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Thursday, February 14th, 2013
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Caltech BikeLab Repair Session @ Winnett

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

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Kathleen Grey, Geological Survey of Western Australia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Black Holes: Probes of the Cosmos and Fundamental Physics
Frans Pretorius, Professor of Physics, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Seminar on Seminars: How to Give a Talk
Kenneth S. Suslick, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wiersma Lecture

Kerckhoff 119
"Connecting the Network of Mouse Visual Cortex to Behavior"
Andreas Burkhalter, Professor, Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Thursday Office Hours

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

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Geoengineering and Climate Intervention: What We Need to Know
Dr. Riley Duren, Chief Systems Engineer, Earth Science & Technology Directorate , JPL,
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Women's Basketball) Chapman vs. Caltech

Friday, February 15th, 2013
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
2d TQFT structure of the superconformal indices with outer-automorphism twists
Jaewon Song, UC San Diego,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Friday Office Hours

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2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Tidal Effects in Double White Dwarf Binaries
Francesca Valsecchi, Graduate Student, Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University,
2:30pm – 5:30pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Whittier

3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Biola vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium (PhD thesis talk)

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Simulation of Richtmyer-Meshkov Flows for Elastic-Plastic Solids in Planar and Converging Geometries Using an Eulerian Framework
Alejandro Lopez-Ortega, Graduate Student, Aerospace, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Capturing Protein Dynamics with Time-Resolved Spectroscopy
Nicole Ford, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Baxter B125
Model Gettier Cases and Metacognition
Jennifer Nagel, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto,
4:30pm – 6:30pm
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Caltech Red Door Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe
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)
Geoengineering and Climate Intervention: What We Need to Know
Dr. Riley Duren, Chief Systems Engineer, Earth Science & Technology Directorate , JPL,
Saturday, February 16th, 2013
12:00am – 2/17 12:00am
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(Track/Field) Pomona Pitzer All-Comers

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Baseball) Whittier vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:30pm
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Special Photography on Campus: Boyadzhyan Sweet 16 Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm – 5:30pm
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(Baseball) Whittier vs. Caltech

5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Whittier

7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Whittier

Sunday, February 17th, 2013
10:00am – 11:00am
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Beginning Ballet (Open to All Levels)

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

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Special Photography on Campus: Yang Engagement Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Schubert Ensemble

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

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Monday, February 18th, 2013
8:00am – 5:00pm
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President's Day (Institute Holiday)

9:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Monday Office Hours

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7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Deficiency Notices

9:20am – 10:20am
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Time Change Today: 9:20 AM! Caltech Tanka and Short Poetry Meeting with Artists

Red Door Cafe
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding Building
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Tuesday Noon Office Hour

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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Massively Multiplayer On-Orbit Space Exploration
Michael Johnson, JA,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B125
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Cosmological Parameters from the Complete ACT Survey
Renee Hlozek, Princeton,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill 370
Development of ultra-low loss acoustic resonator from Superfluid Helium-4
Keith Schwab, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Dusty Universe Unveiled by the Herschel Space Observatory
Asantha Cooray, Prof., UC Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Connecting Protein Dynamics with Catalytic Function from QM/MM Simulations
Jiali Gao, L. I. Smith Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference

Guggenheim 202
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Regeneration in the animalia: from analysis to synthesis
Yuval Rinkevish, Postdoctotal Fellow, Inst. for Stem Cell Biology & regenerative Medicine, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science

South Mudd 365
TBD
David Paige, Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Slavery's Scientific Management: Plantation Accounts in Antebellum America
Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History, Harvard Business School,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Tuesday Evening Office Hours

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5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Credit Union Annual Meeting

Beckman Institute Auditorium
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Men's Basketball) La Verne vs. Caltech

7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
10:00am – 11:00am
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Mean Markets and Lizard Brains

Ramo Auditorium
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Black History Month Keynote Luncheon: "Diversity in Science & Engineering: Regions of Influence" - Dr. Claudia Alexander

Avery Dining Hall
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "Business Resources"

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

Keith Spalding 118
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics

Annenberg 107
The Exascale Co-design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments
James Belak, Dr., Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Observations of Star-Forming Galaxies in the Reionization Era
Richard Ellis, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture

Gates Annex B122
Photoredox Catalysis in Organic Synthesis
David MacMillan, University Professor, Director, Merck Center for Catalysis at Princeton, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Regulation of the ocean's deep overturning circulation by Antarctic easterly winds
Andrew Stewart, Postdoctoral Researcher, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Thomas Jefferson and the Meaning of Religious Freedom
John A. Ragosta, Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Wednesday Office Hours

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7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Beginner Salsa Class

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Exploring Mars, the Moon, Asteroids, and Comets with Rovers and Landers

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Advanced Beginner Salsa Class

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding Building
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
Engineering Infrastructure Efficiency
Eleni Chatzi, Institut fur Baustatik and Konstruktion,