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May 2026

Ongoing

Ongoing – 5/5 11:59pm

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

Friday, May 1st, 2026

12:00pm – 1:00pm

► CANCELED: Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 125

This seminar has been canceled.

Lauren Conger, Graduate Student, Department of Control & Dynamical Systems, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Non-Abelian Quantum Low Depth Parity Check Codes

Maine Christos, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Hypervelocity Water Entry and Free Flight Experiments

Bryan Schmidt, Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University,

Monday, May 4th, 2026

4:00pm – 5:00pm

[CANCELED] H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Low-Dimensional Generation

Nisha Chandramoorthy, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago,

Tuesday, May 5th, 2026

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213

An approximation-theoretic tour of measure-to-measure operator learning

Nicholas Nelsen, Klarman Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 6:00pm

CPA Book Club - Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Internal Event

Wednesday, May 6th, 2026

12:00pm – 1:15pm

Inclusive Leadership 201

Online Event

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310

Maximum information divergence from linear and toric models

Yulia Alexandr, Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Global Stratospheric Methane Loss from Satellite Observations

Qiang Fu, Calvin Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Science, University of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Chirality and Topology of Collective Excitations: From Altermagnets to Chiral Crystals

Chen Li, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, UC Riverside,

5:00pm – 8:00pm

CPA Social - Cool Ales

Chen Breezeway

Internal Event

Thursday, May 7th, 2026

11:00am – 12:00pm

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,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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 – 5:30pm

Women in STEM Affinity Space

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

Friday, May 8th, 2026

9:30am – 11:30am

Dia de las Madres

Center for Student Services, Large Tent

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Fault-Tolerant Computation with Rotated 4D Toric Codes

Dave Aasen, Microsoft Station Q,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Christoph Brehm, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland,

Monday, May 11th, 2026

9:00am – 9:01am

Due Date for Midterm Grades

Academic

4:15pm – 5:15pm

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,

Tuesday, May 12th, 2026

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213

Stable algorithms cannot reliably find isolated perceptron solutions

Shuangping Li, Assistant Professor, Statistics and Data Science, Yale University,

Wednesday, May 13th, 2026

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Distributed quantum science with neutral atom arrays

Jacob Covey, University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Decoding the Bacterial Lanthanome for Scalable Rare Earth Element Recovery from Complex Feedstocks

Cecilia Martinez-Gomez, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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,

Thursday, May 14th, 2026

10:30am – 11:30am

CPA Social - Cool Beans Coffee Hour

Caltech Hall Pond

Internal Event

2:00pm – 3:00pm

MedE Special Seminar

Broad 100

Aptamer Biosensors for Mapping Brain Chemistry Across Scales

Prof. Nako Nakatsuka, Assistant Professor of Neurotechnology, EPFL,

3:30pm – 4:30pm

EE Devices Seminar- Sander Weinreb

Moore B280

New Era Radio Astronomy Objectives and Technology

Friday, May 15th, 2026

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Scheduling Examinations for the Degress of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer

Academic

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Seniors to Remove Conditions and Incompletes

Academic

11:00am – 12:00pm

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,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CPA Career - Seminar and Discussion with Tyson Mao

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Phantom codes: Entangling logical qubits without physical operations

Jin Ming Koh, Harvard,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Scott Jackson, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University,

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Medical Engineering PhD Defense, Chiyoung Hwang

Steele 102

Robust Nanogap Cluster Formation via Plasmonic Moiré Superlattices for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Chiyoung Hwang, PhD Candidate, Medical Engineering Department, California Institute of Technology,

Tuesday, May 19th, 2026

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213

Radon-Wasserstein gradient flows for high-dimensional sampling

Elias Hess-Childs, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University,

Elias Hess-Childs, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Quantum-enhanced clocks and assembled superfluids with strontium atom arrays

Alec Cao, Adam Kaufman's group, JILA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Designing Biodegradable Hydrogels for Sustainable Soil Systems

Thaiesha A. Wright, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,

Wednesday, May 20th, 2026

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections

Academic

8:30am – 2:00pm

2026 Caltech Mentoring Conference

Internal Event

9:00am – 10:00am

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

South Mudd 365

Generative Modeling of Earthquake Ground Motion

Yaozhong Shi, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Antarctic Sea Ice: Structural Change, Future Projections and Uncertainties

Marilyn Raphael, Department of Geography and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Interpreting short range order with electron microscopy

Andrew Minor, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley,

7:30pm – 8:30pm

POSTPONED: Watson Lecture - Kirby Nielsen

Beckman Auditorium

Kirby Nielsen, professor of economics; William H. Hurt Scholar,

Public Event

Thursday, May 21st, 2026

8:00am – Ongoing

Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

Academic

11:00am – 12:24pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

X-ray Based Full Field Stress-Strain Measurements in Metals

Angkur Shaikeea, Assistant Professor of Aerospace; Bren Scholar, The Lynn Booth & Kent Kresa Department of Aerospace, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

APACT presents "In conversation with Melissa Magsaysay: Journalism, Brand Building and Storytelling Across a Changing Media Landscape"

Chen 100

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Celebration of Excellence 2026

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Caltech Artists-in-Residence Screening

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Seeing and Believing

Rebecca Baron,

Douglas Goodwin,

Friday, May 22nd, 2026

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Non-perturbatively slow spread of quantum correlations in non-resonant systems

Benjamin McDonough, University of Colorado, Boulder,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

The Kinematics of Life The Evolving Role of Robot Kinematics in Bio-Nanotechnology

Kazem Kazerounian, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Conneticut,