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Connect with Caltech. From lectures and student performances to film screenings and literary conversations, we invite the public to engage with breakthrough research and explore the intersections of art, engineering, and science. Join us online and in person.

Upcoming Events

December 14, 2025 3:30 pm

The Queen's Six

Beckman Auditorium

Coleman Chamber Music Series

January 10, 2026 7:30 pm

Amelia Hogan with the Flight Crew

Off Campus

Folk Music at Caltech

January 18, 2026 3:30 pm

Valencia Baryton Project

Beckman Auditorium

Coleman Chamber Music Series

January 21, 2026 7:30 pm

Watson Lecture - Lead Contamination: An Old Foe Rises from the Ashes of the Eaton Fire, with Francois Tissot

Beckman Auditorium

Francois Tissot, professor of geochemistry; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,

Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series

January 23, 2026 7:30 pm

Behind The Book with Rev. Dr. David Wilkinson

Behind The Book

January 30, 2026 8:00 pm

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Student Group Performances

January 31, 2026 3:00 pm

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Student Group Performances

January 31, 2026 8:00 pm

JAZZ GUEST ARTIST CONCERT

Beckman Auditorium

Student Group Performances

February 1, 2026 3:00 pm

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Student Group Performances

February 15, 2026 3:30 pm

Isidore Quartet

Beckman Auditorium

Coleman Chamber Music Series

February 20, 2026 10:00 am

Science Journey - Cosmic Fireworks: How Astronomers Explore the Changing Sky

Beckman Auditorium

Science Journeys

February 21, 2026 8:00 pm

Caltech Wind Orchestra CONCERT

Ramo Auditorium

Student Group Performances

February 22, 2026 3:00 pm

Caltech Wind Orchestra CONCERT

Ramo Auditorium

Student Group Performances

February 25, 2026 7:30 pm

Watson Lecture - Kimberly See

Beckman Auditorium

Kim See, professor of chemistry,

Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series

February 28, 2026 8:00 pm

ORCHESTRA CONCERT (Concerto Competition Winners)

Ramo Auditorium

Student Group Performances

March 1, 2026 3:00 pm

ORCHESTRA CONCERT (Concerto Competition Winners)

Ramo Auditorium

Student Group Performances

March 7, 2026 8:00 pm

GLEE CLUB AND CHAMBER SINGERS CONCERTS

Ramo Auditorium

Student Group Performances

March 11, 2026 7:00 pm

TACIT STORYTELLING & IMPROV

Ramo Auditorium

Student Group Performances

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Caltech scientists and engineers are working at the frontiers of advanced computing technologies, where they have established and continue to advance the development of brain-like artificial intelligence systems that process information, learn, adapt, and identify patterns in much the way humans do.

At Caltech, scientists and scholars are working at the leading edge of AI research, expanding the boundaries of its capabilities and exploring its impacts on society.

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Mansi Kasliwal (PhD ‘11), a Caltech professor of astronomy, has been named the new director of Caltech’s Palomar Observatory, while Dimitri Mawet, the David Morrisroe Professor of Astronomy at Caltech, has been named the new director of instrumentation of the Caltech Optical Observatories (COO), which includes Palomar as well as the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaiʻi, in which Caltech is a partner.

Both newly created positions will work together with Chris Martin, the director of COO and the Edward C. Stone Professor of Physics, to oversee the flagship organization, one of the largest on campus that includes many faculty, postdocs, students, and a staff of 35 experts who design and build instruments for the telescopes at Palomar and Keck observatories.

Kip Thorne (BS ‘62)—theoretical astrophysicist, distinguished alumnus, and Nobel laureate—will deliver the keynote address at Caltech’s 132nd annual Commencement ceremony on June 12, 2026.

Thorne was a seminal figure in the discovery of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of space and time that provide an unprecedented window into the physics of some of the most energetic events in the universe involving black holes and neutron stars.

Focusing his career on the “warped side of the universe,” a phrase he coined while at Caltech, Thorne was critical in helping conceive and develop the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), a collaboration between Caltech and MIT funded by the National Science Foundation.

Among many accolades, Thorne was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Together with Weiss and Drever or Barish, he received the Kavli Prize, the Shaw Prize, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology, the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, and the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The intent of the Gee Family SURF Poster Competition is to encourage and support excellence in effective scientific communication. Six Caltech undergraduate students who completed SURF projects this past summer compete for the distinction of having the best poster presentations.

Congratulations to this year’s winner Rishi Bhargava!

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