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Friday, October 17th, 2025
8:00am – 8:00pm
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Alumni Weekend and Reunions

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
  • Public Event
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

10:00am – 4:30pm
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AI Bootcamp XII - Intro to ML

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Triangulating Quantum Gravity in AdS_3
Tom Hartman, Cornell University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Postdoc Launch Seminar

Broad 100
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Engineering Coupled Quantum Interfaces for Superconducting Quantum Technologies
Hung-Yu Yang, UCLA,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The Evolution of Gas Giant Planets
Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Unoriented link Floer homology and Khovanov homology
Gheehyun Nahm, PhD Student, Princeton Math, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Revisiting the Basel-1 well hydraulic stimulation as an example of hydro-shearing fracture growth
Brice Lecampion, Associate Professor, Head of the Geo-Energy Lab – Gaznat Chair on Geo-Energy, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Saturday, October 18th, 2025
8:00am – 8:00pm
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Alumni Weekend and Reunions

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
  • Public Event
10:00am – 5:00pm
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SFP Fall Seminar Day

  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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The Great Andy Irvine

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, October 19th, 2025
8:00am – 4:00pm
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Alumni Weekend and Reunions

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
  • Public Event
Monday, October 20th, 2025
8:15am – 12:30pm
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CANCELLED: KISS Short Course - Hybrid Space-Ground Observatories: Revolutionizing the Search for Earth-Like Exoplanets

Chen 100
  • Public Event
10:00am – 11:00am
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Beckman Institute Mentorship Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Dr. Marty Nemko, Career Coach,
Marianne Bronner, Edward B. Lewis Professor of Biology; Director of the Beckman Institute, BBE, Caltech,
10:00am – 11:00am
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Future Faculty Workshop: The Faculty Job Process

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Programming with Python (Part 1)

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Carnegie Faculty Associate Seminar - Devaki Bhaya

Broad 100
Dynamics, diversity and defense in phototrophic communities
Devaki Bhaya, Professor, Biology, Stanford University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
3:45pm – 5:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Chemistry for Augmented Reality: Enabling Extreme Optical Properties with Breakthrough Nanomaterials
Alejo Lifschitz, Tech Lead, Display Materials Research, Meta Reality Labs Research,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
From Nature to the Lab and Back: Exploring How Rheological Heterogeneities Control Fault Slip
Giuseppe Volpe, Assegnista di ricerca Struttura, Dipartimento Di Scienze Della Terra, Sapienza Universita Di Roma,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Probing Ultra-heavy Particle Physics using Precision Cosmology
Soubhik Kumar, Tufts University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Towards coarse-grained models of molecules
David Pekker, Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh,
Tuesday, October 21st, 2025
10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Strategies and Tactics in Alkaloid Synthesis: Total Synthesis of Strempeliopidine via a Non-Directed Petasis Reaction and Progress Toward the Synthesis of Mitomycin B
Kevin Gonzalez, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Programming with Python (Part 2)

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

Annenberg 213
Exploring high dimensions in dynamical sampling: flattening the scaling curve
Yifan Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Percolation on transitive graphs
Minghao Pan, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Informal Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Fast, Ultrasensitive, Label-Free Molecular Detection with Light
Judith Su, Craig M. Berge Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor in Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
From the Laboratory to Space with Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy
Audrey Martin, Research Scientist, Department of Planetary Science, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Equivariant Birational Geometry
Yuri Tschinkel, Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Novel Methods in Photochemistry and Photocatalysis
Daniele Leonori, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Pumpkin Painting

Center for Student Services, Large Tent
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Bias and Accuracy in Jury Selection
Amna Salam, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Behind The Book: Jim Fruchterman's "Technology For Good"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Programming with Python (Part 3)

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

Online and In-Person Event
The Analytic Functional in the Numerical Conformal Bootstrap
Zechuan Zheng, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Generic group properties
Tamás Kátay, Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 254
Variations in mechanical properties control segmentation of oceanic transform faults
Fengzhou Tan, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CFAM Drop-In Hour for all Fall TAs

Hameetman Center B116 - Club Room 4
3:00pm – 4:15pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online 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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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Missing Link: Planet Formation from Millions to Billions of Years
Meredith Hughes, Chair, Astronomy Department; Associate Professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Fast Upper-Level Jet Stream Winds Get Faster Under Climate Change
Tiffany Shaw, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Merck-Banyu Lectureship Award

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Pioneering Solid-State Organic Synthetic Chemistry Using Mechanochemical Methods
Koji Kubota, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, Hokkaido University,
  • Internal Event
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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CANCELLED: Revolutionizing Astrophysics: How Space and Ground Telescopes Can Work Together

Chen 100
  • Public Event
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Molecules, Mysteries, and the Matter of Existence, with Nick Hutzler

Beckman Auditorium
Nick Hutzler, assistant professor of physics,
  • Public Event
Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
10:00am – 11:00am
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Carnegie Faculty Associate Seminar - Arthur Grossman

Chen 100
Arthur Grossman, Senior Staff Scientist, Biology, Carnegie Science,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Programming with Python (Part 4)

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
Fast, Ultrasensitive, Label-Free Molecular Detection with FLOWER and Beyond
Judith Su, Associate Professor, Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
"It's all about your neighbors: how do cells collaborate, and sometimes compete, to form an embryo?"
Sergi Junyent Espinosa, Postdoctoral Scholar, Zernicka-Goetz group,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Whittaker averaging and singular support
Jeremy Taylor, Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California - Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Quantum cohomology of variations of GIT quotients and flips
Zhaoxing Gu, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CTLO Outreach Info Session

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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David G. Goodwin Memorial Lecture

Gates-Thomas 135
The Challenges, Mysteries, and Promises of Metal Combustion
Nick Glumac, Shao Lee Soo Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Manin's conjecture for Châtelet surfaces
Katharine Woo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
From Lab to Cosmos: Three Frontiers in the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Sara Seager, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MIT,
Friday, October 24th, 2025
9:30am – 10:30am
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Gravitational Waves from the Fifth-Force Mergers
Xingpeng Wang, Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo,
10:00am – 5:00pm
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RSI Grant Showcase Day

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Algebras for generalized entanglement wedges?
Mark Van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Eaton Fire Recovery "Normal" Trauma Responses-What to Look For

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

East Bridge 114
Digital quantum simulation and error correction frontier with atom arrays
Simon Evered, Harvard,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Bridging Scales in Black Hole Accretion and Feedback: Relativistic Jet linking the Horizon to the Host Galaxy
Hyerin Cho, Graduate Student, CfA, Harvard University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Making robots trustworthy: Understanding risk and uncertainty for safe autonomy
Anushri Dixit, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Splitting spheres and barbells
Alison Tatsuoka, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
New Zealand's Alpine Fault - Anticipating a National-Level Earthquake
Nicolas Barth, Associate Professor of Geology, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside,
Monday, October 27th, 2025
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Transforming Your Research Into Teaching (TYRIT) Postdocs Only

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)