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Friday, January 16th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Using electronic assessment to test and improve proof comprehension
Juma Zevick Otieno, Doctoral Researcher, Department of Mathematics and Earth Sciences, University of Trieste,
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
Computation-Protected Phases of Matter
Soonwon Choi, MIT,
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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CPA Free Merch + Tartine Treats

Resnick Sustainability Center Breezeway
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,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
The Physics of Purposeful Biological Dynamics
Rob Phillips, Professor, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
The Friction of Dense Granular Flows
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
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talks

Cahill 370
The sparkling end of compact binaries: mergers, Pa 30, and other animals
Ilaria Caiazzo, Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria,
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
New linear response formulas with applications to variational data assimilation and generative SDE models
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

South Mudd 365
Geophysical bridges between the present-day interiors and long-term evolution of icy and rocky solar system bodies
Amirhossein Bagheri, Postdoctoral Researcher, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
First moment obstructions
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
8:30am – 2:30pm
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Red Cross Blood Drive January 2026

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
  • Internal Event
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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CES Special Seminar

Broad 100
The Nature of History: Chance, Contingency, and the Reality of Historical Principles
Geerat Vermeij, Distinguished Professor, Geobiology and Paleobiology, UC Davis,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Comeager isomorphism classes in zero-dimensional dynamics
Todor Tsankov, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Sleep Like a Legend!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Finding Maps Online

Online Event
  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CFAM Speaker Student-Faculty Programs: Mastering Mentoring

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
Analytical Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes and Information Content from Satellite Data
Hannah Nesser, NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, JPL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Artificial oxide quantum heterostructures and twisted membranes
Honyung Lee, PhD, Corporate Fellow and Senior Advisor, Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
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
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Nonholonomic Stabilization and Pursuit-Evasion: Not-so-hard After All
Miroslav Krstić, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
Advances in Low-Noise, High-Speed SiGe BiCMOS for LEO Satellite Communications and Optical Interconnects
Pascal Chevalier, PhD, Analog/RF Technology Architect and Fellow of Technical Staff, STMicroelectronics,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Y Community Service & Advocacy Fair

San Pasqual Walk
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
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geoclub Seminar Series

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Oxygen isotopic evidence that Gale crater, Mars was home to an Early Hesperian water reservoir that underwent significant evaporation
Amy Hoffman, Postdoctoral Scholar, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
  • Internal Event
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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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
The condensed fundamental group of a scheme
Peter Haine, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
StarShot – from Metaphotonics to Spacecraft
Harry A. Atwater, Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Caltech,
5:30pm – 9:00pm
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Auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream

TACIT House, 275 S. Hill Ave.
  • Public Event
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

9:00am – 4:00pm
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Workshop: Immune-Microbiome Interactions Across Species

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

Online and In-Person Event
Large extra dimensions from higher-dimensional inflation
Ignatios Antoniadis, LPTHE - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Modified Theories of Gravity, Parity, and the Dark Sector
Tatsuya Daniel, McGill University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 310
TBA
Malik Tuerkoen, UC Irvine,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Waveform Systematics Across the Gravitational-Wave Spectrum: From LIGO to LISA
Aasim Jan, Graduate Student, Center for Gravitational Physics, University of Texas, Austin,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Fluid Mechanics of the Dead Sea: Rise of the Salt Giants
Eckart Meiburg, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara,
3:45pm – 4:15pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
"Ultrafast spin coherence reveals ion-pairing and molecular dynamics in solution".
Juliette Whiteside, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Aditya Varma Muppala, UC Berkeley

Moore B280
Affine Synthetic Arrays for Millimeter-wave Imaging and Metrology
Aditya Varma Muppala, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Peter Shearer, Professor of Geophysics, University of California, San Diego,
5:30pm – 9:00pm
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Auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream

TACIT House, 275 S. Hill Ave.
  • Public Event
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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CANCELLED: Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Behind The Book: Exploring the Intersection of Science and Faith in the Modern World with Rev. Dr. David Wilkinson

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
"Simulating Galaxies, Stars, Planets, and Giant Black Holes on a Computer"
Phil Hopkins, Ira S. Bowen Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, January 24th, 2026
7:00am – 6:00pm
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Caltech Math Meet 2026

  • Public Event
3:00pm – 9:00pm
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Auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
  • Public Event
Sunday, January 25th, 2026
All Day
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Study Abroad Deadline

  • Internal Event
11:00am – 9:00pm
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Auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
  • Public Event
Monday, January 26th, 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)
10:00am – 11:00am
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Special Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Exploring the wave nature of life across scales: from active matter to ecology
Prof. Thomas Shimizu, AMOLF & VU Amsterdam,