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Saturday, May 9th, 2026
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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BANDORAMA CONCERTS

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, May 9th, 2026
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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BANDORAMA CONCERTS

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, May 11th, 2026
7:00am – 8:00am
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Writers in Residence Program

Dabney Hall, Lounge
AI, Ethics, and Imagination: A Conversation with Bruce Holsinger
Bruce Holsinger, Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English, University of Virginia,
  • Public Event
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Grades

12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Fellowships Advising Information Session - Hertz

2:30pm – 3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151
Probing Polaron Design Principles in Iron Oxides with Transient Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy.
Jocelyn Mendes, Graduate Student, Chemistry (Cushing Group), Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Good Vibrations Only: Vibrational Imaging of Subcellular Metabolism in Health & Disease
Rahuljeet (RJ) Chadha, Graduate Student, Chemistry (Wei Group), Caltech,
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Eva Nichols, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Austin Batz, University of Oregon,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Inducing quantum states in materials with light
Gregory Fiete, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Northeastern University,
Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Cliff Ragsdale

Broad 100
The octopus arm: patterning and proprioception
Cliff Ragsdale, Professor, Neurobiology, The University of Chicago,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TIAA's Office Hours

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Time is Knowledge: What Response Times Reveal
Shuo Liu, Associate Professor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University,
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Matilda Delgado, Harvard & MPP Munich,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Higher dimensional conformal fields from neural network statistics
Joydeep Naskar, Northeastern University,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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You and Your Thesis

Online Event
  • Internal Event
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
TBD
Maura McLaughin, Department Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture

Gates Annex B122
Milan Mrksich, Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry, School of Engineering, Northwestern University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD
Cecilia Martinez-Gomez, UC Berkeley,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Mach 33 Festival

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
  • Public Event
Thursday, May 14th, 2026
9:00am – 5/17 4:00pm
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Half Century Club Celebration

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
10:00am – 11:00am
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71st Staff Service & Impact Awards

Ramo Auditorium
10:30am – 11:30am
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CPA Social - Cool Beans Coffee Hour

  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Imaging Soil Plus Something Else: Ice Lenses And Plant Roots
Cino Viggiani, Professor, Laboratoire 3SR, Université Grenoble Alpes,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Daniel Larson, Chief, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression; Head, Systems Biology of Gene Expression; Co-Chair, Trans-NIH Myeloid Malignancies Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Electrochemical Direct Air Capture: In Space, On Land, and Under Sea
Yushan Yan, Henry Belin du Pont Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Optical cavities for bioimaging, atom interferometers, and trapping molecules
Holger Müller, Professor, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125
Topic to be announced
Wei Xiong, John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance and Professor of Economics, Princeton University,
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Mach33 Festival

Hameetman Center 206 - Frautschi Rehearsal Hall
  • Public Event
Friday, May 15th, 2026
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Scheduling Examinations for the Degress of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer

8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Seniors to Remove Conditions and Incompletes

9:00am – 10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Channing Klein, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Manthiram Group), Caltech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Victor Rodriguez, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Jin Ming Koh, Harvard,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Camila Suarez, Graduate Student, Chemistry (Stoltz Group), Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online Event
Beyond Parker: The Origin of Cosmic Magnetic Fields
Bindesh Tripathi, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Physics, Columbia University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Sean Mendoza, PhD Candidate, Aerospace Department, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Nathan Friede, Graduate Student (Reisman Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
6:30pm – 9:00pm
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Milestone Class Dinners

Athenaeum
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Mach33 Festival

Hameetman Center 206 - Frautschi Rehearsal Hall
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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GLEE CLUB AND CHAMBER SINGERS CONCERTS

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, May 16th, 2026
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Seminar Day

Beckman Auditorium
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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GLEE CLUB AND CHAMBER SINGERS CONCERTS

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mach33 Festival

Hameetman Center 206 - Frautschi Rehearsal Hall
  • Public Event
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Mach33 Festival

Hameetman Center 206 - Frautschi Rehearsal Hall
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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ORCHESTRA CONCERTS "FOUR GREAT FILM COMPOSERS"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, May 17th, 2026
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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ORCHESTRA CONCERTS "FOUR GREAT FILM COMPOSERS"

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, May 18th, 2026
10:30am – 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100
Maria Carilli, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Academic Awards Luncheon

Athenaeum
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Designing for Disorder: Electrocatalytic Synthesis with Interfacial Control
Anna Wuttig, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Gustavo Alves, Fermilab and Northwestern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Engineering Topological Quantum Matter in Space and Time
Shuolong Yang, Assistant Professor, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago,
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Radon-Wasserstein gradient flows for high-dimensional sampling
Elias Hess-Childs, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University,
Elias Hess-Childs, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Edward Chang

Broad 100
The Cortical Machinery for Words
Edward Chang, Professor, Neurological Surgery UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Marissa Weichman, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections

8:30am – 1:30pm
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2026 Caltech Mentoring Conference

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

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Charlie Cummings, University of Pennsylvania,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Total Synthesis of Aleutianamine, (–)-Crotonolide D, and (–)-Crotonine G
Hao Yu, Graduate Student, Chemistry (Stoltz Group), Caltech,
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Fellowships Advising Information Session - GEM / Quad

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
TBD
Zeljko Ivezic, Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington,