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Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Swimming & Diving) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

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

9:00am – 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Toward a Resilient 21st Century
Max Didier, Doctoral student/researcher, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Caltech Alumni Career Webinar Series

Negotiating your Net Worth: Tools, Techniques and Tactics to Getting the Salary you Deserve
Sabrina Pasztor, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Business Communication, Marshall School of Business, USC ,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dish & Discuss #11

Avery Dining Hall
A Nation of Immigrants
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Emotional Well-Being Workshop for Students: Sexual Health

Lauritsen 269
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building
1:30pm – 3:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Geometric Recursion
Jorgen Andersen, Aarhus University,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - "Introduction to 3D Modeling Using OnShape"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Getting started with "clicker" questions (with or without electronic devices) in class: how to find good questions, deploy them effectively, and introduce the method a little at a time

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety 101 Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Diversity Revealed: Stellar Rotation and the Time Domain Revolution
Marc Pinsonneault, Ohio State,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Long Range Propagation of Ocean Swell
William Young, Professor, Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Illuminating Developmental Biology with Photochemistry
James K. Chen, Professor and Chair, Chemical & Systems Biology, Stanford School of Medicine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Quantitative Biology Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
"On Toxins and Small Wings: Dissecting Phenotypic Variation at the Population and Species Level"
Alejandro Burga, Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America
Christine Filippone, Associate Professor, Millersville University ,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Resilient Distributed Inference in Multi-Agent Systems
Soummya Kar, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
6:30pm – 8:00pm
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Caltech Debate Club Meeting

IMSS 120
Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Swimming & Diving) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at SCIAC Tournament

8:00am – Ongoing
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Registration for Spring Term

11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"Coastal Risks in the Oil and Gas Industry: Vulnerability of Storage Tanks to Severe Storms"
Jamie E. Padgett, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
"Ultraparamagnetic iron mineralization for noninvasive imaging and magnetic capture of microbes"
Pradeep Ramesh, Graduate Student, Shapiro Research Group , CCE, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
Inventing the Future of Finance, Alternative Data and Aperio
David Loaiza, Point72 Aperio,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar

Annenberg 213
Disturbance Based Decentralized Frequency Control for Power Systems
Oleg Khamisov, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Theta and the big Hecke action
Sean Howe, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
A toy quantum black hole
Alexei Kitaev, Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar

Broad 100
TBD
Daniel Choquet, Director of CNRS Interdisciplinary Institute of Neuroscience , Professor of Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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The Interstellar Age

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at SCIAC Tournament

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Swimming & Diving) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

8:00am – 4:00pm
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2018 Student-Faculty Colloquium (SFC)

Beckman Auditorium
9:00am – 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Flexible water supply infrastructure planning under uncertainty: Learning and adapting for resilience
Sarah Fletcher, PhD Candidate, MIT,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Correlation Functions in CFTs with Weakly Broken Higher Spin Symmetry
Sasha Zhiboedov, Harvard University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Machine Learning and Quantum Physics
Evert van Nieuwenburg, Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Topological terms in Yang-Mills theory with time-reversal symmetry
Pavel Putrov, Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Three Dimensional Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulations Reveal the Mysteries of Massive Stars
Yan-Fei Jiang, KITP Fellow, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara,
2:30pm – 5:30pm
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(Baseball) La Verne vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Long Duration Autonomy With Applications to Persistent Environmental Monitoring
Magnus Egerstedt, Professor and Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems and Controls, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
A Characterization of Braid Axes
Ken Baker, Department of Mathematics, University of Miami ,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Levitated Nanomagnets in the Quantum Regime: Theory and Applications
Oriol Romero Isart, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information , Austrian Academy of Sciences,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Casey Jao, Department of Mathematics, UC, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Emotional Intelligence Toolkit: Workshop on Coping Without Avoidance (part 2 of 2)

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

The Helicoidal Method
Camil Muscalu, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Galaxies Aren't Great at Making Stars
Matt Orr, PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR), Caltech,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Theater presents "She Kills Monsters"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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German Film: Die Letzte Brücke

Baxter Lecture Hall
Movie screening for German 130b & 132b // In German with English subtitles
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Old Blind Dogs

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, February 24th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Fencing) Caltech at IFCSC Championships

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at SCIAC Tournament

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at CMS Relays

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Swimming & Diving) Caltech at SCIAC Championships

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at SCIAC Tournament

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

12:30pm – 2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kim and Lee Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at La Verne

2:00pm – 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tovar & Jones Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Theater presents "She Kills Monsters"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, February 25th, 2018
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech Theater presents "She Kills Monsters"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, February 26th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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Three Minute Thesis Competition Submission Deadline

11:40am – 1:00pm
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Learning Lunch: Design Thinking for Entrepreneurial Scientists and Engineers @ Caltech

East Bridge 114
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CPET Annual Seminar by 2017 Feynman Prize Winner Brian Stoltz

Beckman Institute Auditorium
12:10pm – 12:50pm
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Chair Yoga

Annenberg 107
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
The James Webb Space Telescope; Its Mission, Design and Development
Jonathan Arenberg, Chief Engineer for Space Science Missions at Northrop Grumman, Space Science Mission, Northrop Grumman,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Semisimplificat​ion of tensor categories
Pavel Etingof, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Single-molecule catalysis: nanoparticles and polymers
Peng Chen, Peter J. W. Debye Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Cyclostratigraphy, fault unsteadiness, and earthquakes in the Italian Apennines
Frank J. Pazzaglia, Professor of Geology, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
A Unified Program of Argon Dark Matter Searches: DarkSide-20k and Beyond
Cristiano Galbiati, Princeton University,