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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections for Spring Term

8:30am – 4:00pm
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Staff Education and Career Development Workshop: "How to Write Letters, Memos, and Reports"

383 S. Hill Ave., Annex
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

On Calderon's Inverse Problem
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Steele 125
Phase Transitions and Domain Structures in Ferroelectric Thin Films
Long-Qing Chen, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Early Results from the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH)
Marc Postman, STScI,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Ocean Circulation, Ice Volume, and CO2 in the Late Pleistocene
Lorraine Lisiecki, Professor, Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125
"Cortical representations of olfactory input by transsynaptic tracing
Kazunari Miyamichi, Research Specialist, HHMI Dept of Biology, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Lithium air and lithium-water batteries
Lutgard C De Jonghe,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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L.A. Ruby Beginning Ruby On Rails Class

IMSS 120
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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SALSA DANCE CLASS (BEGINNER)

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Human Trafficking, Healthcare and Underserved Populations in LA County
Susie Baldwin, Dr.,
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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SALSA DANCE CLASS (INTERMEDIATE)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
8:00am – 6/8 5:00pm
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Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.
10:30am – 12:30pm
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Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

South Mudd 162
Reliability of the Water Supply in Southern California, Part 2: The State Water Project
John Hall, Professor of Civil Engineering, Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminars Present: Ryan Hamerly, Stanford University

Steele 125
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
An "as-is" Model of Economic Decision Making
Ian Krajbich, Senior Postdoc in Microeconomics, Experimental Economics, and the Foundations of Human Social Behavi, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemcial Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Tuning 2D and 3D suspension microstructure
James F. Gilchrist, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
Tactile Acceleration Cues for Haptic and Robotic Systems
Katherine Kuchenbecker, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
From Black Holes to Biological Membranes: Utilizing the Local Nature of Physical Laws to Simplify Complex Problems
Ira Rothstein, Professor of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Social Change Theater Activists Sanjoy and Sima Ganguly to Speak at Caltech

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Sustainability Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Being the Change: Can we learn from nature before it is too late?
Eugene Tssui, Dr.,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Amnesty International Monthly Meeting

8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Argentine Tango Dance Class (Intermediate level)

Winnett Lounge
9:30pm – 11:00pm
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Tango Workshops

Winnett Lounge
Friday, May 25th, 2012
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
TALK CANCELLED
Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei
Günther Hasinger, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of Spacecraft Parachutes
Tayfun Tezduyar, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Rice University ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Novel Approaches to Cleavage of Lignin-Related C-O Bonds
Alexey Fedorov, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
The Einstein-Picasso Question
Lewis Pyenson, Professor of History, Western Michigan University,
4:30pm – 6:30pm
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Caltech Red Door Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe
4:30pm – 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Design of an optomechanical accelerometer
Alex Krause, Graduate Student, Applied Physics, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Tango Workshops

Dabney Hall, Lounge
10:00pm – 5/26 3:00am
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All-Night Milonga hosted by Caltech Tango Club

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Saturday, May 26th, 2012
10:00am – 11:00am
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POSTPONED to later this month/Good Morning Bellydance! With Leela and the Caltech Bellydance Club

Braun Gym
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Matthewsian Wedding Party

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

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:30pm – 7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Flament Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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Tango Workshops

Winnett Lounge
Sunday, May 27th, 2012
6:00pm – 9:00pm
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Tango Workshops

Winnett Lounge
Monday, May 28th, 2012
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Memorial Day (Institute Holiday)

Off Campus
9:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
9:30am – 10:30am
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Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Oringer Seminar -- A Special IST Lunch Bunch Event

Annenberg 105
Community Participation in Disaster Management Through Information Technology
K. Mani Chandy, Simon Ramo Professor, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Moore 239
Applications of Coding in Network Communications
Christopher SungWook Chang, Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,