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Wednesday, May 13th, 2015
12:00am – 5/14 12:00am
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(Baseball) Caltech at NCAA West Regional

9:00am – 10:00am
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SFP Information Session for Campus Staff and Administrators

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
9:30am – 11:30am
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IMARIS 3D/4D Visualization and Analysis Workshop

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Lynsey Hamilton,
10:00am – 11:30am
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Student Shop Safety Hands-on Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Kellogg 307
Almost treeability
Robin Tucker-Drob, NSF Mathematical Science Postdoctoral Scholar, Mathematical Sciences, Rutgers University,
1:00pm – 1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Metastability and dynamics of stem cells: from direct observations to inference at the single cell level
Zakary Singer, CNS graduate student, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Strategies for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Carbon Quaternary Centers Via Transition Metal-Catalyzed Alkylation of Enolate Compounds
Corey Reeves, Graduate Student, Stoltz group, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Extragalactic Archeology
Charlie Conroy, Harvard,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Combinatorics Semnar

On the structure of the spectrum of small sets
Alejandro Morales, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Plant waxes as environmental proxies in the tropics
Sarah J. Feakins, Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125
Unraveling New Functions for the Endoplasmic Reticulum at Organelle Contact Sites
Gia Voeltz, Associate Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Ultra-hot and Ultra-thin Microstructures
Igor Bargatin, Class of 1965 Term Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), Penn Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Crossed Product Extensions of Spectral Triples
Bruno Iochum, Mathematics, Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS et Universite de Toulon,
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Everhart Lecture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Peter Rapp, Graduate Student, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
6:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech-City of Hope Biomedical Research Initiative

Beckman Institute
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
8:50am – 11:00am
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International Scholar Orientation

East Bridge 114
10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative and Decarbonylative Transformations in the Synthesis of Fine and Commodity Chemicals
Yiyang Liu, Graduate Student, Stoltz group, Chemistry, Caltech,
10:30am – 11:30am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Effect of Microstructural Interfaces on the Mechanical Response of Crystalline Metallic Materials
Zachary Aitken, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102
Breaking Ground – Mechanics of Variably Saturated Crushable Soils for Natural Hazard Assessment
Giuseppe Buscarnera, Assistant Professor, Departmnet of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University,
11:30am – 1:00pm
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THE JOURNEY THROUGH BREAST CANCER

Winnett Lounge
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Theoretically-informed simulations of tapered diblock copolymers
Lisa Hall, HC Slip Slider Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Mathieu Dellinger
Mathieu Dellinger, Postdoc, Earth Sciences, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Vanishing theorems for mixed Hodge modules and applications
Junecue Suh, Assistant Professor, PBSci-Mathematics Department, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Neutrinos are Everywhere
Joseph D. Lykken, Theoretical Physicist, Deputy Director and Chief Research Officer, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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CPET Seminar - Putting Theory into Practice as a New Professor

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Suzanne Kern, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Keck Science Department - Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pitzer Colleges,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Fire and Ice: Exploring Volcanoes on Earth and the Solar System
Rosaly M. C. Lopes, Senior Research Scientist, Manager for Planetary Science, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Beginning & Intermediate Salsa Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room
Friday, May 15th, 2015
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track) Redlands Last Chance Invitational

8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Scheduling Examinations for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer

9:00am – 5:00pm
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Materialities, Texts and Images (MTI) Workshop

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Looking at Language: The Materialized Word
9:30am – 10:30am
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Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Superionic Noble Metal Chalcogenide Thermoelectrics
Tristan Day, graduate student, chemical engineering, california institute of technology,
10:30am – 11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
The Effect of Higher Derivatives on the Schwarzschild Solution
Kelly Stelle, Imperial College,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Steele 102
Quantifying Earthquake Collapse Risk of Tall Steel Moment Frame Buildings Using Rupture-to-Rafters Simulations
Hemanth Siriki, Ph.D., Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213
Kolmogorov width of discrete linear spaces: an approach to matrix rigidity
Sergey Yekhanin, Microsoft Research,
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Entanglement entropy and phases of gauge theories
Djordje Radicevic, Stanford University,
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Fields Medalist Stanislav Smirnov

The Ising Model of a Ferromagnet from 1920 to the Present Day
Stanislav Smirnov, Professor of Mathematics, University of Geneva; St. Petersburg State University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Transport of Flavored Neutrinos in Astrophysical Environments
Alexey Vlasenko, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, UCSD,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Photoinduced, Copper-Catalyzed N-Alkylations of Carbazoles: A Mechanistic Investigation
Jun Myun (Joe) Ahn, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:30pm – 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
TBA
Ryan Mishmash, DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Bandorama: Caltech Jazz Band & Concert Band

Ramo Auditorium
Saturday, May 16th, 2015
2:00pm – 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Liang Wedding

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Staged Reading of "Last Flight of the Mercenary"

TACIT House, 275 S. Hill Ave.
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Bandorama: Caltech Jazz Band & Concert Band

Ramo Auditorium
Sunday, May 17th, 2015
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Athletics Hall of Honor Induction Ceremony

Beckman Mall
2:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Marathon

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Monday, May 18th, 2015
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at NCAA Championship

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Women's Tennis) Caltech at NCAA Championship

9:00am – 10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Secondary Organic Aerosol Composition Studies Using Mass Spectrometry
Kate Schilling, Graduate Student, Seinfeld group, Chemistry, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 125
Dynamically Eliciting Unobservable Information
Nicolas Lambert, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business,