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Upcoming Events

Ongoing
8:00am – 9/20 5:00pm
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International Student Orientation: iBegin@Caltech

  • Academic
Friday, September 19th, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Postdoc Launch Seminar

Chen 130
Sunday, September 21st, 2025
10:00am – 4:00pm
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New Student Check-In for Undergraduates

  • Academic
10:00am – 9/28 4:00pm
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New Student Orientation for Undergraduates

  • Academic
Monday, September 22nd, 2025
9:00am – 4:00pm
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New Student Check-in for Graduates

  • Academic
12:00pm – 9/26 5:00pm
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New Student Orientation for Graduates

  • Academic
Thursday, September 25th, 2025
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

  • Academic
Monday, September 29th, 2025
12:00am – 9/30 12:00am
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Beginning of Instruction of Fall Term

  • Academic
Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Engineering Emergent Material Behaviors with Controlled Microstructures
Marcia A. Cooper, Associate Professor, J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University,
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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EAS Trailblazers Symposium

Annenberg 105
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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EE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar

Moore B270
Intelligent Decision-Making: Towards Higher Efficiency and Broader Applicability
Chengshuai Shi, Electrical Engineering, Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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APhMS: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Seeing and Shaping Quantum Matter at the Atomic Scale
Jane Park, PhD candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMS Trailblazer Symposium - Qianying Cao

Annenberg 105
Research Seminar Characterization and Inverse Design of Stochastic Mechanical Metamaterials Using Neural Operators
Qianying Cao, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Applied Mathematics, Brown University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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MedE : EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar

Moore B270
Systems Immunoengineering of Living Therapeutics for Solid Tumors: From Biomanufacturing to Tumor Microenvironment Adaptation
Yapeng Su, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"The "Underestimated" Unseen in Digital Image Correlation: Digital Twin in Material Identification, Full-Field Model Validation and Fracture Mechanics"
Pascal Lava, Managing Director, MatchID,
Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Corinne Packard, Professor, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Southern California,
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"Compression-Driven Gas-Liquid Displacement"
Chris MacMinn, Professor, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford,
Friday, October 17th, 2025
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

  • Academic
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Nick Hutzler: Molecules, Mysteries, and the Matter of Existence

Beckman Auditorium
Nick Hutzler, assistant professor of physics,
  • Public Event
Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
8:00am – 11/4 11:59pm
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Midterm Examination Period

  • Academic
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Sujit Datta, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biophysics, Caltech,
Wednesday, November 5th, 2025
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Ram Seshadri, Professor, Materials Department, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara,
Saturday, November 8th, 2025
11:30am – 12:30pm
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Science Journeys Saturday - Flight School for Robots

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, November 10th, 2025
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Grades

  • Academic
Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Beth Opila, Department Chair, Rolls Royce Commonwealth Professor of Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
12:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Bioscience Industry Day 2025

Chen Breezeway
Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections

  • Academic
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
W. Craig Carter, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, https://dmse.mit.edu/people/faculty/w-craig-carter/, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Ashwin Vasavada

Beckman Auditorium
Ashwin Vasavada, project scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, JPL,
  • Public Event
Thursday, November 20th, 2025
8:00am – 12/5 11:59pm
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Registration for Winter Term

  • Academic
Friday, November 21st, 2025
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Admission to Candidacy for the Degrees of Master of Science and Engineer

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

  • Academic
Saturday, December 6th, 2025
8:00am – 12/9 11:59pm
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Study Period

  • Academic
Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
8:00am – 12/12 11:59pm
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Final Examinations for Fall Term

  • Academic
Friday, December 12th, 2025
12:00am – 12/13 12:00am
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End of Fall Term

  • Academic
Saturday, December 13th, 2025
8:00am – 1/4 11:59pm
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Winter Recess

  • Academic
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
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Francois Tissot

Beckman Auditorium
Francois Tissot, professor of geochemistry; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
  • Public Event
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

  • Academic