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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
12:30pm – 2:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Galstanyan Birthday Group

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Hubble's Canvas

Beckman Auditorium
4:30pm – 6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Keshishyan/Chan Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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The Caltech Comedy Presents LA's Best Comics

Winnett Lounge
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
12:00pm – 4:30pm
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Beginner/Intermediate Ballroom I Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
Monday, October 26th, 2009
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CIT-Knit and Crochet

Spalding Laboratory 113
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Klein Lecture in Aerospace Engineering

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Living and Working on the International Space Station
Gregory Chamitoff, astronaut, NASA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
A Deep View on the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers & Overweight Galaxies
Mariska Kriek, postdoctoral fellow in astrophysical sciences, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar - CANCELED

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Roy Bar-Ziv, senior scientist, Department of Materials and Interfaces, the Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Cosmogenic-Nuclide Burial Dating
Greg Balco, postdoctoral research fellow, Berkeley Geochronology Center,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Solving PDEs on Overlapping Grids with Overture
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Measuring Sparticles with the Matrix Element
Johan Alwall, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Stewart Brand, environmentalist and creator of the Whole Earth Catalog,
8:30pm – 9:30pm
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Beginner West Coast Swing Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
9:30pm – 10:30pm
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Intermediate West Coast Swing Dance Class

Winnett Lounge
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
8:30am – Ongoing
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Staff Education and Career Development Series: "Transition to Leadership"

Brown Gymnasium, Classroom
9:00am – 2:00pm
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High-Performance Computing Workshop

Athenaeum
9:30am – 11:30am
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Preschool Playgroup

Tournament Park
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar

Seeking Topological Information in Knot Homologies
Yi Ni, faculty member in Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Computational Mechanism Design
John Ledyard, Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and Social Sciences, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "Depositing Papers in CaltechAUTHORS"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Death of the Biggest Stars
Alexander Heger, associate professor of astronomy, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
Optical Nanostructures for Advanced Communication Systems
Marko Lončar, assistant professor of electrical engineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
X-ray Probing of Atomic and Molecular Dynamics in the Attosecond Limit
Stephen R. Leone, professor of chemistry and physics, and director, Chemical Dynamics Beamline, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 248
A Measurement of Neutrino Induced Charged Current Neutral Pion Production at MiniBooNE
Robert Nelson, University of Colorado, Boulder,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Winnett Lounge
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
8:00am – Ongoing
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Midterm Examination Period

10:00am – 11:00am
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Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151
The Cellular Uptake of Luminescent Ruthenium Complexes
Cindy Puckett, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Wednesdays in the Park

Tournament Park
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Basic Hypergeometric Biorthogonal Functions as Limits
Fokko van de Bult, Harry Bateman Research Instructor in mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Annenberg 121
The Positive Semidefinite Grothendieck Problem with Rank Constraint
Frank Vallentin, postdoctoral scholar, Delft University of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Office Ergonomics Training

Keith Spalding 118
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
An Experimental Test of Non-local Realism
Simon Groeblacher, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, University of Vienna,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Spatially Resolved Dynamics of z~2forming Galaxies
Reinhard Genzel, managing director, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Cloud Ice: Observing and Modeling the Hard Part of the Clouds
Duane Waliser, JPL,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Men's Soccer vs. Whittier

North Athletic Field
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Men's Water Polo vs. Whittier

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
RNA: Prebiotic Product or Biotic Invention
John D. Sutherland, professor of chemistry, University of Manchester,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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K.C. Cole: In Conversation with David Politzer

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
7:00pm – 11:30pm
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Salsa Dance Social

Winnett Lounge
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
9:00am – 10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Conflicting Waters of South Asia
Kashif Hasnie, RAND Corporation,
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP)

234 S. Catalina Ave.
12:00pm – 1:15pm
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CMA Presents "The 10,000-Year Clock and Other Short-Term Thinking Exercises"

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Alexander Rose, Executive Director, The Long Now Foundation,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Informational Meeting: Solar Decathlon 2011

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library System Workshop: "MathSciNet"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Nucleic Acids: Solexa Sequencing and G-quadruplexes
Shankar Balasubramanian, professor of chemistry, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar - CANCELED

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Isaac Newton: Mathematician, Natural Philosopher, Alchemist . . . Cop?
Thomas Levenson, professor of science writing, MIT,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Beginner Argentine Tango Dance Class

Winnett Center
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Voice Recital: An Evening of Art Song

Dabney Hall, Lounge