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Tuesday, March 13th, 2018
10:00am – 11:50pm
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Filming on Campus

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
11:00am – 12:00pm
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CPET Seminar by Robert Hanna (JPL)

Crellin 151
11:30am – 1:30pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Carey Zhang, Graduate Student, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
Sofia Sakellaridi, Postdoctoral Scholar , Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
Michelle Armenta, Postdoctoral Scholar , Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105
User Centered Design and AI
Maggie Hendrie, Department Chair of Art Center College of Design’s Interaction Design Program, ArtCenter College of Design,
1:00pm – 1:30pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium Series

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Stereoselective Functionalization of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons
Uttam K. Tambar, Associate Professor in Biochemistry, Biochemistry Department, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
1:30pm – 2:00pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium Series

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Multi-Disciplinary Efforts for Understanding Complexity in C–H Functionalization
Djamaladdin (Jamal) G. Musaev, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University,
2:00pm – 2:30pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium Series

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Rhodium-Catalyzed Alkylation of C–H Bonds with Alkenes: The Possible Generation of Carbene Intermediates
Naoto Chatani, Full Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Osaka University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Measuring the Muon Beam Distribution for the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab
Tammy Walton, Fermilab,
2:30pm – 3:00pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium Series

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New Bond Connections by C–H Functionalization
Jonathan Ellman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Yale University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
On the edge: Geometry, model selection, and quantum compressed sensing
Travis Scholten, Center for Quantum Information and Control - University of New Mexico & Center for Computing Research - Sandia National Laboratories,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Probing and Imaging Elementary Molecular Events and Conical Intersections by X -Ray Pulses and Quantum Light
Shaul Mukamel, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KROC Lecture

Kerckhoff 119
"Motile Behavior of Bacteria, Some Hard to Believe"
Howard Berg, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Stein's paradox and group rationality
Jan-Willem Romeijn, Professor of Philosophy of Science and Head of the Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Groningen - Netherlands,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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3MT: Three Minute Thesis Competition

Gates-Thomas 135
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

7:30pm – 10:00pm
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Banff Mountain Film Festival

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
7:30pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Playreaders 67th Season: "Silent Sky" by Lauren Gunderson

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
8:00am – 8:00pm
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Filming on Campus

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
8:00am – 3/16 5:00pm
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Final Examinations for Winter Term

8:00am – 12:00pm
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First Aid Training/CPR/AED - Recertification

Beckman Institute 121
9:00am – 10:00am
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Informal Biology Seminar

Broad 100
"L-Form Bacteria – From the Origins of Life to Recurrent Infection"
Jeff Errington, Professor , Cell & Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University,
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 205
Planar Graph Perfect Matching is in NC
Nima Amari, Stanford University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Hybridized metasurfaces: A new twist in flat optics
Cheng-Wei Qiu, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Surprisingly Complex Lives of Massive Galaxies
Rachel Shuchter Bezanson , Univ of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
No Seminar
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Chemoenzymatic Labeling of Cell-surface Glycans: Methods and Applications
Peng Wu, Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
'Famous Farriers I have known:' Farriery Manuals and Vernacular Expertise in Renaissance Italy
Karl Appuhn, Associate Professor of History and Italian, New York University,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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NeuroTechers Cookies & Tea

Beckman Behavioral Biology B101
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Andrew W. Howard - "Searching for Earth-like Planets"

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:30pm – 3/15 1:00am
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Midnight Madness

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
8:00am – 12:00pm
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First Aid Training/CPR/AED - Child/Infant/Adult - Day 2 of 2

Beckman Institute 121
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Structures as Sensors: Indirect Monitoring of Humans and Surrounding Through Structural Vibrations
Hae Young Noh, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm – 3:00pm
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(Baseball) Ithaca vs. Caltech

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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Caltech Women's History Month and Reading Women STEMinar Guest Speaker Sue Finley

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Quasars with periodic variability as sub-parsec Supermassive Black Hole Binary candidates
Charisi Maria, Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy, TAPIR, Caltech,
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at La Verne

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125
The Anatomy of Beliefs: Insights from Social Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry
Xiaosi Gu, Assistant Professor, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Biolubrication and Gene Regulation: A Physicists Approach to Osteoarthritis
Jacob Klein, Professor, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science,
Friday, March 16th, 2018
8:00am – 5:00pm
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End of Winter Term

10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Baseball) Vassar vs. Caltech

10:00am – 11:00am
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Life: Birds

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Old stringy tales revisited
Xi Yin, Harvard University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Isotopically Enhanced Triple-Dot Qubits in SiGe
Thaddeus Ladd, senior research scientist, HRL Laboratories, LLC,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
On relative entropy in CFT
Feng Xu, UC Riverside,
1:30pm – 4:30pm
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(Baseball) Endicott vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Shining Light into the Cosmic Dark Ages
Anastasia Fialkov, ITC Fellow, Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Shake genus and slice genus
Lisa Piccirillo, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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BMB Winter Rotation Seminar

Crellin 151
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Rotation Seminar
Saturday, March 17th, 2018
8:00am – Ongoing
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Spring Recess

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Earth - Power of the Planet: Ice

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at Grove City

Sunday, March 18th, 2018
10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Vassar vs. Caltech

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Texas-Tyler

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Caltech vs. Penn St.-Behrend

5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at Wash. & Jeff.

Monday, March 19th, 2018
8:40am – 12:30pm
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Short Course: The Whys and Hows of Future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Exploration

Avery Library
12:10pm – 12:50pm
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Chair Yoga

Annenberg 107
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 135
Laboratory Investigation of Shear Ruptures: Supersonic Propagation and Nucleation by Fluid Injection
Marcello Gori, Graduate Student, Aerospace , Caltech,
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Baseball) Williams vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Austin

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

Lauritsen 469
Searches for New Physics at the Edge of Absolute Zero
Jonathan Oullet, MIT,
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105
CANCELLED Human-Centric Machine Learning: Enabling Machine Learning for High-Stakes Decision-Making
Himabindu Lakkaraju, PhD Student, EECS, Stanford University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Annenberg 105
Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy: From Bulk Films to Atomically Thin Layers
Zak Al Balushi, Resnick Prize Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Physics and Materials Science, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
An almost-linear time decoding algorithm
Naomi Nickerson, PsiQuantum,