skip to main content
Caltech
Home  /  Campus Life & Events  /  Institute Calendar

Institute Calendar

Previous

Fall 2023-2024

Next
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Science of Benefits - Longevity Fitness and Thriving in Retirement

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Add to Cal

Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Rigorous results about entropies in QFT
Feng Xu, Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

Weight Room Tours

Braun Gym
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Next-Generation Simulations of the Remarkable Deaths of Massive Stars
Carl Fields, RPF Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Physics and Methods, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Out of Sight, Out of Mind -- The DDT Story You Haven't Heard
David Valentine, UCSB,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Chemistry-Enabled Biological Discovery
Luke Lairson, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Performing Major Lifts-Proper Form & Spotting

Braun Gym
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Rationalizable Information Design
Olivier Gossner, Professor, London School of Economics; Senior Researcher, CNRS; Professor, Ecole Polytechnique,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Add to Cal

Women's Affinity Space

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Public Event
Thursday, October 26th, 2023
10:30am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

Campus History & Architectural Tour

Athenaeum
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

CCID x SFCC Presents: Neurodiversity At Work

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151
"Engineering RNA export to monitor and manipulate living cells"
Dr. Felix Horns, Postdoctoral Fellow, Elowitz Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

CPA Bylaws Review Meeting – October 26

  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Faculty Short Course - Course Design Basics (Learning Objectives)

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

David G. Goodwin Memorial Lecture

Gates-Thomas 135
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Add to Cal

Deconstructing Kidney Development and Repair for Therapeutic Opportunity

Broad 100
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Finance Seminar

Baxter B125
Mild Government Failure
Shang-Jin Wei, N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of Finance and Economics, Graduate School of Business and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Decoding the Cellular Blueprint: DNA, Lipids, and Nuclear Geometry
Alwin Köhler, Professor of Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Biology, University of Vienna,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Add to Cal

Midterm Decompression

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
On the Universal Deformation Ring of Residual Galois Representations with Three Jordan Holder Factors
Xiaoyu Huang, Graduate Center, City University of New York,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Companion-Disk Interaction: From Protoplanetary Disks to AGN Disks
Zhaohuan Zhu, UNLV,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
"Engineering Therapeutics for the Pediatric Brain"
Elizabeth Nance, Jagjeet and Janice Bindra Endowed Career Development Associate Professor & Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington,
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Add to Cal

Spooky Outdoor Movie Night

Sherman Fairchild Library, Amphitheatre
Friday, October 27th, 2023
11:00am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Holography on the quantum disk
Ahmed Almheiri, NYU,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Exponential speedups for quantum walks in random hierarchical graphs
Shankar Balasubramanian, MIT,
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Add to Cal

Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Jiaobing Tu

Online and In-Person Event
Wearable Sweat Sensors for Disease Monitoring and Management
Jiaobing Tu, Ph.D. Student, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, California Instittute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Add to Cal

TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Constraining supernovae models using gamma-ray deposition histories
Amir Sharon, Graduate Student, Department of Particle Physics & Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Turbulent boundary layers in spatially and temporally varying pressure gradients
Theresa Saxton-Fox, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Genus one singularities in mean curvature flow
Adrian Chun-Pong Chu, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Development and Application of Cooperative Catalysts Methods for Alkene Carboboration
Stanna Dorn, Postdoctoral Scholar (Reisman Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Add to Cal

▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Saturday, October 28th, 2023
11:00am – 7:00pm
Add to Cal

Homecoming Orange Out

Braun Gym
Monday, October 30th, 2023
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
Activision Blizzard Tech Talk
Michael Vance, CTO, Activision Blizzard,
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

RSI Research Seminar

Jorgensen 109
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The scope of Clean Water Act regulation and its consequences for the economy and the environment
Hannah Druckenmiller, Assistant Professor of Economics; William H. Hurt Scholar, Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Mathematics and Physics at the Moiré Scale
Mitchell Luskin, Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Electromagnetism and Gravity with Continuous Spin
Kevin Zhou, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Counting incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Marc Lackenby, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Symmetry and topology in mixed quantum states: SPT, anomaly and separability
Chong Wang, Research Faculty, Department of Physics-Quantum Matter, Perimeter Institute,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Add to Cal

Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 310
PL-genus of surfaces in homology balls
Jennifer Hom, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
9:00am – 10:00am
Add to Cal

Visual Culture Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Water and Equitable Sustainability in the California Central Valley
Angela Islas, Water Project Manager, CivicWell,
  • Public Event
9:30am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

Caltech Library Workshop – Version Control with Git

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Add to Cal

Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar

East Bridge 114
Mildly Overparameterized ReLU Networks Have a Favorable Loss Landscape
Guido Montufar, Departments of Mathematics and Statistics & Data Science, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Isotopes and the characterization of extrasolar planets
Yapeng Zhang, Postdoc (51 Peg Fellow), Astronomy, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Elicitability
Nicolas Lambert, Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), USC,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Add to Cal

Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium

Online Event
On the Feigin-Tipunin's construction
Shoma Sugimoto, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Add to Cal

▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
10:00am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

Leadership Pasadena Open House

Chen Breezeway
10:30am – 11:30am
Add to Cal

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Scale invariance and rate of nuclear reactions
Subham Chowdhury, University of Chicago,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Job Market Seminar

Baxter 127
Robust Estimation of Risk Preferences
Aldo Lucia, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Add to Cal

Unpacking Hate: Unpacking Homophobia in STEM Environments

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

● POSTPONED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
This seminar has been postponed.
John Norton, Distinguished Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The First Glimpse of the First Galaxies with JWST
Rohan Naidu, NASA Hubble Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
This Seminar has been POSTPONED
Michael Wara, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Synthesis and exploration of new topological magnetic texture in frustrated magnets
Takashi Kurumaji, Research Professor, Physics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: Special Seminar

Gates-Thomas 115
Can computers be trained as porous media experts?
Peyman Mostaghimi, Professor of Minerals and Energy Resources, Mineral and Energy Resources Engineering, University of New South Wales,
Thursday, November 2nd, 2023
10:00am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

EAS Trailblazers Symposium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Disability in STEM seminar series: Dr. Christina Goudreau Collison

12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Teaching Statement Info Session - Online

Online Event
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Add to Cal

Educational Technology Workshop (Other Tech Tools)

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Add to Cal

Caltech Library Workshop – Introduction to Tableau Public

Online Event
2:30pm – 3:45pm
Add to Cal

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

MMP for 3-dimensional Kahler generalized pairs
Jose Yanez, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

EE Devices Seminar - Judith Su

Moore B270
Ultra-sensitive, selective, and label-free optical sensing for fundamental science, environmental monitoring, and translational medicine
Judith Su, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Optical Sciences, University of Arizona,
3:45pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Hodge theory, modular forms, counting curves on surfaces, and maybe some other stuff
Joseph Helfer, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

LA Probability Forum

KPZ estimates for ASEP and the Stochastic Six Vertex model
Philippe Sosoe, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
On mod p Langlands parameters for tame groups
Zhongyipan Lin, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Colliders for the Future of High Energy Physics
Julia Gonski, SLAC,