skip to main content
Caltech
Home  /  Campus Life & Events  /  Institute Calendar

Institute Calendar

Filtered Events

Add to Cal Add events from these categories to your calendar.
Subscribe Subscribe to these events via RSS.
Thursday, February 26th, 2026
8:00am – 3/11 11:59pm
Add to Cal

Registration for Spring Term

Friday, February 27th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
New insights into holographic entropy inequalities
Veronika Hubeny, UC Davis,
11:00am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100
Structural characterization of a filament-forming prokaryotic Argonaute protein
Katelyn Radford, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Add to Cal

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Towards sample-optimal learning of bosonic Gaussian quantum states
Senrui Chen, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill group,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Behcet Acikmese, Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

Caltech's Cell Interaction Initiative (CI2) Seminar

Chen 130
Kidney 160
Sina Booeshaghi, Ph.D., UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
A Synthetic Iron Model of Carbon–Sulfur Bond Activation by the Nitrogenase-family Enzyme Methylthio-alkane Reductase
Derek R. Kuno-Williams,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Determining the c-value in the modified Omori's law for early aftershock decay following moderate-size earthquakes at interplate and intraplate regions
Zhigang Peng, Professor of Geophysics, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Add to Cal

CAIA Speaker Event: Gabriel Wu, OpenAI @ Caltech

Chen 100
Gabriel Wu, OpenAI,
  • Public Event
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Add to Cal

CPA Lunar New Year Party

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Add to Cal

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Revealing the Primordial Universe Through Its Oldest Light
W. L. Kimmy Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, February 28th, 2026
8:00pm – 9:30pm
Add to Cal

ORCHESTRA CONCERT "By Request"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, March 1st, 2026
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Add to Cal

ORCHESTRA CONCERT "By Request"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, March 2nd, 2026
10:00am – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

AI Bootcamp XIV - Foundational Models

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
3:45pm – 4:45pm
Add to Cal

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Photophysics and Photochemistry of First-row Transition Metal Complexes: Quantum Coherence, the Marcus Inverted Region, and Applications in Excited-state Chemistry
James K. McCusker, Joseph Zichis Endowed Chair and MSU Research Foundation Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370
Luminous Black Hole Accretion: How Radiation and Magnetic Fields Regulate Accretion Flows/INFUSE II - science and upgrades for the second launch of the far ultraviolet integral field spectrograph
Lizhong Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study and the Center for Computational Astrophysics,
Alex Haughton, PhD candidate, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
"Reconciling cyanosulfidic chemistry with geochemical constraints"
John Sutherland, Group Leader, Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Stable and Unstable Objects in the PDE Analysis of the Navier-Stokes Equations
Vladimir Sverak, Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Light Boson Dark Matter & Nonlinear Plasma Dynamics
Junwu Huang, Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

QCSA Speaker Event: Dolev Bluvstein @ Caltech

Lauritsen 269
Dolev Bluvstein, Professor, Caltech,
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Solvable models of quantum annealing
Nikolai Sinitsyn, Nikolai Sinitsyn, CNLS Postdoctoral Research Associate, CNLS, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Add to Cal

Caltech Connect Training for Students

Avery Library
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
9:00am – 11:30am
Add to Cal

Version Control with Git

Online Event
  • Internal Event
10:00am – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

AI Bootcamp XIV - Foundational Models

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
11:30am – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Undergraduate Option Fair

San Pasqual Walk
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Biology Seminar - Sohini Ramachandran

Chen 100
Variations on a theme of structure: leveraging recent relatedness and mixed-membership clustering to gain insights from high-dimensional genomics datasets
Sohini Ramachandran, Professor, Biology and Data Science, Brown University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
A Ground Motion-based Approach to Earthquake Warning, Forecasting, and Statistics
Timothy Clements, Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Add to Cal

PhD Thesis Defense

Chen 130
Scalable Arrays From Millimeter-Wave Sensing to Microwave Wireless Power Transfer
Alex Ayling, Graduate student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Discrepancies in Early Solar System Chronology
Haoyu Li, Research Scientist, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Doubly Robust Inference in Causal Latent Factor Models
Alberto Abadie, Professor of Economics, MIT,
6:00pm – 10:00pm
Add to Cal

2025/2026 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Add to Cal

International Women's Day & Women's History Month

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
10:00am – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

AI Bootcamp XIV - Foundational Models

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Neural Networks and Liouville Field Theory
Christian Ferko, Northeastern University,
11:45am – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Anti-Procrastination Station (feat. treats!)

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Dwarf Galaxies at the Dawn of the Rubin Era
Josh Simon, Staff Scientist, Carnegie Science,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Tropical Weather: A New 30' STEAM Film, Liquid Sunshine
Brian Mapes, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Aberrant glycosylation patterns in hyperglycemic diseases: tools and targets
Charlie Fehl, Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Quantum Matter/Materials Science Research Lecture

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Nonlocal photogalvanic spectroscopy as a probe of complex matter: topological light meets topological materials
Ritesh Agarwal, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,
5:30pm – 7:00pm
Add to Cal

Centering First-Gen Success to Secure Scholarships by Araceli Cruz, M.A.

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
5:30pm – 7:00pm
Add to Cal

Night Safety Walk

Chen 130
Thursday, March 5th, 2026
10:00am – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

AI Bootcamp XIV - Foundational Models

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Intelligent Learning Strategies for Thermal Science in the AI Era
Yoonjin Won, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCI Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine,
,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Build Smart Financial Habits for Success

Online Event
,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
"Designing Wireless Living Materials for Soil Sensing and Beyond"
Raj Mukkamala, Graduate Student, Newman & Kornfield Groups,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

CTLO - Winter Faculty Lunch Series

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennen Conference Room
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Add to Cal

Introduction to QGIS

Online Event
  • Internal Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Add to Cal

Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
How Fault Structure Controls Earthquake Rupture and Ground Motion: Insights from Laboratory Earthquakes
Yuval Tal,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
Add to Cal

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Annenberg 213
Majorization theory for quasiprobabilities
Twesh Upadyaya, University of Maryland,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

CFAM Winter Discussion Series: AI in Today's Classroom

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Suri Vaikuntanathan, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Hui Cao

Moore B270
Programmable Laser Coherence for Multimodal Biomedical Imaging
Professor Hui Cao, Professor, Applied Physics, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Atomic-scale imaging of symmetry-broken electronic states in kagome superconductors
Ilija Zeljkovic, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Boston College,
Friday, March 6th, 2026
10:00am – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

AI Bootcamp XIV - Foundational Models

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Nathan Benjamin, USC,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 125
Reduced Forms: Feasibility, Extremality, Optimality
Ilia Krasikov, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Arizona State University; Research Economist, National Bureau of Economic Research,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Add to Cal

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

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

Informal Seminar - Cliff Tabin

Chen 100
Control of timing in the limb field
Cliff Tabin, Chair, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Add to Cal

TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The primary role of jets in exploding all core-collapse supernovae
Noam Soker, Professor, Department of Physics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Add to Cal

Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Karthik Duraisamy, Arthur B. Modine Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Jonathan Aalto, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Add to Cal

Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Zheng-Kang Shen, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles,
Monday, March 9th, 2026
10:00am – 11:30am
Add to Cal

Professional Development Series for Grad Students and Postdocs: Evidence-Based Teaching and AI Integration

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
11:00am – 12:00pm
Add to Cal

Informal Seminar - Professor Taro Kitazawa

Broad 100
"Whole-genome single-cell history-tracing to reveal neuronal identity transition and memory formation"
Taro Kitazawa, Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience, Associate Professor Aarhus University in Denmark,
Add to Cal Add events from these categories to your calendar.
Subscribe Subscribe to these events via RSS.