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Thursday, February 19th, 2026
11:00am – 2:00pm
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Make Your Own Lunar New Year Red Envelopes

Sherman Fairchild Library, Lobby
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"The Inherent Resilience of Large Cities to Natural Hazards: Records, Evidence and Predictions"
Nicos Makris, Professor of Structures and Mechanics, Addy Family Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Methodist University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CTLO - Winter Faculty Lunch Series

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

Chen 130
"One genome, many phenotypes: evolutionary insights from complex traits in ants"
Megan Barkdull, Assistant Curator, Entomology, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CFAM Speaker CALE: Alternative Careers in Education: Looking Beyond the R1

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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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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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Colin Cook, PhD

Moore B270
Crowded at the bottom: high-density, scalable production of cell and gene therapies in respiring bioreactors
Colin Cook, PhD (Caltech MedE 2019), Technical Founder and Chief Technology Officer, XDEMICS Corporation,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Yuri Levin, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Columbia University,
Friday, February 20th, 2026
10:00am – 11:00am
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Science Journey - Cosmic Fireworks: How Astronomers Explore the Changing Sky

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Alberto Castellano, University of Chicago,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Community Celebration

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

East Bridge 114
Testing the quantumness of gravity "ab absurdo"
Emanuele Panella, University of Rome Tor Vergata,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Manipulating Spectral Energy Flux in Turbulent Flows: Applications and Implications Across Scales
Lei Fang, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Beckman Institute Poster Session

Beckman Institute
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar

Moore B280
Ultra-low noise Phase-locked Loop Technique
Taekwang Jang, Associate Professor, Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, Louis B. and Martha B. Slichter Endowed Chair in Geosciences, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles,
Saturday, February 21st, 2026
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Wind Orchestra CONCERT

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, February 22nd, 2026
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Wind Orchestra CONCERT

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, February 23rd, 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)
12:00pm – 1:15pm
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Understanding & Responding to Microaggressions & Bias 201

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ernest H. Swift Lecture Series

Gates Annex B122
Sustainable Production of Reduced Phosphorus Compounds
Christopher (Kit) Cummins, Henry Drefus Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Generative Design via Optimal Transport for Shape and Field Exploration
Charbel Farhat, Vivian Church Hoff Professor, School of Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Generative Design via Optimal Transport for Shape and Field Exploration
Charbel Farhat, Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, CERN,
Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Informal Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Towards in-vivo acousto-optic imaging of biological tissues
Dr. Maïmouna Bocoum, Researcher, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Institut Langevin ESPCI Paris Université PSL,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Safety Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections

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

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Simon Knapen, LBNL, UC Berkeley,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Jackie Caminiti, Perimeter Institute,
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
Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe: from Luminous Quasars to the Little Red Dots
Xiaohui Fan, Regents Professor of Astronomy, Astronomer, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD
Alex Hall, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter/Materials Science Research Lecture

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Julia Mundy,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Chasing Sustainable Battery Chemistries for the Future with Kimberly See

Beckman Auditorium
Kimberly See, professor of chemistry,
  • Public Event
Thursday, February 26th, 2026
8:00am – 3/11 11:59pm
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Registration for Spring Term

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
TBA
Elizabeth Hughes, Graduate Student, Shapiro Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dine & Dialogue: Love & Healthy Relationships

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Autonomous learning and design of proteins
Philip Romero, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
ZAK activation at the colliding ribosome
Rachel Green, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
First-Principles AI for Quantum Matter
Liang Fu, Professor of Physics, Condensed matter Theory, MIT,
Friday, February 27th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Veronika Hubeny, UC Davis,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Senrui Chen, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill group,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Behcet Acikmese, Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Zhigang Peng, Professor of Geophysics, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Saturday, February 28th, 2026
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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ORCHESTRA CONCERT (Concerto Competition Winners)

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, March 1st, 2026
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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ORCHESTRA CONCERT (Concerto Competition Winners)

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, March 2nd, 2026
10:00am – 4:00pm
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AI Bootcamp XIV - Foundational Models

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
James J. McCusker, Joseph Zichis Endowed Chair and MSU Research Foundation Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Stable and Unstable Objects in the PDE Analysis of the Navier-Stokes Equations
Vladimir Sverak, Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Solvable models of quantum annealing
Nikolai Sinitsyn, Nikolai Sinitsyn, CNLS Postdoctoral Research Associate, CNLS, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
10:00am – 4:00pm
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AI Bootcamp XIV - Foundational Models

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Sohini Ramachandran

Chen 100
Sohini Ramachandran, Professor, Biology and Data Science, Brown University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
TBD
David Mordecai, Adjunct Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Chen 130
Scalable Arrays From Millimeter-Wave Sensing to Microwave Wireless Power Transfer
Alex Ayling, Graduate student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Timothy Clements, Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Topic to be announced
Alberto Abadie, Professor of Economics, MIT,
6:00pm – 10:00pm
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2025/2026 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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International Women's Day & Women's History Month

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
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