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Monday, September 2nd, 2024
All Day
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Labor Day (Institute Holiday)

9:00am – 3:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Friday, September 6th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project

Online Event
Update from the Frontlines: A Conversation with Natalie Adona
Natalie Adona, Clerk-Recorder/Registrar of Voters for the County of Nevada, California,
Monday, September 9th, 2024
8:15am – 12:30pm
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KISS Short Course - Sample Return from all across the Solar System

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
  • Public Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Matt Thomson - Faculty Seminar | Monday, September 9, 2024 at 3 pm

Broad 100
Tuesday, September 10th, 2024
9:00am – 4:00pm
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Science of Benefits - TIAA's Office Hours

Red Door Cafe
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Setting Up Your Canvas Course (Zoom)

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: Special Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
The Mission to Apophis
Jose Andrade, George W. Housner Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
7:10pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Employee Dodger Night

  • Internal Event
Thursday, September 12th, 2024
12:00pm – 1:15pm
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EVOxZANKOU Seminar

Chen 130
"Evolution of a curious male social behavior in Drosophila" and "Putting the genetics in phylogenetics: using comparative approaches to investigate the genetic bases of phenotypes and how natural selection shapes patterns of gene expression"
Youcef (Joe) Ouadah, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Biology and Biological Engineering, BBE, Caltech,
Matt Pennell, Associate Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology and Biological Sciences, Department of Biological Science, University of Southern California,
Friday, September 13th, 2024
8:00am – 9/14 5:00pm
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Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) Workshop

Baxter Lecture Hall
Navigating the New Frontier: The Political and Economic Implications of AI
10:00am – 9/20 5:00pm
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Constitution Day

Caltech Store
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Tarun Kapoor

Chen 130
Chemical inhibitors and activators for ATPase mechanoenzymes
Tarun Kapoor, Pels Family Professor, The Rockefeller University,
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Social Security 101 Workshop

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Green Labs September 2024 Meeting

2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Asteroseismic Rotational Diagnostics of Engulfment and Misalignment
Joel Ong, Hubble Fellow, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CTLO: Summer Workshop Series for TAs - Creating an Inclusive Course Climate

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
Monday, September 16th, 2024
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Joe Parker - Faculty Seminar | Monday, September 16, 2024 @ 3 pm

Chen 100
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Classical and quantum simulation of chemical and physical systems
Jiace Sun, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

The Formation of the Milky Way and its Environment
Ekta Patel, NASA Hubble Fellow, University of Utah,
Rohan Naidu, NASA Hubble Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
  • Public Event
Wednesday, September 18th, 2024
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Guiding Student Thinking in Proof-Writing and Coding

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Nonuniqueness of solutions to the Euler equations with integrable vorticity
Anuj Kumar, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
Thursday, September 19th, 2024
All Day
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💙 An Avatar of Pandora? 💙

8:00am – 9/21 5:00pm
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International Student Orientation: iBegin@Caltech

11:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Employees: Therapy Pets Hang

  • Internal Event
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Guiding Student Problem-Solving and Giving Effective Feedback

Friday, September 20th, 2024
11:00am – 1:00pm
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CTLO: Innovations in Teaching Forum

11:00am – 12:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Chasing Counterparts: Low-Latency data products, coincidences, and the future with Daksha
Gaurav Waratkar,
  • Internal Event
12:30pm – 3:00pm
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Green Labs Lightning Talks Event

Chen 100
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Electron Dynamics in Molecular Qubits and Catalytic Films
Ruben Mirzoyan, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Insights into Induced Earthquakes: The Impact of Machine Learning
Ting Chen, Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
5:30pm – 7:30pm
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CWC Fall Gathering

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
Saturday, September 21st, 2024
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Wray Family Party

Sunday, September 22nd, 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm
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New Student Check-In for Undergraduates

4:00pm – 9/29 11:59pm
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New Student Orientation for Undergraduates

Monday, September 23rd, 2024
8:15am – 12:30pm
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KISS Short Course - Nano Engineering for Exo Discoveries: Advancing Metasurfaces for Exoplanet Exploration

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
  • Public Event
9:00am – 4:00pm
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New Student Check-in for Graduates

10:30am – 12:00pm
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Convocation 2024

Beckman Auditorium
12:00pm – 9/27 5:00pm
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New Student Orientation for Graduates

Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project

Online Event
Combatting Election Mis- and Disinformation in 2024
Barb Byrum, Ingham County Clerk (Michigan),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
"From clouds to comets: Tracing the molecular journey of interstellar ices with JWST"
Katerina Slavicinska, Ph. D Candidate, Department of Astrophysics, Leiden University,
Wednesday, September 25th, 2024
8:00am – 12:00pm
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NACAC Campus Tours

9:30am – 4:00pm
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First-Year TA Training

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

Online and In-Person Event
Exploring thermal CFTs from a bootstrap perspective
Alessio Miscioscia, DESY,
Thursday, September 26th, 2024
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Campus History & Architectural Tour

Athenaeum
  • Public Event
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

Friday, September 27th, 2024
11:00am – Ongoing
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Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020 (PST ART)

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

Online and In-Person Event
Quantizing Null Hypersurfaces
Luca Ciambelli, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Hardware-efficient quantum error correction using concatenated bosonic qubits
Harry Putterman, AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Appeals Meeting

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar **CANCELED**

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Sylvain Barbot, Associate Professor, Earth Sciences, University of Southern California,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
AI in Astrophysics: How Machines Help Us Learn about the Universe
Joanna Piotrowska-Karpov, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, September 28th, 2024
10:00am – 2:00pm
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Explore Caltech

Caltech Hall Pond
  • Public Event
Monday, September 30th, 2024
All Day
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Beginning of Instruction of Fall Term

11:00am – 12:00pm
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Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project

Online Event
A Conversation with Registrar of Voters Bob Page: Processing vote-by-mail ballots, operating vote centers, and managing election misinformation and disinformation in Orange County, California
Bob Page, Registrar of Voters for Orange County, California,
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Organometallic Single-Molecule Magnets Containing Radicals and Bismuth
Selvan Demir, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University,