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Week of September 20, 2026

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Sunday, September 20th, 2026
10:00am – Ongoing
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New Student Orientation for Undergraduates

Monday, September 21st, 2026
9:00am – 4:00pm
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New Student Check-in for Graduates

10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Electrochemical Routes to Value-Added Products: From CO₂ Reduction to Hydroformylation
Grace Chen, Graduate Student, Chemistry (Goddard Group), Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CPA: NPA Week - Mental Health Seminar: Regulation Tools

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 9/25 5:00pm
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New Student Orientation for Graduates

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Marcus Center Special Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Synergizing Quantum Chemistry and Machine Learning for Molecular Discoveries in the Condensed Phase
Fang Liu, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory University,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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CPA: NPA Week - Social Hour - Gelato Evening

Resnick Sustainability Center Breezeway
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370
Mysterious Pulsar X-ray Filaments: Observational and Theoretical Advances/Precise Masses and Radii for Metal-Poor Eclipsing Binaries
Jack Dinsmore, PhD candidate, Stanford University,
Dom Rowan, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Witnessing Quantum Entanglement in Solid-State Materials
Yao Wang, Professor, Department of Physics, Emory University,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Advanced Screening: Dreamworks' "Forgotten Island"

Beckman Auditorium
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
10:00am – 11:00am
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CPA: NPA Week - Profession Headshots

10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Canvas Course Set-Up and Drop-In Help

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

Online Event
2:30pm – 4:30pm
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CPA: NPA Week - Matcha Pop up

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

South Mudd 365
"The Physical and Chemical Lifecycle of Acetylene and its Relatives on Titan"
Jonathan Lunine, Professor of Planetary Science & Chief Scientist, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech & Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Get Your Pasadena Public Library Card

Sherman Fairchild Library, Amphitheatre
7:30pm – 10:00pm
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Outdoor Movie Night: Project Hail Mary

Sherman Fairchild Library, Amphitheatre
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Enhanced Correlations in Hawking Radiation from Near-Extremal Collapse
Per Kraus, UCLA,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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CPA: NPA Week - Mini Donuts

Warren and Katharine Schlinger Laboratory
3:00pm – 4:15pm
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Laboratory Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
Thursday, September 24th, 2026
10:00am – 11:00am
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CPA: NPA Week - Postdoc Appreciation Breakfast

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Campus History & Architectural Tour

Athenaeum
12:10pm – 1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar

Cahill 370
Probing Baryon Feedback with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effects and Weak Lensing
Henry Liu, Graduate student, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Aiden Fenwick, Graduate Student, Chemistry (Atwater Lab), Caltech,
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Thriving at Caltech: Emotional Well-Being & Everyday Success — September 24

Friday, September 25th, 2026
8:00am – 5:00pm
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CCE Seminar Day

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
9:00am – 11:30am
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Convocation 2026

Beckman Auditorium
2:00pm – 4:45pm
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New Student Health Entrance Vaccine Clinic - September 25

Student Health Center
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Ringdown from Eccentric Binary Black Hole Coalescences in the Extreme Mass Ratio Regime
Devin Becker, Graduate Student, Kavli Institute, MIT,
2:30pm – 4:30pm
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Student Wellness Services Open House — September 25

Student Health Center
Saturday, September 26th, 2026
5:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech C - Caltech Chinese Association Event

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium