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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
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
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Algorithmic Challenges for Greening IT
Adam Wierman, Assistant Professor, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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The Words of Dr. King - Dramatic Readings by members of the Caltech Community

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Investigations on Low-Valent Group 8 and 9 Metalloradicals
Ayumi Takaoka, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Peters group, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B125
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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AltC-PhD Speaker: Mark Brown - Keck Graduate Institute

Schlinger 101
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Cancelled - Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Probabilistic Models of Sensorimotor Control and Decision Making
Daniel Wolpert, rofessor, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Kaitlin Kratter, CfA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Nanophotonics: The Art of Managing Photons at the Nanoscale
Mark L. Brongersma, Associate Professor , Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125
The quipucamayocs of ubiquitin: deciphering a cellular code
Michael Rape, Asst. Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, Univ. of California - Berkeley,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
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)
The Modeling of the Extragalactic Background Light and Gamma-ray Attenuation
Alberto Dominguez, UC Riverside,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

A Special Class of Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

Location to be announced
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Caltech Poetry Arts and Literary Club Midweek Meeting

Red Door Cafe
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Industrial Truck (Electric Cart) Safety Training

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

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Emission Mechanism of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Andrei Beloborodov, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Transilience of Mass and Momentum by Convective Clouds
David Romps, Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkley,
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 (BEGINNER)

Winnett Lounge
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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James P. Eisenstein: "Electrons in Flatland"

Beckman Auditorium
8:00pm – 9:00pm
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SALSA DANCE CLASS (INTERMEDIATE)

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
7:30am – 8:30am
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Sunrise POWER Vinyasa FLOW Yoga Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding Building
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Information Session: University of Redlands Evening Degree Programs

Winnett Quad
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

South Mudd 162
Seismic Hazards in Japan: Role of Seismology in a Modern Living Environment
Hiroo Kanamori, John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Causation and Probability-Raising
Luke Glynn, McDonnell Postdoctoral Scholar in Philosophy, Caltech,
2:00pm – 5:30pm
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Perpall Speaking Competition Finals

Beckman Institute Auditorium
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation

Keith Spalding Building
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Lecture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Nanorod Materials for Energy Device Applications
Dan Dapkus, William M. Keck Professor of Engineering, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum Networks of Trapped Atomic Ions
Chris Monroe, Bice Zorn Professor of Physics, University of Maryland,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213
Skewness-Variance Approximations for Dynamic Rate, Multi-Server Queues with Abandonment
William Massey, Edwin S. Wilsey Professor, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ruth and Edward Hughes Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Noncoding RNAs: with a Viral Twist
Joan Steitz, HHMI Investigator and professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Baxter B125
Developing Shared Knowledge
Hongyi Li, Postdoctoral Associate, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Art of Image Processing
Dr. Robert Hurt, Visualization Scientist, Spitzer Science Center, Caltech,
8:00pm – 11:00pm
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Tango Workshops

Winnett Lounge
Friday, January 20th, 2012
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Topic to be Announced
Hiroyuki Fuji, Nagoya University,
12:00pm – 2:00pm
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AltC-PhD Q&A: Think Tanks - Institute for Defense Analyses

Spalding Laboratory 102
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125
Vignettes - A Computer Scientist Exploring the Interface With The Social Sciences
Katrina Ligett, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Economics, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114
Assessing the impact of disorder on the ν=5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect
Michael J. Manfra, Professor, Department of Physics, Purdue University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151
Chemical-Scale Investigations of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
Nyssa Puskar, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Recent Experience Applying Advanced Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification to Spacecraft Integrated Modeling
Lee Peterson, Dr. , JPL,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Women Mentoring Women Seminar

Kerckhoff 125
Beyond Bias and Barriers: Current Prospects for Women in Science
Joan Steitz, Sterling Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Synthesis of Heterometallic Trimanganese Mn3MOx Complexes Supported by a Hexapyridyl 1,3,5-Triarylbenzene Ligand
Emily Tsui, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech Poetry Club Meeting

Red Door Cafe