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Sunday, February 5th, 2017
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Intermediate Ballroom Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Monday, February 6th, 2017
9:00am – 3:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Symposium

Beckman Institute Auditorium
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture

Kerckhoff 125
Design and Evolution of Enzymes
Donald Hilvert, Professor, Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, University of Zurich,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Annenberg 105
CANCELLED: Automated Decision Making Under Uncertainty for Societal Benefit
Assistant Professor Emma Brunskill, CS, Affiliate, Machine Learning , Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Origin of the glacial ramp
Wallace S. Broecker, Newberry Professor of Geology, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with Supersymmetry
Bibhushan Shakya, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wolff Lecture

Advances towards MLC/Area and Hausdorff dimension of Julia sets
Mikhail Lyubich, Mathematics Department, Institute for Math Sciences at Stony Brook ,
8:30pm – 10:30pm
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Beginner Ballroom Class

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
10:30am – Ongoing
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English Conversation Group

Athenaeum
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105
Information-performance tradeoffs in control
Victoria Kostina, Assistant Professor , Electriacal Engineering, CALTECH,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Safe Zone Ally Training for Staff, Faculty, Postdocs - Part 1

Avery Conference Room
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Daniel Weisz, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy with Catalysts, Conductive Polymers, and Optical Microresonators
Randall H. Goldsmith, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Seeking signs of life within the Martian crust
Joseph Michalski, Associate Professor, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Whittier

7:30pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Playreaders 66th Season: "Pierre and Marie" Adapted by Ron Clark from "Les Palmes de Monsieur Schultz" by Jean Noel Fenwick

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates
Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
10:00am – 11:30am
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Student Shop Safety Hands-on Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Absolutely continuous spectrum and the spectra of periodic approximants
Yoram Last, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Safe Zone Ally Training for Staff, Faculty, & Postdocs - Part 2

Avery Conference Room
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety – Comprehensive Training

Keith Spalding B117
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Gravitational Waves Observed by LIGO
Alan Weinstein, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Mesoscale aggregation of shallow marine cumulus convection
Christopher Bretherton, Professor, Departments of Atmospheric Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
New Functional Materials as a Design Problem
Alex Zunger, Research Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Scalar curvature in the conformal geometry of Connes-Landi deformation
Yang Liu, Mathematics, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar

A polytopal generalization of Sperner's lemma
Francis Su, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Beginner West Coast Swing Series!

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, February 9th, 2017
8:50am – 11:30am
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International Scholar Orientation

Moore 239
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar

Zeros of polynomials in a finite grid
Anurag Bishnoi, Department of Mathematics, Ghent University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"Quantum Spillover, Chiral Plasmons and Controllable Quenching of Super-radiance in Deep Subwavelength Optical Coatings"
Nicholas Xuanlai Fang, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Intstitute of Technology,
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Cares Day

San Pasqual Walk
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
Shannon Stone, Graduate Student, Tirrell Research Group, CCE, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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SPECIAL: Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Titan: Unanswered Questions, Recent Discoveries, and Why We Need to Go Back
Alexander Hayes, Assistant Professor of Astronomy; Director, Spacecraft Planetary Imaging Facility, Cornell,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Metasurfaces: From Nanoantennas Inclusions to Patterned 2D Sheets
Hossein Mosallaei, Associate Professor and Director of Metamaterials Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture- POSTPONED

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Ahmad K. Omar, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Oscillator representation interpretation of Tate's thesis
Alexander Yom Din, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum Supremacy
Scott Aaronson, David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin,
6:00pm – 9:00pm
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Associates Program: Deep-Diving Robot Explorers

Athenaeum
Deep-Diving Robot Explorers with Andrew Thompson
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Glacial Ice Melt and Sea Level Rise
Alex Gardner, Earth Scientist, JPL,
Friday, February 10th, 2017
10:00am – 2:00pm
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Lean Startup Workshop

Beckman Behavioral Biology B101
Farzin Samadani, Co Founder at Curious Me,
Christie Canaria, Program Manager at NCI SBIR Development Center,
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Assessing NSF Data Management Plans to Design Research Data Services

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Entanglement, Gravity, and Quantum Error Correction
Xi Dong, IAS,
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Biola vs. Caltech