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Friday, September 29th, 2017
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Opportunities at the entanglement frontier
John Preskill, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Physics,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Mihai Manea

Baxter 125
Bottleneck Links, Essential Intermediaries, and Competing Paths of Diffusion in Networks
Mihai Manea, Stanford University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar

Annenberg 213
AI in Games: Achievements and Challenges
Yuandong Tian, Research Scientist, Facebook AI Research, Facebook,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Testing the Caustic Ring Dark Matter Halo Model Against Observations in the Milky Way
Julie Dumas, Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbuilt University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Challenges and Recent Advances in Earth and Space Exploration
Richard Cook, Associate Director for Flight Projects & Mission Success, JPL,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Geometric Structures with Quasi-Hitchin Holonomy
Daniele Alessandrini, Mathematical Institute, University of Heidelberg,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Whittier

7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Saturday, September 30th, 2017
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at ITA West Regional

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Women's Tennis) Caltech at ITA West Regional

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Men's Water Polo) Caltech at La Verne

2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Women's Volleyball) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hambarsoom Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Dashtoyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Megerdichian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Soccer) Caltech at Chapman

Sunday, October 1st, 2017
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at ITA West Regional

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Women's Tennis) Caltech at ITA West Regional

Monday, October 2nd, 2017
9:30am – 4:30pm
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The Resnick Young Investigators Symposium

Ramo Auditorium
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Women's Soccer) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Topology of moduli spaces of tropical curves
Sam Payne, Mathematics Department, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
New trends in modeling granular media: applications to geosciences and planetary exploration
Jose E. Andrade, George W. Housner Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering; Cecil and Sally Drinkward Leadership Chair, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering; Executive Officer for Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Dark Fires in the Sky: Model-Independent Dark Matter Detection via Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars
Nirmal Raj, Notre Dame University,
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017
10:00am – 10:40am
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Nobel Prize Press Conference

10:30am – 12:00pm
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CATS Study and Business Meeting

Athenaeum
12:10pm – 12:50pm
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Guided Meditation

Beckman Institute, Glanville Courtyard
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
The impact of detector characterization on gravitational wave searches
Derek Thomas Davis, Syracuse,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 105
CANCELLED - Stability in the homology of configuration spaces
Jenny Wilson, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Hyperfiniteness of boundary actions of cubulated hyperbolic groups
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Reflections of Mars: Using Orbital Radar Observations to Discover Climate Signals and More
Isaac Smith, Research Scientist, Planetary Science Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
MR Imaging of Brain Circuitry: Connections with Epigenetic Dynamics in Autism and Childhood Trauma
Elaine Bearer, Professor, Pathology, Univeristy of New Mexico;, Visiting Associate Professor, BBE, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Tropical motivic integration
Sam Payne, Mathematics Department, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Price-setting by Committee: Evidence from Medicare
David Chan, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Women in Chemistry

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Industry Conversations with Barbara Burger
Barbara Burger, Caltech Alumna & President of Chevron Technology Ventures,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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CANCELLED | Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
This talk has been cancelled.
Alexander Blum, Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Visiting Associate in History of Science, Caltech,
5:30pm – 6:40pm
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Fall 2017 Walking Campaign

Counseling Center
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Redlands

7:30pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Playreaders 67th Season: "The Rivals" by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017
12:00am – 12:00am
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Amgen Young Investigator Award

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dish & Discuss #1

Avery Dining Hall
Urban Development & Gentrification
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD seminar

Spalding Laboratory 113
The Hydrodynamics of Active Particles Inside of a Porous Container and the Galerkin Boundary Element Discretization of Stokes Flow
Kevin Marshall, graduate student, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Men's Soccer) Redlands vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
AS4: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Changes in the duration of extreme precipitation events with climate warming and links to atmospheric dynamics
Paul O'Gorman, Associate Professor, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Bernard Herskovic, UCLA

Baxter B125
Acquiring Information Through Peers
Bernard Herskovic, Assistant Professor of Finance, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Machine Learning Art & Creativity Talk

Annenberg 105
The Shape of Art History in the Eyes of the Machine
Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Alex Greaney, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Riverside,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
CANCELLED - Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces
Alex Wright, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University ,
4:30pm – 7:00pm
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Annual Club Fair

Olive Walk
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Moonshine, Automorphy, and String Theory
Natalie Paquette, Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Water Polo) Caltech at Redlands

7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Packrafting the Queets River, Olympic National Park
Hayden Miller, Graduate Student, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Thursday, October 5th, 2017
9:00am – 10:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction, and their application to flag flapping
Andres Goza, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technolofy,
9:30am – 10:30am
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SOS Buyer Meeting

Keith Spalding 118
10:30am – 12:00pm
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The coherence collapse regime of high-coherence Si/III-V lasers and the use of swept frequency semiconductor lasers for full field 3D imaging

Watson 104
EE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Mark Harfouche, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
11:00am – 2:00pm
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Caltech Women's Club Fall Gathering

Athenaeum
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"Building monitoring for damage evaluation using seismic waves and deconvolution interferometry"
Norimitsu Nakata, Professor, University of Oklahoma ,
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Annual Caltech Rideshare Harvest Festival

Keith Spalding Building
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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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar

Annenberg 213
Tensors, time series, and computational sustainability
Qi (Rose) Yu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Rory Cox, Caltech

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Towards a Global History of the Ethics of War
Rory Cox, Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech; Lecturer in Late Medieval History, University of St Andrews,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Profiling Cells Inside and Out Using Nanostructured Materials
Shana Kelley, Distinguished Professor , Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
p-adic L-functions for nearly finite slope Hilbert modular forms and the Exceptional Zero Conjecture
Mladen Dimitrov, Mathematics Department, Université Lille 1,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Can quantum mechanics be valid on large scales?
Renato Renner, Professor for Theoretical Physics and head of the research group for Quantum Information Theory, ETH Zurich,
5:30pm – 6:40pm
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Fall 2017 Walking Campaign

Counseling Center
Friday, October 6th, 2017
8:00am – 11:00am
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(Men's Water Polo) Occidental vs. Caltech