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Saturday, April 28th, 2018
10:30am – 5:30pm
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The Future of Cancer Therapeutics Forum

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:25pm – 3:25pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Chicago

12:30pm – 2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hurtado Quincinera Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm – 6:00pm
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18th Annual Caltech Jazz Festival

Gates Annex Patio
  • Public Event
2:00pm – 5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Culp/Kane Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nezhad Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Carlson Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Natural Curiosities: Curious Minds

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Claude Bourbon

Beckman Institute Auditorium
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at SCIAC Tournament

10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Chicago

3:00pm – 5:00pm
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TEMPO Ensemble: "From Schoenberg to Schoenberg"

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Brentano Quartet with Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, April 30th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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PFLAG Panel and Discussion

Avery Dining Hall
12:10pm – 12:50pm
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Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Origins and Development of the Low Boom Flight Demonstration X-plane
Michael Buonanno, Air Vehicle lead, Low Boom Flight Demonstrator effort , Lockheed Martin Skunk Works,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Finite-dimensio​nal graded algebras with triangular decomposition
Ulrich Thiel, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Subduction, Double Subduction, and the Ultra-Rapid Convergence of India and Eurasia
Leigh Royden, Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
GeV-Mass Thermal WIMPs: Not Even Slightly Dead
Rebecca Leane, MIT Center for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Integrative Metallomic Approach to Identify Metalloproteomes in Microbes
Hongzhe Sun, Professor, Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Program Synthesis Meets Machine Learning
Associate Professor Armando Solar-Lezama, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Neurodegeneration Reading Group

Beckman Behavioral Biology B101
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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MACH 33 "Theory of Nothing"

Off Campus
  • Public Event
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dish & Discuss #15

Avery Dining Hall
The Terror of Terrorism
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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MCE Seminar

Gates-Thomas 115
Nonlinear Elasticity
Basile Audoly, Moore Distinguished Scholar, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, CNRS and Ecole polytechnique (Palaiseau, France).,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Crellin 151
Introduction to Small Angle X-ray Scattering at APS and Its Application for Studies of DNA Colloidal Particle Assembly
Byeongdu Lee, Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in 1D
Johannes Bausch, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Effects of the Heterogeneous Tidal Heat Production on Io's Interior & Contribution of Sublimating Water Ice to Ceres' Exosphere
Teresa Steinke, Department of Space Engineering, Delft University of Technology,
Margaret Landis, Graduate Student, University of Arizona,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Spherical cone surfaces
Rafe Mazzeo, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Campanella, Galileo, and the Clash for the New Science at the Court of Pope Urban VIII
Stefano Gattei, Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology, The Huntington Library,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Theory Group Meeting

Annenberg 322
End of Potential Line
Spencer Gordon, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
The Swing Voter's Curse in Social Networks
Lydia Mechtenberg, Professor of Economics, University of Hamburg; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
8:00am – 5/8 5:00pm
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Midterm Examination Period

1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Keith Spalding B117
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Monodromy
Alexander Yom Din, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech Project for Effective Teaching (CPET) Discussion Group

Gates Annex 126 (Library)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Cold Molecular Medium around Distant Galaxies: Light up the Darkness!
Bjorn Emont, NRAO, Charlottesville,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Rain over tropical continents: linear theories, abrupt changes, and monsoons
William R. Boos, Professor, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture

Gates Annex B122
Perspectives on Nucleotide Research for Antiviral Drugs and Expanding Access
John Martin, Ph.D., CEO, Gilead Sciences, Inc.,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Curious Minds and Materials Discoveries
Jiaxing Huang, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Optimal Invariant Tests in an Instrumental Variables Regression With Heteroskedastic and Autocorrelated Errors
Marcelo Moreira, Professor of Economics, Fundação Getulio Vargas,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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NeuroTechers Cookies & Tea

Beckman Behavioral Biology B101
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
9:00am – 10:00am
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Simulation, experiments, and modeling of cloud cavitation with application to burst wave lithotripsy

Gates-Thomas 115
Kazuki Maeda, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech
Kazuki Maeda, Ph.D Defense,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"Answering a Qualifying Exam Question"
Yannis Dafalias, Distinguished Professor, CEE Department, University of California, Davis, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Mechanics, National Technical University, Athens,
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Cares Day

San Pasqual Walk
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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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar

Annenberg 213
Learning from logged bandit feedback
Adith Swaminathan, Researcher, Microsoft Research AI,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Reducibility and Computational Lower Bounds for Problems with Planted Sparse Structure
Guy Bresler, Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum Career Development Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Jarrad Harford, University of Washington

Baxter B125
International Trade and the Propagation of Merger Waves
Jarrad Harford, Professor of Finance, Chair of the Department of Finance and Business Economics, Paul Pigott-PACCAR Professor in Business Administration, Foster School of Business, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
An introduction to the de Rham-Witt complex
Christopher Davis, Mathematics Department, University of California, Irvine ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Low Energy Baryogenesis and Beauty
Ann E. Nelson, Kenneth J. Young Chair & Graduate Recruitment Coordinator, Professor of Physics, University of Washington,
Friday, May 4th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Women's Tennis) Caltech at SCIAC Tournament

9:00am – 5:00pm
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James K. Knowles Lectures & Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium

Gates-Thomas 135
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Categories of Line Operators in 3d N=4 Theories
Michael Geracie, UC Davis,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Caregiver Resource Fair

Beckman Institute, Glanville Courtyard
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Quantum information in quantum cognition
Nicole Yunger Halpern, Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151
Harnessing Biological Tools of Protein Transport and Catalysis
Camille McAvoy, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151
Harnessing Biological Tools of Protein Transport and Catalysis
Camille McAvoy, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Building Coordinator & Floor Warden Training

Keith Spalding B117
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Cyclic Polyolefins via Ring-Expansion Metathesis Polymerization
Julian Edwards, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Large Eddy Simulation of Shock-Turbulence Interaction
Noah Braun, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
On the equivalence between Q-conditions and primitive stability
C.-M. Michael Wong, Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Inorganic Chemistry in Cell Cycle Control: Quantitative Mapping of Subcellular Transition Metal Fluctuations
Thomas V. O'Halloran, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor, Chemistry, Northwestern University,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B270
Indoor Geolocation Science and Technology - At the Emergence of Smart World and IoT
Kaveh Pahlavan, Professor and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
5:30pm – 7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Carcamo/Tatevosian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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IMPLiCIT Improv STAR WARS Comedy Show!

TACIT House, 275 S. Hill Ave.