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Monday, March 9th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Operando Infrared Spectroscopy to Probe Electrified Interfaces
Yu Katayama, Associate Professor, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, University of Osaka,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Josh Foster, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar w/Scott K. Cushing

Gates Annex B122
The role of ultrafast dynamics in battery and solar photoabsorber materials
Scott K. Cushing, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
9:00am – 10:30am
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Introduction to Shell and Data Management on an HPC Cluster

Online Event
  • Internal Event
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
11:00am – 2:00pm
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ME72 Engineering Design Competition

Brown Gymnasium
  • Public Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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HPS/LCSSP Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Defining and Detecting Discrimination: A New Way Forward
Issa Kohler-Hausmann, Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology, Yale University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TIAA's Office Hours

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Safety Training

Online Event
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Gates Annex B122
Alex Mori Carroll, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Peter Walter

Targeting the Cell's Stress Pathways for Therapeutic Benefit
Peter Walter, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco Investigator Emeritus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Tianyu Zhu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Decompression: Make Keychains & Bag Charms!!

Center for Student Services, Large Tent
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
People as Intuitive Modelers: How Model Complexity Adapts to Data
Guillaume Fréchette, Professor, Department of Economics, New York University,
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
All Day
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Last Day of Classes for Winter Term

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

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Elisa Tabor, UC Berkeley,
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
Unraveling the origins of fast radio bursts and using them as probes of extreme plasmas
Kenzie Nimmo, NHFP Einstein Fellow, Northwestern,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD
Eva Metz, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Reducing Lost Votes by Mail: Evidence on Vote Curing from Pennsylvania
Marc Meredith, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Revolutionizing Astrophysics: How Space and Ground Telescopes Can Work Together

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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TACIT STORYTELLING & IMPROV

Hameetman Center 206 - Frautschi Rehearsal Hall
  • Public Event
Thursday, March 12th, 2026
8:00am – 3/15 11:59pm
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Study Period

11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Mikhail G. Shapiro, Max Delbrück Professor of Chemical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
11:00am – 2:00pm
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Tessellations and Other Math You Can Touch

Sherman Fairchild Library, Lobby
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
TBA
Lukas Moeller, Graduate Student, Elowitz Group,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

Chen 100
Evolving Transparency: The Origins of Leaf-Like Phenotypes in Neotropical Amphibians
Carlos Taboada, Assistant Professor, BBE, Caltech,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Annenberg 213
Optimal learning of quantum channels in diamond distance
Antonio Anna Mele, Freie Universität Berlin,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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You and Your Thesis

Online Event
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Kimmy Wu, Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Caltech,
Friday, March 13th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Sunjin Choi, IPMU, University of Tokyo,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 125
Topic to be announced
Eden Saig, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Green Labs March 2026 Meeting

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

East Bridge 114
Rigorous bounds on dynamics and correlations in thermal and driven quantum systems and their comparison to experiment
Zohar Nussinov, Washington University in St. Louis,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
Hector Iglesias, Graduate Student, Weinberg Institute, University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Holmin Jung, Postdoctoral Researcher (Peters Group),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254
Thomas Goebel, Associate Professor, Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI), University of Memphis,
Monday, March 16th, 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 – 1:00pm
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Schwarzman Fellowship Info Session

Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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AI Policies and In-Person Exams Q & A

Online Event
  • Internal Event
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
All Day
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End of Winter Term

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Jun Wu

Chen 100
Dynamic pluripotent stem cell states and their applications
Jun Wu, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Setting Up Your Canvas Course

Online Event
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States
Emilie Connolly, Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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No ESE Seminar

Thursday, March 19th, 2026
8:00am – 3/29 11:59pm
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Spring Recess

8:30am – 4:30pm
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Spring 2026 Dissertation Writing Bootcamp

  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Ivan Dikic

Chen 100
Ivan Dikic, Director, Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University Frankfurt,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Ed Discussion Demo

Online Event
  • Internal Event
Friday, March 20th, 2026
8:30am – 4:30pm
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Spring 2026 Dissertation Writing Bootcamp

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

East Bridge 114
Local Control in a Sr quantum computing demonstrator
Kevin Mours, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Alexandros Tsamopoulos, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Wang Lab), Caltech,
Monday, March 23rd, 2026
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Instructors' Final Grade Reports

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
From Fabrication to System-Level Validation: Approaches toward High-Quality Superconducting Qubits
Chung-Ting Ke, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica Taiwan,
Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
TBA
Ali Pakzad, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Bahounar University of Kerman,
12:03pm – 1:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Xin Sun

Chen 100
TBD
Xin Sun, Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California - San Diego,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Safety Training

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Revisiting Woodward–Hoffmann Allowed and Forbidden Electrocyclic Reactions
Kendall N. Houk, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
3:00pm – 4:15pm
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Laboratory Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Katie Bouman

Beckman Auditorium
Katie Bouman, associate professor of computing and mathematical sciences, electrical engineering and astronomy; Rosenberg Scholar; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
  • Public Event
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