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Sunday, February 15th, 2026
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Isidore Quartet

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, February 16th, 2026
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
11:00am – 12:30pm
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2026 Lunar New Year Talk: "Chinese Medicine and Meditation"

Chen 100
  • Public Event
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Grades

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
A Principled Framework for Discrete Diffusion Models via Denoising
Ricardo Baptista, Assistant Professor, Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Special QM Seminar

West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room)
Cavity-altered superconductivity
Itai Keren, Research Scientist, Department of Physics, Columbia University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Joint CPS/GPS seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Chirality and the electron spin- A miraculous match
Ron Naaman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Isreal,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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SFP x Red Door Café Drop-in Advising Hour

  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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You and Your Thesis

Online Event
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Lionel Christiaen

Broad 100
From deterministic to regulative development in a variable ocean
Lionel Christiaen, Director of the Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Excited-State Catalysts for Selective Bond Activations
Robert R. Knowles, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMS Special Seminar with Richard Anderson

Chen 100
Inside Baseball: ML in a Baseball Front Office
Richard Anderson, Director of Quantitative Analysis, Los Angeles Dodgers,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
The Many Faces of Mars During its Recent Past
Lucas Lange, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Semianr

East Bridge 114
Dyanmics and energy relaxation in correlated metals
Peter Armitage, Professor, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Johns Hopkins University,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Credit Union Annual Meeting

Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
No Shift Symmetries and Tensionless String Limits in AdS/CFT
Jose Calderon Infante, Caltech,
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Getting Started!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Spectral theory and descriptive combinatorics for Borel pmp graphs
Cecelia Higgins, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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CAIA Speaker Event: Gon Buzaglo, Princeton

Gates Annex B122
Gon Buzaglo, Princeton,
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Magnetism and morphology in the interstellar medium
Susan Clark, Assistant Professor of Physics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Land-Atmosphere Interactions and the Changing Hydrologic Cycle
Kirsten Findell, Research Physical Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter/Materials Science Research Lecture

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The materials physics of complex oxide interfaces
Charles Ahn, Professor, Physics and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University,
Thursday, February 19th, 2026
11:00am – 2:00pm
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Make Your Own Lunar New Year Red Envelopes

Sherman Fairchild Library, Lobby
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"The Inherent Resilience of Large Cities to Natural Hazards: Records, Evidence and Predictions"
Nicos Makris, Professor of Structures and Mechanics, Addy Family Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Methodist University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CTLO - Winter Faculty Lunch Series

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennen Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

Chen 130
"One genome, many phenotypes: evolutionary insights from complex traits in ants"
Megan Barkdull, Assistant Curator, Entomology, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CFAM Speaker CALE: Alternative Careers in Education: Looking Beyond the R1

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
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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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Colin Cook, PhD

Moore B270
Crowded at the bottom: high-density, scalable production of cell and gene therapies in respiring bioreactors
Colin Cook, PhD (Caltech MedE 2019), Technical Founder and Chief Technology Officer, XDEMICS Corporation,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
A new case of the Harris-Viehmann conjecture
Sandra Nair, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Yuri Levin, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Columbia University,
Friday, February 20th, 2026
10:00am – 11:00am
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Science Journey - Cosmic Fireworks: How Astronomers Explore the Changing Sky

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:00am – 3:00pm
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ChE Panel & Research Talks

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
Naga Phani Aetukuri, Associate Professor, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU), Indian Institute of Science — Bengaluru,
Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan, Associate Professor, Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science — Bengaluru,
Srinivasan Ramakrishnan, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology — Bombay,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Exact Path Integral Methods in AdS$_2\times \mathbf{S}^2$ and Non-Perturbative Black Holes
Alberto Castellano, University of Chicago,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Community Celebration

Olive Walk
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Testing the quantumness of gravity "ab absurdo"
Emanuele Panella, University of Rome Tor Vergata,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (1/2)

Linde Hall 310
TBD
Jared Marx-Kuo, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Rice University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Manipulating Spectral Energy Flux in Turbulent Flows: Applications and Implications Across Scales
Lei Fang, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Beckman Institute Poster Session

Beckman Institute
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (2/2)

Linde Hall 310
Min-max constructions in noncompact manifolds
Doug Stryker, NSF Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
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
Unraveling the connection between mantle flow, lithospheric stress, faults, and rivers.
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