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Friday, February 20th, 2026
10:00am – 11:00am
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Science Journey - Cosmic Fireworks: How Astronomers Explore the Changing Sky

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:00am – 3:00pm
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ChE Panel & Research Talks

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
Naga Phani Aetukuri, Associate Professor, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU), Indian Institute of Science — Bengaluru,
Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan, Associate Professor, Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science — Bengaluru,
Srinivasan Ramakrishnan, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology — Bombay,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Exact Path Integral Methods in AdS$_2\times \mathbf{S}^2$ and Non-Perturbative Black Holes
Alberto Castellano, University of Chicago,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Community Celebration

Olive Walk
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Testing the quantumness of gravity "ab absurdo"
Emanuele Panella, University of Rome Tor Vergata,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (1/2)

Linde Hall 310
Widths, Index, Intersection, and Isospectrality
Jared Marx-Kuo, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Rice University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Manipulating Spectral Energy Flux in Turbulent Flows: Applications and Implications Across Scales
Lei Fang, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Beckman Institute Poster Session

Beckman Institute
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (2/2)

Linde Hall 310
Min-max constructions in noncompact manifolds
Doug Stryker, NSF Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar

Moore B280
Ultra-low noise Phase-locked Loop Technique
Taekwang Jang, Associate Professor, Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Unraveling the connection between mantle flow, lithospheric stress, faults, and rivers.
Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, Louis B. and Martha B. Slichter Endowed Chair in Geosciences, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles,
Saturday, February 21st, 2026
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Wind Orchestra CONCERT

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, February 22nd, 2026
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Wind Orchestra CONCERT

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, February 23rd, 2026
10:00am – 11:30am
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Professional Development Series for Grad Students and Postdocs: Evidence-Based Teaching and AI Integration

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 1:15pm
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Understanding & Responding to Microaggressions & Bias 201

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370
Planets in binary star systems
Thomas Baycroft, Siyuan fellow, Tsung-Dao Lee institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ernest H. Swift Lecture Series

Gates Annex B122
Sustainable Production of Reduced Phosphorus Compounds
Christopher (Kit) Cummins, Henry Drefus Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Generative Design via Optimal Transport for Shape and Field Exploration
Charbel Farhat, Vivian Church Hoff Professor, School of Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Dynamical Love Numbers for Black Holes and Beyond from Shell Effective Field Theory
Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, CERN,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
For Want of a Bale: Equine Energy in the American Civil War
Ariel Ron, Glenn M. Linden Associate Professor of the U.S. Civil War Era and Director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Designing quantum matter with light
Daniel Kaplan, Department of Physics, Rutgers University,
Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SFP x Red Door Café Drop-in Advising Hour

Red Door Cafe
  • Internal Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Informal Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Towards in-vivo acousto-optic imaging of biological tissues
Dr. Maïmouna Bocoum, Researcher, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Institut Langevin ESPCI Paris Université PSL,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Safety Training

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

South Mudd 365
Miscibility of major planet forming materials at high pressure and temperature
Lars Stixrude, Professor, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States
Emilie Connolly, Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University,
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections

9:00am – 10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Utilizing Mass Transport To Enhance CO2 Conversion to Multi-Carbon Products
Matthew Salazar, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Agapie Lab), Caltech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours

Online Event
Bridging the Gap: Supporting Election Stakeholders at the Intersection of Administration, Technology, and Security
Mike Moser, Founder of Moser Solutions LLC,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Simon Knapen, LBNL, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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[CANCELED] Getting Started!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Grief Support Group

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Special QM Seminar

East Bridge 114
TBA
Liang Fu, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Excitability in quantum field theory
Jackie Caminiti, Perimeter Institute,
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
Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe: from Luminous Quasars to the Little Red Dots
Xiaohui Fan, Regents Professor of Astronomy, Astronomer, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter/Materials Science Research Lecture

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Design of novel oxide quantum materials
Julia Mundy, Associate Professor, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Chasing Sustainable Battery Chemistries for the Future with Kimberly See

Beckman Auditorium
Kimberly See, professor of chemistry,
  • Public Event
Thursday, February 26th, 2026
8:00am – 3/11 11:59pm
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Registration for Spring Term

11:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Connect Training for Staff & Postdocs

Avery Library
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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APACT Lecture | In Conversation with Steve Elkins, Bing Li, and Danee Hazama

Gates Annex B122
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
"Hydrogel Encapsulation of Sentinel Cells for Noninvasive Ultrasound Imaging of Inflammation"
Elizabeth (Liz) Hughes, Graduate Student, Shapiro Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dine & Dialogue: Love & Healthy Relationships

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Autonomous learning and design of proteins
Philip Romero, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
ZAK activation at the colliding ribosome
Rachel Green, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
First-Principles AI for Quantum Matter
Liang Fu, Professor of Physics, Condensed matter Theory, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Theodore Y. Wu and Chin-Hua Wu Lecture

Gates-Thomas 135
How to Improve the Performance of an Airtanker Drop
Dominique Legendre, Professor, Fluid Mechanics, Toulouse INP, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse,
Friday, February 27th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Veronika Hubeny, UC Davis,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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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,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Senrui Chen, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill group,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Behcet Acikmese, Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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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,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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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
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ORCHESTRA CONCERT "By Request"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, March 1st, 2026
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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ORCHESTRA CONCERT "By Request"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, March 2nd, 2026
10:00am – 4:00pm
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AI Bootcamp XIV - Foundational Models

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
James K. McCusker, Joseph Zichis Endowed Chair and MSU Research Foundation Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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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
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Junwu Huang, Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Solvable models of quantum annealing
Nikolai Sinitsyn, Nikolai Sinitsyn, CNLS Postdoctoral Research Associate, CNLS, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
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7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Connect Training for Students

Avery Library
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