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Saturday, October 1st, 2016
12:00pm 12:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Kim Wedding Photo Shoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm 6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Ochoa Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, October 2nd, 2016
Monday, October 3rd, 2016
8:00am 12:30pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course

What is Exploration Telepresence and How Can it Help Us Explore Planetary Surfaces of the Solar System?
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Graph Cohomology via Toric Geometry
Dagan Karp, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Delayed CO2 emissions from mid-ocean ridge volcanism as a possible cause of late-Pleistocene glacial cycles
Peter Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Naturalness from a Composite Top?
Yue Zhao, University of Michigan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Processes Underpinning the Production of Renewable Fuels
Jillian L. Dempsey, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk

Climbing Attempt of the North Col Northeast Ridge Route of Mount Everest
Edmond Stevens, Caltech Alpine Club,
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

"Predictably Rational: Coping with Uncertainly"
Angela Yu, UCSD,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Fractional Borel Chromatic Numbers
Connor Meehan, PhD Candidate, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Discovering Chemistry From First Principles: The Ab Initio Nanoreactor
Todd Martinez, Ehrsam and Franklin Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

The Olfactory Circuit of Drosophila larva
Aravi Samuel, Professor, Physics & Center for Brain Science, Harvard,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

The Politics of Sovereign Default under Financial Integration
Marina Azzimonti, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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Caltech Amateur Radio Club (CITARC) Meeting

FINDER: Radar for Locating Disaster Victims
James Lux, Telecommunications Specialist V, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA,
7:00pm 9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Dish & Discuss

Why Social Justice?
Hanna Song, Senior Director for Diversity, Office of the Probost, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Sharp Lieb–Thirring inequalities on the continuum and related spectral inequalities for Jacobi operators
Lukas Schimmer, Harry Bateman Research Instructor , Department of Mathematics , California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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AbbVie Symposium

Veliparib: A PARP Inhibitor for the Treatment of Cancer
Thomas D. Penning, PhD, Research Fellow/Chemistry Team Leader, Oncology Discovery, AbbVie, Inc.,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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AbbVie Symposium

Organic Photoredox Catalysis - Synthetic Applications and Beyond
David A. Nicewicz, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Preference Types and Welfare in Insurance Markets
Levon Barseghyan, Professor of Economics, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Streaming Communication: Information Theoretic Perspectives
Ashish Khisti, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Global climate impacts of fixing large long-standing shortwave radiation biases in the Community Earth System Model
Jennifer E. Kay, Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Flat and Conformal Optics with Dielectric Metasurfaces
Andrei Faraon, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Applied Physics and Materials Science Department, Caltech,
4:30pm 7:00pm
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Club Fair

San Pasqual Walk
4:30pm 5:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence for Quantum Spectral Curves
Yan Soibelman, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University,
Thursday, October 6th, 2016
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Phonon spectroscopy and thermal transport using predictive atomistic simulations"
Xiulin Ruan, Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing via Digital Quantification of Nucleic Acids
Nathan Schoepp, Graduate Student, Ismagilov Research Group, CCE, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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SPECIAL TAPIR Seminar

Evolution of Supernova Remnants near the Galactic Center
Almog Yalinewich, Researcher, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

Quantum Crystals, Quantum Computing and Quantum Cognition
Matthew P.A. Fisher, KITP/UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, October 7th, 2016
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

From Hexagons to Heptagons: Bootstrapping Seven-Point Amplitudes in Planar N=4 super-Yang Mills Theory
Andrew McLeod, Stanford University,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar

The Facilitated Diffusion Mechanism to Establish Morphogen Gradients
Greg Reeves, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar

Logrolling for Private Interest: British MPs during the Railway Mania of 1845
Gabriel Mesevage, Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Oxford; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Complete Reionization Constraints from Planck 2015 Polarization
Chen He Heinrich, KICP Graduate Student, University of Chicago,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Computational Modeling and Experimental Characterization of the Damage and Fracturing Behavior of Textile Composites for Large Aeronautical Structures
Marco Salviato, University of Washington,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

The unlikely intersection theory and the cosmetic surgery Conjecture
BoGwang Jeon, Ritt Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

L^p norms of eigenfunctions and Kakeya-Nikodym averages
Matthew Blair, Associate Professor , Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of New Mexico,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Bringing Mother Nature to Your Rooftop: The Quest for Real Artificial Photosynthesis
Mr. Daniel Torelli, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

An Odd-Parity Hidden Order in a Perovskite Iridate Revealed Using Nonlinear Optics
Liyuan Zhao, Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics, Hsieh Group,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Ioannis Angelopoulos, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles,
7:00pm 9:00pm
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8:00pm 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cosmic Explosions through the Ages: Supernovae Seen with the Naked Eye
Jacob Jencson, Graduate Student, Caltech,
Saturday, October 8th, 2016