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Winter 2010-2011

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Complex Molecule Synthesis as a Fuel for Discovery

Neil K. Garg, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Self-Defense Training for Women (Advanced Level)

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

6:30pm – 7:30pm

L.A.-Style Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge

7:45pm – 8:45pm

L.A.-Style Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge

9:00pm – 10:00pm

Free Salsa Rueda Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

10:00am – 1:00pm

Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Entrepreneurship Club Lecture

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Paul Ouyang,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar

Baxter B125

Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Asset

M. Keith Chen, associate professor of economics, Yale School of Management,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture

Annenberg 105

Limits of Communication

Alexander Sherstov, Microsoft Research,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar

Moore B270

A Clean-Slate Design of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using On-Off-Division Duplex

Dongning Guo, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Hot Dolomite Explodes! Evidence of Ancient Earthquakes on the Naukluft Thrust, Namibia

Christie Rowe, associate researcher, UC Santa Cruz,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Messy Magnets and Dirty Superfluids

Gil Refael, associate professor of condensed matter physics, Caltech,

7:00pm – 8:30pm

Beginner II Argentine Tango Dance Class

Winnett Lounge

Friday, March 4th, 2011

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Holographic C-theorems

Robert Myers, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 237

Mechanism Design Under a Budget

Yaron Singer, graduate student in computer science, UC Berkeley,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Computational Modeling in High-Frequency MEMS Resonator Design

Sanjay Govindjee, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151

Origin of Productive Selectivity in Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts

Benjamin K. (Keith) Keitz, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Annenberg 105

In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Observations of the Charging and Discharging Processes of Lithium Ion Batteries

Jian Yu Huang, staff scientist , Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies , Sandia National Laboratories,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Ballet Club Core Strength Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge

7:30pm – 10:00pm

Film Screening: Barfuss (Barefoot)

Baxter Lecture Hall

Saturday, March 5th, 2011

10:30am – 4:00pm

Caltech Track & Field @ SCIAC Four-way vs. Occidental College and University of Redlands

Off Campus

11:00am – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Minasyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

12:00pm – 6:00pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Healy Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

1:30pm – 6:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Nikolay Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:00pm – 5:00pm

Explore LA: Avenue Q at the Pantages Theater

Off Campus

2:00pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Zakinyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:30pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Berberyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

2:30pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Berberyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

3:00pm – 5:30pm

Wedding Photography on Campus: Oughourian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

10:00am – 11:00am

Beginning Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

11:00am – 1:00pm

Intermediate/Advanced Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room

2:00pm – 5:00pm

Skeptics Society Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall

Why Everyone Else Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind

Robert Kurzban, associate professor of psychology, the University of Pennsylvania,

Monday, March 7th, 2011

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Early Astrophysics Results from Planck

Graca Rocha, JPL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114

How to Turn Graphene into a Room-Temperature Topological Insulator Using Adatoms

Jason Alicea, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, UC Irvine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

The Gradual Closing of the Indonesian Seaway and the Onset of Northern Hemisphere Ice Ages

Peter Molnar, professor of geological sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Molecular Engineering of Conjugated Polymers to Reach Higher Efficiency "Plastic" Solar Cells

Wei You, assistant professor of chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

KNI-MDL Seminar

Steele 125

4:15pm – 5:15pm

Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Multi-scale Dynamics and Information

N. Sri Namachchivaya, professor of aerospace engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

4:15pm – 5:15pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Measurement of Single Target-Spin Asymmetry in Semi-Inclusive Pion Electroproduction on a Transversely Polarized $^3$He Target

Xin Qian, Robert A. Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics, Caltech,

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

8:00am – 3/10 12:30pm

Hubble and Spitzer Fellows Research Symposium

Beckman Institute Auditorium

8:00am – 3/10 12:30pm

Hubble and Spitzer Fellows Research Symposium

Beckman Institute Auditorium

10:00am – 12:00pm

Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 210

Eigenquakes, Gaussian Processes, and Ground Motion Simulation

Arzhang Alimoradi, lecturer and senior research engineer, USC,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Caltech Arts Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe

1:00pm – 4:00pm

Twenty-Seventh Annual ME 72 Engineering Design Competition

Beckman Auditorium, Exterior Promenade

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 107

Quantum Theory Cannot be Extended

Roger Colbeck, postdoctoral researcher, Perimeter Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Talk

Cahill 370

New Constraints on the Evolution of the Stellar-to-Dark Matter Connection: A Combined Analysis of Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing, Clustering, and Stellar Mass Functions from z=0.2 to z=1

Alexie Leauthaud, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

East Bridge 114

Astrometric Effects of a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

Laura Book, graduate student in theoretical astrophysics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125

Molecular and Genetic Approaches to Study Neural Circuit Assembly

Marta Morey-Ramonell, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCLA,