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Family Weekend 2026

  • Public Event
Sunday, February 1st, 2026
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Bishop Budget Workshop

  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:15pm
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Understanding & Responding to Microaggressions & Bias 101

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special ChE Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Droplets for High-throughput Cell-Cell Interaction Screening and All-Aqueous Miniaturized Systems
Prof. Anderson H. C. Shum, City University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
"Seismology on solar system terrestrial bodies"
Philippe Lognonné, Directeur, Observatoire InSight, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Cité,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
High Order Numerical Mmethods for hHyperbolic Eequations
Chi-Wang Shu, Theodore B. Stowell University Professor, Applied Mathematics, Brown University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
9:00am – 5:00pm
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James K. Knowles Lectures and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium

Gates-Thomas 135
"Variational phase-field modeling of fracture: toward second-generation models"
Laura De Lorenzis, Professor of Computational Mechanics, ETH Zürich,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SanPietro Budget Workshop

  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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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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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
8:00am – Ongoing
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Midterm Examination Period

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

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Francesco Calisto, Caltech,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Astronomical instruments on a chip — Getting ready for the next-generation of telescopes
Pradip Gatkine, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMS Special Colloquium with Peter Gacs

Annenberg 105
A reliable Turing machine
Peter Gacs, Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, Boston University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD
Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, ETH Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology,
Thursday, February 5th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CTLO - Winter Faculty Lunch Series

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Love & Lounge

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:15pm – 1:15pm
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SURF 2026 Information Session | Off-Campus SURFs

  • Internal Event
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 Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Bianxiao Cui

Moore B270
Membrane curvature-induced cell adhesion and drug development
Bianxiao Cui, Job and Gertrude Professor of Chemistry and a fellow of the CHEM-H and Wu Tsai Stanford Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Katerina Chatziioannou, Assistant Professor of Physics; William H. Hurt Scholar, Department of Physics, Caltech,
Friday, February 6th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Unitary Architecture of Renormalization
Sebastian Mizera, Columbia University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
David Long, Stanford,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Medical Engineering Defense, David Garrett

Broad 100
Human-Scale Ultrasound, Thermoacoustic, and Photoacoustic Tomography
David Garrett, Med-EE PhD Candidate, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
An introduction to solar inertial waves
Catherine Blume, Graduate Student, Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences, UColorado Boulder,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Ann Karagozian, Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Fernando Guerrero, Graduate Student (Agapie Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Prof. Chulhong Kim

Keck 142
Multimodal Photoacoustic Ultrasound Imaging: From Bench To Bedside and Products
Chulhong Kim, Ph.D, Namgo Chair Professorship of School of Convergence Science and Technology (Head) at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Republic of Korea.,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room