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Friday, January 16th, 2009
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)
Spirit & Opportunity: The Corps of Discovery for Mars Keeps Going
John Callas, project manager, Mars Exploration Rovers, JPL,
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
10:30am – 2:30pm
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Swimming & Diving: Caltech vs. Pomona Pitzer

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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Women's Basketball vs. Whittier

home game
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Men's Basketball vs. Whittier

home game
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
6:15pm – 7:15pm
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Bellydance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Amnesty International Book Discussion Group

See event detail for location
Monday, January 19th, 2009
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Martin Luther King Day (Institute holiday)

9:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
7:00am – 10:00am
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Televised Viewing and Breakfast: Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
8:00am – 12:00pm
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Computer Software Training: Access 2003, Level 1

IMSS 120
9:30am – 11:30am
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
10:00am – 1/22 4:30pm
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Art Exhibition: The Art Studio as a Laboratory

East Bridge 114
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computer Software Training: Dreamweaver CS3, Level 2

IMSS 120
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Jorgensen 74
Entanglement Renormalization: Foundations, Status and Prospects
Guifre Vidal, professor of physical sciences, University of Queensland,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Galaxy Evolution from Galaxy Clustering
Zheng Zheng, Institute for Advanced Study,
3:45pm – 5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Tidally-Disrupted Asteroids around Single White Dwarfs
Michael Jura, professor of astronomy, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
The Bacterial Flagellar Motor: Step, Jump, and Spin
Ned Wingreen, Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248
Status of SuperB—The Super Flavor Factory
David Hitlin, professor of high energy physics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar

Moore 239
Dynamical System Identification: An Operator Theoretic Approach
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Eighth Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
Andrei Okounkov, professor of mathematics, Princeton University,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park
10:30am – 2:30pm
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Spring Career Fair

Brown Gymnasium
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Caltech Fine Arts and Crafts Club

Red Door Cafe
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Eigenvalue Statistics for Random CMV Matrices
Mihai Stoiciu, assistant professor of mathematics, Williams College,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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MLK Week Event: Lunch and Video Presentation of Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Laboratory Safety 101

Keith Spalding 118
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Bifocals for Baryonic Physics: Toward Successful Models of High-Redshift Galaxy Formation
Brant Robertson, Spitzer Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, the University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar—cancelled

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Keck 142
Natural Photochemical Nanoreactors in Aquatic Systems
Kristopher McNeill, associate professor of chemistry, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125
GABA Circuits Control of Critical Period Brain Development
Takao Hensch, professor of neurology and molecular and cellular biology, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research—cancelled

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Annelise E. Barron, professor of bioengineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Entropy Functions, Polymatroids and Network Coding
Alex Grant, research professor of information theory, Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Eighth Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
Andrei Okounkov, professor of mathematics, Princeton University,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Men's Basketball vs. Cal Lutheran

home game
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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H. Jeff Kimble: The Quantum Internet

Beckman Auditorium
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
9:00am – 10:30am
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Caltech Postdoctoral Association Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Graphing Quantitative Data
Jean-luc Doumont, speaker and consultant on structuring thoughts and constructing communication,
9:00am – 10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group—cancelled

South Mudd 365
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool

234 S. Catalina Ave.
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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IST Student Day

Winnett Quad
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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MLK Week Event: Keynote Luncheon: "Principles of Community Organizing and Civil Rights," Victor Griego Jr.

Dabney Hall, Lounge
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Mechanistic Study of the Mitochondrial Fission Complex
Yan Zhang, senior postdoctoral scholar in biology, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "Chemical Compound Data Searching"

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

Lauritsen Library
New Results from the MiniBooNE Detector
Gerry Garvey, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Seismic Tomographic Evidence for Schist and Farallon Crust within the Mojave Block
Carl Tape, graduate student in geophysics, Caltech,