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Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Enumerative geometry and geometric representation theory
Andrei Okounkov, Mathematics Department, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Don't Twinkle, Little Star: How a Laser-Shooting Robot is Taming the Atmosphere and Bringing Space-based Astronomy to Earth

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Everhart Lecture Series
Rebecca M. Jensen-Clem, Astronomy, Caltech,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Dabney Hall, Lounge
The Extraordinary Journeys of Louisa Catherine Adams
Louisa Thomas, Author,
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
9:00am – 10:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
The deformations of thin nematic elastomer sheets
Paul Plucinsky, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
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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Dish and Discuss #18 Ableism: Constructs of Ability

Avery Dining Hall
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety – Comprehensive Training

Keith Spalding B117
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100
Prototyping Diverse Synthetic Biological Circuits in a Cell-Free Transcription-Translation System
Shaobin Guo, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,
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
Young Galaxies Forming in the High-Redshift Universe
Rychard Bouwens, Leiden,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Structured Sampling for Covariance Compression
Piya Pal, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Engineered Biofilter for Water Sustainability
Sanjay Mohanty, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Neutrino physics with liquid xenon detectors
Michelle Dolinski, Drexel University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Emerging Materials and Nanomanufacturing for Energy, Sustainability, and Critical Technology
Shenqiang Ren, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Temple University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Noncommutative Geometry from non-Laplace Type Operators
Ivan Avramidi, Department of Mathematics, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Leveraging Chemistry for Biology and Therapy: New Amination Strategies to Access Biologically Important Molecules
Qiu Wang, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Duke University,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar

Generating functions and enumeration in finite classical groups
Jason Fulman, Department of Mathematics, USC,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Nicolas Wey-Gomez - What Columbus Discovered

Beckman Auditorium
Thursday, May 11th, 2017
8:00am – 3:00pm
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Mentoring Across Difference: Conference on Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers

Beckman Institute
8:50am – 11:30am
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International Scholar Orientation

Moore 139
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

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

Gates-Thomas 135
"Geo-Alchemy: Carbonate Precipitation for Hazard Mitigation and Ground Improvement"
Edward Kavazanjian, Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Beckman Institute 121
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
Shuai Wang, Graduate Student, Hsieh-Wilson Research Group,
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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Faculty/PI Roundtable: Building a Mentoring Culture in Your Lab or Department

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Next-Generation Computing Using Spin-Based and 2D Materials
Jean Anne Incorvia, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical Engineering, Stanford ,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

A Regularized Geometric Theta Lift for Diagonal Cycles
Zavosh Amir Khosravi, 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)
Current and future searches for neutrinoless double beta decay
Michelle Dolinski, Assistant Professor of Physics, Drexel University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Moving through intracellular phase space
Clifford Brangwynne, Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar

Annenberg 105
Strategies for bone and tendon regeneration
Hala Zreiqat, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Head of Tissue Engineering and Biomaterial Research Unit, University of Sydney, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University, USA,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Visual Ecologies: Film Screening "Bluespace"

Baxter Lecture Hall
Friday, May 12th, 2017
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Admission to Candidacy for the Degrees of Master of Science and Engineer

9:30am – 5:00pm
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Visual Ecologies: Workshop

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Covariant Entanglement Constructs
Veronika Hubeny, QMAP, UC Davis,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Bridging the Divide: Effective Political Communication in a Polarized World

Steele 102
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Gaining insight about the mortgage process

Live Webinar
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Juba Ziani, Caltech

Baxter 127
Efficiently characterizing games consistent with perturbed equilibrium observations
Juba Ziani, Graduate Student, Computer Science, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Feedback and its Role in Shaping (dwarf) Galaxies
Ferah Munshi, VIDA Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Multifunctional Composites for Fly-By-Feel Autonomous Electric Vehicles
Fu-Kuo Chang, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Conway mutation and knot Floer homology
Peter Lambert-Cole, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University ,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Nonstoichiometric Oxides for Solar-Driven Thermochemical Fuel Production
Michael Ignatowich, graduate student, Chemical Engineering Department, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 4:45pm
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BMB Seminar

Broad 100
Histone-binding of DPF2 mediates its repressive role in myeloid differentiation.
Ferdinand Huber, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--POSTPONED

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Mechanism of N-N Bond Cleavage in a Phosphine-Supported Fe-N2 Complex
Mr. Niklas Thompson, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Short-Wavelength Infrared Photon Detector Based on Charge Injection

Moore B280
Caltech's Young Investigator Lecture Series
Vala Fathipour, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering , University of California at Berkeley,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Glee Club and Caltech Symphony

Ramo Auditorium
Saturday, May 13th, 2017
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at All on the Line Open

12:40pm – 3:50pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gevorkyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm – 9:00pm
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Techstock 2017: Battle of the Bands & Music Festival

Winnett Quad