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Saturday, January 10th, 2026
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Amelia Hogan with the Flight Crew

Off Campus
  • Public Event
Monday, January 12th, 2026
9:00am – 4:00pm
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2026 New Horizons in Neuroscience Search Symposium

Chen 100
11:00am – 11:55am
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Math Teaching Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Using electronic assessment to test and improve proof comprehension
Juma Otieno, Doctoral Researcher, Department of Mathematics and Earth Sciences, University of Trieste,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
"Laboratory Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences of Ice and Organics – Towards Understanding the Origin of Life on Earth and Elsewhere"
Murthy S. Gudipati, Senior Research Scientist, JPL/Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
New algorithms for the electric grid: the interplay between control, learning and economics
Baosen Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
CMB constraints on non-minimally coupled ultralight dark matter
Subhajit Ghosh, University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Professor Wei Min

Moore B270
Lighting up chemical bonds for biomedicine
Wei Min, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Black Holes" and "Radio Astronomy"
Jesse Han, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Stanford,
Allison Matthews, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Observatories,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Solving PDEs exactly over polynomials
Keaton Burns, Principal Research Scientist of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, MIT of Mathematics,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Quantum Sensing of Gravitational Frame-Dragging and Time Dilation with a Superfluid 4He Gyrometer
Kai Ellers, UC Berkeley,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Safety Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Water at the Edge: On- Water Spectroscopy across Oil Droplets, Protein Surfaces, Biomolecular Condensate and Living Cells
Wei Min, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
An Era of Planetary Seismology?
Chris Mankovich, Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech Election Integrity Project

Online Event
Inside the 2025 Caltech Election Integrity Project Conferences: Research, Risks, and Real-World Implications
Betsy Sinclair, Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science, Chair of Political Science, and Assistant Vice Provost of Digital Transformations, Washington University in St. Louis (WashU),
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Hollow-grams: Generalized Entanglement Wedges from the Gravitational Path Integral
Sami Kaya, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Idealistic equivalence relation remastered
Filippo Calderoni, Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Rutgers University,
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Green Labs Certification Crash Course (and Cookies)

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
From cosmic web to molecular clouds: the multiple scales of galaxy evolution
Amelie Saintonge, Director, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Detecting and Quantifying Methane Emissions from Facility to Basin Scales Using Imaging Spectrometry
Steven Wofsy, Harvard,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
2D Hole Gas at GaN/AlN interface – an Unprecedented Platform to Probe the Valence Band of GaN
Huili Grace Xing, William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
From Kramers' legacies in Bloch electrons to a new class of strongly correlated Fe-based transition metal dichalcogenides
Yichen Zhang, Ph.D. Student, Department of Physics, Rice University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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SURF 2026 Information Session | Off-Campus SURFs

  • Internal Event
Thursday, January 15th, 2026
11:00am – 2:00pm
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Caltech Library - TechHub - New Year Journaling & Herbal Sachets

Caltech Hall TechHub
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Efficient Planning and Learning for Contact-rich Manipulation via Structured Exploration
Pang Tao, Senior Research Scientist, RAI Institute,
1:30pm – 5:00pm
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32nd Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition Finals

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Perpall SURF Speaking Competition
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Polina Anikeeva

Moore B270
Bioelectronics Tools to Probe Brain-Body Communication
Polina Anikeeva, PhD, Matoula S. Salapatas Professor and Head Department of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Director, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center McGovern Institute for Brain Research Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Spectral Reciprocity and Arithmetic Applications
Liyang Yang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Computing Enhanced Sensing
Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MIT,
Friday, January 16th, 2026
9:00am – 10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Moore 239
Signal in the Scatter: Advancing Speckle-Based Optical Sensing for Deep Cerebral Blood Flow Monitoring
YuXi Huang, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Hamiltonian approach to near extremal black hole physics
Per Kraus, UCLA,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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SFP x Red Door Café Drop-in Advising Hour

Red Door Cafe
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Oracle Distillations and their Applications
Soonwoon Choi, MIT,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Negative energies and the breakdown of bulk lengths in JT gravity
Shreya Vardhan, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Emily Brodsky, Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, NAS, University of California, Santa Cruz,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Saturday, January 17th, 2026
6:30pm – 9:00pm
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Mach33 Blast Off Party

TACIT House, 275 S. Hill Ave.
  • Public Event
Sunday, January 18th, 2026
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Valencia Baryton Project

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, January 19th, 2026
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
12:00pm – 1/20 12:00am
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Application Deadline: Bill Gross Prize for Entrepreneurship

  • Internal Event
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
TBA
Angxiu Ni, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,
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)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
TBA
Huy Tuan Pham, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Rosenberg Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Optically driven many-body phases in one dimension
Matteo Mitrano, Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Harvard,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
10:00am – 11:00am
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Consciousness & Reality (C&R) 2025-26 Series SENSING QUALIA

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

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Jeremy van der Heijden, University of British Columbia,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Sleep Like a Legend!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CFAM Speaker Student-Faculty Programs: Being an Effective Mentor

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Core-Collapse Supernovae in 3D: New Theoretical Insights
Adam Burrows, Professor, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD
Hannah Nesser, TBD, JPL,
6:00pm – 7:30pm
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Dine & Dialouge: Authenticity in STEM - Let's talk about it ft. Dr. Clarissa Do Ó

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Lead Contamination: An Old Foe Rises from the Ashes of the Eaton Fire, with Francois Tissot

Beckman Auditorium
Francois Tissot, professor of geochemistry; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
  • Public Event
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CTLO - Winter Faculty Lunch Series

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SanPietro Information Session

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
  • Internal Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Modified Theories of Gravity, Parity, and the Dark Sector
Tatsuya Daniel, Postdoctoral Fellow, Trottier Space Institute, McGill University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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SFP x Red Door Café Drop-in Advising Hour

Red Door Cafe
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Arden Albee Memorial

Athenaeum, Main Lounge
,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor W. Hong Yeo

Moore B270
Soft Wearable Intelligent Bioelectronics for Health Monitoring
W. Hong Yeo, Ph.D, G.P. "Bud" Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Endowed Professor Harris Saunders, Jr. Endowed Professor of the Woodruff School, Georgia Tech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
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