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Ongoing – 6/7 5:00pm
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Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

Saturday, June 1st, 2013
8:00am – 6/4 5:00pm
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Study Period for Seniors and Graduate Students

10:00am – 1:00pm
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"Down in the Valley" Screening & Discussion

Annenberg 105
10:00am – 3:00pm
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Workshop for Science Teachers

Beckman Institute 121
Juice from Juice
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Basic Tune-up/Bike Repair Class: Brakes, Shifters, and Derailleurs

See event detail for location
3:00pm – 7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Azizyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Krikorian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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The Washing of the Water

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vardapetyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
9:30am – 10:30am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Molecular Design of Side-Group Liquid Crystal Polymers: Understanding their Interactions with Small-Molecule Liquid Crystal Solvent
Zuleikha Kurji, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Kornfield Group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium
The Origin of Negative Overcharge in RNA Viruses
Zhen-gang Wang, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Division of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114
TBA
Sriram Shastry, Professor, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Status of LBNE
Maury Goodman, ANL,
4:15pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
'Probing the jet-launching mechanism of supermassive black holes with radio surveys'
Sjoert van Velzen, Radboud University Nijmegen,
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
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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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Micropropulsion Applications from Gravity-Wave Telescopes to Exoplanet Observatories and Cube-Sats
John Ziemer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Getting WIRED About Dust and Substellar Objects Orbiting White Dwarfs
Dr. John H. Debes, STScI,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity
Bonnie Bassler, Professor , Department of Molecular Biology , Princeton University ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Activation of C-H Bonds by Pincer-Iridium Complexes. Catalysis and Fundamental Studies
Alan Goldman, Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science

South Mudd 365
Where Moons Form: Disks of Gas and Dust Orbiting Young Gas Giant Planets
Neal Turner, Staff Scientist , Space and Astrophysical Plasmas, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics

Annenberg 213
Sparse Recovery Over Continuous Dictionaries: The Fourier Case
Dr. Gonggou Tang, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Tuesday Evening Office Hours

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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
8:00am – 6/7 5:00pm
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Final Examinations for Seniors and Graduate Students for Spring Term

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Biosafety & Bloodborne Pathogens

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
"First Results of the BeSSeL Survey"
Mark Reid, Harvard,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New Synthetic Transformations using Alkenes: From Transition Metal Catalysis to Metal-free Radical Reactions
Eric J. Alexanian, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Wednesday Office Hours

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Thursday, June 6th, 2013
10:00am – 11:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Quantum Simulation of Enzyme Catalysis
Nicholas Boekelheide, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Miller Group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Biotech Research Product Show

Beckman Institute, Glanville Courtyard
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

Spalding Laboratory 102
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Totem Reading and Reception

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Control of gene expression by tuning translation initiation
Cliff Wang, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Thursday Office Hours

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Friday, June 7th, 2013
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day of Classes for Undergraduates

8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day to Register for Fall Term

10:00am – 11:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation: Insights, Applications, and the Total Synthesis of Four Daucane Sesquiterpenes
Nathan Bruce Bennett, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz Group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
to be announced
Hong Liu, MIT,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech BikeLab Friday Office Hours

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2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Chem 82 Senior Thesis Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Chem 82 Senior Thesis Symposium, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Dark matter halo substructure and its role in gamma-ray dark matter searches
Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Conde, Postdoc, KIPAC/SLAC, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Generation of Powerful W(0) Reductants by Visible Light Excitation
Wesley Sattler, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
More than Skin Deep: Anatomy and the Creation of Early Modern Saints
Bradford Bouley, Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University and USC,
Saturday, June 8th, 2013
8:00am – 6/11 5:00pm
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Study Period for Undergraduates

10:00am – 2:00pm
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CARMA Open House

11:00am – 12:30pm
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Learn Defensive Cycling with CICLE and Caltech Bike Lab

12:30pm – 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mouradian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Andzhunyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kostikyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Dei Real Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sedavtyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, June 9th, 2013
12:30pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Petrosyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Arutunian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, June 10th, 2013
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Instructors' Final Grade Reports for Seniors and Graduate Students

3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Faculty Board Meeting

Caltech Hall Board Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CNS Seminar - Cancelled

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Michael Kahana, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114
Statistical Topological Insulators
Dr. Anton Akhmerov, Harvard,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Dark Photon: Stellar Constraints and Direct Detection
Haipeng An, Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Becoming a Peroxidase: Conformational Dynamics of a Membrane-Bound Cytochrome c
Ekaterina V. Pletneva, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, Dartmouth College,
4:15pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
"Turbulence and Cosmic-Rays in Galaxy Clusters"
Peng Oh, UCSB,