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Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours

Online Event
Beyond the Hype: A Research Driven Look at Claims About New Voting Technology
Michael Specter, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Cybersecurity & Privacy, Georgia Tech,
Delaney Gomen, PhD Student in Computer Science, Georgia Tech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Particle-Soliton Degeneracy in 2D QCD from Spontaneously Broken Non-invertible Symmetry
Diego Garcia Sepulveda, Harvard University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Seeing and Shaping Quantum Matter at the Atomic Scale
Jane Park, PhD Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Bishop Information Session

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Getting Things Done

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Hyperfinite partial orders
Patrick Lutz, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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MLK Commemoration Keynote: Kristin McGuire

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CFAM Drop-In Hour for all Winter TAs

3:00pm – 4:15pm
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Laboratory Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Galaxy Evolution in the Resolved Universe
Daniel Weisz, Associate Professor of Astronomy; Head Graduate Advisor, Astronomy Department, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
A World Tour of Nitrite: Revealing the Ocean's Invisible Chemistry
Mariana Bif, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech Longevity Club Speaker Series

Chen 100
Remember the Future' Strategies for a Meaningful Life in Medicine
Jordan Shlain, Founder and CEO of Private Medical,
Thursday, January 29th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Homogenizing Origami and Kirigami Metamaterials
Paul Plucinsky, Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Most regular graphs are Ramanujan
Theo McKenzie, Stanford Science Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Stanford,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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SFP x Red Door Café Drop-in Advising Hour

Red Door Cafe
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geoclub Seminar Series

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Insights into catalysts of environmental methane oxidation across landscapes
John Magyar, Research Scientist in Geobiology, Geological and Planetary Science, Caltech,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions & Visual Culture Program Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
From Text to Media
Anna Shechtman, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Rachel Rosen, Associate Professor of Quantum Field Theory and Gravity, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University,
Friday, January 30th, 2026
9:00am – 2/1 10:00am
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Family Weekend 2026

  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Rachel Rosen, Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Entanglement oscillations and many-body quantum scars
Nicholas O'Dea, Princeton,
1:15pm – 2:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar - POSTPONED

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Null Ray: Localized gauge invariant observables and covariant quantization
Laurent Freidel, Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
The Separation Aerodynamics of Idealized Fragmenting Meteoroids
Stuart Laurence, Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Smoothly knotted surfaces in small closed 4-manifolds
Dave Auckly, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Earthquake-Cycle Modality Revealed by Paleoseismic Inter-Event Time Distributions
Michael Oskin, Professor of Geology, University of California, Davis,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Saturday, January 31st, 2026
1:00pm – 2:30pm
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CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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JAZZ GUEST ARTIST CONCERT

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, February 1st, 2026
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Bishop Budget Workshop

  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:15pm
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Understanding & Responding to Microaggressions & Bias 101

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special ChE Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Droplets for High-throughput Cell-Cell Interaction Screening and All-Aqueous Miniaturized Systems
Prof. Anderson H. C. Shum, City University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
"Seismology on solar system terrestrial bodies"
Philippe Lognonné, Directeur, Observatoire InSight, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Cité,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
High Order Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Equations
Chi-Wang Shu, Theodore B. Stowell University Professor, Applied Mathematics, Brown University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
9:00am – 5:00pm
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James K. Knowles Lectures and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium

Gates-Thomas 135
"Variational phase-field modeling of fracture: toward second-generation models"
Laura De Lorenzis, Professor of Computational Mechanics, ETH Zürich,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Roth, an after-tax contribution option

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SanPietro Budget Workshop

  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SFP x Red Door Café Drop-in Advising Hour

Red Door Cafe
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
8:00am – 2/10 11:59pm
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Midterm Examination Period

11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Francesco Calisto, Caltech,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Astronomical instruments on a chip — Getting ready for the next-generation of telescopes
Pradip Gatkine, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMS Special Colloquium with Peter Gacs

Annenberg 105
A reliable Turing machine
Peter Gacs, Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, Boston University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Microbial Navigation and Biofilm Morphodynamics in Subsurface Environments
Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, ETH Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Electron Spin, Chiral Symmetry Breaking, and Life's Homochirality
Furkan Ozturk, Assistant Professor, Geobiology and Geochemistry, Caltech,
Thursday, February 5th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CTLO - Winter Faculty Lunch Series

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Love & Lounge

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:15pm – 1:15pm
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SURF 2026 Information Session | Off-Campus SURFs

  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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SFP x Red Door Café Drop-in Advising Hour

Red Door Cafe
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Bianxiao Cui

Moore B270
Membrane curvature-induced cell adhesion and drug development
Bianxiao Cui, Job and Gertrude Professor of Chemistry and a fellow of the CHEM-H and Wu Tsai Stanford Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Katerina Chatziioannou, Assistant Professor of Physics; William H. Hurt Scholar, Department of Physics, Caltech,
Friday, February 6th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Unitary Architecture of Renormalization
Sebastian Mizera, Columbia University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
David Long, Stanford,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Medical Engineering Defense, David Garrett

Broad 100
Human-Scale Ultrasound, Thermoacoustic, and Photoacoustic Tomography
David Garrett, Med-EE PhD Candidate, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
An introduction to solar inertial waves
Catherine Blume, Graduate Student, Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences, UColorado Boulder,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Ann Karagozian, Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Fernando Guerrero, Graduate Student (Agapie Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Prof. Chulhong Kim

Keck 142
Multimodal Photoacoustic Ultrasound Imaging: From Bench To Bedside and Products
Chulhong Kim, Ph.D, Namgo Chair Professorship of School of Convergence Science and Technology (Head) at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Republic of Korea.,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Monday, February 9th, 2026
10:00am – 11:30am
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Professional Development Series for Grad Students and Postdocs: Evidence-Based Teaching and AI Integration

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
An Adjoint Method for Optimization of the Boltzmann Equation
Russel E. Caflisch, Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute, NYU,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Henrique Rubira, Cambridge University, KICC and Munich University Observatory,
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