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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Aerosols in the United States: Observation from Space and Pollution-Climate Interactions
Daniel Jacob, professor of atmospheric chemistry and environmental engineering, Harvard University,
6:30pm – 7:30pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Beginner)

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Salsa Dance Class (Intermediate)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
9:00am – 10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Greening Pasadena: The City's Plans for a Sustainable Future
Alice Sterling, Green City Coordinator, City of Pasadena,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Career Development Center Workshop: Networking and Resume Writing

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennen Conference Room
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "Electronic Theses and Dissertations"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Characterizing the Resistance Generated by a Molecular Bond as it is Forcibly Separated
L. Ben Freund, professor of engineering, Brown University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar

Baxter B125
Single Neurons and Decision Making in the Primate Brain
Daeyeol Lee, Yale University School of Medicine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
UHP Terranes: Race Car or School Bus?
Andrew Kylander-Clark, development engineer, Department of Earth Sciences, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Seeing the Beginning of the Universe
Benjamin Wandelt, Associate Professor of Physics, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, currently on sabbatical at Caltech and JPL,
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Jazz/Lyrical Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
9:00pm – 10:00pm
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Hip Hop Dance Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Friday, May 8th, 2009
10:00am – 11:30am
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Spirit of Exploration

Beckman Auditorium
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Nuclear Force from String Theory
Koji Hashimoto, senior research scientist, RIKEN,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics
Yonggang Huang, professor of civil and environmental engineering, Northwestern Universtiy,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Persons and Explanations by Mechanisms
Peter Machamer, professor of the history and philosophy of science, University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Lanthanide-Based Receptor Sites for Bacterial Spore Detection
Morgan Cable, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
4:40pm – 5:40pm
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Caltech Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Pilates-based Strength Class: Core Strength of Athletes and Dancers

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Bandorama: Fun and Games

Ramo Auditorium
9:00pm – 5/9 12:00am
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Dance of the Roses Welcome Party and Dance Social

Winnett Lounge
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
9:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum

Baxter Lecture Hall
Digital Content Distribution: New Paths Toward Convergence
9:00am – 11:00pm
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Dance of the Roses Dancesport Competition

Brown Gymnasium
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Holi—The Festival of Colors

North Athletic Field
11:00am – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Malkchyan/Kara-Simonyan Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vartanian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Earth: Power of the Planet — Volcano

Beckman Auditorium
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Stepanian/Toroussian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bautista Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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Women's Club Family Potluck

Tournament Park
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Bandorama: Fun and Games

Ramo Auditorium
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Bryan Bowers: Autoharp Master

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
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
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
Peter Ward, professor of biology and of Earth and space sciences, University of Washington, Seattle,
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech Student Chamber Ensembles: Mother's Day Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Monday, May 11th, 2009
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Seniors to Remove Conditions and Incompletes

9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Deficiency Notices

3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Faculty Board Meeting

Caltech Hall Board Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Models for X-Ray Binaries: Galactic and Extragalactic Populations
Tassos Fragos, graduate student, Northwestern Universtiy,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Microelectromechanical Systems for Biomolecular Sensing and Manipulation
Qiao Lin, professor of mechanical engineering, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
High Throughput Bacterial Electron Cryotomography
Grant Jensen, associate professor of biology, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
400 Years Later: What Does the Hippocampus Do?
Larry Swanson, professor of biological sciences, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Downs 107
Vortex Loops and the Superfluid Phase Transition
Gary A. Williams, professor of physics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Synergistic Microbial Interactions at the Microscale: Links between C, N and S Cycles in Marine Sedimentary Environments
Victoria Orphan, assistant professor of geobiology, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
New Physics, QCD Radiation and MadGraph/MadEvent at the LHC
Johan Alwall, postdoctoral scholar, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Precision Measurement in Biology
Stephen Quake, professor of bioengineering, Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
10:00am – 11:00am
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Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151
Photoelectrochemistry of Microstructured Silicon Materials for Solar Energy Applications
James Maiolo, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Jorgensen 74
Feedback and Control in Biological Circuit Design
Richard Murray, Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering, Caltech,