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Friday, February 20th, 2026
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Beckman Institute Poster Session

Beckman Institute
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar

Moore B280
Ultra-low noise Phase-locked Loop Technique
Taekwang Jang, Associate Professor, Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, Louis B. and Martha B. Slichter Endowed Chair in Geosciences, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles,
Saturday, February 21st, 2026
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Wind Orchestra CONCERT

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, February 22nd, 2026
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Wind Orchestra CONCERT

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, February 23rd, 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)
12:00pm – 1:15pm
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Understanding & Responding to Microaggressions & Bias 201

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ernest H. Swift Lecture Series

Gates Annex B122
Sustainable Production of Reduced Phosphorus Compounds
Christopher (Kit) Cummins, Henry Drefus Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Generative Design via Optimal Transport for Shape and Field Exploration
Charbel Farhat, Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University,
Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

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

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

South Mudd 365
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections

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

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Simon Knapen, LBNL, UC Berkeley,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Jackie Caminiti, Perimeter Institute,
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
Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe: from Luminous Quasars to the Little Red Dots
Xiaohui Fan, Regents Professor of Astronomy, Astronomer, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD
Alex Hall, UCLA,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Chasing Sustainable Battery Chemistries for the Future with Kimberly See

Beckman Auditorium
Kimberly See, professor of chemistry,
  • Public Event
Thursday, February 26th, 2026
8:00am – 3/11 11:59pm
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Registration for Spring Term

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

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
TBA
Elizabeth Hughes, Graduate Student, Shapiro Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dine & Dialouge: Love & Healthy Relationships

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Autonomous learning and design of proteins
Philip Romero, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Rachel Green, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Liang Fu, Professor of Physics, Condensed matter Theory, MIT,
Friday, February 27th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Veronika Hubeny, UC Davis,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Senrui Chen, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill group,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Behcet Acikmese, Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Zhigang Peng, Professor of Geophysics, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Saturday, February 28th, 2026
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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ORCHESTRA CONCERT (Concerto Competition Winners)

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, March 1st, 2026
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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ORCHESTRA CONCERT (Concerto Competition Winners)

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, March 2nd, 2026
10:00am – 4:00pm
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AI Bootcamp XIV - Foundational Models

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
James J. McCusker, Joseph Zichis Endowed Chair and MSU Research Foundation Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University,
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
10:00am – 4:00pm
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AI Bootcamp XIV - Foundational Models

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Sohini Ramachandran

Chen 100
TBD
Sohini Ramachandran, Professor, Biology and Data Science, Brown University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
TBD
David Mordecai, Adjunct Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Topic to be announced
Alberto Abadie, Professor of Economics, MIT,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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International Women's Day & Women's History Month

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
10:00am – 4:00pm
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AI Bootcamp XIV - Foundational Models

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Christian Ferko, Northeastern University,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD
Brian Mapes, University of Miami,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Charlie Fehl, Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University,
  • Internal Event
Thursday, March 5th, 2026
10:00am – 4:00pm
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AI Bootcamp XIV - Foundational Models

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Yoonjin Won, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCI Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
TBA
Raj Mukkamala, Graduate Student, Newman & Kornfield Groups,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CTLO - Winter Faculty Lunch Series

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Introduction to QGIS

Online Event
  • Internal Event
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Suri Vaikuntanathan, Professor, Department of Chemistry,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Hui Cao

Moore B270
Programmable Laser Coherence for Multimodal Biomedical Imaging
Professor Hui Cao, Professor, Applied Physics, Yale Engineering,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Ilija Zeljkovic, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Boston College,
Friday, March 6th, 2026
10:00am – 4:00pm
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AI Bootcamp XIV - Foundational Models

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Raju Venugopalan, Brookhaven National Lab & Stony Brook University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 125
Topic to be announced
Yizhou Zhang, Graduate Student, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Quantum witnesses with no classical substitutes
Chinmay Nirkhe, University of Washington,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
Noam Soker, Professor, Department of Physics, Technion,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Karthik Duraisamy, Arthur B. Modine Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan,
3:45pm – 5:15pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Jonathan Aalto, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
Saturday, March 7th, 2026
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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GLEE CLUB AND CHAMBER SINGERS CONCERTS

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event