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Monday, April 1st, 2013
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Beginning of Instruction for Spring Term

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
A WISE search for large extraterrestrial civilizations: a complementary approach to traditional SETI
Jason T. Wright, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Head TA Network Kick-off Meeting & Happy Hour

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Jet Charge and Track-Based Observables for the LHC
Wouter Waalewijn, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125
A Theory of Political and Economic Cycles
Pierre Yared, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University,
4:15pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Interstellar Medium of Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization
Joseph Munoz, UCLA,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Monday Office Hours

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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

10:00am – 11:00am
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Informal Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
From the fast track to super-resolution to the spatio-statistical anaylsis of protein distributions on the cell membrane
Sebastian Munck, Coordinator, Light Microscopy and Imaging Network LiMoNe VIB, Dept. of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, K.U. Leuven,
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Tuesday Noon Office Hour

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2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
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
Cell and tissue mechanics in zebrafish gastrulation
Carl-Phillip Heinsenberg, Professor, IST Austria,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science

South Mudd 365
Emilie Royer, Posdoctoral Scholar, Planetary Science Section, JPL,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Tuesday Evening Office Hours

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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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A Garden Viewing in Sierra Madre-Caltech Tanka and Short Poetry Meeting with Artists and Music

Off Campus
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Campus Emergency Preparedness Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:30pm – 6:30pm
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(Men's Tennis) Gust. Adolphus vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
How the Milky Way Built its Disk
Hans-Walter Rix, MPIA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125
Recursive Stochastic Choice
Drew Fudenberg, Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
New Dimenstions for Stellar Spectroscopy: Reconstructing Chemo-Dynamical Evolution of the Galaxy with Late-Type Stars
Dr. Maria Bergemann, MPA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Propagating vs. Non-propagating Madden-Julian Oscillation Events
Daehyun Kim, Assistant Research Professor , Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Bioengineering Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Synthetic Yeast Genomes
"Patrick" Yizhi Cai, Autodesk Distinguished Scholar, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Chancellor's Fellow & Group Leader, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK,
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Wednesday Office Hours

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8:00pm – 9:00pm
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John Preskill: Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Computing

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
9:00am – 2:00pm
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Educause Online Conference: Learning and the MOOC

10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
Uncertainty Propagation in Structural Dynamics: Physics Based Methods
Sondipon Adhikari, Professor, College of Engineering, Swansea University,
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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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
DNA-Mediated Signaling by the E. coli Helicase DinG
Michael Grodick, Grad Student, Barton Group, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Decision Making in a Physical World of Bodies, Action and Objects
Scott Grafton, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Blood clotting-inspired polymer physics
Alfredo Alexander-Katz, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Kat Dawson, Postdoctoral Scholar, Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: A New Window on Matter, Spacetime and the Universe
Harvey Newman, Caltech,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Thursday Office Hours

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6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Resnick Sustainability Institute Flow Program Seminar

Annenberg 105
Smart Grid: A Road Guide to Smart Choices for the Technology Entrepreneur
Friday, April 5th, 2013
9:00am – 10:00am
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PhD seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Studies of Ambient and Chamber Aerosol Composition Using the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer
Jill S. Craven, graduate student, chemical engineering, california institute of technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Friday Office Hours

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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis Seminar

Jorgensen 109
Preparation, Electronic Properties and Morphology of Single Crystalline WS2 and MoS2 Thin Films
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis Seminar

Jorgensen 109
Preparation, Electronic Properties and Morphology of Single Crystalline WS2 and MoS2 Thin Films
Prof. Christian Pettenkofer, Helmholtz Center Berlin,
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Occidental vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Occidental

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Near-Field Cosmology: Big Science From Small Galaxies
Mike Boylan-Kolchin, Center for Galaxy Evolution Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine,
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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Special Friday-Caltech Long Poetry, Prose, Essays, Memoir Workshop

Red Door Cafe
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Baseball) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Large Deformations and Instabilities in Soft Materials
Shengqiang Cai, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Applications of Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts Exhibiting Kinetic Selectivity
Vanessa Marx, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:30pm – 6:30pm
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Caltech Red Door Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe
Saturday, April 6th, 2013
12:00am – 4/7 12:00am
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(Track/Field) La Verne & CMS

8:00am – 5:00pm
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Make A Difference Day

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Make A Difference Day

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Caltech at La Verne

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) La Verne vs. Caltech

12:00pm – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Maile Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zadoorian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm – 5:30pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

2:30pm – 4:30pm
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Rashōmon

  • Public Event
2:40pm – 3:20pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Leitner Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, April 7th, 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
11:00am – 12:30pm
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Learn Defensive Cycling with CICLE and Caltech Bike Lab

1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sirounian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography