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Jeffrey Freymueller, Endowed Chair for Geology of the Solid Earth, Department Chair, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University,

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

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,

7:30pm – 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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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213

Solving PDEs exactly over polynomials

Keaton Burns, Principal Research Scientist of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, MIT of Mathematics,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

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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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

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

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,

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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