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Friday, May 8th, 2026
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Connect Training for Students (Joint Session)

Downs 269
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
TBD
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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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,
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
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 – 1:00pm
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Bike Fair

San Pasqual Walk
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Anomalies and Non-Supersymmetric String Theory
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
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,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD
Cecilia Martinez-Gomez, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Can Grain Growth in Materials be Predicted?
Peter Voorhees, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University,
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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Mach 33 Festival

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
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

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

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

Gates-Thomas 135
TBD
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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,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Mach33 Festival

Hameetman Center 206 - Frautschi Rehearsal Hall
Friday, May 15th, 2026
8:00am – 12:00pm
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American Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED Recertification Course

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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Distinguished Materials Seminar Series

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Merging Humans and Machines: Innovation and Translation
Xuanhe Zhao, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Mach33 Festival

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

Ramo Auditorium
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
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Mach33 Festival

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

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

Ramo Auditorium