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Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
5:00pm – 8:00pm
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CPA Social - Cool Ales

Chen Breezeway
5:30pm – 7:00pm
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Dr. Alice Huang: How I became an American

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
Thursday, May 7th, 2026
10:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Purchasing Vendor Fair 2026

San Pasqual Walk
10:00am – 11:30am
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Future Faculty Workshop Series: Teaching Statement Workshop

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Astronomy Special Seminar

Cahill 370
Deflection to Flexion: Three Centuries of Gravitational Lensing
Zach Scofield, PhD Student, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea),
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
No Small Measure: Using Nanostructure to Create Materials with Superior Toughness
Lucas Meza, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

Chen 130
"The rise of ants: a lens for understanding the modern biosphere" and "Modeling time and space in the emergence of new dialects"
Joe Parker, BBE, Caltech,
Felicity Meakins, Professor, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland,
12:05pm – 1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar

Cahill 370
Observations of Atmospheric Helium and Oxygen with SPHEREx
Ryan Wills, Graduate student, Astrophysical Sciences and Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology,
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Fellowships Advising Information Session - Fulbright

1:00pm – 2:30pm
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Medicare 101 Presentation

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Inverse cascades in the Navier-Stokes equations
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Stan Palasek, Veblen Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University and IAS,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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2026 McConnell Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Essentiality of Solution NMR Spectroscopy in the Post-AlphaFold Era
Lewis E. Kay, Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Chemistry, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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MedE Distinquished Seminar Series, Adam Cohen

Annenberg 105
Mapping brain dynamics across scales
Adam Cohen, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Exactness property of Breuil-Kisin functors \& Bloch-Kato Selmer groups
Evangelia Gazaki, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
The Quantum Twisting Microscope: Visualizing Waves in Quantum Matter
Shahal Ilani, Professor of Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Women in STEM Affinity Space

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
Friday, May 8th, 2026
9:30am – 11:30am
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Dia de las Madres

Center for Student Services, Large Tent
10:00am – 2:00pm
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Professional Thrift Day and FREE Headshots

Olive Walk
10:15am – 11:15am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Efficient Synthetic Transformations Enabled by Group X Catalysis
Kimberly Sharp, Graduate Student, Chemistry (Stoltz Group), Caltech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Modular flow in a large holographic code
Xi Dong, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Green Labs May 2026 Meeting

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

East Bridge 114
Fault-Tolerant Computation with Rotated 4D Toric Codes
Dave Aasen, Microsoft Station Q,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar (1/2)

Linde Hall 310
What the Heat Trace Hears at Curved Corners
Sam Looi, Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Two complementary approaches to gravitational-wave data analysis
Chiara Anselmo, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, University of Milano-Bicocca (TAPIR VSR - 4/13/26-7/13/26),
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar (2/2)

Linde Hall 310
Curvature-homogeneous 4-manifolds
Renato Ghini Bettiol, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, CUNY,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Christoph Brehm, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Constraints on mantle convection from a massive seismic dataset
Jonathan Wolf, Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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BANDORAMA CONCERTS

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

Ramo Auditorium
Monday, May 11th, 2026
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)
Controlling Electrocatalytic Outcomes via Speciation, Second Coordination Spheres, and Interfacial Design
Eva Nichols, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
"Dunes and the changing landscape of Earth and other planets"
Mackenzie Day, Associate Professor, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California - Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Noble Dark Baryons and Dark Mesons Stopped in Their Tracks
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,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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APhMS Special Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Programming Matter with Electrons
Julian Klein, PhD, Research Scientist, Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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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,
Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CANCELLED NB-CNS Seminar - Cliff Ragsdale

Broad 100
The octopus arm: patterning and proprioception
Cliff Ragsdale, Professor, Neurobiology, The University of Chicago,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Stable algorithms cannot reliably find isolated perceptron solutions
Shuangping Li, Assistant Professor, Statistics and Data Science, Yale University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Heavy repulsion of clusters in Bernoulli percolation
Tasmin Chu, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TIAA's Office Hours

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Safety Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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BBE Informal Seminar - Jishnu Das

Chen 100
Studying immunomodulation using interpretable machine learning and network approaches
Jishnu Das, Associate Professor, Department of Immunology and Computational & Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
"Spatially Resolved ALMA Observations of Main-Belt Asteroids: Ground-Truthing with Vesta" & "Revealing the origins of refractory organic solids in solar system materials"
Rebecca Williams, Graduate Student, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
William Lawrence, Graduate Student, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
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 – 1:00pm
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Bike Fair

San Pasqual Walk