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Saturday, March 10th, 2012
8:00am – 11:00am
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum

Baxter Lecture Hall
8:00am – 11:00am
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum

Baxter Lecture Hall
Social Entrepreneurship: Venturing from the Bottom Up
Jim Fruchterman, CEO and Founder, benetech,
8:00am – 3/13 5:00pm
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Study Period

9:00am – 10:00am
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9 AM THIS WEEK! Good Morning Bellydance! With Leela + poetry-dance field trip after

Braun Gym
10:30am – 3:00pm
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Hahamongna Hike: Brown Mountain Dam

See event detail for location
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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A Salute to America's Music: The All-American Boys Chorus under the direction of Wesley Martin

Beckman Auditorium
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Sunday, March 11th, 2012
10:00am – 11:00am
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Beginning Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
11:00am – 12:30pm
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Intermediate/Advanced Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Beginner International Ballroom II Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
Dr. Eric Topol, cardiologist,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Friends of the Caltech Libraries Event: Fahrenheit 451: Two Part Series (Part One)

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Intermediate International Standard Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Jupiter String Quartet

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, March 12th, 2012
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125
Strategic Social Pressure: Theory and Experiment (with Margaret Neale and Hugaveera Rao)
David Baron, Visiting Professor in Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Galaxies in X-ray Groups: Finding Halo Centers and Tracking Evolution
Matt George, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Search for same-sign top-quark production and fourth-generation down-type quarks
Ning Zhou, UC Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Understanding C-H Bond Activation in Heme Proteins: The Role of Thiolate Ligation in Cytochrome P450
Michael T. Green, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Friends of the Caltech Libraries Event: Fahrenheit 451: Two Part Series (Part Two)

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Huntington Library
Size Does Matter! Massive Cluster of Galaxies and the Structure of the Universe"
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
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
1:30pm – 4:00pm
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IACUC Meeting

Location to be announced
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
The Tsc-mTOR pathway: an activity-dependent regulator of hippocampal synaptic plasticity and network excitability
Helen Bateup, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B125
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 107
Exploring quantum soft matter in an AMO setting
Benjamin Lev, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Gravitational and Electromagnetic Signatures from the Tidal Disruption of Stars
Roland Haas, Tapir, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Isolation and Exchange in Eighteenth-Century France
Emma Rothschild, Harvard University,
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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AltC-PhD Speaker: Kenneth Winston - Careers in Financial Risk Management

Crellin 151
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Amnesty International Letter-Writing Meeting

Athenaeum, Rathskeller
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
8:00am – 8:05am
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8th IWGGMS (International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space)

8:00am – 3/16 5:00pm
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Final Examinations for Winter Term

10:00am – 12:00pm
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Wednesdays in the park

Tournament Park
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassadors and Educators: Volunteer Networks as Communities of Practice
Kay Ferrari, JPL,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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eClub Q&A with Harrison Tang, founder of Spokeo.com

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Bloodborne Pathogens Training

Keith Spalding 118
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Aryne Annulation Reactions Toward the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Molecules

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Aryne Annulation Reactions Toward the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Molecules
Christopher Gilmore, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz Group, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Kepler and the RR Lyrae stars
Katrien Kolenberg, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA & KU Leuven, Belgium,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125
Subjective Learning
David Dillenberger, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Distributions, sources and sinks of greenhouse gases assessed using global and regional aircraft measurements
Steve Wofsy, Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor, Atmospheric and Environmental Science, Harvard University,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Caltech Women's Club presents: A Writer's Journey- From Concept to Publication

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Jonas C. Peters: "Making Molecules"

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
4:00am – 5:00am
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Informal Biology seminar

Broad 100
Specification of sensory placodes: towards a gene regulatory network
Andrea Streit, Dept. of Craniofacial Development, King’s College,
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
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Information Session: University of Redlands Evening Degree Programs

Winnett Quad
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
The olfactory-specific and activity-dependent histone variant Hist2h2be modulates neuronal life span
Stephen Santoro, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation

Keith Spalding Building
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Computer Science Seminar

Annenberg 105
Erlang from the Trenches
Francesco Cesarini, Founder and Technical Director, Erlang Solutions, Ltd.,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Smart Grid: Opportunities and Challenges in the Creation of the 21st Century Power Grid
Rajit Gadh, Professor, Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science, UCLA,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special Lecture in Engineering Education

Gates-Thomas 206
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Fitness Effects of All Possible Point-Mutants in Ubiquitin
Dan Bolon, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Mysterious Titan
Tina Ray, astronomer, Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn; cochair, Tital Orbiter Science Team, JPL,
8:00pm – 11:30pm
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Tango Workshops

Winnett Lounge
Friday, March 16th, 2012
8:00am – 5:00pm
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End of Winter Term

8:30am – 12:30pm
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Staff Education & Career Development: TIME MANAGEMENT

Avery Library
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Topic to be Announced
Xi Yin, Harvard University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 127
Measuring the Performance of Large-Scale Combinatorial Auctions: A Structural Estimation Approach
Gabriel Y. Weintraub, Associate Professor of Decision, Risk & Operations, Columbia Business School,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Memorial Service for Hal Zirin

Athenaeum
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Reactivity of Novel Tricopper Complexes
Davide Lionetti, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Mysterious Titan
Tina Ray, astronomer, Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn; and cochair, Titan Orbiter Science Team, JPL,
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
8:00am – 4/1 5:00pm
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Spring Recess

3:00pm – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zargaryan Christening Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Cheryl Wheeler and Kenny White

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, March 18th, 2012
10:00am – 11:00am
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Beginning Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
11:00am – 12:30pm
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Intermediate/Advanced Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room