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May 2006

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

7:00pm – 10:00pm

LGBTQ Film Series: Paragraph 175

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

9:00am – 12:30pm

CPA Career Committee Workshop: Is a Startup Right For Me?

Beckman Institute Auditorium

10:00am – 12:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Exploring Protein Sequence Space Using Computationally-Directed Recombination

Michelle Meyer, graduate student in biochemistry and molecular physics, Caltech,

10:00am – 12:00pm

Wednesdays in the Park Playgroup

Tournament Park

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Emergency Preparedness Training

Keith Spalding 118

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151

Synthesis and Applications of Bulky Rhodium(III) Intercalators for the Recognition of DNA Mismatches

Jonathan R. Hart, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

The Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies

Evan Skillman, professor of astronomy, University of Minnesota,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

The Advantages and Potential of Single-site Solid Catalysts

Sir John M. Thomas, professor of chemistry, Royal Institution of Great Britain,

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

9:00am – 10:00am

Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Plasmon-Enhanced Silicon Nanocrystal Luminescence for Optoelectronic Applications

Julie Biteen-Johnsen, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

9:00am – 5:00pm

Track & Field

away game

10:00am – 1:00pm

Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.

11:00am – 12:30pm

Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMI Faculty Meeting

Parsons-Gates 112

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Development of Organocatalytic Direct Aldol Transformations; Total Syntheses of Brasoside, Littoralisone and Diazonamide A

Ian K. Mangion, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151

Force Field Development for Protein Design

Eric Zollars, graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Bioengineering Seminar

Keck 142

Detecting Pre-Cancerous Cells with Angle-Resolved Low Coherence Interferometry

Adam Wax, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, Duke University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Quantum Computers—Dream and Realization

Rainer Blatt, director of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences,

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Intermediate Ballroom Dance Class

Winnett Center

9:00pm – 10:00pm

Hip Hop Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

Friday, May 26th, 2006

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Presenting Theses for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer

Academic

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day of Classes for Seniors and Graduate Students

Academic

9:00am – 5:00pm

Track & Field

away game

10:30am – 12:00pm

Caltech Retirement Plan: New Funds and Services

Beckman Institute Auditorium

10:30am – 11:30am

Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

The Chemistry of Tris(phosphino)borate Manganese and Iron Platforms

Connie Lu, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

ESE &#38 Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Clair Patterson's Battle Against Lead Pollution

Rebecca Adler, Caltech,

2:30pm – 4:00pm

Mathematics of Information Seminar

Moore 239

Multivariate Interpolation Decoding beyond the Guruswami-Sudan Radius

4:00pm – 5:00pm

History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Baxter B125

Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Myles W. Jackson, associate professor of the history of science, Willamette University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151

Use of Gold and Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles as Chemical Sensors

Edgardo Garcia, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Kellogg Seminar

Lauritsen Library

From HiRes to TA: The Cosmic Ray Frontier in Utah

Kai Martens, assistant professor of physics, University of Utah,

4:00pm – 5/27 4:00pm

The 2006 Shakespeare Readathon

Avery Conference Room

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Robles Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

7:30pm – 10:00pm

German Film Series

Baxter Lecture Hall

8:00pm – 10:30pm

Caltech Chess Club

Page House, Dining Room

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Third Term Play Opens: Theater Arts at Caltech

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

8:00am – 8:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Dreger/Laufer Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

9:00am – 5:00pm

Track & Field

away game

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Quinceanera Photography on Campus: Gutierrez/Cortez Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

12:00pm – 3:00pm

Quinceanera Photography on Campus: Reyes Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

12:00pm – 8:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Gibson Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

12:45pm – 1:45pm

Belly Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Vinci Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

11:00am – 1:00pm

Indian Classical Music Concert: Partha Bose, sitar and Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

1:00pm – 3:00pm

Beginner Ballroom Dance Class

Winnett Center

Monday, May 29th, 2006

8:00am – 4:00pm

Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

8:00am – 5:00pm

Memorial Day (Institute Holiday)

Academic

1:30pm – 2:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Hanna Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

10:00am – 12:00pm

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium—CANCELLED

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium

CANCELLED

Tim Heckman, professor of physics and astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Towards Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Near-Field Electron Dynamics

Roi Baer, associate professor, Institute of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Topic to be announced.

Ruth Lehmann, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor of developmental genetics, Skirball Institute Program of Developmental Genetics,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

10:00am – 12:00pm

Wednesdays in the Park Playgroup

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Generalized Characters of the Symmetric Group

Evgeny Strahov, Taussky-Todd Instructor of Mathematics, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Caltech Retirement Plan: New Funds and Services

Beckman Institute Auditorium

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Bloodborne Pathogens Training

Keith Spalding 118

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Cosmic Evolution of Spheroids: Stellar Populations, Dark Matter Halos, and Supermassive Black Holes

Tommaso Treu, assistant proferssor of physics, UCSB,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

From Targets to Strategies and from Reactions to Molecules: Cyanthiwigin, Cylindramide, and Dictyostatin

Andrew Phillips, assistant professor of physics, department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Colorado,