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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
A drunk walk in a drunk world
Ivan Corwin, Clay Research Fellow, Mathematics, Columbia University, Clay Mathematics Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Enceladus: The Hottest Little Moon in the Solar System
Andy Ingersoll, Professor, Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Dynamic Soft Materials: Gels, Bubbles, and Drops
Lauren Zarzar, Dynamic Soft Materials: Gels, Bubbles, and Drops, Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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"Body of Evidence: Tracing Photographic Identity in Victorian Law and Popular Culture"

Baxter Lecture Hall
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

5:00pm – 6:00pm
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HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture

Baxter B125
Body of Evidence: Tracing Photographic Identity in Victorian Law and Popular Culture
Jennifer Tucker, Associate Professor of History and Science in Society, Wesleyan University,
6:00pm – 7:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Information Systems and Culture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Ricardo Dominguez, Artist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, UCSD,
Keller Easterling, Writer, Architect, and Professor in the Yale School of Architecture,
K. Mani Chandy, Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, Caltech,
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Ripples in Spacetime: Our New Window on the Universe

Beckman Auditorium
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Last day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections for Winter Term

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

A family of monotone quantum relative entropies
Julien Sabin, Mathematics, University Paris Orsay,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - "Introduction to 3D Printing at the Caltech Library"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Kauffman Brackets on Surfaces
Francis Bonahon, Professor, Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
THIS COLLOQUIUM HAS BEEN CANCELLED
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
In search of the elusive eastward inertio-gravity wave
George Kiladis, Research Scientist, Earth System Research Laboratory | Physical Sciences Division, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Stochastic quantum integrable systems
Ivan Corwin, Associate Professor, IHP Poincare Chair Packard Fellow , Mathematics, Columbia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Quantum Mechanics as Classical Physics
Chip Sebens, Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in the History and Philosophy of Physics, Caltech,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar

Reconstruction of depth-3 circuits
Gaurav Sinha, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
5:30pm – 8:00pm
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Talking The Talk: Beyond Borders "A Community Discussion On The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Islamophobia

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
8:30pm – 10:30pm
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Beginner International Ballroom

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
9:00pm – 11:00pm
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West Coast Swing Social

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 12:00pm
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(CANCELLED) Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Schlinger 101
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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Special TAPIR Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
nu Physics in the Early Universe
Daniel Green, Assistant Professor, CITA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Hurewicz isomorphisms for algebraic varieties
Johannes Anschuetz, Professor, Mathematics, University of Heidelberg,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution
Eric Betzig, HHMI Janelia Research Campus,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room
Friday, February 26th, 2016
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Fencing) Caltech at Stro Div1A ROC and RJCC

12:00am – 2/27 12:00am
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at SCIAC Post-Season Tournament

9:00am – 4:30pm
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Science & Society Conference

Beckman Auditorium
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213
Bi-Lipschitz Bijection between the Boolean Cube and the Hamming Ball
Gil Cohen, Caltech,
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Confronting the Standard Model with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Ryan Cooke, Hubble Fellow, Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics, U.C. Santa Cruz,
2:30pm – 5:30pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Occidental

2:30pm – 3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Applications of Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Methods in the Synthesis of Organofluorine Compounds
Yufan Liang, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Fu group, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thermal Fluctuations of Plates and Lipid Membranes
Prashant Purohit, Associate Professor , Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Heegaard Floer homology for tangles and cobordisms between them
Akram Alishahi, Ritt Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Polymerization Catalysis by Bimetallic Complexes
Jessica Sampson, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Casimir Effect, Theta Vacuum and Topological Order in QED
Charles Cao, Graduate Student, Physics, Caltech,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Theater presents Boldly Go! (A Star Trek Musical Parody)

Ramo Auditorium
Saturday, February 27th, 2016
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Fencing) Caltech at Stro Div1A ROC and RJCC

12:00am – 2/28 12:00am
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at SCIAC Post-Season Tournament

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track & Field) Caltech at 20th Rossi Relays

8:00am – 11:00am
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(Women's Water Polo) Caltech vs. Carthage

10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Baseball) Occidental vs. Caltech

12:30pm – 3:30pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Caltech vs. Monmouth

2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Baseball) Occidental vs. Caltech