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Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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SFP x Red Door Café Drop-in Advising Hour

Red Door Cafe
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 Hofmann, Research Scientist, Planetary Science Division, JPL NASA,
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.
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
Large-scale consequences of nonnegative Ollivier-Ricci curvature
Tom Hutchcroft, Professor, Mathematics, Caltech,
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,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Concavity Properties of Dirichlet Eigenfunctions
Malik Tuerkoen, UC Irvine,
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
Adventures in Measuring Variations in High-Frequency Radiation for Small to Moderate Earthquakes
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.
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

Beckman Auditorium
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,
Saturday, January 24th, 2026
7:00am – 6:00pm
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Caltech Math Meet 2026

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

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

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

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
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,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Thesis PhD Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Total Synthesis of (+)-Ineleganolide, the Lycojapomine Alkaloids, and a New Strategy for Radical Deoxygenation
Benjamin Gross, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
From Heterogeneous to Homogeneous: Molecular Mimicry for Understanding and Advancing Small Molecule Activation."
Seung Jun Hwang, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
HOW TO REVERSE-ENGINEER THE 3D LANDSCAPE OF FIELD-SCALE FLUVIAL CATCHMENTS FROM 2D PIXEL-BASED NETWORKS
Gary Parker, Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth Science and Environmental Change, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Resilient Autonomy: Perception and Planning for Dynamic, Unknown Environments
Jonathan How, Ford Professor of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar (1/2)

Linde Hall 310
Closed-strings mirror symmetry for semiprojective toric manifolds
Filip Zivanovic, Professor, Department of Mathematics, SUNY Stonybrook,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar (2/2)

Linde Hall 310
The Last Kervaire Invariant Problem
Zhouli Xu, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Seminar - Paul Campbell

Chen 100
"Investigator-Initiated Funding Opportunities for the American Cancer Society Extramural Discovery Science Piller"
Paul Campbell, Scientific Director, Cell Biology and Preclinical Cancer Research, American Cancer Society,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 255
A new bound for the critical point of the FK model for q<1
Tejas Oke, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Watson Fellowship Information Session

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Safety Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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SFP x Red Door Café Drop-in Advising Hour

Red Door Cafe
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Composition Gradients and Convective Layers in Coffees and Giant Planets
J. Rafael Fuentes, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Extreme Equilibria: The Benefits of Correlation
Leeat Yariv, Uwe E. Reinhardt Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University,
6:00pm – 7:30pm
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Alright, first-gen friends, how are we really doing?

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours

Online Event
Beyond the Hype: A Research Driven Look at Claims About New Voting Technology
Michael Specter, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Cybersecurity & Privacy, Georgia Tech,
Delaney Gomen, PhD Student in Computer Science, Georgia Tech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Particle-Soliton Degeneracy in 2D QCD from Spontaneously Broken Non-invertible Symmetry
Diego Garcia Sepulveda, Harvard University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Seeing and Shaping Quantum Matter at the Atomic Scale
Jane Park, PhD Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Bishop Information Session

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennen Conference Room
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Getting Things Done

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Hyperfinite partial orders
Patrick Lutz, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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MLK Commemoration Keynote: Kristin McGuire

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room