

Lauritsen 469
Gromov-Witten invariants from the S^2 partition function
Vijay Kumar, KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Friday Office Hours

See event detail for location
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Course Ombudspeople Lunch

Winnett Lounge
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,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Topic to be Announced
Tim Linden, U.C. Santa Cruz,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Dynamics of Nanoscale Mechanical Devices in Fluid with Applications to Atomic and Molecular Sensing
John E. Sader, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Polymerization Catalysis for the Precision Synthesis of Chiral and Sustainable Polymers
Garret Miyake, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,
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)
Herschel Opens Up the Cool Universe
Dr. Paul Goldsmith, JPL,
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Women's Volleyball) Chapman vs. Caltech

Saturday, October 13th, 2012
2:30am – 5:30am
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Photography on Campus: Flydog Photography(Pet Photo)

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum

Baxter Lecture Hall
Crowdfunding, Small IPO's and Private Offerings over the Internet: The NEw JOBS Act
Russ Frandsen, Attorney at Law, The Business Legal Group,