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Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Women's Volleyball vs. Southwestern College

Braun Gym
Sunday, October 24th, 2010
10:00am – 7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Davtyan/Karayan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

Beckman Auditorium
The Moral Landscape:How Science can Determine Human Values
2:30pm – 4:30pm
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Beginner Social Ballroom Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
Monday, October 25th, 2010
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Memorial Service for Ralph Kavanagh

Athenaeum
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CIT-Knit and Crochet

Spalding Laboratory 113
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Hispanic Heritage Month Event: Dia de los Muertos Celebration

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Topic to be announced.
Francisco Valero-Cuevas, associate professor of biomedical engineering and of biokinesiology and physical the, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114
Topological Transitions in Dissipative Quantum Transport
Mark Rudner, postdoctoral scholar in condensed matter theory, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
In Situ Mineral Carbonation in Peridotite for CO2 Capture and Storage
Peter B. Kelemen, professor of geochemistry, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Mens's Soccer vs. La Sierra University

North Athletic Field
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125
How Does Knowledge Diffuse? The Case of Agricultural Experiment Stations in the United States, 1880-1930
Shawn Kantor, UC Merced,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Convex Duality in Nonconvex Quadratic Optimization
Marc Teboulle, professor of mathematical sciences, Tel-Aviv University,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
KATRIN and Project 8
Benjamin Monreal, assistant professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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CIT Amateur Radio Club Get-together

See event detail for location
8:30pm – 9:30pm
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Beginner West Coast Swing Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
9:40pm – 10:40pm
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Beginner Modern Jive ("Ceroc") Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
Topic to be announced.
Guruswami (Ravi) Ravichandran, John E. Goode, Jr., Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Hispanic Heritage Month Event: Mama’s Hot Tamales Cooking Demonstration and Lunch

Winnett Lounge
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Vision of a Visipedia
Pietro Perona, Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Human Resources Workshop: "Your Retirement Income Options"

Beckman Institute Auditorium
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TEDTalk Tuesday

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 107
Small Gaps, Localization, and the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm
David Gossett, graduate student in quantum information science, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125
Topic to be announced.
Matthew Scott, principal investigator, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar

Annenberg 213
Topic and speaker to be announced.
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125
Congressional Development of the Institutional Presidency
Sean Gailmard, Judith E. Gruber associate professor of political science, UC Berkeley,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Women's Volleyball vs. Whittier College

Braun Gym
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Resnick Institute Inaugural Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Extrapolating the Past v. Inventing the Future
Vinod Khosla, Venture Capitalist,
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
8:00am – Ongoing
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Midterm Examination Period

9:00am – 10:00am
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Solar Rises Again at Caltech—Celebrating the Institute's Newest Solar Photovoltaic Installations

See event detail for location
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Diversity Lecture: "Do Babies Matter in Science?"

Beckman Institute Auditorium
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Exoplanets and Planet Formation in the Kepler Era
Jack Lissauer, NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
A Lensing Map . . . A Redshift Survey
Margaret Geller, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125
The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor
Abhijit Banerjee, professor of economics, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Automatic Modulation Classification
Asoke Nandi, professor and chair of signal processing, the University of Liverpool,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Gases and Their Masses: Using Dissolved O2 Isotopes and O2/Ar Ratios to Qualify the Pacific Ocean Biological Carbon Pump
Laurie Juranek, research scientist, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (UW) and Pacific Marine Environmental Labo, University of Washington and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminsitration,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Men's Soccer at University of La Verne

Off Campus
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Men's Water Polo at Pomona-Pitzer

Off Campus
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Mechanism-Based Design and Development of Catalytic Reactions
Elizabeth R. Jarvo, professor of chemistry, UC Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics

Firestone 308
Networked Target Tracking Architectures
Randy Paffenroth, program director, Numerica Corporation,
4:30pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Startup Industry Night

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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Salsa Dance Social

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Jean-Philippe Avouac: Rising Mountains and Sinking Oceans: Earthquakes That Shape the Earth

Beckman Auditorium
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
9:00am – 10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Evaluation of the Importance of In-could SOA Formation
Xuan Zhang, graduate student in environmental science and engineering, Caltech,
10:30am – 12:30pm
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Campus Architectural Tour

Athenaeum
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding Building
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Disk Formation in Protoplanetary Systems: Magnetic Braking and Non-ideal MHD
Ruben Krasnopolsky, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "EndNote For Beginners"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation

Keith Spalding Building