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Friday, December 6th, 2019
6:30pm – 10:30pm
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CPA Holiday Party 2019

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Solar System's Volcanic Wonderland
Katherine de Kleer, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Theater Presents Storytelling and Improv

Hameetman Center 206 - Frautschi Rehearsal Hall
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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German Film Screening: Three Penny Opera

Baxter Lecture Hall
Film screening for German 130a & 132a // In German with English subtitles
Saturday, December 7th, 2019
8:00am – 12/10 5:00pm
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Study Period, Fall Term

7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Caltech A Cappella Winter Concert

Ramo Auditorium
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Holiday Celebration: Movie Screening and Faculty Concert

Beckman Auditorium
Monday, December 9th, 2019
11:00am – 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100
Zhannetta Gugel, Graduate Student, Neurobiology, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Nanophotonic Phenomena in Dielectric Photonic Crystals
Ryan Ng, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Dec Leadership Workshop: Building Relationships as a Leader Part I: Collaboration

Crellin 151
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Toward End-to-End Quantum Applications
Xiaodi Wu, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
An optomechanical architecture for dark matter detection
Dan Carney, University of Maryland & FNAL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Towards Control of Electronic Excited States in 3d Metal Complexes
Kelly J. Gaffney, Chemical Sciences Division Director, Photon Science Associate Professor, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special ACM/CMS Seminar

Annenberg 213
The Universe in a Computer: How mathematical and numerical methods are essential
Dr. Christian Klingenberg, Professor, Mathematics Department, Würzburg University, Germany,
Tuesday, December 10th, 2019
10:00am – 11:00am
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Liuchi Li, Applied Mechanics, Ph.D. Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 115
Linking micro-structure to macro-behavior of granular matter: from flowing heterogeneously to morphing adaptively
Liuchi Li, Graduate Student, Applied Mechanics, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Curve Counting Reading Seminar

Linde Hall 183
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Meditation Mob

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Geometry and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Rigorous results about Relative entropy in QFT
Feng Xu, Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Questions about phase spaces of minimal Boolean flows
Dana Bartosova, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida,
3:00pm – 4:45pm
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BMB Fall Rotation Seminar

Crellin 151
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Inflation as a Cosmological Collider
Yi Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela
Brian Knight, Professor of Economics, Brown University,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
The Quantum Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism
Tamir Hemo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
8:00am – 12/13 5:00pm
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Final Examinations

10:00am – 11:30am
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Shop Safety Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop
11:00am – 2:00pm
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Caltech Associates Event: On a Mission, Exploring Mars

Athenaeum
11:30am – 1:30pm
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pre-Hanukkah Pop-Up

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - You and Your Thesis

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Jaeyun Moon, Mechanical Engineering, PhD. Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 135
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

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

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Science with the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph: The Local Group
Rosemary Wyse, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from Medicare Bundled Payments
Liran Einav, Professor of Economics, Stanford University,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Watson Lecture - How to Deceive Society: An Insect Masterclass

Beckman Auditorium
Joseph Parker, Assistant Professor Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
Thursday, December 12th, 2019
8:30am – 11:00am
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International Scholar Orientation

Moore 239
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources Training

Keith Spalding B117
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Decision weights based on visual salience
Devdeepta Bose, Postdoctoral Scholar in Psychology and Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radioactive Material Handling Training

Keith Spalding B117
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Condensed Mathematics Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Coherent Duality
Justin Campbell, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Presentation Skills Workshop

Annenberg 107
Figure Design for Presentations
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Proteins in Motion: Going beyond Bragg Diffraction
Nozomi Ando, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Baxter B125
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions
Jessica A. Wachter, Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management, Professor of Finance, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Isolation of L^2 spectrum
Yifeng Liu, Department of Mathematics, Yale University,
Friday, December 13th, 2019
8:00am – 5:00pm
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End of Fall Term

9:00am – 10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100
Facilitating miniaturized bioanalytical assays in microfluidic devices
Dmitriy Zhukov, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Tailoring interactions between a diamond color center and phonons
Srujan Meesala, Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Physics and Materials Science, Painter Group,