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Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ESE: EAS Trailblazers Seminar

South Mudd 365
Understanding Atmospheric Composition Using Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Observations
Laura H. Yang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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KISS Open House

Keck Center
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Men's Soccer vs. CMS

North Athletic Field
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Rewriting Protein Modifications with Molecular Glues
Christina Woo, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Men's Water Polo vs. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

Braun Athletic Center, Pool
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Problem Set Workshop - Ch 1a

Thursday, October 8th, 2026
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Bike Fair

Red Door Cafe
11:00am – 2:00pm
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TechHub Open House and Drop-In Thursday: Sew Your Own "Noodle" Pillow

Caltech Hall TechHub
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
"Selective Lipidome Editing through Structure-Directed Metabolic Routing"
Binyou Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Morstein Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar

Baxter B125
We Have Your Back? Discretion in Police Discipline and Peer Effects on Officer Misconduct
Paulo Cesar Matos Trifu, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm – 6:00pm
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Reshaping Metrology with Quantum Information Processing
Sisi Zhou, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Using AI as a TA: Do's, Don'ts, and Dilemmas

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra, Geometry, & Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
A Proof of Sylvester's Conjecture
Ashay Burungale, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar - James Shorter (UPenn)

Gates Annex B122
Short RNA chaperones promote aggregation-resistant TDP-43 conformers to mitigate neurodegeneration
James Shorter, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
"The Zircon Record of Magma Redox Evolution Across the Great Oxidation Event"
Shane Houchin, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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PMA Fall Gathering

Friday, October 9th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The String Landscape, precisely
Jakob Moritz, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Quantum Gibbs sampling by classical decoding
Alexander Schmidhuber, MIT,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Study Abroad at École Polytechnic info session

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Analysis Seminar (1/2)

Linde Hall 310
An H-Principle for General Relativistic Initial Data Sets
Sung-Jin Oh, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Intro to CAD - Basic Modeling

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Importance of accretion disk-driven torques on extreme mass ratio inspirals
Abhishek Hegade, Associate Research Scholar, Department of Physics, Princeton,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Analysis Seminar (2/2)

Linde Hall 310
TBD
Kevin Ren, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Decompositions and diagrams of symplectic surfaces in Weinstein domains
Melissa Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Cationic Ionomer Coatings Promote Anion Electroreduction: Nitrate Reduction as a Model Reaction
Zikai Xu, Graduate Student (Agapie Group),
5:30pm – 7:30pm
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CWC Fall Gathering Dinner

Dabney Hall, Lounge
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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AUDITIONS: "Murder at the Athenaeum" TACIT Musical

TACIT House, 275 S. Hill Ave.
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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AIM Public Lecture Series: Terence Tao

Beckman Auditorium
Machine Assisted Proof
Terence Tao, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
Saturday, October 10th, 2026
11:00am – 3:00pm
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AUDITIONS: "Murder at the Athenaeum" TACIT Musical

TACIT House, 275 S. Hill Ave.
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Women's Soccer vs. La Verne

North Athletic Field
Monday, October 12th, 2026
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
From Preons to Flavor: Probing Composite Quarks and Leptons
Amartya Sengupta, University at Buffalo,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213
ArabIan Nights: Tales of AI, Science, and Trouble
Nihar Shah, Associate Professor, Machine Learning & Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
"How Earth became habitable in the Hadean"
Jun Korenaga, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Quantitative hypocoercive convergence estimates for underdamped Langevin equations
Jianfeng Lu, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, Duke University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Shosei Yoshida

Chen 100
"Spatiotemporal dynamics of mammalian spermatogenesis: from stem cells to tissue organization"
Shosei Yoshida, National Institute for Basic Biology,
Tuesday, October 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
Self-supervised In-context Operator Learning on Probability Measure Space: Theory and Applications
Rongjie Lai, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dine & Dialogue: Beyond the Plan: Finding My Way at Caltech and Beyond

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar

Baxter B125
Topic to be announced
Shiyu (Jake) Zhang, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Study Away at University of Chicago info session

1:00pm – 2:00pm
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The Unix Shell

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Safety Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Year-Long Course Design Workshop Series

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

Annenberg 105
Surya Ganguli, Assistant Professor, Applied Physics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Women's Volleyball vs. Pomona-Pitzer

Braun Gym
Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
11:00am – 1:00pm
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TIAA's Office Hours

Red Door Cafe
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 254
Manuela Hurtado Betancur, Geophysics Graduate Student, Caltech,