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Thursday, March 13th, 2014
8:00am – 3/16 5:00pm
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Study Period

9:30am – 12:30pm
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(Baseball) Drew vs. Caltech

10:00am – 11:00am
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School-Day Show: Theatreworks/USA in Peter Pan

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:30am – 1:00pm
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BVS Biotech Research Product Show

Beckman Institute, Glanville Courtyard
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: "Girl Rising" Documentary Screening (Part I)

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Science of Benefits - The New Realities of Life Transitions & Well-Being

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Neuroimaging Genetic Biomarkers of Addiction
Elliot A. Stein, National Institute of Drug Abuse,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
TBA
John Magyar, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

p-adic L-functions and BSD
Chris Skinner, Mathematics, Princeton,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
John Trevisa and Late Medieval Literary Encyclopedism
Emily Steiner, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania,
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) St. Francis (N.Y.) vs. Caltech

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

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2
David Crisp, Science Team Leader, OCO-2, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, March 14th, 2014
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track & Field) Ben Brown Invitational

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track & Field) Occidental Distance Classic

9:00am – 10:00am
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Thesis Seminar

South Mudd 365
Studies of Ambient Organic and Inorganic Aerosol in Southern California
Joseph Ensberg, graduate student, chemical engineering, california institute of technology,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Reducing Supersymmetry of Two-dimensional Sigma Models Down to N=(0,2)
Arkady Vainshtein, Univ of Minnesota,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 127
Insider Trading and Multidimensional Private Information
Tomasz Sadzik, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, New York University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: "Girl Rising" Documentary Screening (Part II)

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Workshop: Comedy as a Teaching Tool

Avery Dining Hall
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
TBD
Eliezer Rabinovici, CERN & The Hebrew University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Quantitative predictions for galaxy formation
Andrew Benson, George Ellery Hale Distinguished Scholar, Theoretical Astrophysics, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science,
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Rensselaer vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Vassar vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Hyperbolic cone metrics on 3-manifolds with boundary
Tian Yang, Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Heterometallic Effects in Triiron, Tetrametallic Clusters
Davide Lionetti, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection
Werner Troesken, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh,
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)
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2
David Crisp, OCO-2 Science Team Leader, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Saturday, March 15th, 2014
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track & Field) Ben Brown Invitational

8:00pm – 9:00pm
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You're the Expert

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, March 16th, 2014
10:00am – 8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chen & Choi Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, March 17th, 2014
8:00am – 4:30pm
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Adult CPR/AED and First Aid

Brown Gymnasium
8:00am – 3/19 5:00pm
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Final Examinations for Winter Term

2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

A metric in the space of spectral triples
Gunther Cornelissen, Mathematics, University of Utrecht,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Rational Curves and Rational Points over Global Function Fields
Jason Starr, Mathematics, Stony Brook University,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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EE Special Seminar

Moore B270
Optimal RNA Assembly: From Information Theory to Software
Sreeram Kannan, Postdoctoral Researcher, U C Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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EE Special Seminar

Moore B270
Optimal RNA Assembly: From Information Theory to Software
Sreeram Kannan, Postdoctoral Researcher, U. C. Berkeley,
4:15pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Detection of B-mode Polarization at Degree Scales with BICEP2
Jeffrey Filippini, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech New Media Art Exhibition

Jorgensen Lobby
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Systems Biology SuperGroup Meeting

Broad 100
Lea Goentoro, Assistant Professor , Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Dr. Ji-hoon Kim, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Genomic Variation and the Inherited Basis of Common Disease
David Altshuler, Primary Investigator, Broad Institute, MIT and Harvard,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
The complete one loop RGE of the SM EFT, and its implications for BSM phenomenology
Michael Trott, CERN,
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
8:00am – 5:00pm
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End of Winter Term

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 Workshop: "CODA: If You Publish, You Need CaltechAUTHORS"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Laboratory Safety Orientation/Lab Safety 101

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

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Measuring the Cosmic Distance Scale with SDSS-III
Daniel Eisenstein, Biard Lecturer, Harvard,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety & Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Constraining Regional Greenhouse Gas Emissions using Geostationary Measurements
Peter Rayner, Professor, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Multi-tasking of rAAVs for in vivo gene transfer: from CNS gene therapy to miRNA functional genomics
Guangping Gao, Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachussetts Medical School,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Baxter B125
Should We Bother Teaching Economic Ethics?
James Konow, Chair of Economics & Ethics, Kiel University, Professor of Economics, Loyola Marymount University,
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Whittier vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Michael P. Lamb - When Rocks Roll: How Sediment Transport Shapes Planetary Surfaces

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Thursday, March 20th, 2014
8:00am – 3/30 5:00pm
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Spring Recess

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

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Distinguished Women in Aerospace Lecture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Perspectives from Space
Sandra Magnus, Executive Director American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA/NASA,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Getting to Know the University of Redlands School of Business

Avery Library
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Wash. & Jeff. vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
Mike Kelzenberg of Escape Dynamics
Mike Kelzenberg, Escape Dynamics,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar - Informal

Broad 100
Poly(ADP-ribose)Polymerase 1 in chromatin, transcription, and clinic
Alexei Tulin, Associate Professor, Epigenetics and Progenitor Cell Program, Cancer Biology Program, Genome Stability Working Group, Fox Chase Cancer Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
BICEP2: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales
Jamie Bock, Professor of Physics, Caltech and Senior Research Scientist, JPL,