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Midterm Examination Period

  • Academic
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Microscopic Robots That Sense, Think, Act and Compute
Marc Miskin, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,
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Thursday, May 8th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Advances in Eulerian Modeling: Compaction, Multiphase Flow, and Plasticity
Nicolas Favrie, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Aix-Marseille University,
Friday, May 9th, 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
Monday, May 12th, 2025
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 Grades

  • Academic
9:30am – 10:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 115
Mechanical Characterization of Irregular Architected Two-Phase Materials
Chelsea Fox, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
9:30am – 10:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 115
Methods for Learning Mechanics: Inverse Problems, Constitutive Modeling, and Design
Aakila Rajan, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"Perception-Rich Robot Autonomy with 3D World Models"
Mac Schwager, Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University,
Friday, May 16th, 2025
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 19th, 2025
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 135
Full-Field Quantitative Visualization of Shock-Driven Pore Collapse in Solids: Mechanics of Deformation, Failure, and Interaction
Barry Lawlor, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections

  • Academic
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Presidential Search Listening Session for Staff

Beckman Auditorium
  • Internal Event
Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
8:00am – Ongoing
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Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

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

Gates-Thomas 135
Digital twin modeling of blood flow
Shawn Shadden, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Presidential Search Listening Session for Undergraduate Students

Chen 100
  • Internal Event
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Caltech Presidential Search Listening Session for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars

Chen 100
  • Internal Event
Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
10:00am – 11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering: PhD Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 135
Hierarchical Control: Constructive Theory and Application to Legged Robots
Noel Csomay-Shanklin, Graduate Student, Computing + Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
Thursday, May 29th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
A non-ergodic ground motion model for the Groningen, Netherlands: Merging physics-based and recorded data
Grigorios (Greg) Lavrentiadis, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Civil Engineering, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 135
Dynamic Safety Under Uncertainty: A Control Barrier Function Approach
Ryan Cosner, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
Friday, May 30th, 2025
12:00am – 5/31 12:00am
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Last Day of Classes for Seniors and Graduate Students

  • Academic
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Presenting Theses for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer

  • Academic
Saturday, May 31st, 2025
8:00am – Ongoing
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Study Period for Seniors and Graduate Students

  • Academic