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Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
11:00am – 12:00pm
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308
Constructive discrepancy minimization for convex sets
Thomas Rothvoss, MIT,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Mean field dynamics of mixed fermionic states
Benjamin Schlein, Mathematics, University of Zufich,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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HALF TIME: A Mid-Quarter Meetup for TAs

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Men's Water Polo) Pomona-Pitzer vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Planetary Systems in 4D
Bekki Dawson, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125
Managing Congestion in Dynamic Matching Markets
Yashodhan Kanoria, Assistant Professor, Decision, Risk and Operations Division, Columbia Business School,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Ian Eisenman, Assistant Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Sudakov Safety
Jesse Thaler, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special CMI Seminar

Annenberg 105
Chordal Codes for Chip-to-Chip Communication
Amin Shokrollahi,
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
7:30am – 7:00pm
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APhMS in the 21st Century

Beckman Institute Auditorium
8:30am – 10:00am
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Caltech Women's Club Open House

Red Door Cafe
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102
High-Speed Laser Diagnostics for Understanding the Physicochemical Processes of Turbulent and Reacting Flows
Jeffrey Sutton, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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"WHY SO FEW? GROWTH MINDSET, STEREOTYPE THREAT, AND SPATIAL SKILLS"

Avery Library
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
Physical Clustering of Highly Transcribed Genes in E. coli
Wen Zhou, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar - NOTE: unusual day

Cahill 370
Large-scale structure formation with the Schrödinger method
Cora Uhlemann, PhD student, Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop: "Chemical Information Resources"

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Logic Seminar

Beyond invariance: A notion of cost for quasi-invariant measures
Manuel Inselmann, University of Münster,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Difficult Choices: A Neuro-Computational Approach to Social Decision-Making and Self-Control
Cendri Hutcherson, Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroeconomics, HSS, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
How telomeres solve the chromosome end protection problem
Titia de Lange, Leon Hess Professor, American Cancer Society Professor, Head of Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, Director-Anderson Center for Cancer Research, The Rockefeller University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
From sequence to function to sequence: biophysical modeling and automated design of cellular sensors, circuits, and pathways
Howard M. Salis, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Vicky Rennie,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Local character expansions, hyperelliptic curves, and endoscopy
Cheng-Chiang Tsai, Grad Student, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Case for Jet Substructure
Jesse Thaler, Assistant Professor of Physics, Physics, MIT,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Asteroid Redirect Mission: Rearranging the Solar System
Brian Muirhead, Chief Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, November 7th, 2014
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
Limits of high power fiber lasers, slab fiber waveguides and fabrication and test of microstructures optical fibers
Jay Dawson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Quantum supergravity and exact holography
Joao Gomes, University of Cambridge,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Y Community Service and Advocacy Fair

San Pasqual Walk
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213
First-Order Iterative Methods in the Design of Fast Algorithms: from Multiplicative Weight Updates to Nesterov's Method
Lorenzo Orecchia, MIT/Boston University,
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Beckman Room open

Beckman Institute 131
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Beckman Room open (Caltech's Science Museum)

Beckman Institute 131
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Four topics on the centers of galaxies
Scott Tremaine, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Exascale Co-design for Materials in Extreme Environments
Timothy C. Germann, Director, Exascale Co-Design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Cubic Differentials and Limits of Convex RP2 Structures under Neck Pinches
John Loftin, Associate Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science, Rutgers University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Anna Mazzucato, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Penn State,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Siemens Competition Workshop: "Research - The Origin of Discovery"

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
4:30pm – 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Novel Mechanism of Low-Temperature CVD Graphene Growth
David Boyd, Staff Scientist, Yeh Group, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Mihai Putinar, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,
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)
Asteroid Redirect Mission: Rearranging the Solar System
Brian Muirhead, Chief Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Saturday, November 8th, 2014
8:00am – 12:00pm
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Native American Angeles Crest Hike

Caltech Y
10:00am – 8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Thunissen Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Men's Water Polo) Whittier vs. Caltech

12:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kazaryan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:30pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ajamian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ung Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Avedikian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm – 9:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Cal St. Fullerton

Sunday, November 9th, 2014
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Swanson Family Portrait Session

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography