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Friday, February 15th, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Dynamics of continued fractions and Mazur-Rubin conjecture
Hae-Sang Sun, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UNIST,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Deep learning for single-cell biology
David Van Valen, Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The quest for the structure of the machine that reads our genes.
Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, and Group Leader, Structural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK,
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Venki Ramakrishnan: "The Quest for the Structure of the Machine That Reads Our Genes."

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
  • Public Event
Friday, February 15th, 2019
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
N=4 Super Yang-Mills correlators at strong coupling from string theory and localization
Silviu Pufu, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SURF Proposal Follow Up Session A

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop: R Markdown, Deep Dive

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
W algebra and four dimensional N=2 Argyres-Douglas theory
Dan Xie, Harvard CMSA,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Revival of the Fittest: Exploding Core-Collapse Supernovae
David Vartanyan, Graduate Student, Dept of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
2:30pm – 5:30pm
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(Baseball) Providence Christian vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Transfinite ζ-metrics
Zair Ibragimov, Department of Mathematics, CalState, Fullerton,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Linear-central filtrations and representations of the braid group
Nick Salter, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Let's Talk

Jorgensen 126
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Coping with Procrastination and Work Avoidance

Avery Library
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
A Mechanistic Investigation of Nickel/Cyano-Box-Catalyzed Enantioselective Suzuki Alkynylation
Wanji (Wendy) Zhang, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Art Gallery and Art of Science Opening Gala

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Universe at Cosmic Noon
Rachel Theios, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Saturday, February 16th, 2019
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer All-Comers

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

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Baseball) Providence Christian vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

12:00pm – 10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Coronel Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Baseball) Providence Christian vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) UC Santa Cruz vs. Caltech

5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Redlands vs. Caltech

7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Men's Basketball) Redlands vs. Caltech

Sunday, February 17th, 2019
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Swimming & Diving) Caltech at SCIAC Diving Championships

Monday, February 18th, 2019
12:00am – 12:00am
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
8:00am – 5:00pm
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President's Day (Institute Holiday)

10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Brandeis vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Brandeis vs. Caltech

Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
9:00am – 9:00am
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Due Date for Midterm Deficiency Notices

10:00am – 11:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Controlling Electrochemistry Using Electrolyte Design
Chibueze Amanchukwu, TomKat Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Sustainable Energy, Stanford University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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A Chronicle of Black Students at Caltech

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Grounding Reinforcement Learning with Real-world Dialog Applications
Zhou Yu, Assistant Porfessor, Computer Science, UC Davis,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Proposal Follow Up Session B

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CNS Seminar

Broad 100
Josh Tenenbaum, Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT,
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Training Session for Event Planners

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Training: Master Calendar Event Entry

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Using Site-Specific Carbon Isotope Ratios to Constrain the Formation Pathways of Alanine on Murchison Meteorite
Elle Chimiak, Graduate Student, Geochemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
"Metabolic Control of Development"
Utpal Banerjee, Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
CANCELLED
Benson Farb, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Genomes and AI: From Packing to Regulation
Caroline Uhler, Associate Profssor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Institute for Data, Systems and Society, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Making the Impossible Possible (General Lecture)
Molly Shoichet, University Professor and Canada Research Chair, Tissue Engineering Senior Advisor to President on Science & Engineering Engagement , Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Credit Union Annual Meeting

Beckman Institute Auditorium
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby
Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
9:00am – 10:00am
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Training Session for Event Planners

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 322
A Simple Sublinear-Time Algorithm for Counting Arbitrary Subgraphs via Edge Sampling
Sepehr Assadi, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech SmallSats Student Operations: Initial Meeting

Moore B280
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Emotional Well-Being Workshop Series - Getting Unstuck from Emotional Ruts and Old Familiar Patterns

Avery Library
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building
12:00pm – 12:30pm
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Self Defense Class

Braun Gym
12:30pm – 1:00pm
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Self Defense Class

Braun Gym
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop: Overview of Library Resources

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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ACM Special Seminar

Annenberg 213
Multiscale Model Reduction for Heterogeneous Problems
Guanglian Li, Newton International Fellow. Imperial College London, UK, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
What Happens When a Massive Star Fails (Sort of) to Explode?
Eliot Quataert, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Decoupling Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Intro to Decoupling
Maksym Radziwill, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Information theory of multiple-access channels with many users
Yury Polyanskiy, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
The Great Atmospheric Washing Machine: Concomitant Variability in High-latitude Aerosols, Water Isotopes and the Hydrologic Cycle
Brad Markel, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 255
The theory of D-modules
Daxin Xu, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Humanities Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
The Legible Image: Translating Pictorial Knowledge in Early Colonial Mexico
Daniela Bleichmar, Professor of Art History and History and Associate Provost for Faculty and Student Initiatives in the Arts and Humanities, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials from Nanoscale to Bulk: Assembly, Properties, and Applications in Optoelectronics and Renewable Energy
Osman Bakr, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, KAUST (Saudi Arabia),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Chirality, Alzheimer's Disease and Amyloid Beta
Jevgenij Raskatov, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Training Session for Campus Announcers

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Tools of the Trade: Influencing the Cellular Microenvironment In Vitro and In Vivo (Technical Lecture)
Molly Shoichet, University Professor and Canada Research Chair, Tissue Engineering Senior Advisor to President on Science & Engineering Engagement , Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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PUFFER: NASA's Pop-Up Origami Rover- Jean-Pierre de la Croix and Jaakko Karras, JPL

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)