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Tuesday, December 10th, 2019
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Curve Counting Reading Seminar

Linde Hall 183
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Meditation Mob

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Geometry and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Rigorous results about Relative entropy in QFT
Feng Xu, Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Questions about phase spaces of minimal Boolean flows
Dana Bartosova, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida,
3:00pm – 4:45pm
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BMB Fall Rotation Seminar

Crellin 151
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Inflation as a Cosmological Collider
Yi Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela
Brian Knight, Professor of Economics, Brown University,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
The Quantum Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism
Tamir Hemo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
8:00am – 12/13 5:00pm
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Final Examinations

10:00am – 11:30am
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Shop Safety Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop
11:00am – 2:00pm
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Caltech Associates Event: On a Mission, Exploring Mars

Athenaeum
11:30am – 1:30pm
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pre-Hanukkah Pop-Up

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
  • Public Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - You and Your Thesis

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Jaeyun Moon, Mechanical Engineering, PhD. Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 135
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

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

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Science with the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph: The Local Group
Rosemary Wyse, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from Medicare Bundled Payments
Liran Einav, Professor of Economics, Stanford University,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Watson Lecture - How to Deceive Society: An Insect Masterclass

Beckman Auditorium
Joseph Parker, Assistant Professor Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Thursday, December 12th, 2019
8:30am – 11:00am
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International Scholar Orientation

Moore 239
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Training

Keith Spalding B117
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Decision weights based on visual salience
Devdeepta Bose, Postdoctoral Scholar in Psychology and Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radioactive Material Handling Training

Keith Spalding B117
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Condensed Mathematics Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Coherent Duality
Justin Campbell, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Presentation Skills Workshop

Annenberg 107
Figure Design for Presentations
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Proteins in Motion: Going beyond Bragg Diffraction
Nozomi Ando, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Baxter B125
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions
Jessica A. Wachter, Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management, Professor of Finance, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania,
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Isolation of L^2 spectrum
Yifeng Liu, Department of Mathematics, Yale University,
Friday, December 13th, 2019
8:00am – 5:00pm
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End of Fall Term

9:00am – 10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100
Facilitating miniaturized bioanalytical assays in microfluidic devices
Dmitriy Zhukov, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Tailoring interactions between a diamond color center and phonons
Srujan Meesala, Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Physics and Materials Science, Painter Group,
2:00pm – 6:00pm
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LA Area Theory Workshop

Baxter B125
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Evidence that 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua) was composed of molecular hydrogen ice
Darryl Seligman, Graduate Student and Gruber Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Yale University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Conformal Welding of Dendrites
Peter Lin, Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Saturday, December 14th, 2019
8:00am – Ongoing
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Winter Recess

5:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Associates Orange County Event: The Nutcracker at the Segerstrom

Off Campus
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Kiran Ahluwalia

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, December 16th, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Surprises of Simplicity: Hurricanes, El Niño, and Atmospheric Rivers in a Climate Model Hierarchy
Amy Clement, Professor, Department of Atmospheric Science, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
The Boundaries of KKLT
Lisa Randall, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar

Annenberg 213
A New Non-convex Optimization Framework For Low-rank Matrix Recovery with Mathematical Guarantee
Zhenzhen Li, Postdoctoral Student, Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Meditation Mob

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
"The Ins and Outs of Hippocampal Replay"
David Foster, Associate Professor, Psychology, UC Berkeley,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, December 18th, 2019
9:00am – 9:00am
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Due Date for Instructors' Final Grade Reports for Fall Term

Thursday, December 19th, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
RNA Methylation in Gene Expression Regulation
Chuan He, John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago,
Friday, December 20th, 2019
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Molly's Revenge: Winterdance Celtic Christmas Celebration

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, December 21st, 2019
1:30pm – 3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Aroustamian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
9:00am – 12:00pm
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Credit Union Special Holiday Hours

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Wednesday, December 25th, 2019
12:00am – 12:00am
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
8:00am – Ongoing
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Institute Holidays

Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
9:00am – 12:00pm
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Credit Union Special Holiday Hours

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information