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Pinaky Bhattacharyya, Optimal Sensor Placement for Bayesian Parametric Identiﬁcation of Structures, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Spectral asymptotics for fractional Laplacian

Victor Ivrii, Mathematics Department, University of Toronto,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

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Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 5:00pm

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BBE Holiday Party

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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Campus Emergency Preparedness Training

Keith Spalding 118

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Stereoselective Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization Using Cyclometalated Ruthenium Alkylidene Complexes

Lauren Rosebrugh, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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Resnick Institute Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Research talks from Resnick Postdoctoral Scholars Artur Davoyan & Deep Jariwala

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

No ESE Seminar due to exams

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Redirecting the Immune System for Cancer Therapy

Julie Bailis, Dr., Ph.D., Oncology Research, Amgen, Inc.,

4:30pm – 5:30pm

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Combinatorics Seminar

On the number of ordinary lines determined by sets in complex space

Abdul Basit, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University,

8:00pm – 9:30pm

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Konstantin Batygin - Planet Nine from Outer Space

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, December 8th, 2016

8:00am – 12:00pm

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Adult, Child Infant CPR/AED and First Aid - Day 2

Beckman Institute 121

8:50am – 11:30am

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International Scholar Orientation

Moore 139

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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Greening a Top-20 Economy: Energy-Efficient Timely Transportation of Heavy-Duty Trucks

Annenberg 213

RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar

Minghua Chen, Associate Professor, Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong,

1:30pm – 2:30pm

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Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213

Time-Space Hardness of Learning Sparse Parities

Avishay Tal, IAS, Princeton,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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Informal Biology Seminar

The Editorial Process and Life as a Journal Editor

Robert Kruger, Deputy Editor of Cell,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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Informal Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125

The Editorial Process and Life as a Journal Editor

Robert Kruger, Deputy Editor, Cell,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Watson and Crick or Hoogsteen? Reigniting an Old Debate Regarding Base Pairing in the DNA Double Helix

Hashim M. Al-Hashimi, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125

Influencing Connected Legislators

Marco Battaglini, Professor of Economics, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Discovery and Engineering of Plant Chemistry

Elizabeth Sattely, PhD., Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Exploring Tidally-Induced Deformation on Satellites with Experimental Analogues

Ivy Curren, Graduate Student, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

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Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

7:30pm – 9:30pm

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Reel Rock Film Tour 2016

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Friday, December 9th, 2016

8:00am – 5:00pm

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End of Fall Term

Academic

9:30am – 10:30am

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Fire Extinguisher Training

See event detail for location

10:00am – 11:00am

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"Realizing NSF's Vision for Research and Discovery," a talk with France Cordova, NSF director

Kerckhoff 125

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Dorothea Kubler, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Baxter 127

College Admissions with Entrance Exams: Centralized versus Decentralized

Dorothea Kubler, Professor and Director of the Research Unit, WZB Berlin Social Science Center,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

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Special Seminar

Crellin 151

Hyper-CEST NMR with Hyperporalized Xenon Biosensors

Leif Schroder, Research Group Leader, Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

H2 Activation and Electrophile-Promoted Migration to CO at Fe

Ms. Meaghan Deegan, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Visualizing the Behavior of Relativistic Electrons in Simple 2D Potentials in Graphene

Dillon Wong, Crommie Group, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Mathematics Colloquium

Homological densities

Melanie Matchett Wood, Mathematics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

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Stargazing Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall

ALMA: A Revolutionary New View of the Cosmos

Nick Scoville, Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,

Saturday, December 10th, 2016

1:00pm – 4:00pm

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