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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
8:00am – 10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hilf Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm – 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Martirosyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech-Occidental Wind Orchestra: "FIESTA"

Ramo Auditorium
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Monday, November 11th, 2019
8:00am – 10:00am
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Transit of Mercury - Public Viewing

Beckman Mall
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9:00am – 9:00am
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Due Date for Midterm Deficiency Notices

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
Fundamentals of Building a Multiplayer Console Game
Paul Robinson, Technical Director, Activision-Blizzard,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social Confidence (without liquid courage) workshop

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:15pm – 12:45pm
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Chair Yoga

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Dr. Roozbeh Kiani, Assistant Professor, Neural Science and Psychology, New York University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Manifestations of a Rational DAHA Module in Moduli of Flags
Minh-Tam Trinh, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Human Magnetoreception: Tests of magnetite-based transduction
Joseph Kirschvink, Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training - CANCELLED

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

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Mark Ladinsky, EM Scientist, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Curve Counting Reading Seminar

Linde Hall 183
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Meditation Mob

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar

Broad 100
"Super-Resolution Imaging of Transcription in Living Mammalian Cells"
Ibrahim Cisse, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Integrated Chi(2) Nonlinear Photonics
Hong Tang, Llewellyn West Jones, Jr. Professor of Electrical Engineering, Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Hyperfinite actions with the same invariant random subgroup
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
What can be learnt on gas phase chiral systems by Photoelectron Circular Dichroism ?
Laurent Nahon, Responsable Ligne De Lumière, Synchrotron Soleil, Synchrotron Soleil,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Eliza O'Reilly

Annenberg 314
Poisson hyperplane tessellations in high dimensions and one-bit compression
Eliza O'Reilly, CMI Postdoc, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
"Characterizing the Nucleus, Morphology and Activity of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov"
Bryce Bolin, Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy, IPAC, IPAC - Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
"HIV Diversity and Vaccine Design"
Bette Korber, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Labratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Topological insulators and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in relativistic quantum field theory
David Kaplan, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Quantum topology and combinatorics of graphs on surfaces
Slava Krushkal, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Experts and Financial Ties: Evidence from FDA Advisory Committees
Fanny Camara, Assistant Professor of Economics and Director of Research (Economics), Dornsife, College of Leters, Arts and Science, USC,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Free Field Theories Revisited
Angus Gruen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
10:00am – 11:30am
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Shop Safety Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop
12:05pm – 1:00pm
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To PhD or Not to PhD? That is the question

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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GIS Day

North Mudd 201 (Geology Library)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - You and Your Thesis

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Exploring the Mysterious Origins of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes
Heather Knutson, Professor of Planetary Science, Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Warming effect on precipitation seasonal cycle
Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
"Getting Something for Nothing: Classical and Machine-Learning Methods for Quantum Simulation"
Thomas F. Miller, III, Professor of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
A Structural Model of a Multitasking Salesforce: Job Task Allocation and Incentive Plan Design
Kosuke Uetake, Associate Professor of Marketing, School of Management, Yale University,
6:30pm – 8:30pm
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Consciousness and the Mind: Insights from the Yoga Sutras and Bhagavad Gita

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3
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Thursday, November 14th, 2019
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
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Elephant Olfaction and a Wombat's Cubic Feces
David Hu, Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Condensed Mathematics Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Analytic Rings
Matthias Flach, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Productivity and Stress Management workshop

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Faculty Lunch (invitation only): John Doyle

Annenberg 121
Universal laws and architectures in complex networked systems with applications to sensorimotor control
John Doyle, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Baxter B125
Conflicting Priorities: A Theory of Covenants and Collateral
Giorgia Piacentino, Daniel W. Stanton Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Exploring Titan: Discoveries in the laboratory and future in situ work with Dragonfly
Morgan Cable, Research Scientist and Group Supervisor of Astrobiology and Ocean Worlds Group, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Perfectoid covers of abelian varieties and the weight-monodromy conjecture
Peter Wear, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Looking through the Gravitational Wave Window on the Universe
Laura Cadonati, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Friday, November 15th, 2019
10:00am – 11:00am
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Special ACM Seminar

Annenberg 105
High Order Methods for Multiple Scattering in Terms of Farfield Expansions ABC
Dr. Vianey Villamizar, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Physics and geometry of the knots-quivers correspondence
Pietro Longhi, ETH Zurich,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Annenberg 105
Quantum Supremacy: Understanding and Calibrating the Sycamore Processor
Kevin Satzinger, Google AI Quantum,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Managing Procrastination workshop

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 125
Transparency and Demand Management in Platforms for Networked Markets
Adam Wierman, Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Executive Officer for Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Director, Information Science and Technology, Caltech,
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 – 5:00pm
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Mental Health First Aid Training (Part 2 of 2)

383 S. Hill Ave., Annex
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Special ACM Seminar

Moore B270
Variational Bayes for a Simple Neural Network
Tui Nolan, Fulbright Future Scholar, Statistics, University of Technology Sydney,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Deciphering the Landscape of Compact Binary Formation Channels
Mike Zevin, Graduate Student, CIERA, Northwestern University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Flight Testing of Supersonic Parachutes for Entry, Descent & Landing on Mars
Clara O'Farrell, Engineer, Guidance and Control, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of technology,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
GPV invariants and knot complements
Ciprian Manolescu, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
A sumset conjecture of Erdős
Florian Richter, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,
5:00pm – 5:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
The Joy of Small Parameters
Susan Friedlander, Department of Mathematics, USC,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Looking Home: OCO-3 and Science from the International Space Station

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, November 16th, 2019
5:30pm – 7:30pm
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Giving Thanks: Antidote to Anxiety

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Film Screening - The Pathfinders: The Story of the First Mars Rover Mission

Beckman Auditorium
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8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Orchestra: Student Soloist Showcase

Ramo Auditorium
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