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John Charles Marshall, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

9:30am – 10:30am

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Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Innovate or die

Chris House, Vice President, Advanced Concepts and Technology Research, BlackBerry,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

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Resnick Institute Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Solar Geoengineering and Climate Risks

Douglas MacMartin, Computing + Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

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Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

The Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction in SAPO-34 and SSZ-13: The Effect of Heteroatom Concentration

Mark Deimund, graduate student, chemical engineering, california institute of technology,

3:00pm – 6:00pm

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(Baseball) Chapman vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 6:00pm

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(Baseball) TBD vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

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

TBA

Prof. James Lloyd, Cornell,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

On Some Master Equation Models Involving Pre-Reactive Complexes

John R. Barker, Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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CMA presents "Synthetic Biology: Faster, Better, Weirder"

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

Andrew Hessel, Distinguished Research Scientist, Autodesk, Inc.,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Zelda Activates the Zygotic Genome in Drosophila

Christine Rushlow, Professor, Department of Biology, New York University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Mathematics Colloquium

The microlocal codimension-three conjecture

Kari Vilonen, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Driving the very first steps to metabolism along mineral-laden paths

Michael Russell, Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125

Inequality and Social Comparisons

Elizabeth Maggie Penn, Associate Professor of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Worrying about Weeds: Exotic Plants and Biological Invasions in the Early Medieval Mediterranean

Paolo Squatriti, Associate Professor of Italian, University of Michigan,

5:00pm – 8:00pm

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(Women's Tennis) Occidental vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 10:00pm

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Charles and Thomas Lauritsen Memorial Lecture: "The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload"

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Wednesday, April 29th, 2015

8:00am – 5/5 5:00pm

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Midterm Examination Period

Academic

2:00pm – 3:00pm

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Caltech Library Workshop - "EndNote For Beginners"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

The Turbulent Frontier in Massive Stellar Death

Sean Couch, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Inter-hemispheric asymmetries in climate and ITCZ migrations

John Marshall, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

High Efficiency Lanthanide-based Thermoelectric Materials for Space Power Generation Applications

Sabah Bux, Technologist, Thermal Energy Conversion Technologies Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Scalar Curvature for the Noncommutative 4-Torus and its Functional Relations

Farzad Fathizadeh, Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

C–C and C–H Functionalization Based on Common Functional Groups

Guangbin Dong, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas-Austin,

6:00pm – 8:00pm

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"At the Intersection of Art and Science" - A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates and Charlie Gross

Baxter Lecture Hall

Public Event

6:00pm – 7:00pm

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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Baxter Lecture Hall

"At the Intersection of Art and Science" - A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates and Charles Gross

Joyce Carol Oates, Author,

Charles Gross, Neuroscientist,

Thursday, April 30th, 2015

11:00am – 12:00pm

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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102

Soft Control: How cilia-generated flows affect bacteria-host associations

Eva Adnan Kanso, Associate Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California,

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)

Engineering entropy in nanomaterials: the bad, the ugly, and the good

Fernando A. Escobedo, Marjorie L. Hart Professor of Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Memory Engram Cells Have Come of Age

Susumu Tonegawa, Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, MIT Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Biology and Neuroscience, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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