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Monday, February 2nd, 2026
12:00pm – 1:15pm
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Understanding & Responding to Microaggressions & Bias 101

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
High Order Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Equations
Chi-Wang Shu, Theodore B. Stowell University Professor, Applied Mathematics, Brown University,
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
9:00am – 5:00pm
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James K. Knowles Lectures and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium

Gates-Thomas 135
"Variational phase-field modeling of fracture: toward second-generation models"
Laura De Lorenzis, Professor of Computational Mechanics, ETH Zürich,
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
8:00am – 2/10 11:59pm
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Midterm Examination Period

  • Academic
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMS Special Colloquium with Peter Gacs

Annenberg 105
A reliable Turing machine
Peter Gacs, Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, Boston University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Microbial Navigation and Biofilm Morphodynamics in Subsurface Environments
Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, ETH Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Electron Spin, Chiral Symmetry Breaking, and Life's Homochirality
Furkan Ozturk, Assistant Professor, Geobiology and Geochemistry, Caltech,
Thursday, February 5th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Bianxiao Cui

Moore B270
Membrane curvature-induced cell adhesion and drug development
Bianxiao Cui, Job and Gertrude Professor of Chemistry and a fellow of the CHEM-H and Wu Tsai Stanford Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University,
Friday, February 6th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Infinite temperature at zero energy
David Long, Stanford,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Medical Engineering Defense, David Garrett

Broad 100
Human-Scale Ultrasound, Thermoacoustic, and Photoacoustic Tomography
David Garrett, MedE PhD Candidate, Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Prediction and Control of Transverse Jet Shear Layer Instabilities
Ann Karagozian, Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Prof. Chulhong Kim

Keck 142
Multimodal Photoacoustic Ultrasound Imaging: From Bench To Bedside and Products
Chulhong Kim, Ph.D, Namgo Chair Professorship of School of Convergence Science and Technology (Head) at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Republic of Korea.,
Monday, February 9th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
An Adjoint Method for Optimization of the Boltzmann Equation
Russel E. Caflisch, Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute, NYU,
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
11:30am – 12:30pm
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CMS Special Seminar with Marcello Romano

Dynamics, Guidance & Control of Autonomous Orbital Systems: From Conception to Flight Experimentation
Marcello Romano, Professor, School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Flow Maps: Flow-based generative models with lightning-fast inference
Nicholas Boffi, Assistant Professor, Department of Machine Learning and Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Love & Lounge

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Negotiating Thermodynamics: Designing Periodic and Aperiodic Oxides on Demand
Bharat Jalan, Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Morphodynamics of Hanging Ice Dams in Northern Rivers
Gary Parker, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
What a Digital Twin Can Learn from Data, Thermodynamics, and Action Principles for Damage Assessment in Complex Materials
Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen, William Prager Chair Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Growing Papaya Trees by Dr. Jessica Hernandez: Book Talk

Chen 100
Friday, February 13th, 2026
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
From higher-dimensional Fermiology to higher Hall crystals in moiré materials
Nisarga Paul, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Mechanics and Materials for Extreme Propulsion: Tuning Micro-Particle Impacts using Novel High Throughput Dynamic Experiments
Suhas Eswarappa Prameela, Assistant Professor, Metallurgical Engineering, University of Utah,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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CPA Mental Health Listening Session

Kerckhoff Morgan Library
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Grades

  • Academic
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
A Principled Framework for Discrete Diffusion Models via Denoising
Ricardo Baptista, Assistant Professor, Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMS Special Seminar with Richard Anderson

Chen 100
Inside Baseball: ML in a Baseball Front Office
Richard Anderson, Director of Quantitative Analysis, Los Angeles Dodgers,
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Land-Atmosphere Interactions and the Changing Hydrologic Cycle
Kirsten Findell, Research Physical Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter/Materials Science Research Lecture

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The materials physics of complex oxide interfaces
Charles Ahn, Professor, Physics and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University,
Thursday, February 19th, 2026
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,
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,
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
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,
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,
Monday, February 23rd, 2026
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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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,
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections

  • Academic
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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EE & MedE Distinguished Speaker Seminar, Richard J. Cote

Annenberg 105
Beyond Seeing: AI and the Digital Pathology Revolution
Richard J. Cote, MD, FRCPath, FCAP, The Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor and the immediate past Chair of the Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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No ESE Seminar

South Mudd 365
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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 – Ongoing
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Registration for Spring Term

  • Academic
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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APACT Lecture | In Conversation with Steve Elkins, Bing Li, and Danee Hazama

Gates Annex B122
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dine & Dialogue: Love & Healthy Relationships

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Theodore Y. Wu and Chin-Hua Wu Lecture

Gates-Thomas 135
How to Improve the Performance of an Airtanker Drop
Dominique Legendre, Professor, Fluid Mechanics, Toulouse INP, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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CPA STEM for Families

Chen 130
Friday, February 27th, 2026
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Towards sample-optimal learning of bosonic Gaussian quantum states
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,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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CPA Lunar New Year Party

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates