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Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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● POSTPONED: JPL Film Screening: Landing on Mars

Beckman Auditorium
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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New Media Art Show & Public Exhibition

Jorgensen Lobby
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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West Coast Swing Dance Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Thursday, March 12th, 2020
8:00am – 3/15 5:00pm
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Study Period

10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Training

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

Gates-Thomas 135
Modeling Uplift and Collapse of Structures during Earthquakes: Centrifuge Modeling and Rocking Dynamics
Matthew DeJong, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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● POSTPONED: CPET Seminar - Teaching, Research and Service at a CSU

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
Dr. Seema Shah-Fairbank, Associate Professor, Cal Poly Pomona,
11:00am – 3/13 4:00pm
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TEMPORARILY CLOSED: Exhibit "Becoming Caltech, Building a Research Community, 1910-1930" - Weekdays, 11 AM-4 PM

Beckman Institute 131
11:30am – 1:15pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Shakespeare at Caltech

Athenaeum
Shakespeare at Caltech
Jenijoy La Belle, Professor of English,
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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Radioactive Material Handling Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:45pm
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BMB Winter Rotation Seminar

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
"New insights on regional climate and carbon cycle changes from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry"
Aradhna Tripati, Associate Professor, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 255
The Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem
Nathaniel Sagman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Bi-ordinary modular forms
Carl Wang-Erickson, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh,
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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● POSTPONED: William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Baxter Lecture Hall
This event has been postponed. Rescheduled date TBA.
W. Bernard Carlson, Joseph L. Vaughan Professor of Humanities; Chair, Engineering and Society Department; Professor of History, University of Virginia,
Friday, March 13th, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Generalized Global Symmetries and the Swampland
Tom Rudelius, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
CANCELED: Challenges to the implementation of superconducting qubits due to microscopic phenomena inherent to superconducting films
Lara Faoro, CNRS (Paris) and University of Madison Wisconsin,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: The Aerospace Corporation Information Session/Networking

Center for Student Services 310 (Career Achievement, Leadership, and Exploration)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Type Ia Supernovae Progenitors
Robert Fisher, Associate Professor, Physics Department, UMass, Dartmouth,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Investigations of nonlinear transition stages in high-speed boundary layers using direct numerical simulations
Hermann Fasel, Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Women in Chemistry Presents: Career Panel

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Gravitational lensing, anti-Thurston maps, and planar graph embeddings
Lukas Geyer, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
TBD
Mingming Li, ASU,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: A Cappella Concert: Love Sucks

Beckman Auditorium
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Saturday, March 14th, 2020
10:00am – 3:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Explore Caltech

Beckman Mall
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Malone Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, March 15th, 2020
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Eileen Ivers and unIVERSal roots

Beckman Auditorium
Monday, March 16th, 2020
8:00am – 3/18 11:59pm
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Final Examinations for Winter Term

11:00am – 3/20 4:00pm
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TEMPORARILY CLOSED: Exhibit "Becoming Caltech, Building a Research Community, 1910-1930" - Weekdays, 11 AM-4 PM

Beckman Institute 131
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: BELS

Kerckhoff 125
" 'Smart' Agricultural Systems: Plants and Bacteria that Surveil and Respond to Their Environment"
Chris Voigt, Professor, Biological Engineering, MIT,
Tuesday, March 17th, 2020
9:00am – 10:00am
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Introduction to Social Security Webinar

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Literary Dimensions Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
This seminar has been canceled.
Rachel Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University,
4:20pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Did Venus have oceans, and if so, when did it lose them?
Greg Laughlin, Professor of Astronomy, Yale University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
8:00am – 11:59pm
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End of Winter Term

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
TBD
Katie Bouman, Assistant Professor of Computing, Mathematical Sciences, and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Chemical Thinking About Systems Neuroscience for Research and Therapy
Scott Sternson, Group Leader, Department of Chemical Biology and Neuroscience, HHMI, Janelia Research,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
This seminar has been canceled.
Yuya Sasaki, Associate Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University,
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: West Coast Swing Dance Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Watson Lecture - Megasupramolecules: When Disaster Leads to Discovery

Beckman Auditorium
Julia A. Kornfield, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
8:00am – 3/29 5:00pm
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Spring Recess

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Woman2Woman Series Webinar--Postcards from the Future: A Woman's Guide to Saving and Investing

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Kinetochore structure
Stephen C. Harrison, Professor of Structural Cell Biology, Harvard,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Applied Physics Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
New Optimization Strategies in Inverse Electromagnetics Design
Jonathan Fan, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech Sites Office Hours

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Chemical Dissection of Microbiota in Cancer Immunotherapy
Howard Hang, Richard E. Salomon Family Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Biology, Rockefeller University,
Friday, March 20th, 2020
10:00am – 11:00am
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▶︎ CANCELED: PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Development and Mechanistic Investigation of Potassium tert-Butoxide Catalyzed C–H Silylation
David Schuman, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
11:00am – 3:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Symposium

This symposium has been canceled.