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Saturday, October 13th, 2018
3:00pm – 5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ebrahimi Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Men's Soccer) St. Katherine vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Water Polo) Chapman vs. Caltech

Sunday, October 14th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at 2018 ITA Cup

12:00pm – 3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nicola Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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David Finckel and Wu Han

Beckman Auditorium
Monday, October 15th, 2018
10:00am – 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 135
Jeffrey Edlund, Graduate Student, Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech,
12:00pm – 3:00pm
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CMS Techfest

Annenberg Center
Jon Snoddy, R&D Studio Executive, Walt Disney Imagineering,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Explore JPL Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:10pm – 12:50pm
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Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop: Overview of Library Resources

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Social Confidence Group

Counseling Center
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Singular Schubert Varieties and Representation Theoretic Consequences
Peter McNamara, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar

Section problems
Lei Chen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Characterizing the thermal infrared emission properties of asteroid regolith by replicating the airless space environment in the laboratory
Michael Bramble, Planetary Scientist & PhD Candidate, Planetary Geoscience, Brown University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Linking the geologic and genomic records: Characterization of lipid fossils in extant microbes
Paula V. Welander, Assistant Professor of Earth System Science, Stanford School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Small Molecule Activation of 1st-Row Transition Metal Pincer Complexes
Yunho Lee, Associate Professor, Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Planning Pods: Setting goals and defining values

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennen Conference Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Florian Engert, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar

The Conway knot is not slice
Lisa Piccirillo, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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CPA STEM for Families

Moore 239
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
9:00am – 10:00am
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A TIAA Financial Essentials Webinar

Social Security Basics
Colleen Carcone, CFP, Director, Wealth Planning Strategies, TIAA Individual Advisory Services,
Scott Chester, Director, Wealth Planning Strategies, TIAA Individual Advisory Services,
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Meditation Mob

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Attosecond science and its applications to chemical dynamics
Daniel Neumark, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkekely,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

Annenberg 314
Hard-core interactions on graphs
Alessandro Zocca, Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

Characterizing the thermal infrared emission properties of asteroid regolith by replicating the airless space environment in the laboratory
Michael Bramble, Planetary Scientist & PhD Candidate, Planetary Geoscience, Brown University ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
"How lncRNAs Shape Chromatin Structure to Control Gene Expression"
Mitchell Guttman, Assistant Professor, Biology & Biological Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Let's Walk

Counseling Center
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Thinking inside the box: a combinatorial approach to Schubert calculus
Sami Assaf, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Words and Weapons: Analyzing Reactions to Gun Violence with a Social Media Panel
Nicholas Adams-Cohen, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Water Polo) Occidental vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Women's Volleyball) Caltech at Cal Lutheran

7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby
Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 322
Finding forbidden minors through random walks: (almost) n^{1/2} query one-sided testers for minor closed properties
C. Seshadri, UC Santa Cruz,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Retirement Plan Changes Webinar

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop: Introduction to Zotero

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometrization Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 289
Proof of Thurston fixed point theorem
Nathaniel Sagman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety 101 Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Let's Talk

Annenberg 243
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Women's Soccer) Redlands vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Wolfe Disk: ALMA Discoveries of Distant, HI-selected Galaxies
J. Xavier Prochaska, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture

Gates Annex B122
Developing New Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Organic Synthesis
Melanie S. Sanford, Moses Gomberg Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Arbitrarily Varying Broadcast and Relay Channels
Uzi Pereg, Ph.D. student, Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Light absorption by atmospheric particles: using field and lab studies to understand linkages between sources, chemical processing and impacts
Christopher Cappa, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Plant Nanobionic Materials with Ultra-High Temperature Response
Chiara Daraio, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, Caltech ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Failures in Contingent Reasoning: The Role of Uncertainty
Emanuel Vespa, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Soccer) Caltech at Redlands

7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Two Men, Three Mountains, Eight Days
David Hodge, Research Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Caltech,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Baxter Lecture Hall
The Science of Shakespeare
Dan Falk, journalist, author, and broadcaster,