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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Nonlinear Ground State Representations and Sharp Hardy Inequalities
Rupert Frank, postdoctoral scholar in mathematics, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SFCC Work/Life Workshop: How to Choose a Summer Program or Camp

Winnett Lounge
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Back Safety Training

Keith Spalding 118
3:40pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Keck 142
Solar Variability and Climate Change
Ka-Kit Tung, professor of applied mathematics and adjunct professor in atmospheric science, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium—CANCELLED

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computer Science Seminar

Jorgensen 74
Functional Encryption: Beyond Public Key Cryptography
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Conformal Gravity Challenges String Theory
Philip Mannheim, professor of physics and astronomy, University of Connecticut,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Structural DNA Nanotechnology: Information Guided Self-Assembly
Hao Yan, assistant professor, department of chemistry and biochemistry, Arizona State University,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Next-Generation Neural Implants: Yu-Chong Tai

Beckman Auditorium
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Fencing: NCAA Championships

away game
8:00am – 3/16 5:00pm
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Study Period

8:00am – 7:00pm
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Women's Water Polo: All-Day Tournament

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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End of Campaign Campus Celebration

Beckman Auditorium
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: Electronic Thesis and Dissertations

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Asymmetric Aldol Reaction 'in the Presence of Water' or 'in Water'
Yujiro Hayashi, professor of industrial chemistry, Tokyo University of Science,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Mass, Kinematics, Metallicity, and Gas Flows in High Redshift Galaxies
Dawn Erb, research fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
Between the Looking Glasses: Negative Refraction and Field-Effect Modulation in Metal-Insulator-Metal Waveguides
Jen Dionne, graduate student in applied physics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Early Paleozoic Orogenic and Sedimentary History of the Himalayas
Paul Myrow, professor of geology, Colorado College,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Molecular Engineering of Stem Cell and Gene Therapeutics
David V. Shaffer, associate professor of chemical engineering, UC Berkeley,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group Monthly Meeting

Downs 107
Friday, March 14th, 2008
10:00am – 11:30am
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Human Resources Workshop: "Tax Smart Ways to Save & Invest"

Winnett Lounge
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Arithmetic Geometry and Topological String Theory
Albert Schwarz, professor of mathematics, UC Davis,
1:30pm – 4:30pm
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Memorial Symposium for Seymour Benzer

Ramo Auditorium
1:30pm – 4:30pm
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Memorial Symposium for Seymour Benzer

Ramo Auditorium
Memorial Symposium for Seymour Benzer
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Evolution of Disk Galaxies in a Dark Matter dominated Universe
Eric Bell, Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Firestone 306
Biomechanics of the Cytoskeleton: Cell Contractility and Mechanosensitivity of Cell Adhesion
Vikram Deshpande, associate professor of mechanical engineering, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Probing Charge Transfer in DNA-Protein Systems by EPR and Transient Absorption Spectroscopies
Eric Olmon, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar

Moore B280
Metamaterial Antennas
Tatsuo Itoh, professor of electrical engineering, UCLA,
4:15pm – 5:16pm
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Caltech Poetry Club Meeting

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
6:00pm – 10:00pm
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Men's and Women's Track and Field: Oxy Distance Carnival @ Occidental College

away game
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 11:00pm
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End-of-the-Term Ballroom Dance Party

Winnett Lounge
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
9:00am – 11:00pm
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Caltech Ballroom Dance Competition: Dance of the Roses

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
11:30am – 5:00pm
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Men's and Women's Track and Field: SCIAC Bottom Four Meet @ Caltech

Fox Stanton Track and Field
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Wong/Kong Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:45pm – 1:45pm
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Bellydance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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David Finckel and Wu Han

Beckman Auditorium
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Amnesty International Book Discussion Group

See event detail for location
Monday, March 17th, 2008
8:00am – 3/19 5:00pm
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Final Examinations for Winter Term 2007–08

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

Linde 106
Cosmological Parameters from Cosmic Shear—Optimization of Data Vectors and Covariances
Tim Eifler, graduate student in cosmology, Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Bonn, Germany,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Integrins and Large-Scale Conformational Change in Signal Transmission Across Membranes
Timothy A. Springer, professor of pathology, CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
On the Nature of Abstraction
Robert Irwin, environmental artist and sculptor,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computer Science Seminar

Jorgensen 74
New Results in Lattice-based Cryptography
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Colored Resonances at the Tevatron: Phenomenology and Discovery Potential in Multijets
Can Kilic, postdoctoral fellow in theoretical particle physics, Johns Hopkins University,
4:15pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Firestone 306
Quadrature for Meshless Methods
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Women's Water Polo: Caltech vs. Macalester

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
10:00am – 11:45pm
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar

Keck 142
Systems Biophysics and Information Processing in Biological Networks
Ilya Nemenman, technical staff member, Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory,