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Monday, October 24th, 2011
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125
Debt Policy Under Constraints Between Philip II, the Cortes and Genoese Bankers
Christophe Chamley, Department of Economics, Boston University,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Inverse Problems for Non-Self-Adjoint Operators
Mark Embree, Professor, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University,
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Basic bike repair course

Student Activities Center
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Consulting Club - Final Case Interview Practice Night

Broad 200
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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CIT Amateur Radio Club Get-together

See event detail for location
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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Beginning West Coast Swing Class

Winnett Lounge
9:15pm – 10:15pm
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Intermediate West Coast Swing Dance Class: Technique and Styling

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
9:30am – 10:30am
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Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
10:30am – 11:30am
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding Building
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Donaldson-Thomas invariants and wall-crossing formulas
Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Write or Radiate
Christopher Rose, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B125
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar in American Studies

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Why Printing Precedes Manuscript
Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professer in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow, Huntington Library,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125
*This seminar has been cancelled* Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil
Tommaso Nannicini, Bocconi University,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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"CPA join the board" meeting

Central Catalinas Recreation Room
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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"The American Rocketeer"

Beckman Auditorium
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
8:00am – Ongoing
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Midterm Examination Period

9:00am – 10:30am
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Caltech Women's Club Welcoming

Red Door Cafe
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Wednesdays in the park

Tournament Park
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Fiber Scrambling for Extreme Doppler Precision
Julien Spronck, Yale,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Asymptotic Properties of Extremal Polynomials
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Poetry and Literary Club Midweek Meeting

Red Door Cafe
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "Web of Science"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Secrets of a Faculty Search Committee Workshop

Beckman Institute Auditorium
2:30pm – 4:00pm
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Alternative PhD Careers Club - Career Exploration Panel

Schlinger 101
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Laboratory Safety 101

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

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Early Astrophysics Results from Planck
Krzysztof Gorski, JPL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125
Contagion and Uninvadability in Social Networks with Bilingual Option (joint with Daisuke Oyama)
Satoru Takahashi, Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
No Seminar this week
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Self-Assembled Nanostructures in Mixed III-V and III- N Epitaxial Layers and their Influence on Devices
Subhash Mahajan, Distinguished Professor and Special Adviser to the Chancellor , University of California, Davis,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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SALSA DANCE CLASS (BEGINNER)

Winnett Lounge
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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L.A. Ruby Study Group Meeting

IMSS 120
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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SALSA DANCE CLASS (ADVANCED BEGINNER)

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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SALSA DANCE CLASS (INTERMEDIATE)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.
10:00am – 11:00am
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Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Recognition of Nucleic Acid Mismatches by Luminescent Ruthenium Complexes
Hang Song, Chemistry Graduate Student, Barton Group, Chemistry & Chemical 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
11:30am – 12:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 213
On the complexity of the commuting local Hamiltonian problem and tight conditions for Topological Order in such systems
Lior Eldar, Hebrew University,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation

Keith Spalding Building
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Tailoring electrocatalyst materials at the nano-scale: Controlling activity, selectivity, and stability for energy conversion reactions
Thomas F. Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture

Annenberg 213
Fast Global Convergence of Gradient Methods for High-Dimensional Statistical Recovery
Sahand Negahban, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 206
California Water
John Hall, Professor, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
New topologically ordered phases of condensed matter
Joel Moore, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Molecular Genetics of Economic Decision Making
Chew Soo Hong, Lab for Behavioral & Biological Economics & the Social Sciences, National University of Singapore,
Richard P Ebstein, Lab for Behavioral & Biological Economics & the Social Sciences, National University of Singapore,
6:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Y Friends Dinner with Dr. Ed Stone: The Universe in High Definition

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Tango Dance Class (Beginner I Series)

Winnett Lounge