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Ongoing – 5/3 11:59pm
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Midterm Examination Period

  • Academic
Thursday, May 5th, 2022
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Online Event
Adaptive and Sensory Machines: From Active Foam to Swimming Rheometers
Laurel Kroo, P.h.D. candidate, Stanford University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Adaptive and Sensory Machines: From Active Foam to Swimming Rheometers
Laurel Kroo, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University,
Friday, May 6th, 2022
10:00am – 12:30pm
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Ethical Orientations for Collegiality, Mentoring, and Teaching

Online Event
Dr. Koritha Mitchell, Professional development expert who centers equity and justice,
Monday, May 9th, 2022
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Seniors to Remove Conditions and Incompletes

  • Academic
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Deficiency Notices

  • Academic
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Watson Lecture: What Entanglement Can Tell Us About Our World

Online and In-Person Event
Scott K. Cushing, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
  • Public Event
Thursday, May 12th, 2022
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Poroelastic Spherical Indentation for Material Characterization
Haiying Huang, Associate Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Bioscience Futures Day – Keynote

Chen 100
"My Journey to Democratizing Healthcare"
Vicky Demas, CEO of Tesseract,
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Bioscience Futures Day – Poster Session

Chen Breezeway
Friday, May 13th, 2022
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Admission to Candidacy for the Degrees of Master of Science and Engineer

  • Academic
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Scheduling Examinations for the Degress of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer

  • Academic
Monday, May 16th, 2022
9:00am – 10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
"Bacterial Signaling within Biofilms and Beyond"
Shanice Webster, Postdoctoral Fellow, Biology, Duke University,
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Creating ARCHER: A 3D Hopping Robot with Flywheels for Attitude Control
Eric Ambrose, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Tackling the electronic structure problem on near-term quantum devices: algorithmic improvements and error mitigation techniques
Mario Motta, research staff scientist, IBM,
Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections for Spring Term

  • Academic
Thursday, May 19th, 2022
8:00am – Ongoing
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Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

  • Academic
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Safe Input Regulation for Robotic Systems
Andrew Singletary, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Concentration enrichment, separation, and ion exchange in nanoliter-scale water-in-oil droplets
Robbyn K. Anand, Carlyle G. Caldwell Endowed Chair of Chemistry and Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Subra Suresh Distinguished Lecture

Ramo Auditorium
Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life
Frances Arnold, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center,
Monday, May 23rd, 2022
9:00am – 10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
"PiRNA-Mediated Gene Silencing in Genome Defense and in Development"
Katalin (Kata) Fejes-Toth, Research Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Online Event
Rapid Breast Cancer Pathology Tissue Evaluation Using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Diana Mojahed, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, May 26th, 2022
9:00am – 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 125
"Self-heating of HEMT low-noise amplifiers in liquid cryogenic environments and the limits of microwave noise performance"
Anthony Ardizzi, Graduate Student, Applied Physics, Caltech,
9:00am – 10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
"Physics of Living Matter: From Molecule to Embryo"
Sebastian Streichan, Assistant Professor, Physics, University of California - Santa Barbara,
Friday, May 27th, 2022
12:00am – 5/28 12:00am
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Last Day for Presenting Theses for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer

  • Academic
12:00am – 5/28 12:00am
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Last Day of Classes for Seniors and Graduate Students

  • Academic
10:00am – 11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Foundations and applications of single-cell RNA sequencing
Ali (Sina) Booeshaghi, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
Saturday, May 28th, 2022
8:00am – 5/31 11:59pm
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Study Period for Seniors and Graduate Students

  • Academic
Monday, May 30th, 2022
12:00am – 5/31 12:00am
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Memorial Day (Institute Holiday)

Off Campus
  • Academic