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Ongoing – 12/19 11:30am
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English Conversation Group

Athenaeum
Ongoing – 12/1 5:00pm
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Registration for Winter Term 2017-18

Ongoing – 12/20 12:00am
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Flu Shots Available While Supplies Last

Counseling Center
Friday, December 1st, 2017
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day of Classes for Fall Term

10:00am – 11:00am
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Space—Boldly Go

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
TBA
Ricardo Schiappa, Universidade de Lisboa,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Exploring non-equilibrium phase transitions with driven Rydberg ensembles
Michael Buchhold, Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Cole Williams, UC Irvine

Baxter 125
Echo Chambers: Disagreement and Polarization in Bayesian Learning
Cole Williams, Graduate Student, UC Irvine,
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech Science Museum's Beckman Room Open for Walk-Ins

Beckman Institute 131
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
TBA
Tin Sulejmanpasic, ENS Paris,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Building Coordinator & Floor Warden Training

Keith Spalding B117
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Digital Ventures ~ Designs Unveiled

Moore B270
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Exploring compact-binary astrophysics with multi-messenger astronomy
Katelyn Breivik, Graduate Student, Northwestern University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Origami engineering: from deployable structures to configurational metamaterials
Glaucio Paulino, Raymond Allen Jones Chair and Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar

Moore B280
Mobile Microscopy, Sensing and Diagnostics for Point-of-Care Medicine and Global Health
Aydogan Ozcan, Chancellor's Professor , Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering , UCLA,
4:00pm – 4:45pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103
TBA
Philip Isett, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
1,3-N,O-Chelated Complexes of Rhodium and Iridium: Accessing Metal-Ligand Cooperativity in E-H Bond Activations
Marcus Drover, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Congruences between base change and non base change
Jacques Tilouine, Institut Galilée, Universite Paris 13,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Using laboratory earthquake ruptures and ultra-high speed DIC to reveal the structure of dynamic friction
Ares J. Rosakis, Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Wis.-Whitewater vs. Caltech

5:00pm – 5:45pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103
TBA
Matthew Foreman, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Final Presentation: Storytelling for Scientists

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:30pm – 10:00pm
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Final Presentation: Improvisation for Scientists

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, December 2nd, 2017
7:00am – 5:00pm
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Family Photography on Campus: Jackson Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00am – 12/5 5:00pm
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Study Period, Fall Term

1:00pm – 4:30pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Mirzakhanyan Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) UC Santa Cruz vs. Caltech

5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm
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The Alley Cats: "Jingle Bell Rock"

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, December 4th, 2017
12:00am – 12:00am
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Special Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Frontiers in Biochemistry Search Symposium
4:00pm – 4:45pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Irreducible SL(2,C)-representations of integer homology 3-spheres
Raphael Zentner, Mathematics Department, University of Regensburg,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Matter in neutron-star mergers
Jocelyn Read, California State University Fullerton,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Molecular Clusters: Building Blocks for Nanoelectronics and Material Design
Xavier Roy, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Solution-processed performance optoelectronics
Ted Sargent, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Smooth structures, stable homotopy groups of spheres and motivic homotopy theory
Zhouli Xu, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
4:30am – 1:00pm
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Filming on Campus

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
10:30am – 11:30am
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English Conversation Group

Olive Walk
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 12:00pm
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CD3 Seminar

Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Large-Scale Data Science
Fabian Gieseke, Large-Scale Data Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Groundbreaking of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Neuroscience Research Building

11:00am – 12:20pm
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Incorporating and Facilitating In-Class Group Work: Demo and Workshop, CTLO Fall Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:10pm – 12:50pm
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Guided Meditation

Beckman Institute, Glanville Courtyard
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Classical branches and entanglement structure in the wavefunction of cosmological fluctuations
Elliot Nelson, Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
The Fraisse Limit of Finite Dimensional Matrix Algebras with the Rank Metric
Aaron Anderson, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Planet Formation Puzzles Near and Far
Sarah Millholland, Astronomy Department, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Canceled - Mobile Element Activity in the Brain, Behavior and Evolution
Fred (Rusty) Gage, Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Progress in catalysts and systems for OER and CO2RR
Edward (Ted) Sargent, University Professor, Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology, Vice President International, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Factorization Homology
John Francis, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Learning about The Influence of Spatial and Temporal Proximity using Regression Trees
Ines Levin, Assistant Professor, UC Irvine,
5:30pm – 6:40pm
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Fall 2017 Walking Campaign

Counseling Center
Wednesday, December 6th, 2017
8:00am – 12:00pm
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Adult CPR/AED and First Aid Recertification

8:00am – 12/8 5:00pm
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Final Examinations

11:00am – 2:30pm
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Caltech Associates Holiday Luncheon with Charles Elachi

Athenaeum
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Memorial Service for Kevin Austin

Dabney Hall, Lounge
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Invariant vectors by deeper Iwahori subgroups in non-supercuspidal representations of U(2,1)
Mladen Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, University of Lille,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Dr. Sang Wan Lee, Assistant Professor, Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST,
4:00pm – 12/27 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
No Seminar
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Imaging RNA and RNA biology with RNA mimics of green fluorescent protein
Samie R. Jaffrey, Greenberg-Starr Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Subjective Utilitarianism: Individual decisions in a social context
Shiri Alon, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University in Israel,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk

Beckman Institute Auditorium
ArtDoors: Artwork of the Outdoors
Kelvin Nguyen, Southern California Mountaineers Association,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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German Film: The Punch Bowl

Baxter Lecture Hall
Movie screening for German 130a & 132a // In German with English subtitles
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Aaron D. Ames - "Toward the Robots of Science Fiction"

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:30pm – 12/7 1:00am
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Midnight Madness

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
Thursday, December 7th, 2017
8:00am – 12:00pm
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Adult, Child Infant CPR/AED and First Aid - Day 2

11:30am – 1:30pm
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Caltech Women's Club Holiday Luncheon

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

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)