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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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SASS Debate Watch: Presidential Debate

7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
8:30am – 4:00pm
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Staff Education & Career Development Workshop: "Changes & Trends in Today's English Usage"

Brown Gymnasium, Classroom
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Thesis Seminar

Broad 100
Discovery of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Mutants for the Incorporation of Non-Canonical Amino Acids Into Proteins
Ismet Caglar Tanrikulu, graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Keck 142
A Simple Model of Subtropical Stratocumulus Cloud Feedbacks
Peter Caldwell, postdoctoral researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Imaging of Single Organic Molecules in Motion
Eiichi Nakamura, professor of chemistry, University of Tokyo,
4:30pm – 5:00pm
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Information Session: Caltech Classroom Connection

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Dabney Hall, Lounge
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Staff Education & Career Development Workshop: "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Maximizer"

Winnett Lounge
9:00am – 10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
The Low Energy-Use Design for the Building and Its Associated Laboratories
Eric Soladay, Lead MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) Engineer for the Robinson building redesign, Rumsey Engineering,
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: MathSciNet

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Ultrafiltration of Macromolecules through a Nanopore
Chi Wu, professor of chemistry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
The Insoluble Organic Matter in Carbonaceous Chondrites: A Probe to Study the Processes in the Early Solar System
Laurent Remusat, 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)
Dark Matters
Jonathan Feng, professor of physics and astronomy, and Chancellor's Fellow, UC Irvine,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Beginner Argentine Tango Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group Monthly Meeting

Downs 107
8:00pm – 11:00pm
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Entomology Club 2008 Kick-Off Party

Off Campus
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Jazz/Lyrical Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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RESCHEDULED TO JANUARY: Matthew Bogdanos: Thieves of Baghdad: The Journey to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures

Beckman Auditorium
9:00pm – 10:00pm
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Hip Hop Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Friday, October 10th, 2008
11:00am – 2:00pm
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Benefit Providers Available to Discuss 2009 Enrollment

Winnett Center
11:00am – 8:00pm
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Caltech Y Golf Tournament and Auction

Off Campus
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Holographic Superconductors
Gary Horowitz, professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
EnVE: A Consistent Hybrid Ensemble/Variational Estimation Strategy for Environmental Turbulent Flow Systems
Thomas R. Bewley, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Fine Arts and Crafts Club

Red Door Cafe
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Social Affective Neuroscience in Japan
Hidehiko Takahashi, Department of Molecular Neuroimaging, clinical neuroimaging section, National Institute of Radiological Sciences,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Quark Masses: An Environmental Impact Statement
Alejandro Jenkins, research associate, Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
C-H, C-C, and Si-H Bond Transformations with ϐ-Diiminate Pt Complexes
Nathan (Ned) West, postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, Caltech,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Caltech Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Joshua Kane: in Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Terror

Beckman Auditorium
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
8:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum

Baxter Lecture Hall
Successful Companies through Incubation: SoCal Incubators Serve the High-Tech Industry
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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El Ritmo Del Mar - Rhythm of the Sea: In Collaboration with The Orchestras of Pasadena

Beckman Auditorium
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cheng Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Sara Grey & Kieron Means

Beckman Institute Auditorium
8:00pm – 11:00pm
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TACIT Film Festival: Films from the Nuclear Age

Sherman Fairchild Library, Amphitheatre
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
10:00am – 11:00am
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Beginning Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
11:00am – 5:00pm
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Aero Association of Caltech/JPL Fall Picnic

Off Campus
11:00am – 12:30pm
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Intermediate/Advanced Ballet Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Beginner Ballroom I Dance Class

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

Dabney Hall, Lounge
6:15pm – 7:15pm
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Bellydance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Monday, October 13th, 2008
8:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
From Caltech to the Space Station and Back
Garrett Reisman, astronaut, NASA Space Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
From Particle to Kinetic and Hydrodynamic Descriptions of Flocking
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Femtosecond Laser Nanosurgery from Shedding Light on Nerve Regeneration to Aiding in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy
Adela Ben-Yakar, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Science Behind the Great Southern California ShakeOut
Lucy Jones, chief scientist, U. S. Geological Survey, Pasadena,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Electroweak Corrections Using Effective Field Theory: Applications to the LHC
Randall Kelley, graduate student, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, UC San Diego,