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Winter Recess

Thursday, January 1st, 2026
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Monday, January 5th, 2026
All Day
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Beginning of Instruction of Winter Term

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Canvas Course Set-Up and Drop-In Help

Online Event
Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
9:00am – 12:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Getting Started With Gradescope

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Día de Reyes

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Analyticity of the black hole S-matrix
Anna Wolz, UCLA,
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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Community Gathering: One Year After the LA Fires

Beckman Mall
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
New Frontiers in Exoplanet Imaging and Pathways to Habitable Worlds
Jason Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Basal melt rates in the Ice Grounding Zones (IGZ)
Ratnakar Gadi, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Physics and Applications of Andreev Spins
Valla Fatemi, Assistant Professor, Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell,
6:00pm – 7:30pm
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Altadena Candle Light Vigil

Thursday, January 8th, 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 – 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

Chen 100
"Evolution of cooperation" and "Targeting tail anchored proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum in embryophytes"
Lior Pachter, Bren Professor of Computational Biology and Computing and Mathematical Sciences, BBE, Caltech,
Conner Wells, Graduate Student, Clemons Lab, BBE, Caltech,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Annenberg 213
Limitations of Noisy Geometrically Local Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar, University of Maryland,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Shruti Puri, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Department of Physics, Yale,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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SURF 2026 Information Session | Off-Campus SURFs

  • Internal Event
Friday, January 9th, 2026
9:00am – 10:00am
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Medical Engineering Defense, Xin Tong

Moore B270
Advanced Imaging with Sound and Light: Photoacoustic Tomography and Quantum Microscopy
Xin Tong, MedE/EE PhD Candidate, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, Caltech (Advised by Professor Lihong Wang-COIL Lab),
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Constraints on Long-Range Forces in De Sitter Space
Kurt Hinterbichler, Case Western Reserve University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CFAM TA Refresher Session

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Shruti Puri, Yale,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Emergent Functionality Through 3D Architected Electronic Materials
Xiaoyu Zheng, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Jeffrey Freymueller, Endowed Chair for Geology of the Solid Earth, Department Chair, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University,
Saturday, January 10th, 2026
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Amelia Hogan with the Flight Crew

Off Campus
  • Public Event
Monday, January 12th, 2026
9:00am – 4:00pm
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2026 New Horizons in Neuroscience Search Symposium

Chen 100
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
New algorithms for the electric grid: the interplay between control, learning and economics
Baosen Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Professor Wei Min

Moore B270
Lighting up chemical bonds for biomedicine
Wei Min, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Black Holes" and "Radio Astronomy"
Jesse Han, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Stanford,
Allison Matthews, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Observatories,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
TBD
Keaton Burns, Principal Research Scientist of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, MIT of Mathematics,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Safety Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Water at the Edge: On- Water Spectroscopy across Oil Droplets, Protein Surfaces, Biomolecular Condensate and Living Cells
Wei Min, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech Election Integrity Project

Online Event
Inside the 2025 Caltech Election Integrity Project Conferences: Research, Risks, and Real-World Implications
Betsy Sinclair, Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science, Chair of Political Science, and Assistant Vice Provost of Digital Transformations, Washington University in St. Louis (WashU),
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Sami Kaya, UC Berkeley,
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
TBD
Amelie Saintonge, Director, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD
Steven Wofsy, Harvard,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
2D Hole Gas at GaN/AlN interface – an Unprecedented Platform to Probe the Valence Band of GaN
Huili Grace Xing, William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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SURF 2026 Information Session | Off-Campus SURFs

  • Internal Event
Thursday, January 15th, 2026
11:00am – 2:00pm
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Caltech Library - TechHub - New Year Journaling & Herbal Sachets

Caltech Hall TechHub
  • Internal Event
1:30pm – 5:00pm
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32nd Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition Finals

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Perpall SURF Speaking Competition
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Polina Anikeeva

Moore B270
Bioelectronics Tools to Probe Brain-Body Communication
Polina Anikeeva, PhD, Matoula S. Salapatas Professor and Head Department of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Director, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center McGovern Institute for Brain Research Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Yuan Qiao, Assistant Professor, School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University Singapore,
Friday, January 16th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Per Kraus, UCLA,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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SFP x Red Door Café Drop-in Advising Hour

Red Door Cafe
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Soonwoon Choi, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Emily Brodsky, Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, NAS, University of California, Santa Cruz,
Sunday, January 18th, 2026
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Valencia Baryton Project

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, January 19th, 2026
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
12:00pm – 1/20 12:00am
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Application Deadline: Bill Gross Prize for Entrepreneurship

  • Internal Event
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
TBA
Angxiu Ni, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,
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)