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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Sustainable Landscape at Caltech

Beckman Institute Auditorium
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "SciFinder Scholar . . . It's Not Just for Chemists"

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

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Physical and Chemical Toeholds for Exoplanet Bioastronomy
Tori Hoehler, research scientist and principal investigator in bioenergetics, NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar in American Studies

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Consuming Passions: Learning from Las Vegas and Los Angeles
Daniel Horowitz, professor of American studies, Smith College,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Polar Codes and Power Blackouts
Edmund Yeh, associate professor of electrical engineering, computer science, and statistics, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Defining and Scaling Coupled Hydrological-biogeochemical Processes Responsible for the Worlds Largest Mass Poisoning
Benjamin David Kocar, postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate

Baxter B125
Preference for Randomization
Kota Saito, graduate students in economics, Northwestern University,
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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L.A.-Style Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration

Baxter Lecture Hall
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Men's Basketball vs. University of La Verne

Braun Gym
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Reel Rock Film Festival

Ramo Auditorium
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Reel Rock Tour

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
7:45pm – 8:45pm
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L.A.-Style Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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CPA Group Trip: Wine Tasting

Location to be announced
9:00pm – 10:00pm
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Free Salsa Rueda Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
9:00am – 10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Nanotechnology for Sustainability: Environment, Water and Climate
Mamadou Diallo, visiting associate in environmental science and engineering, Caltech,
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding Building
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation

Keith Spalding Building
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Rethinking Carbon Utilization in Human Cells
Christian Metallo, postdoctoral fellow in chemical engineering, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
The Archean Mass-Independent Sulfur Isotope Record: Prospects and Limitations
Itay Halevy, postdoctoral scholar in geological and planetary sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
A Tale of Quantum Viscosity in Universal Fermi Gases
John Thomas, Fritz London Professor of Physics, Duke University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Experiments and Causal Discovery
Frederick Eberhardt, Washtington University in St. Louis,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Beginner II Argentine Tango Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Women's Basketball vs. University of La Verne

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Friday, February 4th, 2011
10:00am – 11:00am
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Inside Planet Earth

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Wilsonian and Holographic Renormalization Groups
Joe Polchinkski, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Investigation of the Noise Source in High-Speed Jets
Dimitri Papamoschou, UC Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Semiconductor Surface Chemistry for Solar Energy Conversion
Leslie O'Leary, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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NIH Training Opportunities Information Session

Off Campus
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics

Annenberg 105
Modeling Microbial Cooperation
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech Red Door Poets Meeting

Red Door Cafe
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Ballet Club Core Strength Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Student Chamber Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
2:30pm – 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mirzakhani Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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Swimming and Diving vs. Whittier College

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Men's Basketball at University of Redlands

Off Campus
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
10:00am – 11:00am
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Beginning Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Intermediate/Advanced Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
12:30pm – 2:30pm
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Intermediate International Tango and Quickstep Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
2:45pm – 4:45pm
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Beginner International Ballroom Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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Swimming and Diving vs. Chapman College

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
Monday, February 7th, 2011
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CIT-Knit and Crochet

Spalding Laboratory 113
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The AGN-Starburst Connection in Low Redshift Galaxy Clusters from Multiwavelength Data
David Atlee, Ohio State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Microengineered Hydrogels for Stem Cell Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration
Ali Khademhosseini, assistant professor, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114
A Magnetic Analog of the Isotope Effect in Cuprates
Amit Keren, professor of physics, Technion, Israel,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Broad 100
Bioengineering Tools for Mapping and Mending Dysfunctional Brain Circuits
Viviana Gradinaru, research associate, CNC Center, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Follow the C: Development of Integrated "Omics" and Geochemical Methods for Carbon Cycle Analysis
Jillian Banfield, professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Science and Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Catalysts Made of Earth-Abundant Elements—Making C-C and H-H Bonds
Xile Hu, assistant professor of chemistry, Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar

Steele 125
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Annenberg 105
The Mathematics of Crime Hotspots
Martin Short, assistant adjunct professor of mathematics, UCLA,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Simplified Model for Same Sign Dilepton Signal and Related Phenomenology
Shufang Su, University of Arizona,
8:30pm – 9:30pm
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Beginner West Coast Swing II Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
9:40pm – 10:40pm
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Blues Dancing Class

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
10:30am – 11:30am
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Laser Safety Training

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

Gates-Thomas 206
Controlling the Onset of Turbulence by Streamwise Traveling Waves
Rashad Moarref, professor of electrical and computer engineering, University of Minnesota,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
The Complexity of Simple Programs
Damien Woods, postdoctoral scholar in computing and mathematical sciences, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 107
Optical Continuous-Variable Cluster States
Nicolas Menicucci, postdoctoral researcher, Perimeter Institute,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
Martha Haynes, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences

South Mudd 365
Topic to be announced.
Carolyn Crow, graduate student in Earth and space sciences, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate

Baxter B125
Matching Through Position Auctions
Terence Johnson, University of Maryland,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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Women's Basketball at University of Redlands

Off Campus
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Stability of Absolutely Continuous Spectrum Under Decaying Perturbations: A Review of Recent Developments
Yoram Last, professor of mathematics, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
1:15pm – 2:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Holography for Metallic Quantum Criticality
Sean Hartnoll, Harvard University,