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Friday, April 1st, 2016
9:30am – 10:30am
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Jeffrey Vinokur, The Dancing Scientist: So You Think You Can Do Science

Beckman Auditorium
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
A stereoscopic look into the bulk
Lampros Lamprou, Stanford University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Physics and Materials Science

Steele 125
Nanophotonics for Tailoring the Flow of Thermal Radiation
Ognjen Ilic, Postdoctoral Researcher, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT,
11:30am – 12:30pm
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Jeffrey Vinokur, The Dancing Scientist: So You Think You Can Do Science

Beckman Auditorium
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CANCELLED | Linde Institute/SISL Seminar

Baxter 125
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Whittier vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Dark Matter in the Cosmic Context
Katherine Mack, DECRA Fellow, Astro Group, School of Physics, University of Melbourne,
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Baseball) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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• High Enthalpy Hypervelocity Experiments: Bridging the Scales

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Susan and James Wu Lecture in Aerospace
Joanna Austin, Professor of Aerospace, GALCIT, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New Catalysis for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Sonja Francis, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Revealing the Dirac fluid in graphene
Andy Lucas, Graduate Student, Subir Sachdev's group, Harvard University,
Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Track & Field) Caltech vs. SCIAC Multi-Dual

10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Occidental

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

2:00pm – 4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Shandaryan Wedding Photoshoot

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm – 9:00pm
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Women's History Month Event

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
Dinner and a Movie: Code Girl
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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John McCutcheon

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Enso String Quartet with Clive Greensmith, Cello

Beckman Auditorium
Monday, April 4th, 2016
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Gaypril Event

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
ISP Discussion Group: LGBTQ Identity and the International Community
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Kinematics and Local Motion Planning for Quasi-static Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation
Krishna Shankar, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CANCELLED - Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium
"Molecular Structure and Organism Fitness from Genomic Sequences"
Debora Marks, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Information-Theoretic Lower Bounds for Distributed Function Computation
Assistant Professor Maxim Raginsky, ECE Department and Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
A Theory for Atmospheric Oxygen
Daniel P. Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor School of Engineering and Applied Sciences:, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Z2 solutions to the Strong CP problem
Anson Hook, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Molecular Interactions and Reactions in Metal Organic Framework Materials
Yves Chabal, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas, Dallas,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Talk with a Techer

Gates-Thomas 135
Gil Elbaz, Founder and CEO, Factual,
Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Multi-Use Applications for Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations
Seyed Madaeni, Principal, Energy Storage, Grid Engineering Solutions, SolarCity,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar

Geometry, Analysis and Topology of Feynman Amplitudes
Emad Nasrollahpoursammi, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New regulatory mechanisms in genome duplication
Xiaolan Zhao, Ph.D., Molecular Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres
Hannes Bernien, Harvard University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Percolation and invariant random subgroups
Yair Hartman, Mathematics, Northwestern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Charles Badenes, Univ. of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Process Chemistry Development of Ledipasvir − NS5A Inhibitor in Harvoni® for Hepatitis C Treatment
Robert W. Scott, Dr., Ph.D., Senior Director, Process Development, Gilead Sciences, Inc.,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

Annenberg 213
Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 2 of 2)
Hu Fu, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125
Decoding the Human Genome: 2016-2020
John Stamatoyannopoulos, Professor, Genome Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington, School of Medicine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Flavor Physics and CP Violation as Probes for New Physics Effects at the High-Luminosity B Factory Experiment Belle 2
Markus Rohrken, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Bistatic Radar Observations of the Moon using Mini-RF on LRO and the Arecibo Observatory
Wes Patterson, Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar

Baxter B125
Climate, Geography, and the Evolution of Economic and Political Institutions
Stephen Haber, A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor of Political Science, Stanford University,
4:40pm – 6:00pm
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CMA presents "Planet Nine from Outer Space"

JPL
Konstantin Batygin, Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
5:30pm – 7:30pm
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Auditions for "Planet Between the Stars"

TACIT House, 275 S. Hill Ave.
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Playreaders 65th Season: "Other Desert Cities" by Jon Robin Baitz

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Energy of Heavy Atoms: The Leading Correction
Heinz siedentop, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, LMU Munich,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar

Feynman Integrals, Associated Arrangements and Their Motives
Ozgur Ceyhan, Mathematics, University of Luxembourg,
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
"Next Generation Cosmological Constraints on the Dark Sector and Gravity."
Rachel Bean, Cornell,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
New Sources of Methane in the Biogeosphere and Beyond
Frank Keppler, Professor, Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Hongjun Yan, Rutgers Business School

Baxter B125
Financial Intermediation Chains in an OTC Market
Hongjun Yan, Associate Professor of Finance, Rutgers Business School,