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Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

TBA
Brian Hwang, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Development of Ni-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling Reactions
Nathaniel Kadunce, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Reisman group, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Aomawa Shields, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125
Microbial Modulation of Neuroendocrine Signaling and Behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans
Dennis Kim, Associate Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

Relatively Few Rational Points
Barry Charles Mazur, Gerhard Gade University Professor, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Surprising responses in common fluid flows: (1) surface-attached bacteria, biofilms and flow; and (ii) trapping of bubbles in stagnation point flows (general lecture)
Howard A. Stone, Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University,
4:40pm – 6:00pm
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CMA presents "Inventing the Impossible"

JPL
Marco Tempest, Cyber illusionist, Director's Fellow Alumnus, MIT Media Lab,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Climate Change Impact on Past Civilizations: Lessons from Space Data and Archaeology

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Ronald G. Blom, Principal Scientist (Retired), Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Everhart Lecture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Challenging the Precious Metal Mindset: Green Chemistry with Potassium
Anton Toutov, Graduate Student, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Climate Change Impact on Past Civilizations: Lessons from Space Data and Archaeology
Ronald G. Blom, Principal Scientist (Retired), Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Programming Molecular Association and Viscoelastic Behavior in Protein Hydrogels
Larry Dooling, graduate student, chemical engineering, California Institute of Technology,
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308
A Polynomial Lower Bound for Testing Monotonicity
Eric Blais, University of Waterloo,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Gaypril Event

Beckman Institute Auditorium
LGBTQ STEMinar: Dr. Hung Y. Fan
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Lunch & Learn: Credit Card Management

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Electrocatalysis in Solid Acid Fuel Cell Electrodes
Vanessa Evoen, graduate student, chemical engineering, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Greenstein Lecture: Hearing the Stars: New Insights into Stellar Interiors from Asteroseismology
Lars Bildsten, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Liver Targeted HIF-PHD Inhibitors for Anemia
Christopher J. Sinz, Dr., Ph.D., Research Fellow, Merck & Company, Inc.,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University

Baxter B125
High Frequency Market Making
Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Otto A. Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

CANCELLED
Ben Barres, Professor of Neurobiology, of Developmental Biology, of Neurology and, by courtesy, of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar

Distinct perpendicular bisectors
Ben Lund, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Rutgers,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Neural and hormonal systems underlying human reward-seeking behavior
Simon Dunne, Graduate Student, Computation & Neural Systems, Caltech,
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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An Ounce of Prevention

Annenberg 105
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Paul Rothemund - DNA Origami: Folded DNA as a Building Material for Molecular Devices

Beckman Auditorium
Thursday, May 26th, 2016
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track & Field) Caltech at NCAA Championships

8:30am – 2:30pm
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The Mentoring Effect: Conference on Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers

Avery House
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
(CANCELLED) - "Manufacturing and applications of carbon nanotube surfaces"
(CANCELLED) John Hart, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
Discovery of a Carbohydrate Ligand for an Orphan Receptor
Matthew Griffin, Mr., Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Resolution of the Band Gap Prediction Problem: Providing a New Tool for Materials Design
Jason Crowley, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard group, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Ultrafilters and a problem of Ellis
Andy Zucker, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon,
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Protein-Glycan Interactions in Bacterial Recognition by Fc-gamma Receptor I and in Bitter Taste Receptor Activation by Steviol Glycosides
Fan Liu, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Diophantine Stability
Barry Mazur, Professor, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Adventures in quantum optimization with noisy qubits
Daniel Lidar, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chemistry and Physics, USC,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
Dynamics and Information Processing of Competitive Market Behavior: Science and Application of Extracting the Wisdom of Crowds
Charles R. Plott, William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Political Science, California Institute of Technology,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room
Friday, May 27th, 2016
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track & Field) Caltech at NCAA Championships

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

9:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day of Classes for Seniors and Graduate Students

9:00am – 6:00pm
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MTI Workshop

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
The Political, and Unpolitical, Lives of Things
Alexandre Dubé,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Chiral algebra of Argyres-Douglas theory from M5 brane
Wenbin Yan, Harvard University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Agonist Binding Studies at Two Subtypes of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Involved in Parkinson's Disease and Addiction
Michael Post, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group, Chemistry, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Shang-Hua Teng

Baxter 125
Interplay between Influence Dynamics and Social Networks: Centrality, Cooperative Games, and Scalable Algorithms
Shang-Hua Teng, Seeley G. Mudd Professor, Computer Science Viterbi School of Engineering, USC,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Renormalized Volume
Andrew Waldron, UC Davis,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Ion Transport in Polymer Electrolytes: Principles for Design
Michael Webb, graduate student, chemical engineering, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Mechanistic Studies on the Trimethyl Lock Cyclization of Sulfur-Substituted Benzoquinones Triggered by Visible-Light
Clinton Regan, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group, Chemistry, Caltech,