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Fall 2011-2012

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

1:30am – 3:00pm

Caltech Poetry Arts and Literary Club Midweek Meeting

Red Door Cafe

10:00am – 12:00pm

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special Astronomy Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Gravitational Lensing : an Astrophysical Tool

Georges Meylan, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Imaging voltage: from E. coli to neurons

Adam E. Cohen, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics, Department of Physics, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAs

Howard Chang, professor of epithelial and cancer biology, Stanford University School of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

First Results from the Double Chooz

Arthur Franke, Columbia University,

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

10:00am – 12:00pm

Wednesdays in the park

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Dynamics of the Support of the Equilibrium Measure in a Quartic Field

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar

Moore B280

Price competition in spectrum trade in cognitive radio networks

Saswati Sarkar, Associate Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering Dept., University of Pennsylvania,

6:00pm – 7:00pm

SALSA DANCE CLASS (BEGINNER)

Winnett Lounge

7:00pm – 8:00pm

SALSA DANCE CLASS (ADVANCED BEGINNER)

Winnett Lounge

8:00pm – 9:00pm

SALSA DANCE CLASS (INTERMEDIATE)

Winnett Lounge

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

8:00am – 11/25 5:00pm

Thanksgiving (Institute Holiday)

Academic

9:00am – 4:00pm

Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

9:00am – 11/25 4:00pm

Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

Friday, November 25th, 2011

8:30am – 4:00pm

Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

12:00pm – 4:00pm

Christening Photography on Campus: Grigoryan Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

12:00pm – 4:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Zough Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Tutunjian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:30pm – 6:00pm

Caltech Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe

10:00pm – 11/26 3:00am

All-Night Milonga hosted by Caltech Tango Club

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

1:30pm – 4:30pm

Christening Photography on Campus: Grigoryan Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

12:30pm – 3:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Garabedian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Asatryan Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Monday, November 28th, 2011

1:30pm – 2:30pm

Thesis Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

The role of pesticide-induced aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibition in the pathogenesis of Parkinsons disease

Arthur G. Fitzmaurice, Graduate student, Environmental Science and Engineering, UCLA (Detached Duty Caltech),

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Lights... Camera... Chemistry! Single-Molecule Imaging Tools for Synthetic Chemists & Dual Catalysis with Gold

Suzanne A. Blum, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of California, Irvine,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Faculty Meeting

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 113

Computational approaches for linking comparative genomics to biochemistry and evolution

David A. Liberles, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Kate Whitaker, Yale,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Rewiring and evolving bacterial signaling pathways

Michael T. Laub, Associate Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

The MEG Experiment

William Molzon, The MEG experiment, UC Irvine,

4:15pm – 5:15pm

Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Perspectives on Quantifying Uncertain Mechanisms in Dynamical Systems

Jinqiao Duan, Associate Director, IPAM, UCLA,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

CIT Amateur Radio Club Get-together

See event detail for location

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

10:00am – 12:00pm

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Design and Analysis of High-Performance Compressed Sensing Receivers

Azita Emami, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Caltech,

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

"Understanding the SEDs of Galaxies"

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Advanced LIGO - What, Why, How, When

Dave Reitze, LIGO, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Working at the Interface of Science and Art: Collections Research at the Getty

Karen Trentelman, Senior Scientist, Collections Research, Getty Conservation Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125

Some Unpleasant Bargaining Arithmetics (joint with Hulya Eraslan)

Antonio Merlo, Lawrence R. Klein Professor and Chair of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

10:00am – 12:00pm

Student Shop Safety Hands-on Training: Woodworking Equipment

See event detail for location

10:00am – 12:00pm

Wednesdays in the park

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)

Multiwavelength observations of dust-obscured galaxies revealed by gamma-ray bursts

Daniel Perley, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Jacobi Matrices and Their Generalizations in Pade Approximation

3:00pm – 4:00pm

AltC-PhD Speaker: Brian Jackson - RAND Corporation

Crellin 151

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Moving mesh cosmology: the hydrodynamics of galaxy formation

Debora Sijacki, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Let it rain: A convergence of carbon and biodiversity hotspots in the wettest of tropical forests

Alan Townsend, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Highly Monodisperse Core-Shell Particles Created by Solid-State Reactions in Alloys

Mark Asta, Professor , Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Berkeley , Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

L.A. Ruby Study Group Meeting

IMSS 120

7:30pm – 9:30pm

JEREMY SCAHILL

Ramo Auditorium

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Jeremy Schahill: Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

10:00am – 1:00pm

Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library System Workshop: "End Note For Beginners"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206

Uncertainty in Simulations

Yousuff Hussaini, Visiting Associate, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

QHE, Metrology, and the New Kilogram

Klaus von Klitzing, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

CPA BYOB Cheese Tasting

See event detail for location

7:00pm – 8:30pm

Tango Dance Class (Beginner I Series)

Winnett Lounge

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Amnesty International Monthly Meeting

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day of Classes for Fall Term

Academic

9:00am – 5:00pm

IACUC Submission Deadline

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

ABJM theory as a Fermi gas

Pavel Putrov, Univ de Geneve,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)

Validating and Characterizing Transiting Exoplanets from Space with EPOXI, Kepler, and Warm Spitzer

Sarah Ballard, CfA,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 237

Load-balancing Games in Cloud Systems

Jonathan Anselmi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Deorbiting of Satellites/Debris: Technology Development and Demonstration Missions

Vaios Lappas, Professor, Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151

Reversible Dihydrogen Addition Across a Nickel(0)Borane Unit: Thermochemistry and Olefin Hydrogenation Catalysis

Hill Harman, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,

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