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Friday, April 1st, 2016
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

A stereoscopic look into the bulk
Lampros Lamprou, Stanford University,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Physics and Materials Science

Nanophotonics for Tailoring the Flow of Thermal Radiation
Ognjen Ilic, Postdoctoral Researcher, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Dark Matter in the Cosmic Context
Katherine Mack, DECRA Fellow, Astro Group, School of Physics, University of Melbourne,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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• High Enthalpy Hypervelocity Experiments: Bridging the Scales

Susan and James Wu Lecture in Aerospace
Joanna Austin, Professor of Aerospace, GALCIT, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

New Catalysis for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Sonja Francis, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Revealing the Dirac fluid in graphene
Andy Lucas, Graduate Student, Subir Sachdev's group, Harvard University,
Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
2:00pm 4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Shandaryan Wedding Photoshoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
Monday, April 4th, 2016
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Gaypril Event

ISP Discussion Group: LGBTQ Identity and the International Community
1:00pm 2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Kinematics and Local Motion Planning for Quasi-static Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation
Krishna Shankar, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CANCELLED - Bioengineering Lecture

"Molecular Structure and Organism Fitness from Genomic Sequences"
Debora Marks, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Information-Theoretic Lower Bounds for Distributed Function Computation
Assistant Professor Maxim Raginsky, ECE Department and Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

A Theory for Atmospheric Oxygen
Daniel P. Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor School of Engineering and Applied Sciences:, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Z2 solutions to the Strong CP problem
Anson Hook, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Molecular Interactions and Reactions in Metal Organic Framework Materials
Yves Chabal, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas, Dallas,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Talk with a Techer

Gil Elbaz, Founder and CEO, Factual,
Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Multi-Use Applications for Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations
Seyed Madaeni, Principal, Energy Storage, Grid Engineering Solutions, SolarCity,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar

Geometry, Analysis and Topology of Feynman Amplitudes
Emad Nasrollahpoursammi, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

New regulatory mechanisms in genome duplication
Xiaolan Zhao, Ph.D., Molecular Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres
Hannes Bernien, Harvard University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Percolation and invariant random subgroups
Yair Hartman, Mathematics, Northwestern University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Charles Badenes, Univ. of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research

Process Chemistry Development of Ledipasvir − NS5A Inhibitor in Harvoni® for Hepatitis C Treatment
Robert W. Scott, Dr., Ph.D., Senior Director, Process Development, Gilead Sciences, Inc.,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 2 of 2)
Hu Fu, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Decoding the Human Genome: 2016-2020
John Stamatoyannopoulos, Professor, Genome Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington, School of Medicine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Flavor Physics and CP Violation as Probes for New Physics Effects at the High-Luminosity B Factory Experiment Belle 2
Markus Rohrken, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar

Bistatic Radar Observations of the Moon using Mini-RF on LRO and the Arecibo Observatory
Wes Patterson, Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar

Climate, Geography, and the Evolution of Economic and Political Institutions
Stephen Haber, A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor of Political Science, Stanford University,
4:40pm 6:00pm
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CMA presents "Planet Nine from Outer Space"

JPL
Konstantin Batygin, Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Energy of Heavy Atoms: The Leading Correction
Heinz siedentop, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, LMU Munich,
3:30pm 4:30pm
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Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar

Feynman Integrals, Associated Arrangements and Their Motives
Ozgur Ceyhan, Mathematics, University of Luxembourg,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

"Next Generation Cosmological Constraints on the Dark Sector and Gravity."
Rachel Bean, Cornell,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

New Sources of Methane in the Biogeosphere and Beyond
Frank Keppler, Professor, Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Hongjun Yan, Rutgers Business School

Financial Intermediation Chains in an OTC Market
Hongjun Yan, Associate Professor of Finance, Rutgers Business School,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar

Metabolic Oscillations and Electrical Signaling in a Bacterial Biofilm
Gurol Suel, Associate Professor , Molecular Biology, Univeristy of San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Is Diamond the Best Conductor of Heat?
David Briodo, Professor, Department of Physics, Boston College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar - CANCELLED

Development of New Transformations for Organic Synthesis and Material Science
Javier Read de Alaniz, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Recent Theoretical and Experimental Progress on Near-Field Thermal Radiation"
Zhuomin Zhang, Professor, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Survivor Support: How to Help Someone You Care About
Jenny Mahlum, Health Educator , Counseling Center , California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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3:00pm 4:00pm
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Coffee and Conversation

Multicultural Caltech: International Student Experiences
3:30pm 4:30pm
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CD3 Seminar

Off Campus
Data Science: Machine Learning, Statistics, and Beyond
Padhraic Smyth, Director, UCI Data Science Initiative, Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Cellular control in a couple of clicks
Kristi Anseth, Distinguished Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Hodge classes on products of quaternionic Shimura varieties
Kartik Prasanna, Professor, Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

The Biard Lecture: Basic Components of Solid-State Quantum Computing Hardware
Charles M. Marcus, Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor, Center for Quantum Devices, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
Friday, April 8th, 2016
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

The Many Dimensions of the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Tom Rudelius, Harvard University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar

Quantum Computation
Jacob Alex Stark, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Using Quasars and the CMB to Probe Quantum Entanglement
Jason Gallicchio, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Harvey Mudd College,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Adaptive Communication Networks and Cybersecurity for Heterogeneous Teams of Robots
Stephanie Gil, Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Knot Floer Homology and Khovanov-Rozansky Homology of Singular Links
Nathan Dowlin Filip, Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Efforts Toward an Accurate Structural and Functional Model of the Oxygen Evolving Complex in Photosystem II
Heui Beom Lee, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
Saturday, April 9th, 2016
Sunday, April 10th, 2016
Monday, April 11th, 2016
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar (Special Date)

Control of agile robots in complex environments with formal safety guarantees
Anirudha Majumdar, PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:00am 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Development of Chemoenzymatic Labeling Approaches for the Detection of Fucosylated Biomarkers
Jean-Luc Chaubard, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Complex varieties with infinite Chow groups modulo 2
Burt Totaro, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Cancelled CNS Seminar

Aude Oliva, Massachusetts Institute of Techology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Can Embedded Boundary Methods Compute High Reynolds Number Flow?
Professor Marsha Berger, Computer Science Department, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar

History Dependence in Networks of Close Relationships: Theory and Applications
James Rauch, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Hierarchical analysis of extinction resistance in marine animal genera
Michael J. Foote, Professor, Geophysical Sciences, Committee on Evolutionary Biology and College, Department of the Geophysical Sciences , University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

New ideas for dark matter detection
Kathryn Zurek, LBNL,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

TBA
T. Brent Gunnoe, Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, University of Virginia,
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Graduate Student Seminar

TBA
William Chan, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Creating programmable disorder in self-assembled DNA nanostructures
Lulu Qian, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering , Caltech,