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Friday, December 7th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 125
A Theory of Recursive Aggregation with Applications
Hamed Hamze Bajgiran, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Small-Scale implications of alternative dark matter models
Victor Robles, Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept of Astrophysics, UC Irvine,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
A Bound on the Cohomology of Quasiregularly Elliptic Manifolds
Eden Prywes, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Biological propulsion in (and of?) the ocean
John Dabiri, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Using flat geometry to understand the dynamics of every point - Hausdorff dimension, divergence, and Teichmuller geodesic flow!
Paul Apisa, Department of Mathematics, Yale University,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Let's Talk

North Mudd B114F
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Cooperative Bond Activation by a Pentanuclear Nickel Hydride Cluster
Manar Shoshani, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Board Holiday Dinner

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Baxter Lecture Hall
The Anatomy of Artificial Intelligence
Kate Crawford, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the AI Now Institute at NYU, Distinguished Research Professor at New York University, and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Final Presentation: Storytelling for Scientists

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:30pm – 10:00pm
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Final Presentation: Improvisation for Scientists

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, December 8th, 2018
8:00am – 12/11 5:00pm
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Study Period, Fall Term

1:30pm – 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tumanyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm – 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kamali Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Life: Insects

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at California Baptist

Monday, December 10th, 2018
11:30am – 2:00pm
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Caltech Connect Training

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
12:20pm – 12:50pm
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Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151
Dynamic regulations of co-translational protein targeting by the Signal Recognition Particle Receptor in E. coli and human
Yu-Hsien Hwang Fu, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter and the New Physics Scale
Pavel Fileviez Perez, Case Western Reserve University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
A 15 Year Love Affair with Metal Anodes and Sulfur Cathodes
John Muldoon, Senior Principal Scientist, Chemistry, Toyota USA,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Book Lovers' Soiree

Athenaeum
Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
8:00am – 12:00pm
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First Aid Training/CPR/AED - Child/Infant/Adult - Day 1 of 2

Beckman Institute 121
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Jessica Sampson, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Stephen Grant, Graduate Student, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
Laura Luebbert, Visiting Graduate Student, Caltech,
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Meditation Mob

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SFCC Holiday Presentation

Avery Library
12:10pm – 12:50pm
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Indoor Meditation

Gates-Thomas 115
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100
Un Seng Chio, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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BMB Fall Rotation Seminar

Crellin 151
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Coffee & Career: Steven Bowers

Red Door Cafe
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
"Planar Cell Polarity in Development and Disease"
John Wallingford, Professor, Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Let's Walk

Counseling Center
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Inference under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization
Azeem Shaikh, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Tandem Adventure Along the Pacific Coast: From Vancouver to the Tip of Baja
Vito Rubino, Research Scientist, Aerospace, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby
Wednesday, December 12th, 2018
8:00am – 12/14 5:00pm
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Final Examinations

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

Beckman Institute 121
10:00am – 11:30am
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Shop Safety Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 322
Almost Polynomial Hardness of Node-Disjoint Paths in Grids
Julia Chuzhoy, TTIC,
11:30am – 1:30pm
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Caltech Connect Training

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
11:30am – 1:30pm
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CWC Holiday Luncheon

Athenaeum
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Boehringer-Ingelheim Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Efficient Asymmetric Synthesis of P-Stereogenic Chiral Phosphine Ligands and Complex Drug Substances on Large Scale
Dr. Steve (Zhengxu) Han, Senior Research Fellow, Boehringer-Ingelsheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Let's Talk

Annenberg 243
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Mergers and Disruptions in Extreme Gravitational Potentials
Smadar Naoz, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Boehringer-Ingelheim Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Recent Efforts in the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products: The Evolution of Strategies for the Syntheses of Aspergilline A and Herquline B
John Wood, Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Baylor University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
When Are Robust Contracts Linear?
Gabriel Carroll, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University,
11:30pm – 12/13 1:00am
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Midnight Madness

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
Thursday, December 13th, 2018
8:00am – 12:00pm
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First Aid Training/CPR/AED - Child/Infant/Adult - Day 2 of 2

Beckman Institute 121
8:30am – 11:00am
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International Scholar Orientation

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

Keith Spalding B117
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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Finance Seminar

Baxter B125
Exploration or Exploitation? Hedge Funds in Venture Capital
Laura Lindsey, Associate Professor of Finance, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Married and Partnered Women's Group

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radioactive Material Handling - CANCELLED

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 273
Footprints of the Large Magellanic Cloud and Sagittarius dwarf on the Galaxy
Chervin Laporte, CITA National Fellow, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Victoria,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Who's In and Who's Out: Controlling Phase Separation of Lipids and Proteins in the Cell Nucleus
Alwin Koehler, Professor of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Medical University of Vienna,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Hydrogel-based Electronics: Ultracompliant electrodes for neural interfaces and beyond
Christopher Bettinger, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
Friday, December 14th, 2018
8:00am – 5:00pm
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End of Fall Term

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Alkaline earth atoms in optical tweezers
Alexandre Cooper-Roy, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Endres Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Managing Stress Discussion

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213
Spatio-Temporal Pricing for Ridesharing Platforms.
Hongyao Ma, Graduate Student, EconCS, Harvard University,
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Keith Spalding B117
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Probabilistic Protein Engineering
Kevin Yang, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from Gravitational-Wave Detections
Maya Fishbach, Graduate Student, Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Let's Talk

North Mudd B114F