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Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Digital Light Synthesis to Drive Additive Manufacturing: Convergence of Hardware, Software, and Molecular Science (Technical Lecture)
Joseph M. DeSimone, Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry at UNC, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at NC State and of Chemistry at UNC,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at Cal Lutheran

7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Cal Lutheran vs. Caltech

8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Michael H. Dickinson - "Using the Brain of a Modern Fly to Reconstruct the Behaviors of an Ancient World"

Beckman Auditorium
Thursday, February 15th, 2018
8:30am – 11:30am
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Mt. Disappointment Hike

Off Campus
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Smaller Than the Eye Can See: Vibration Analysis with Video Cameras
Justin Chen, Technical Staff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Reading Women

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)
A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and Amanda Corbett
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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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
Talk by Alum Kevin Gromley
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Vorticies from low-mass planet formation
James Owen, NASA Hubble Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Colorado Col. vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Special values of L-functions
Ameya Pitale, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Neutrinos - small particles, big science
Anne Schukraft, Fermilab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Convergent Research to Address Societal Needs (General Lecture)
Joseph M. DeSimone, Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry at UNC, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at NC State and of Chemistry at UNC,
Friday, February 16th, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
On singularities of super-conformal field theories
Mario Martone, University of Texas - Austin,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Annenberg 105
A quantum gas of polar KRb molecules in an optical lattice
Jacob Covey, Richard Chace Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar, Endres Group,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Seiberg-Witten differential via primitive forms
Dan Xie, Harvard University,
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Wang Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
CANCELLED DUE TO FLU -- TO BE RESCHEDULED
Camille Avestruz, KICP and Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago,
2:30pm – 5:30pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
On Renormalized Volume
Franco Vargas Pallete, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Emotional Intelligence Toolkit: Workshop on Coping Without Avoidance

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Palladium Catalyzed Aromatic C-H Flurination
Kumiko Yamamoto, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar

Moore B280
Surface Waves, Line Waves, and Chiral Modes for One-Directional Propagation in Electromagnetic and Acoustic Systems
Dan Sievenpiper, Professor, UCSD,
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Women in Chemistry

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Diverse Career Paths Panel & Reception
Women in Chemistry ,
Saturday, February 17th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer All-Comers

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

11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Lewis & Clark

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

2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Caltech at La Verne

4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at La Verne

6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Discover the Unknown: God is for Our Enjoyment

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
Sunday, February 18th, 2018
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech vs. Linfield

3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech-Occidental Wind Orchestra

Off Campus
Monday, February 19th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
8:00am – 5:00pm
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President's Day (Institute Holiday)

10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Brandeis vs. Caltech

1:00pm – 4:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at George Fox

1:00pm – 4:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) UC Santa Cruz vs. Caltech

Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
10:30am – 11:30am
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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
TBA
Vagelis Papalexakis, Assistant Professor , Computer Science & Engineering, University of California Riverside,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Join us for a talk on High Blood Pressure and Vascular Dementia

Crellin 151
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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FPTL Playdates

Off Campus
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Moore B270
Quantum supremacy: checking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer
John Martinis, Google,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

Annenberg 314
Spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for partial de-randomization (2nd of 2 parts)
Richard Kueng, CMI Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD
Krista Soderlund, Research Asscociate, Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125
"Dissecting the Neural Circuits for Motivated Behavior"
Garret Stuber, Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 122
Special cycles on simple Shimura varieties
Wei Zhang, Department of Mathematics, MIT,