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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - "Introduction to 3D Printing at the Caltech Library"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Weil Conjectures
Daxin Xu, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Personal Emergency Preparedness

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
KELT, TESS, and Gaia: The Era of Precision Stellar Astrophysics and Exoplanetology
Scott Gaudi, Ohio State,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - "iThenticate in a Nutshell'

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Global Signatures of Phytoplankton Physiology
Michael Behrenfeld, Professor, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Exploring the 3D Nano and Atomic World: Coherent Diffractive Imaging and Atomic Electron Tomography
John Miao, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
When Chemistry asks Biological Questions: Total Synthesis on the Driving Seat
Nuno Maulide, Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Vienna,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Network Effects in Information Acquisition
Tommaso Denti, Assistant Professor (Salvatore Faculty Fellow), Department of Economics, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Young Investigators Lecture

Moore B280
Low-Complexity Modeling for Visual Data: Representations and Algorithms
Yuqian Zhang,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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NeuroTechers Cookies & Tea

Beckman Behavioral Biology B101
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Women's Investment Club

8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Cahill Rooftop Observatory Open House

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Mikhail G. Shapiro - "Talking to Cells"

Beckman Auditorium
Thursday, May 24th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at NCAA Championships

8:00am – Ongoing
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Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

10:30am – 12:30pm
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CATS Campus Tours

11:00am – 4:00pm
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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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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"Has Performance Based Engineering Broken the Power Law?"
Thomas H. Heaton, Professor, Department of Mechanical & Civil Engineering, 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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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213
Generalized Benders Cuts for Infinite-Horizon Control Problems
Joe Warrington, Senior Scientist, Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
3:30pm – 6:30pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech vs. NCAA Championships

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Baxter B125
Predictive coding and hallucinations
Philip R. Corlett, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University; Associate Research Scientist, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Yale School of Medicine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Liquid-liquid Phase Separation in Polyelectrolyte Solutions: Effects of Charge Connectivity, Ion Association, and Backbone Hydrophilicity
Jian Qin, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Galois deformation ring associated to a real quadratic field
Haruzo Hida, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Exploring the Energy Frontier at the Large Hadron Collider
Eva Halkiadakis, Professor of Physics, Rutgers University,
Friday, May 25th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at NCAA Championships

9:30am – 10:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151
Development of Stereoselective Iridium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation Methods
Samantha Shockley, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
11:00am – 4:00pm
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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
TBD
Volker Schomerus, DESY,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151
A Synthetic Nitrogenase: Insights into the Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by a Single-Site Fe Catalyst
Niklas Thompson, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Holographic Orbifold CFTs
Christoph Keller, University of Arizona,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Gates-Thomas 115
Improving Seismic Collapse Risk Assessments of Steel Moment Frame Buildings
Kenny Buyco, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 314
Addressing Challenges in Autonomy: Lessons from Information and Control Theories
REZA AHMADI, Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences , UT Austin,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Measuring black hole spins in TDEs: a QPO in ASASSN-14 li
Alessia Franchini, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
2:30pm – 5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Melik-Jahanian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Algorithms in group theory
Rita Gitik, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Alice Chang, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:30pm – 6:30pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech vs. NCAA Championships

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Antoine Gloria, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Sorbonne Université ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--CANCELLED

5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Sharp Strichartz inequalities for fractional and higher order Schrödinger equations
Diogo Oliveira e Silva, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Grand Tour: Exploring Planets Outside the Solar System
Heather Knutson, Professor, Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
Saturday, May 26th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at NCAA Championships

12:00pm – 4:00pm
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2018 Caltech Chess Spring Tournament

Avery Library
12:00pm – 4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Seferian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, May 28th, 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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Memorial Day (Institute Holiday)

Off Campus
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Siapyan & Good Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography