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Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
12:00am – 11/1 12:00am
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Call for Concepts for 2020 Study Programs

9:00am – 5:00pm
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Beginning of Instruction for Fall term

12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Curve Counting Reading Seminar

Linde Hall 183
Overview
Peter Smillie, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Meditation Mob

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Persuasive Images in Early Modern Scientific Books
Sachiko Kusukawa, Professor of History of Science, University of Cambridge,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Automatic Tensor Network Contraction
Johnnie Gray, Postdoctoral Scholar, Imperial College London,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu

Annenberg 314
Approximate counting, phase transitions & geometry of polynomials
Jingcheng Liu, Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
7:30pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Playreaders 69th Season: "Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie" by Alan Alda

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates
  • Public Event
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
11:00am – 1:15pm
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CWC Activities Fair & Fall Gathering

Athenaeum, Main Lounge
12:00pm – 6:00pm
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Human Resources
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry - Boehringer Ingelheim Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Reeves: New Reactions from the Process Development of a BACE-1 Inhibitor. ● Ackermann: Sustainable C–H Activation From Late-Step Peptide Diversification
Dr. Jon Reeves, Distingushed Research Fellow, Chemistry, Boehringer Ingelheim,
Lutz Ackermann, Professor, Dr., Catalysis and Organic Synthesis, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
From Protostars to Adolescence: A Tour of Young Stellar Systems
Gregory Herczeg, KIAA / Peking University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
From the equator to the pole in a unified turbulence and convection parameterization
Yair Cohen, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Getting Settled in Your New Home: The Costs of Moving on Voter Turnout
Seo-young Silvia Kim, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Autonomous Decision Making under Uncertainty in Engineering Systems: Finding Optimal Dynamic Paths in Immense Spaces
Kostas Papakonstantinou, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Teaching Statement Workshop - Fall 2019

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
12:05pm – 1:00pm
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Career Fair Planning for Graduate Students and Postdocs

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Condensed Mathematics Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Overview
Justin Campbell, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
"Modern halite deposition dynamics in the Dead Sea: Lessons for the deposition of thick halite sequences" & "Fluvial incision and coarse gravel redistribution across the modern Dead Sea shelf as a result of base-level fall"
Ido Sirota, Graduate Student, Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Haggai Eyal, Graduate Student, Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Fractonicity from elasticity
Leo Radzihovsky, University of Colorado, Boulder,
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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The Impact of World War I on the Sciences

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
  • Public Event
Friday, October 4th, 2019
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
TBD
Avia Raviv, Tel Aviv University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Tackle The Term - start the term off on the right foot!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Tech Talks Toastmaster Club: Practice Speaking Confidently About Your Research, Improve Your Communication Skills

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Mixed anomalies, semi-classics and quantum distillation in QCD
Mithat Unsal, North Carolina State University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Extracting information from small scales in weak lensing
José Zorrilla, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Quantifying Inflow and Turbulence Model Uncertainties in Urban Flow Simulations
Catherine Gorle, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Harmonic maps for Hitchin representations
Qiongling Li, Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Fontaine-Mazur conjecture in the residually reducible case
Lue Pan, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:30pm – 5:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Fractal properties of the Hofstadter's butterfly and singular continuous spectrum of the critical almost Mathieu operator
Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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Student Clubs & Involvement Fair

Beckman Mall
  • Public Event
5:30pm – 6:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Hodge-theoretic analysis on manifolds with boundary, heatable currents, and Onsager's conjecture in fluid dynamics
Khang Huynh, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
7:00pm – 11:00pm
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Techfest

Beckman Mall
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Why is the Sky Dark at Night?
Alessandro Schillaci, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, October 5th, 2019
12:00pm – 3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Abdisho/Oganesian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Charkhroobian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm – 6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Evelia Quinceanera Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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Violin Recital: Tony Kukavica

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Binney Photography Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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Caltech Associates Program: President's Circle Garden Party

President's Residence
Sunday, October 6th, 2019
8:00am – 10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hy Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm – 3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Barsegnyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nazari Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 7th, 2019
All Day
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Facilities Operations launches a Guide to Services

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Diveristy & Inclusion Ambassador Info Session

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
Building a Fast Thread-Safe Malloc
Ian Kuehne, Green Hills Software,
12:15pm – 12:45pm
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Chair Yoga

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
A compactified moduli space of pointed vertical lines in C^2
Nate Bottman, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Combining astrophysics and geology to study the formation of Earth
Seth A. Jacobson, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Searching for Long Lived Particles at the LHC with Codex-b
Michele Papucci, LBNL & Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Geometric Deformation in the Design of Organophosphorus Catalysts
Alexander Radosevich, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech Diveristy & Inclusion Ambassador Info Session

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Walter Gonzalez, Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
Luis Sanchez, Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Curve Counting Reading Seminar

Linde Hall 183
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
How deep learning is transforming earthquake seismology
Zach Ross, Assistant Professor, Geophysics, Caltech,
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Meditation Mob

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Safe Zone Training – For Students (Day 1)

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program

East Bridge 114
Immortality Projects: Science and Art of Being Ephemeral
Natalie Andrew, Professional Biologist and Visual Artist,
Brian Knep, Media Artist,
12:05pm – 1:00pm
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Working the Career Fair to Land a Summer Internship

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Exploring Fast Chemistries "On-Water": Emulsions, Electrosprays, and the Air- Water Interface
Himanshu Mishra, Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu

Annenberg 314
Uniform Sampling Through the Lovász Local Lemma
Jingcheng Liu, Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Chasing Extinct Elements and Mysterious Carriers: Isotope Constraints on Solar System Formation
Francois Tissot, Assistant Professor of Geochemistry, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,