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Marco Molinaro, Assistant Vice Provost for Educational Effectiveness, Student Success Through Evidence-Based Actions, University of California, Davis,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Thin-film coatings for use in future gravitational wave detectors

Peter Murray, IGR, University of Glasgow ,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

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Thesis Seminar

Moore 139

Christos Thrampoulidis, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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Coffee and Conversation

Kerckhoff 234

Intersections of Sexuality and Science

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium

Galaxy Mergers on FIRE: Mapping Star Formation

Prof. Jorge Moreno, Cal Poly Pomona,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Group IV two-dimensional materials: Novel electronic and structural properties

Angel Rubio, Professor and Director, Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

MegaRNPs and Monosomes: Reassessing Structure and Function

Melissa Moore, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Seeing the Solar System through Robot Eyes: The International Community of Space Image Data Artists and the Golden Age of Planetary Exploration

Emily Lakdawalla, The Planetary Society,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter 125

How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, Not Engaged Argument

Molly Roberts, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Dabney Hall, Lounge

An Evening of Poetry and Music: Ciaran and Deirdre Carson

Ciaran and Deirdre Carson,

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

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(Track & Field) Caltech at Redlands Last Chance Invitational

8:00am – 5:00pm

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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections for Spring Term

Academic

9:00am – 10:00am

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Shock wave propagation in composites and electro-thermomechanical coupling of ferroelectric materialsExploring thermal phonon transport from atomic to macroscopic scales for energy conversion and management

Chengyun Hua, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical and Civil Engineering,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Indirect Coulomb Energy with Gradient Correction

Elliott Lieb, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Princeton University,

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

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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PhD Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151

Electrochemical Methods for Studying Iron-Sulfur Cluster Proteins

Helen Segal, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Rees group,, Chemistry, Caltech,

3:30pm – 4:30pm

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Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar

Vector Bundles for "Matrix Algebras Converge to the Sphere"

Marc Rieffel, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

The Origins and Implications of Turbulence in Galaxies

Blakesley Burkhart, Harvard,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

An Innovative Approach to Kinase Inhibitor Drug Discovery: The Power of a Fully Annotated Library

Brian L. Hodous, Dr., Ph.D., Director, Blueprint Medicines,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Earthquakes, Landslides, Floods: Non-Steady-State C, Fe, S Diagenesis in Coastal Marine Sediments

Will Berelson, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences and Environmental Studies, University of Southern California,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

A Quantum of Light for Materials Science: Merging QED and TDDFT

Angel Rubio, Director, Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Institute ,

Thursday, May 19th, 2016

12:00am – 12:00am

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(Track & Field) Caltech at Redlands Last Chance Invitational

12:00am – 5/22 12:00am

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Reunion Weekend

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

8:00am – Ongoing

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Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

Academic

11:00am – 12:00pm

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(CANCELLED) Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

"Carbon-based nanomaterials: from combustion nanoparticles to chiral"

(CANCELLED) Angela Violi, Professor, Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biophysics, University of Michigan,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Caltech Reading Women

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

1:00pm – 2:00pm

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Caltech Library Workshop - "Introduction to 3D Printing at the Caltech Library"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Mechanisms of regulation and fidelity in tail-anchored membrane protein targeting

Meera Rao, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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Thesis Seminar

Broad 100

"Multiplexed analysis of diverse RNA classes via hybridization chain reaction"

Aneesh Acharya, Bioengineering Ph.D. Candidate, Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125

Oscillatory Mechanisms Underlying Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

Ming Hsu, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

When bad is good: directed evolution using negative selection can result in proteins with superior properties

Marc Ostermeier, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Medical Engineering Special Speaker

Annenberg 105

Optical Microscopy Techniques for Mapping the Brain Connectome with Nanoscale Resolution

Emmanouil Karagiannis, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Synthetic Neurobiology Group, Medial Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Number Theory Seminar

Cycles in the de Rham cohomology of abelian varieties over number fields

Yunqing Tang, Mathematics, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Quantum Physics of Information

Fernando Brandao, Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy Division, Caltech,

6:00pm – 7:30pm

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Art + Tech Panel: The Prosthetic Imaginary

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Sara Hendren, Artist, Design Researcher, and Assistant Professor of Design, Olin College of Engineering,

Ken Pickar, Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering, 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

Fire and Ice...and Methane—Exploring Mars and Titan using laboratory and field analogues on Earth

Morgan Cable, Assistant Project Science Systems Engineer, Cassini Mission and Technologist, Instrument Systems Implementation and Concepts Section, JPL,

Friday, May 20th, 2016

9:00am – 10:00am

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