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Spring 2009-2010

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

9:30am – 11:30am

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park

10:30am – 12:00pm

MATLAB Seminar: Advanced Programming Techniques in MATLAB—cancelled

South Mudd 365

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Fine Arts and Crafts Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Spectral FFT-Based Integral and Differential PDE Solvers for General Domains

Oscar Bruno, professor of applied and computational mathematics, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Special Lecture: "Denim Day: Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Campaign"

12:30pm – 2:00pm

MATLAB Seminar: Speeding up MATLAB Applications—canceled

South Mudd 365

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 107

Cluster Expansions and the Stability of Topological Phases

Israel Klich, assistant professor of physics, University of Virginia,

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

An Overview of Results from 18 Months of Data Taking by the Large Area Telescope on Fermi

Troy Porter, Institute for Particle Physics, UC Santa Cruz ,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

An Idiosyncratic History of Technical Developments Leading to LIGO

Stan Whitcomb, LIGO chief scientist, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Making Eyes: Disease, Development, Regulation and Modulation

Veronica von Heyningen, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, U.K.,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Topic to be announced.

David Stevenson, professor of planetary science, Caltech,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Activism v 2.0: Technology and Grassroots Organizing

Kalaya'an Mendoza, regional field organizer, Amnesty International-USA,

8:00pm – 9:00pm

American Tribal Style Fusion Belly-Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

8:00am – 5:00pm

11th Annual Denim Day in LA

10:00am – 12:00pm

Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Lyapunov Exponents and Oseledets's Basis for Products of Independent Non-identically Distributed Matrices

Ilya Goldsheid, professor of mathematics, Queen Mary, University of London,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Monthly Caregivers' Support Group Meeting

Crellin 156

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Caltech Library System Workshop: "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Annenberg 105

Novel Electro-Magnetic Phenomena: One-way-waveguides and Wireless Power Transfer

Marin Soljacic, professor of physics, MIT,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Bloodborne Pathogens Training

Keith Spalding 118

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Probing the Jet Collimation Region in M87 with VLBA and TeV Observations

Craig Walker, National Radio Astronomy Observatory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Into and Out of the Last Glacial Maximum

Peter Clark, professor of geosciences, Oregon State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar—cancelled

Kerckhoff 119

Dierk Reiff, Dr., Department of Systems and Computational Neurobiology, Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Nanoscale Materials for Solar Fuel Generation

Paul Alivisatos, professor of chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Engineering Small Molecules and Ion Channels as Tools for Controlling Neuron Activity

Scott Sternson, Janelia Farm Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,

6:30pm – 7:30pm

Amnesty International Book Discussion Group

See event detail for location

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Salsa Dance Class (Technique/Advanced)

Winnett Lounge

7:30pm – 9:30pm

"The Quest for a Living World"

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Creating Great Places to Bike!

Felicia Williams, advisory committee member, C.I.C.L.E. (Cyclists Inciting Change thru Live Exchange),

8:00pm – 8:30pm

Salsa Dancing: Free Practice Session

Winnett Lounge

8:30pm – 9:30pm

Salsa Dance Class (Beginner Casino Rueda)

Winnett Lounge

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

10:00am – 1:00pm

Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.

10:00am – 3:00pm

Take Our Children to Work Day

Winnett Lounge

10:30am – 12:30pm

Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Sustainability Town Hall Meeting

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Design vs. Screening—Searching for Nonlinear Effects, Conditions and Catalysts in Asymmetric Reactions

Matthew H. Todd, professor of chemistry, University of Sydney,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Understanding the Mechanisms of Generating Repressive Chromatin Structures

Geeta Narlikar, professor of biochemistry, UC San Francisco,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Silica Coatings in the Ka'u Desert, Hawai'i, and Implications for Mars (S. Chemtob); FISH-NanoSIMS Analysis of Nitrogen Utilization in Methane Consuming Deep-Sea Microbes (A. Dekas)

Steven Chemtob, graduate student in geological and planetary sciences, Caltech,

Anne Dekas, graduate student in geological and planetary sciences, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Illuminating Strongly Coupled Field Theories with Black Holes

Shamit Kachru, permanent member, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, visiting professor, UC Santa Barbara, and professor of physics (on leave), Stanford University,

6:30pm – 7:30pm

Information Session: Research Opportunities in Singapore

Steele 214

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Amnesty International Monthly Meeting

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

11:00am – 2:00pm

Earth Day 2010

San Pasqual Walk

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Y-system for Scattering Amplitudes

Amit Sever, Perimeter Institute,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

SFCC Friday Forum for Postdocs

Avery Conference Room

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Gates-Thomas 206

Characterizing and Preventing Wear of Atomic Force Microscope Probes

Kevin Turner, Professor, University of WisconsinMadison,

3:00pm – 7:00pm

Men's Baseball at Pomona-Pitzer

away game

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Avakyants Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dix Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)

Revisiting the 1960 Chilean Earthquake and Its Comparison with the Recent Chile Earthquake

Hiroo Kanamori, John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Film Screening: Bill Gates On Energy—"Innovating to Zero!"

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151

Electrocatalytic O₂ Reduction by Surface-Immobilized Molecular Cu Complexes

Charles McCrory, postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Kroc Lecture

Kerckhoff 119

Gene Delivery, Structural Biology, and Its Applications to Medicine

Gary Nabel, director of the Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar

Moore B280

Manipulating Nanoparticles and Enhancing Spectroscopy with Surface Plasmons

Ken Crozier, associate professor of natural sciences, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 6:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Pepoian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

4:30pm – 6:00pm

International Food Fair & Culture Show

Avery Courtyard

7:00pm – 9:30pm

Caltech Poets and Musicians Event at Ten Thousand Villages

See event detail for location

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

7:30pm – 10:00pm

HSS Film Screening: Flug in die Nacht—Das Unglück von Überlingen (On Collision Course)

Baxter Lecture Hall

11:00pm – 4/24 12:40am

GAYpril 2010 LGBTQ & Ally Movie Night: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

9:00am – 5:00pm

Coleman Chamber Competition

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

11:00am – 2:00pm

Women's Water Polo at La Verne

away game

12:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Barrie Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

12:00pm – 4:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Majia Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Men's Baseball vs. Cal Lutheran University

North Athletic Field

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Caltech Chamber Singers

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Priscilla Herdman

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Public Event

9:00pm – 4/25 1:00am

GAYpril 2010: Rainbow Dance Party

Winnett Lounge

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

1:00pm – 3:00pm

Beginner International Ballroom Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

3:30pm – 5:30pm

Coleman Winners Concert

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

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