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Monday, March 30th, 2009
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Beginning of Instruction for Spring Term, 2008–09

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Iron Isotopes Reveal the Conditions of Mantle Melting from Archean to Present
Nicolas Dauphas, associate professor of geophysical sciences, Enrico Fermi Institute, the University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Corroles: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry, Catalysis, and Conjugation to Proteins for Biomimetic Processes
Zeev Gross, professor of chemistry, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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MOVED OFF CAMPUS - Clazzical Notes

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  • Public Event
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

9:30am – 11:30am
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
10:00am – 4/1 8:00pm
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Caltech Thank-a-thon

Student Activities Center
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Uncovering the Formation History of Elliptical Galaxies
Thomas J. Cox, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
3:45pm – 5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Planet Formation in Solid-rich Feeding Zones
Sally Dodson-Robinson, Spitzer Postdoctoral Fellow—NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, and assistant professor (on leave), the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Running a Chemical Reaction Inside C60 with Spin Chemistry, Following the Path of Memory by Imaging mRNA with Molecular Beacons, and Designing a $1000 Genome on a Chip Through Sequencing by Synthesis
Nicholas J. Turro, professor of chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar

Moore 239
Topic to be announced.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
10:00am – 8:00pm
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Caltech Thank-a-thon

Student Activities Center
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Poisson Statistics for Eigenvalues of Continuum Random Schrodinger Operators
Abel Klein, professor of mathematics, UC Irvine,
12:15pm – 1:15pm
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Caltech Fine Arts and Crafts Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Back Safety Training

Keith Spalding 118
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
21 cm Cosmology and Astrophysics: The Road to Reionization
Judd Bowman, postdoctoral scholar in astrophysics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Keck 142
Meridional Energy Transport in the Atmosphere-Ocean System
Geoff Vallis, senior scientist and professor, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University,
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Jess Adkins: Exploring the Deep-Sea for Corals and Clues to Our Climatic Past

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.
1:00pm – 4/5 12:00pm
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Prefrosh Weekend

Steele House, 355 S. Holliston Ave., Carriage House
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Passage to Permease
H. Ronald Kaback, professor of physiology, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Early Mars: Crustal Composition and Processes
John Mustard, professor of geological sciences, Brown University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Laser Driven Acceleration of Electrons: From 0 to 1 GeV in 3 Cm and Beyond
Wim Leemans, program head of LOASIS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Beyond $\eta/s = 1/4\pi$
Rob Myers, Perimeter Institute,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Deconstructing Dark Matter through Strong Gravitational Lensing Observations
Leonidas Moustakas, JPL,
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Women's Tennis vs. Whittier

Tennis Courts
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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Baseball vs. La Verne

North Athletic Field
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Aerodynamic Flow Control Using Trapped Vorticity
Ari Glezer, professor of mechanical engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 8:00pm
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Around the World in 80 Telescopes

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Mixed Organic Monolayers on Silicon Surfaces
Leslie O'Leary, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar

Moore B280
Synthetic Micro/Nanosystems for Rapid Biomolecule Analysis and Stem Cell Research
Jianping Fu, postdoctoral fellow in bioengineering , the University of Pennsylvania,
4:40pm – 5:40pm
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Caltech Poetry Club

Red Door Cafe
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Ragamala Music and Dance Theater: Sva (Vital Force)

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
9:30am – 12:30pm
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Men's Tennis vs. Pomona-Pitzer

Tennis Courts
11:00am – 11:30am
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Water Polo vs. LaVerne

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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The Great Natural Wonders of the World

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Water Polo vs. Chapman

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
Sunday, April 5th, 2009
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Chamber Music Palisades

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, April 6th, 2009
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Student-Faculty Conference

Ramo Auditorium
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Quantitative Spectroscopy of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Applications
Luc Dessart, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Chasing Streams: How One Decade of Scientific Discoveries Redefined Hydrology and Biology of Glaciated Continents
Slawek Tulaczyk, professor of Earth and planetary sciences, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Towards Precision Models of Collider Physics
Peter Skands, Femilab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Baxter B125
Global Market Integration: An Alternative Measure and Its Application
Richard Roll, professor and Japan Alumni Chair in Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
8:00am – 11:30pm
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Filming on Campus: NUMB3RS

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
9:30am – 11:30am
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
11:00am – 12:00pm
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CACR Seminar

Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics with Optical Imagery
Sebastien Leprince, postdoctoral scholar in geology, Caltech,
12:15pm – 1:15pm
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Caltech Fine Arts and Crafts Club

Red Door Cafe
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Jorgensen 74
Quantum Algorithms for Testing Properties of Probability Distributions
Sergey Bravyi, IBM,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Modelling the Origins of the Hubble Sequence
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
pH of the Liquid Water Surface: Selective Adsorption of Hydroxide and Hydronium
Richard J. Saykally, professor of chemistry, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Better Chemistry through Imaging—Lymphocyte Recognition and Membrane Structure
Mark Davis, Stanford Institute for Immunith, Transplantation and Infection, Stanford School of Medicine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Elucidating the Physiological Role and Biosynthesis of Hopanoids in an Anoxygenic Phototroph
Paula Welander, postdoctoral fellow in biology, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248
The Pamela Space Experiment
Mirko Boezio, senior researcher in physics, INFN Trieste,
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Bellydance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Office Ergonomics Training

Keith Spalding 118
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Postdoc Association Lecture: "Structuring Your Scientific Paper"

Beckman Institute Auditorium
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Using Intracluster Light to Probe Galaxy Clusters
Chris Mihos, professor of astronomy, Case Western Reserve University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Exploring and Exploiting the Biological Roles of Carbohydrates
Laura L. Kiessling, professor of chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Subglacial Hydraulics: Process Modeling and Implications for Ice Dynamics
Gwenn Flowers, assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Glaciology, Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
The Interior of Single Molecules: The Uncharted Territory of Materials’ Future
Wilson Ho, professor of chemistry and physics, UC Irvine,