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Tuesday, November 17th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Seminar - Eric Batchelor

Broad 100
p53 dynamics and the regulation of cell stress responses in single cells
Eric Batchelor, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota,
Wednesday, November 18th, 2026
All Day
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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 254
Shangqin Hao, UC Berkeley,
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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2026 Perpall SURF Speaking Competition | Semi-Final Round Session C

SFP Backhouse, 317 S. Wilson Ave.
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Nonlinear Optical Sources for Quantum-Enhanced Spectroscopy
Ricardo Tolentino, Graduate Student, Chemistry (Cushing Group), Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CFAM Discussion Series: AI in Today's Classroom: Discussion with Dr. Susanne Hall

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennen Conference Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Juno, Jupiter, and jupiters: How a low cost planetary mission has revolutionized our understanding of giant planets
Jonathan Lunine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Reevaluating Arctic Amplification and Climate Sensitivity Across Climates from Snowball Earth to an Ice-Free Hothouse
Ian Eisenman, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanograpy, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Marisa C. Kozlowski, Ponzy Lu Endowed Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania,
5:30pm – 7:00pm
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Night Safety Walk

Chen 100
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Problem Set Workshop - Ch 1a

Thursday, November 19th, 2026
12:00am – Ongoing
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Registration for Winter Term

9:30am – 12:00pm
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2026 Perpall SURF Speaking Competition | Semi-Final Round Session D

SFP Backhouse, 317 S. Wilson Ave.
10:00am – 11:00am
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Consciousness & Reality (C&R) 2026-27 Series Consciousness First: What Experience Tells Us About What Exists

Online Event
10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Chen 100
Information-efficient representations for genomics data
Nikhila Swarna, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Campus History & Architectural Tour

Athenaeum
11:45am – 12:45pm
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The Bill Gross Prize for Entrepreneurship Kickoff 2026

Chen 130
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS Special Seminar with Prof. Sungjoon Choi

Annenberg 104
Towards Human-Centered Robotics: Connecting Robots to Humans and Humans to Robots
Sungjoon Choi, Associate Professor, Korea University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Education Week: Minds Without Borders: A Century of International Talent at Caltech

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar

Cahill 370
The Radio Life of Galaxy Clusters: magnetic amplification, CRs & AGN
Paola Domínguez Fernández, FFL/ITC Fellow, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Ginsburg 301
Classical algorithms for sparse random Hamiltonians via free probability
Matthew Ding, Stanford,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
This seminar has been postponed.
Trevor Teitel, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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David G. Goodwin Memorial Lecture

Gates-Thomas 135
"From Breathing Rocks to Sustainable Technologies: How Microbes Wire the Biotic-Abiotic Interface"
Moh El-Naggar, Dean's Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Physics, Biological Sciences, and Chemistry, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Dieter Baumgartner, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Sridevi V. Sarma

Moore B270
Still to come
Sridevi V. Sarma, PhD, Vice Dean for graduate education of the Johns Hopkins University of the Johns Hopkins Institute for ComWhiting School of Engineering, Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Computational Medicine, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, John Hopkins,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Sridevi Sarma

Moore B270
Measuring Neural Health: An Energetic Signature of the Living Brain
Sridevi (Sri) Sarma, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, John Hopkins University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Andrew Strominger, Harvard,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
"Cellular Electrochemistry Powered by Phase Transitions"
Yifan Dai, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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SFP x Red Door Café Drop-in Advising Hour

Red Door Cafe
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Film Screening "One Child Nation"

Broad 100
Friday, November 20th, 2026
10:00am – 11:00am
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Special ChE Seminar

Schlinger 101
"Marangoni-Driven Flows and Instabilities: From Droplets to Interfaces"
Hyoungsoo Kim, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Self-Dual Yang-Mills theory in AdS4
Andrew Strominger, Harvard University,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Green Labs November 2026 Meeting

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

Saleh Naghdi, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Transgender Day of Remembrance

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Rocking Out to Heavy Metals: Improving Radiative Transfer Modeling of R-Process Transients
Daniel Brethauer, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, U.C. Berkeley,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Setthivoine You, Co-Founder, Chief Scientist, Helicity Space,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
What Did the Big Bang Sound Like?
Rana Adhikari, Professor, Department of Physics, Caltech,
Saturday, November 21st, 2026
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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International Education Week: Fulbright Reception

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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CALTECH GLEE CLUB & CHAMBER SINGERS CONCERTS

Ramo Auditorium
Sunday, November 22nd, 2026
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Problem Set Workshop - Ma 1a

3:00pm – 4:30pm
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CALTECH GLEE CLUB & CHAMBER SINGERS CONCERTS

Ramo Auditorium
Monday, November 23rd, 2026
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Problem Set Workshop - Ph 1a

Tuesday, November 24th, 2026
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Safety Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech AI Colloquium

Annenberg 105
Emma Pierson, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, November 25th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 254
Axel Periollat, UC Riverside,
3:00pm – 4:15pm
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Laboratory Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
Thursday, November 26th, 2026
12:00am – 11/27 11:59pm
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Thanksgiving (Institute holiday)