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Saturday, February 21st, 2015
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech-Occidental Concert Band

Off Campus
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Theater Lab: "Alice Through the Wormhole"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, February 21st, 2015
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Fencing) North vs. South IFCSC

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Men's Swimming and Diving) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 2/22 12:00am
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(Men's Swimming and Diving) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track) Pomona-Pitzer All-Comers Meet

12:00am – 2/22 12:00am
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(Women's Swimming & Diving) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Women's Swimming & Diving) SCIAC Championships

10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Whittier vs. Caltech

10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Redlands

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Occidental

2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Occidental

5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Occidental vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Occidental vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Theater Lab: "Alice Through the Wormhole"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Vienna Boys Choir

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, February 22nd, 2015
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Men's Swimming and Diving) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 2/23 12:00am
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(Men's Swimming and Diving) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 2/23 12:00am
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(Women's Swimming & Diving) SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Women's Swimming & Diving) SCIAC Championships

2:30pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Theater Lab: "Alice Through the Wormhole"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, February 23rd, 2015
9:00am – 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102
The Terradynamics of Robotic and Biological Movement in Complex Terrain
Chen Li, University of California, Berkeley,
9:30am – 10:30am
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Personal Emergency Preparedness

Keith Spalding B117
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Faculty Meeting

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Hunting for Mixed Stop Decays at the LHC
Michael Graesser, LANL,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Seeding a New Kind of Garden: Synthesis of Symmetrically Stellated Bimetallic Nanocrystals as a New Class of Plasmonic Colloids
Sara Skrabalak, Associate Professor, Dean's Fellow, Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington,
2:30pm – 5:00pm
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Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics - Inaugural Celebration and Symposium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Twisted commutative algebras and related structures
Steven Sam, Miller Research Fellow, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium
"Engineered proteins for visualizing and treating disease"
Jennifer Cochran, Associate Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 4:00pm
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CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Towards Model-Based and Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation
Caleb Kemere, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Rice University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The natural variability of glaciers: was there a little ice age?
Gerard Roe, Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Learning Systems: Systems and Abstractions for Large-Scale Machine Learning

Annenberg 105
Computing & Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Joseph E. Gonzalez, Postdoctoral Scholar, AMPLab, UC Berkeley,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Beginner/Intermediate West Coast Swing with Demetre Souliotes - Week 6

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
9:00am – 5:00pm
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New Frontiers in Biological Engineering

Broad 100
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics Inaugural Symposium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
9:30am – 10:30am
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Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Relative Entropy Optimization and Its Applications
Venkat Chandrasekaran, Assistant Professor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Targeted Nanoparticles for Mitochondial Medicine
Shanta Dhar, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Nano Therapeutics Research Laboratory, Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens,
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Naïve entropy of dynamical systems
Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill 370
No signal yet: The elusive birefringence of the vacuum, and whether gravitational wave detectors may help.
Hartmut Grote, AEI Hannover,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

Annenberg 213
Generalized Low Rank Models
Madeleine Udell, Computational & Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Planetary System Evolution: Gas Giants in disks, and Nonconservative Dynamics
David Tsang, Postdoc, McGill University,
5:30pm – 8:30pm
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Chapman

7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Chapman

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Last day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections for Winter Term

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanics
Pun Wai Tong, PhD. Student, Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Star Formation
Ralf Klessen, Heidelberg,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
A millennial-scale stagnation of Southern Ocean circulation in a past warm climate
Christopher Hayes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KNI Seminar

Steele 125
Cooperative Function in Atomically Precise Nanoscale Assemblies
Paul Weis, KNI Visiting Associate/Director of CNSI, Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

The Equivariant Verlinde Formula
Du Pei, Graduate Student, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Professor Yanyi Huang - Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center, Peking University

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
"Microfluidics: A Better Approach for Sequencing Single Cells"
Yanyi Huang, Professor, Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center, Peking University,
8:30pm – 11:00pm
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West Coast Swing Social

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, February 26th, 2015
8:00am – Ongoing
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Registration for Spring Term 2014-15

10:30am – 12:30pm
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Campus Architectural Tour

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

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop: "Crystallographic Resources"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Directed self-assembly of soft mesophases using magnetic fields
Chinedum Osuji, Associate Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
A Timing Approach to Casual Network Inference
Negar Kiyavash, Willett Faculty Scholar, Industrial and Enterprise Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Abby Kavner
Abby Kavner, Associate Professor, Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Evolution of Tunable Laser Absorption Sensors for Combustion and Propulsion
Ronald Hanson, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Divisibility in K-groups and classical conjectures in Number Theory
Grzegorz Banaszak, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Adam Mickiewicz University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Optically driven quantum solids: emergence without equilibrium
Andrea Cavalleri, Professor of Physics, University of Hamburg and University of Oxford,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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POSTPONED: Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Lisa Barrett, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University,
4:45pm – 6:00pm
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CMA presents: Inside the Inside Stories: Hear from Four Curiosity-Inspired Authors

JPL
Marc Kaufman, writer, journalist,
Rob Manning, Chief Engineer, JPL,
Rod Pyle, author,
Roger Wiens, LANL,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Beginning & Intermediate Salsa Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room
Friday, February 27th, 2015
10:00am – 11:00am
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Kellogg Seminar

Lauritsen Library
Studies of Fundamental Interactions of Trapped ^8Li and ^8B Ions
Adrian Perez Galvan, Physics, Argonne National Laboratory,