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Sunday, November 2nd, 2014
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Fencing) USC vs. Caltech

12:00am – 11/3 12:00am
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(Fencing) USC vs. Caltech

12:00am – 11/3 12:00am
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(Fencing) USC vs. Caltech

Monday, November 3rd, 2014
8:00am – 12:30pm
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The Keck Institute for Space Studies presents a short course on: Star Formation (from top to bottom)

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
9:30am – 10:30am
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Campus Emergency Preparedness Training

Keith Spalding B117
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Breast Cancer 101: What You Need to Know to Keep Your Mother, Grandmothers, and Yourself Safe

Winnett Lounge
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Dow-Resnick SISCA Awards Ceremony & Reception

Jorgensen Lobby
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Group compactifications and moduli problems
Pablo Solis, OLGA TAUSSKY-JOHN TODD INSTRUCTOR, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium
"Engineered Gene Circuits: From Clocks and Biopixels to Stealth Delivery"
Jeff Hasty, Professor of Bioengineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114
Title TBD
Speaker TBD ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Investigating Mt. St. Helens magma plumbing and seismicity with modern exploration industry seismometers
Brandon Schmandt, Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Project 8: Towards a Radio-Frequency Measurement of the Neutrino Mass
Luiz de Viveiros, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Control of Excited States of Inorganic Complexes for Applications in Biology and Solar Energy
Claudia Turro, Professor, Chemistry, The Ohio State University,
Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
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
Characterizing the variable sky with the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey
Matthew Graham, Computational Scientist, CD3 (Center for Data Driven Discovery), Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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PUES: Secondary Programs

383 S. Hill Ave., Annex
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Dr. Alycia Weinberger, DTM, Carnegie Institution,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The mystery of water and its condensed phases
James L. Skinner, Joseph O. and Elizabeth S. Hirschfelder Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar

Baxter B125
The Spread of Horizontal Chains: Efficiency or Market Power?
Brett Hollenbeck, Assistant Professor, UCLA Anderson School of Management,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Genes and Signals in Bacteria-Plant Symbiosis
Sharon Long, Principal Investigator/Steere-Pfizer Professor of Biological Science, School of Medicine, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
gLISA: geosynchronous Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Massimo Tinto, JPL/Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar

Steele 125
Sander Weinreb, Electrical Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology,
Jose Siles, Submillimeter Wave Advanced Technology Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar

Annenberg 213
Beyond Equilibria (1st of 2 parts. Cont. on Nov. 11.)
Georgios Piliouras, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:20pm – 5:20pm
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"UNCONSCIOUS BIAS IN HIRING, PROMOTIONS & TENURE" PRESENTED BY DR. JOAN SCHMELZ

Annenberg 105
6:00pm – 9:00pm
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(Women's Volleyball) West Coast Baptist vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Playreaders: "An American Daughter" by Wendy Wasserstein

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Y Used Gear Sale

Caltech Y
11:00am – 12:00pm
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308
Constructive discrepancy minimization for convex sets
Thomas Rothvoss, MIT,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Mean field dynamics of mixed fermionic states
Benjamin Schlein, Mathematics, University of Zufich,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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HALF TIME: A Mid-Quarter Meetup for TAs

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Men's Water Polo) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Planetary Systems in 4D
Bekki Dawson, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125
Managing Congestion in Dynamic Matching Markets
Yashodhan Kanoria, Assistant Professor, Decision, Risk and Operations Division, Columbia Business School,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Ian Eisenman, Assistant Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Sudakov Safety
Jesse Thaler, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special CMI Seminar

Annenberg 105
Chordal Codes for Chip-to-Chip Communication
Amin Shokrollahi,
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
7:30am – 7:00pm
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APhMS in the 21st Century

Beckman Institute Auditorium
8:30am – 10:00am
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Caltech Women's Club Open House

Red Door Cafe
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102
High-Speed Laser Diagnostics for Understanding the Physicochemical Processes of Turbulent and Reacting Flows
Jeffrey Sutton, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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"WHY SO FEW? GROWTH MINDSET, STEREOTYPE THREAT, AND SPATIAL SKILLS"

Avery Library
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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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
Physical Clustering of Highly Transcribed Genes in E. coli
Wen Zhou, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar - NOTE: unusual day

Cahill 370
Large-scale structure formation with the Schrödinger method
Cora Uhlemann, PhD student, Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop: "Chemical Information Resources"

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Logic Seminar

Beyond invariance: A notion of cost for quasi-invariant measures
Manuel Inselmann, University of Münster,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Difficult Choices: A Neuro-Computational Approach to Social Decision-Making and Self-Control
Cendri Hutcherson, Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroeconomics, HSS, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
How telomeres solve the chromosome end protection problem
Titia de Lange, Leon Hess Professor, American Cancer Society Professor, Head of Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, Director-Anderson Center for Cancer Research, The Rockefeller University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
From sequence to function to sequence: biophysical modeling and automated design of cellular sensors, circuits, and pathways
Howard M. Salis, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Vicky Rennie,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Local character expansions, hyperelliptic curves, and endoscopy
Cheng-Chiang Tsai, Grad Student, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Case for Jet Substructure
Jesse Thaler, Assistant Professor of Physics, Physics, MIT,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Asteroid Redirect Mission: Rearranging the Solar System
Brian Muirhead, Chief Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, November 7th, 2014
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
Limits of high power fiber lasers, slab fiber waveguides and fabrication and test of microstructures optical fibers
Jay Dawson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Quantum supergravity and exact holography
Joao Gomes, University of Cambridge,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Y Community Service and Advocacy Fair

San Pasqual Walk
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213
First-Order Iterative Methods in the Design of Fast Algorithms: from Multiplicative Weight Updates to Nesterov's Method
Lorenzo Orecchia, MIT/Boston University,
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Beckman Room open

Beckman Institute 131
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Beckman Room open (Caltech's Science Museum)

Beckman Institute 131
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Four topics on the centers of galaxies
Scott Tremaine, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Exascale Co-design for Materials in Extreme Environments
Timothy C. Germann, Director, Exascale Co-Design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Cubic Differentials and Limits of Convex RP2 Structures under Neck Pinches
John Loftin, Associate Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science, Rutgers University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Anna Mazzucato, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Penn State,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Siemens Competition Workshop: "Research - The Origin of Discovery"

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Public Event
4:30pm – 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Novel Mechanism of Low-Temperature CVD Graphene Growth
David Boyd, Staff Scientist, Yeh Group, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Mihai Putinar, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Asteroid Redirect Mission: Rearranging the Solar System
Brian Muirhead, Chief Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,