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Thursday, May 10th, 2018
8:00am – 2:00pm
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Caltech Wellness Day

Beckman Institute
8:30am – 11:00am
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International Scholar Orientation

Moore 239
9:00am – 2:00pm
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Kaiser Permanente Mobile Health Vehicle

Beckman Institute
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources

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

Gates-Thomas 135
"Avian Inspired Design"
David Lentink, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University,
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Thesis Defense

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
"Searching for the one: Engineering novel rhodopsins for neuroscience"
Claire Bedbrook, PhD Candidate, Bioengineering, Caltech,
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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CMI Faculty Lunch - invitation only

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Gaypril STEMinar: Dr. Shana Goffredi

Avery Library
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213
A linearly convergent primal-dual gradient algorithm for optimal distributed feedback voltage control
GUANNAN QU, Graduate Student, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Uninversity,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

South Mudd 365
Modeling of Nucleation and Dynamic Rupture on Heterogeneous Frictional Interfaces with Applications to Foreshocks
Natalie Schaal, Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Biologically Fabricated Materials Composed of Engineered Biofilm Matrix Proteins
Neel Joshi, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering; Wyss Institute, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Arithmetic stability in p-adic towers of global function fields
Daqing Wan, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Symmetry, topology and electronic phases of matter
Charles Kane, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics , University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Protein Dynamics in Signaling: NMR Studies of Membrane Proteins and Amyloids
Ann McDermott, Esther Breslow Professor of Biological Chemistry, Departments of Chemistry, Biological Sciences, and Chemical Engineering, The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University,
Friday, May 11th, 2018
8:00am – 2:00pm
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Building Your Mentoring Toolkit: Conference on Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers

Avery House
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Admission to Candidacy for the Degrees of Master of Science and Engineer

11:00am – 8:00pm
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Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
A positive sum rule for the c anomaly in 4D conformal field theory
Markus Luty, UC Davis,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Bacon-Shor code with continuous measurement of non-commuting observables
Juan Atalaya, Postdoctoral Scholar, Korotkov Group, UC Riverside,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Shai Vardi, Caltech

Baxter 127
Stepwise Presidential Election Reform
Shai Vardi, Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
The Accretion Disk Around Milky Way's Galactic Center Black Hole
Elena Murchikova, Graduate Student, TAPIR, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Reconstruction and estimation of flows using resolvent analysis and data-assimilation
Sean Symon, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Geometry of weightless Kapustin-Witten solutions on the plane
Steven Rayan, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Saskatchewan,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar

Moore B280
Breaking Reciprocity Using Metamaterials
Andrea Alù, Einstein Professor , Photonics Initiative, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--SEMINAR CANCELLED

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
4:30pm – 5:15pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103
Removability, rigidity of circle domains and Koebe's conjecture
Malik Younsi, Department of Mathematics, University of Hawaii,
5:30pm – 6:15pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103
Probabilistic local well-posedness and scattering for the 4D cubic NLS
Jonas Lührmann, Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University,
6:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Associates Northern California Program: Humanity in the Era of Empires

Off Campus
with Nicolas Wey-Gomez, professor of history
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Bandorama: Caltech-Occidental Concert Band & Jazz Band

Ramo Auditorium
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Feynman 100: Evening Celebration

Beckman Auditorium
Saturday, May 12th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at Oxy Invite

9:30am – 5:00pm
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Feynman 100: Scientific Symposium

Beckman Auditorium
10:00am – 6:00pm
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Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131
1:30pm – 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Babapilavian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hernandez Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: De Leon Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Bandorama: Caltech-Occidental Concert Band & Jazz Band

Ramo Auditorium
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Bryan Bowers

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Sunday, May 13th, 2018
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles: Mother's Day Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Monday, May 14th, 2018
8:00am – 10:00am
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Morning Book Discussion Group

Athenaeum
9:00am – 9:00am
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Due Date for Midterm Deficiency Notices

11:00am – 4:00pm
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Feynman 100 Exhibition: "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dish & Discuss #16

Avery Dining Hall
World-Wide-Web
12:10pm – 12:50pm
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Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115
1:00pm – 2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151
"Examination of Selenium Incorporation and Product Formation in the Nitrogenase FeMo-cofactor."
Renee Arias, Graduate Student, Rees Lab, Caltech ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
The theory of resolvent degree, after Hamilton, Klein, Hilbert, and Brauer
Jesse Wolfson, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Dr. Stephanie Palmer, Assistant Professor, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Department of Physics, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Testing the Microbial Model for Low-Temperature Dolomite Formation
Jennifer A. Roberts, Associate Professor, Department of Geology, University of Kansas,