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    Nike Reuse-a-Shoe Drive, Thursday April 26, 2012 through Friday May 18, 2012, Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
    The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee is hosting its annual Nike Reuse-a-Shoe Drive, one of Nike's longest-running environmental and community programs, where worn-out athletic shoes are collected, processed, and recycled into material for sports surfaces like basketball courts, tennis courts, athletic fields, running tracks, and more.

    Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research, Thursday May 24, 2012 through Friday June 8, 2012, no location

  Wednesday May 16, 2012

    Wednesdays in the park, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Tournament Park

    Caltech Red Door Tanka Poets Mid-Week + field trip, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Red Door Cafe
    10:30 AM Begins the meeting. Bring your new tanka to read and discuss, we'll also have a writing session at the turtle pond. Our second in a series of Tanka Tour of the Caltech Campus inspiration sessions.

    Mathematical Physics Seminar, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, 351 Sloan

    Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, SFCC Office, 315 S Hill, rear building (MC 5-71)

    Caltech Library System Workshop: "CODA: If You Publish, You Need CaltechAUTHORS", 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Sherman Fairchild Library, multimedia conference room
    CaltechAUTHORS is an institutional repository providing free access to articles written by, with, or in close association with Caltech professorial faculty. Come and see how quickly and easily author postprints (author-formatted, post-peer review and copy-edited) can be uploaded and made easily retrievable by a global audience.

    Office Ergonomics Training, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, 118 Keith Spalding Building
    This course covers ergonomic design of office environments. Emphasis will be placed on low-budget techniques for assisting computer users to alter their workstations to be more "user-friendly" environments. Reservations: 395-6727 or safety.training@caltech.edu.

    Aldrich Lecture, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 153 Noyes, Sturdivant Lecture Hall
    "A General Method for Controlling Site-, Regio- and Stereoselectivity" Kian L. Tan, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Boston College.

    Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
    "Perihuman aerosol science: UFPs, SVOCs, and the indoor microbiome" William Nazaroff, Daniel Tellep Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkley.

    Astronomy Colloquium, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
    "The 11 Gyr Evolution of Star-forming galaxies: the HiZELS/H-alpha view" David Sobral, Leiden Observatory.

    Materials Research Lecture, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room
    "POLYMER DEFORMATION DURING NANOSTRUCTURE FABRICATION BY MECHANICAL PROCESSING" Graham Cross, CRANN Institute and School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin.

    Everhart Lecture Series, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
    "Navigating Without Eyes Or Ears: A Worm’s Tale of Survival Using the Sense of Smell" Adler Dillman, Graduate Student, Biology, Caltech.

    SALSA DANCE CLASS (BEGINNER), 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Winnett Lounge

    L.A. Ruby Beginning Ruby On Rails Class, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, 120 IMSS Building, 263 S. Chester
    Learn to build database-backed, interactive web sites using the Ruby on Rails framework.

    Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Beckman Auditorium
    Beverly McKeon, assistant professor of aeronautics, will give a lecture entitled "Taming Turbulence."

    SALSA DANCE CLASS (INTERMEDIATE), 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Winnett Lounge

  Thursday May 17, 2012

    Scholar & Family Resources and International Scholar Services Orientations, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, 114 E. Bridge

    Thesis Seminar, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
    "Atmospheric Black Carbon: Measurements in the Los Angeles Atmosphere and Aging by Condensation of Organic Aerosol" Andrew Metcalf, Graduate student , Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech.

    Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP), 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, 234 S. Catalina

    Thesis Seminar, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 070 Moore
    "Towards Hybrid Human-Machine Vision Systems: Image Annotation using Crowds, Experts and Machines" Peter Welinder, graduate student, Compuation & Neural Systems.

    Caltech Bike to Work Day!, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, See event detail for location
    Caltech invites you to be part of our annual Bike to Work Day Fair Thursday, May 17th. Ride your Bike by Sustainability Park on Wilson Ave. for snacks, backpacks, and be part of our Scavenger Hunt

    ESE & Society Discussion Group, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
    "Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change, from CMIP5 to IPCC Reports" Jinqiang Chen, Graduate Student, Environmental Science & Engineering, Caltech.

    Thesis Seminar, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, 106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room
    "Targeting tumors and the kidney with siRNA nanoparticles" Jonathan Eric Zuckerman, BMB graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Caltech.

    HSS; Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar Series (BSN), 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 24 Beckman Labs
    "Decoding and Predicting Human Decisions" John-Dylan Haynes, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin.

    Chemical Engineering Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room
    "High-throughput cell control and analysis using inertial fluid physics" Dino Di Carlo, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, UCLA.

    Physics Research Conference, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 201 E. Bridge
    "Beyond Watson and Crick: Recent advances in the use of DNA as a building material" Paul Rothemund, Senior Research Associate, Caltech.

    Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 206 Thomas
    "Design with Topology Optimization - From Material Architectures to Structural Systems" James Guest, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, John Hopkins University.

    Argentine Tango Dance Class (Intermediate level), 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Winnett Lounge
    Intermediate I Tango, Vals & Milonga Class Series at CALTECH with JERRY & CHRISTINE PEREZ

  Friday May 18, 2012

    Last Day for Scheduling Examinations for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, no location

    Last Day of Nike Reuse-a-Shoe Drive, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
    The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee is hosting its annual Nike Reuse-a-Shoe Drive, one of Nike's longest-running environmental and community programs, where worn-out athletic shoes are collected, processed, and recycled into material for sports surfaces like basketball courts, tennis courts, athletic fields, running tracks, and more.

    Thesis Seminar, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Beckman Institute auditorium
    "Mechanistic Insights into Alkane C-H Activation and Functionalization by Metal Oxide Surfaces and Organometallic Complexes" Mu-Jeng Cheng, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard group, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech.

    High Energy Theory Seminar, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 469 Lauritsen
    "The cusp anomalous dimension at three loops and beyond" Johannes Henn, IAS.

    Thesis Seminar, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 153 Noyes, Sturdivant Lecture Hall
    "Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy, Kinetics, and Quantum Chemistry of Atmospherically Relevant Reactions" Matthew Sprague, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Okumura Group, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech.

    SEMANA LATINA TALK: "ENGINEERING & POLITICS: PERSPECTIVES FROM SENATOR ALEX PADILLA” , 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Avery Dining Hall
    At noon on Friday, May 18 in Avery Dining, Senator Alex Padilla, representing the 20th Senate District, will discuss his educational experiences as a Mechanical Engineering student at M.I.T., his career working for Hughes Aircraft, and his transition from engineering into public office in the California Senate. Lunch will be provided. RSVP online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RSVPSenatorPadillaLecture

    Thesis Seminar, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, 106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room
    "The Development of RNA-Based Control Systems to Regulate Signaling and Dictate Cell Fate in Model MAPK Pathway" Katie Galloway, graduate student, chemical engineering, california institute of technology.

    Chemistry Club Seminar, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM, 153 Noyes, Sturdivant Lecture Hall
    "Photoionization, photodissociation or ultrafast relaxation? How aqueous aromatics deal with a UV photon." Stephen Bradforth, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California.

    GALCIT Colloquium, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
    "Lessons for Bio-Inspired Design: Fluid Dynamics of Embryonic Heart" Mory Gharib, Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Bio-Inspired Engineering , Caltech.

    Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--CANCELLED, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 151 Crellin

    William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Treasure Room, Dabney Hall
    "In a Future Tense: Immigration Law, Counterfactual Histories, and Chinese Invasion" Edlie Wong, Associate Professor of English , University of Maryland.

    Applied Physics Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room
    "Metal-filled Photonic Crystal Fibers: Plasmonics and Polarizers" Patrick Uebel, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen.

    Caltech Red Door Poetry Club Meeting , 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Red Door Cafe
    Caltech and local poets meet to read and discuss their own work and study the work of important historical and contemporary poets.

    Caltech Glee Club and Orchestra: , 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Ramo Auditorium
    The Caltech Glee Club and Orchestra will present Carl Orff Carmina Burana.

  Saturday May 19, 2012

    Southern Califorina Number Theory Day 2012, 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM, 151 Sloan

    Good Morning Bellydance! With Leela and the Caltech Bellydance Club, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Braun Gym
    Good Morning Bellydance!10 AM Every Saturday Morning begin your weekend with Beginning bellydance class with fantastic teacher! Leela! This time we wil Try ZILLS-- small percussion cymbals used while dancing! is a unique opportunity to start from the beginning in classical style, no experience necessary, a joyous introduction to age-old beauty and graceful movement.

    Caltech Women's Club Spring Potluck, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Tournament Park
    This is a great opportunity to meet with other Caltech and JPL families. A Craft activity will be provided. Balloons for the children to take home. A fun and free outing for the whole family.

    Caltech Glee Club and Orchestra: , 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Ramo Auditorium
    The Caltech Glee Club and Orchestra will present Carol Orff Carmina Burana.

  Sunday May 20, 2012

    Chamber Music Marathon: , 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Dabney Lounge
    The Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles will present a Chamber Music Marathon from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

    See a Solar Eclipse!, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
    The Caltech Astronomy Outreach team will be hosting a viewing of the annular eclipse on Sunday, May 20. From Pasadena, we will be able to see nearly all of the Sun get covered up! The event will run from 5:30pm until sunset at the Cahill Center, and visitors are welcome to stop by anytime. More details and updates at twitter.com/CaltechAstro.

    Amnesty International Book Discussion Group, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, See event detail for location
    Caltech/Pasadena AI Group 22 will meet on the second floor of Vroman's Bookstore (695 E. Colorado Boulevard) to discuss The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, by Wade Davis. All are welcome.

  Monday May 21, 2012

    Thesis Seminar, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, 239 Moore
    "Neural Patterns Similarity and Visual Perception" Jonathan Harel, Computation & Neural Systems.

    General Biology Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 100 Broad Center
    Raffi Aroian, Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD.

    William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room
    "Big Science, 19th Century Style: Terrestrial Physics and the British Quest for the South Magnetic Pole " Edward J. Larson, University Professor and Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law, Pepperdine University.

    Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
    "Measuring time-lapse changes from noise and earthquakes" Roel Snieder, W.M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Basic Exploration Science , Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines.

    High Energy Physics Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 469 Lauritsen
    "Double Parton Scattering" Aneesh Manohar, UC San Diego.

    Computation and Neural Systems Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 24 Beckman Labs
    "Integrative Moral Cognition" Joshua Greene, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University.

    Applied Mathematics Colloquium, 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM, 105 Annenberg
    "Regularization of Positive Definite Matrices: Connections Between Algebra, Graph Theory and Statistics " Bala Rajaratnam, Statistics, Stanford University.

    Beginning Blues Dance Class, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Winnett Lounge

    Eight Mondays, from April April 9 to May 21, from 8pm to 9pm.

    This class will cover the basics of blues aesthetics, connection, pulse and musicality, as well as a ton of awesome moves for you to break out on the dance floor. It's free for Caltech students!

  Tuesday May 22, 2012

    Preschool Playgroup, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Tournament Park

    IST Lunch Bunch, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, 105 Annenberg
    "The Online Revolution: High-Quality Education for Everyone" Daphne Koller, Rajeev Motwani Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University.

    Materials Science Seminar Presents: Dr. Vikram Deshpande, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, 106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room

    Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
    TBD, Christopher Martin, Caltech Refreshments at 3:30pm

    General Biology Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 119 Kerckhoff
    ""Guidance laws and neural circuit dynamics underlying dragonfly prey capture"" Leonardo Anthony, Group Leader, Janelia Farm.

    Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
    Glenn Orton, Senior Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

    Chemical Physics Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 147 Noyes, Sturdivant Lecture Hall
    "Promoting Chemistry With External Force: Covalent Mechanochemistry with First Principles Molecular Dynamics on Graphical Processing Units" Todd J. Martinez, Professor of Chemistry and Professor of S.L.A.C. Photon Science, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University.

    Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles Concert, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Dabney Lounge
    The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA) is one of the country's largest men's choral ensembles and has been a notable part of the Southern California performing arts community for 33 years. GMCLA will perform musical selections interspersed with short monologues from the Alive Music Project, GMCLA’s outreach program designed to teach acceptance and equality; followed by a 10‐minute Q&A.

  Wednesday May 23, 2012

  Thursday May 24, 2012

    Household Equipment Loan Pool (HELP), 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, 234 S. Catalina

    Campus Architectural Tour, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Athenaeum
    A walking tour of campus will be led by members of the Caltech Architectural Tour Service. Beginning at the Athenaeum, the tour encompasses the historic campus, a selection of buildings from the modern campus, and the newly expanded north campus. Docents present a detailed history of the architecture and take visitors into some of the public spaces of the early campus. This is a strenuous walk that includes steps.

    Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 206 Thomas
    "Tactile Acceleration Cues for Haptic and Robotic Systems" Katherine Kuchenbecker, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania.

    HSS; Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar Series (BSN), 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 24 Beckman Labs
    "An "as-is" Model of Economic Decision Making" Ian Krajbich, Senior Postdoc in Microeconomics, Experimental Economics, and the Foundations of Human Social Behavi, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research.

    Physics Research Conference, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 201 E. Bridge
    "From Black Holes to Biological Membranes: Utilizing the Local Nature of Physical Laws to Simplify Complex Problems" Ira Rothstein, Professor of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University.

    Amnesty International Monthly Meeting, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Caltech Y lounge
    Caltech/Pasadena Amnesty International Group 22 holds monthly meetings to discuss current activities and plans. All are welcome, and refreshments will be provided. For information, call (818) 354-4461, e-mail lucas.kamp@jpl.nasa.gov, or go to www.its.caltech.edu/~aigp22.

    Argentine Tango Dance Class (Intermediate level), 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Winnett Lounge
    Intermediate I Tango, Vals & Milonga Class Series at CALTECH with JERRY & CHRISTINE PEREZ

    Tango Workshops, 9:30 PM - 11:00 PM, Winnett Lounge
    Argentine Tango Workshops with MURAT & MICHELLE ERDEMSEL at Caltech

  Friday May 25, 2012

    High Energy Theory Seminar, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 469 Lauritsen
    Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute.

    GALCIT Colloquium, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
    "Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of Spacecraft Parachutes" Tayfun Tezduyar, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Rice University .

    Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
    "Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei" Günther Hasinger, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii.

    Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 151 Crellin
    "Novel Approaches to Cleavage of Lignin-Related C-O Bonds" Alexey Fedorov, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech.

    Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 363 S. Hill Ave., Einstein Papers Project
    "The Einstein-Picasso Question" Lewis Pyenson, Professor of History, Western Michigan University.

    Caltech Red Door Poetry Club Meeting , 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Red Door Cafe
    Caltech and local poets meet to read and discuss their own work and study the work of important historical and contemporary poets.

    Tango Workshops, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM, Dabney Lounge
    Argentine Tango Workshops with MURAT & MICHELLE ERDEMSEL at Caltech

    All-Night Milonga hosted by Caltech Tango Club, 10:00 PM - Saturday May 26, 2012 3:00 AM, Dabney Lounge

    CALTECH ALL-NIGHT MILONGA;
    Special Performance by MURAT & MICHELLE ERDEMSEL
    Music by DJ Vincent Wong
    http://tango.caltechdance.org

  Saturday May 26, 2012
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