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Upcoming Events

Ongoing
8:00am – 12/5 11:59pm
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Registration for Winter Term

  • Academic
Friday, December 5th, 2025
12:00am – 12/6 12:00am
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Last Day of Classes for Fall Term

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

East Bridge 114
End-to-End Efficient Quantum Thermal and Ground State Preparation Made Simple
Yongtao Zhan, Preskill group,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Yasaman Ghasempour, Princeton U

Moore B270
Physics-guided Wireless Communication and Sensing above 100 GHz
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Title: Simple Mechanics for Life-Saving Technologies: Milli-Spinner Thrombectomy for Stroke Treatment
Renee Zhao, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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HoliGay 2025

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
Saturday, December 6th, 2025
8:00am – 12/9 11:59pm
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Study Period

  • Academic
Monday, December 8th, 2025
10:00am – 4:00pm
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AI Bootcamp XIII - Math for AI

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
4:30pm – 6:00pm
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The Continuing Legacy of Galileo at 30

Chen 100
  • Public Event
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
10:00am – 4:00pm
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AI Bootcamp XIII - Math for AI

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 105
Understanding Generalization of Deep Generative Models Requires Rethinking Underlying Low-dimensional Structures
Qing Qu, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan,
Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
8:00am – 12/12 11:59pm
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Final Examinations for Fall Term

  • Academic
10:00am – 4:00pm
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AI Bootcamp XIII - Math for AI

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Modern Tools For Modern Ocean Mixing Puzzles
Matthew Alford, UCSD Scripps,
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
10:00am – 4:00pm
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AI Bootcamp XIII - Math for AI

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Joanna Aizenberg

Moore B270
Non-fouling Medical Devices
Proessor Joanna Aizenberg, Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,
Friday, December 12th, 2025
12:00am – 12/13 12:00am
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End of Fall Term

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

East Bridge 114
Nishad Maskara, MIT,
Saturday, December 13th, 2025
8:00am – 1/4 11:59pm
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Winter Recess

  • Academic
Monday, December 15th, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Resnick Sustainability Center 120
Wednesday, December 17th, 2025
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Instructors' Final Grade Reports

  • Academic
Monday, January 5th, 2026
12:00am – 1/6 12:00am
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Beginning of Instruction of Winter Term

  • Academic
Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
9:00am – 12:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

  • Academic
Monday, January 12th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Professor Wei Min

Moore B270
Lighting up chemical bonds for biomedicine
Wei Min, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
TBD
Keaton Burns, Principal Research Scientist of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, MIT of Mathematics,
Thursday, January 15th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Polina Anikeeva

Moore B270
Still to come
Polina Anikeeva, Department Head, Matoula S. Salapatas Professor in Materials Science and Engineering; Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics; Director, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Bod, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, January 16th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Soonwoon Choi, MIT,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
TBA
Angxiu Ni, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Lead Contamination: An Old Foe Rises from the Ashes of the Eaton Fire, with Francois Tissot

Beckman Auditorium
Francois Tissot, professor of geochemistry; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
  • Public Event
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor W. Hong Yeo

Moore B270
Soft Wearable Intelligent Bioelectronics for Health Monitoring
W. Hong Yeo, Ph.D, G.P. "Bud" Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Endowed Professor Harris Saunders, Jr. Endowed Professor of the Woodruff School, Georgia Tech,
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

  • Academic
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Aditya Varma Muppala, UC Berkeley

Moore B280
Affine Synthetic Arrays for Millimeter-wave Imaging and Metrology
Aditya Varma Muppala, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
6:00pm – 7:30pm
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Alright, first-gen friends, how are we really doing?

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
High Order Numerical Mmethods for hHyperbolic Eequations
Chi-Wang Shu, Theodore B. Stowell University Professor, Applied Mathematics, Brown University,
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
8:00am – 2/10 11:59pm
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Midterm Examination Period

  • Academic
Thursday, February 5th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Bianxiao Cui

Moore B270
Bianxiao Cui, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University,
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
TBD
Nicholas Boffi, Assistant Professor, Department of Machine Learning and Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Grades

  • Academic
Thursday, February 19th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Colin Cook, PhD

Moore B270
Colin Cook, PhD, CTO and Co-Founder, 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
Monday, February 23rd, 2026
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,
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
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Kimberly See

Beckman Auditorium
Kim See, professor of chemistry,
  • Public Event