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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)
Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Anna Wolz, UCLA,
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
TBD
Jason Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern,
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
"The neighbor joining algorithm" 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,
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
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
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)
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
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,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
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,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
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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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Mina Himwich, Princeton University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Elizabeth Himwich, Princeton University,
3:00pm – 4:15pm
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Lab 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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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
Still to come
Polina Anikeeva, Department Head, Matoula S. Salapatas Professor in Materials Science and Engineering; Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics; Director, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Bod, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 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,
Friday, January 16th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Beni Yoshida, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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,
3:45pm – 4:15pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Juliette Whiteside, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
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,
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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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Jeremy van der Heijden, University of British Columbia,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CFAM Speaker Student-Faculty Programs: Being an Effective Mentor

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Core-Collapse Supernovae in 3D: New Theoretical Insights
Adam Burrows, Professor, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Lead Contamination: An Old Foe Rises from the Ashes of the Eaton Fire, with Francois Tissot

Beckman Auditorium
Francois Tissot, professor of geochemistry; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
  • Public Event
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CTLO - Winter Faculty Lunch Series

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SanPietro Information Session

  • 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 – 6:00pm
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Arden Albee Memorial

Athenaeum, Main Lounge
,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor W. Hong Yeo

Moore B270
Soft Wearable Intelligent Bioelectronics for Health Monitoring
W. Hong Yeo, Ph.D, G.P. "Bud" Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Endowed Professor Harris Saunders, Jr. Endowed Professor of the Woodruff School, Georgia Tech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Holger Mueller, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley,
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

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

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Ignatios Antoniadis, LPTHE - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Aditya Varma Muppala, UC Berkeley

Moore B280
Affine Synthetic Arrays for Millimeter-wave Imaging and Metrology
Aditya Varma Muppala, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley,
Saturday, January 24th, 2026
7:00am – 6:00pm
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Caltech Math Meet 2026

  • Public Event