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Thursday, January 14th, 2016
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Iron supply to an anemic ocean: Using Fe isotopes to trace global Fe sources
Seth John, Associate Professor (Research), Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
mRNA Processing and Links to Human Disease
James Manley, Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Life Sciences, Columbia University Biological Sciences, Columbia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Atomic Packing and Structure-Property Correlations in Amorphous Metals
Evan Ma, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Engineering Proteins for Selective Catalysis
Jared C. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Building the First Spaceport in Low Earth Orbit
John Blincow, Gateway Foundation,
Dr. Thomas R. Spilker, Retired (JPL),
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Men's Basketball) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

8:30pm – 10:30pm
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Beginner International Ballroom

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
8:30pm – 11:00pm
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West Coast Swing Social

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, January 14th, 2016
8:50am – 11:30am
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International Scholar Orientation

East Bridge 114
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Bioinformatics Faculty Hiring Symposium

Beckman Institute Auditorium
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

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

Gates-Thomas 135
11:00am – 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151
Molybdenum-Quinonoid Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity
Justin Henthorn, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie group, Chemistry, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Crellin 151
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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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Running rings (and spirals) around DNA: molecular mechanisms for initiating and controlling replication
James Berger, Professor, Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

On the set of L-space surgeries for links
Eugene Gorsky, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UC Davis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Bounding 2-torsion in class groups
Jacob Tsimerman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Jacob Tsimerman, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
What does a typical dynamical system look like?
Omer Tamuz, Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Caltech,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Deep Space Atomic Clock
Todd Ely, DSAC Principal Investigator, JPL,
Allen H Farrington, DSAC Project Manager, JPL,
Friday, January 15th, 2016
10:00am – 11:00am
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Garry Krinsky: Toying with Science

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
10:00am – 11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Firestone 306
"A Continuum Model for Slip-Twinning Interactions in Magnesium and Magnesium Alloys"
Yingrui (Ray) Chang, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
TBA
Daniel Jafferis, Harvard University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Building Coordinator / Floor Warden Training

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Boltzmann Brains: Why They Appear, and Why They Are Bad
Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics, Physics Department, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Coffee and Conversation

Kerckhoff 234
What Does Affirmative Action Mean?
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Multifield Interactions for Programmable Metamaterials
Massimo Ruzzene, Professor, D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering , Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation
Timothy P. (Patrick) Montgomery, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
A Fast and Scalable Method for A-Optimal Design of Experiments for Infinite-dimensional Bayesian Nonlinear Inverse Problems
Noemi Petra, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Garry Krinsky: Toying with Science

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
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)
Deep Space Atomic Clock
Todd Ely, DSAC Principal Investigator, JPL,
Allen H. Farrington, DSAC Project Manager,
Saturday, January 16th, 2016
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Swimming and Diving) Caltech at Whittier

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Swimming and Diving) Caltech vs. CMS

12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Gresham Wedding Photography

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

Sunday, January 17th, 2016
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Fencing) Caltech vs. West Invitational

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Swimming and Diving) Mills vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Park Wedding Photography

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Calder Quartet

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Intermediate International Ballroom

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Monday, January 18th, 2016
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Martin Luther King Day (Institute Holiday)

9:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Orr Engagement Shoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
"Mesoscopic Control of Light and Reactivity at Extended Solids"
Shoji Hall, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Beginner West Coast Swing

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, January 19th, 2016
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Learning Seminar

The Standard Conjectures
Daniel Siebel, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
10:30am – 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Engineering, Predicting, and Understanding Nicotinamide Cofactor Specificity
Jackson Cahn, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Arnold group, Chemistry, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Medicine, Math, and Computing
Marie Csete, President & Chief Scientist, Huntington Medical Research Institutes,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Improving Searches for Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO
TJ Massinger, Physics, Syracuse University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
An EFT for Forward Scattering and Factorization Violation
Iain Stewart, MIT,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Quantum encryption and obfuscation
Gorjan Alagic, University of Copenhagen,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Chris Martin, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Charles R. dePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

Hard Open Problems in Euclidean Geometry
Larry Guth, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Pushing noble liquids to new limits: dark matter detection in xenon and superfluid helium
Scott Hertel, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Howard Lipshitz, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Yardangs: Ghost Cities of the Past, Scientific Enigmas of the Present, Refuges of the Future
Laura Kerber, Dr, Planetary Chemistry and Astrobiology, JPL,
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Chapman

Wednesday, January 20th, 2016
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308
The Largest Possible Quantum Speedups
Scott Aaronson, MIT,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Laboratory Safety Orientation/Lab Safety 101

Keith Spalding B117
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Free Monotone Transport
Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Stellar Astrophysics: 100 Years after Russell
Jason Kalirai, STScI, Maryland,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Chemical Tracers of Particle Dynamics in the Ocean
Phoebe Lam, Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Some Recent Opinions in Mechanical Behaviors of Amorphous Solids
Mo Li, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,