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Thursday, February 12th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

What a Digital Twin Can Learn from Data, Thermodynamics, and Action Principles for Damage Assessment in Complex Materials
Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen, William Prager Chair Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

"Structural and molecular insights into antibody elicitation and transport"
Chengcheng Fan, Postdoctoral Scholar, Björkman Group,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

From Predictive Algorithms to Automatic Generation of Anomalies
Ashesh Rambachan, Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT,
2:30pm 3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra & Geometry Seminar

Matroids and the integral Hodge conjecture for abelian varieties
Philip Engel, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History Seminar

Connected Histories of Money and Labor in Early America
Katie Moore, Associate Professor, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Eisenstein cocycles for imaginary quadratic fields
Romyar Sharifi, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum science and technology with rare earth ions and nano-photonics
Andrei Faraon, Willian L Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Fletcher Jones Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Caltech,
Friday, February 13th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The Measure Problem and the Beginning of the Universe
Björn Hassfeld, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Terahertz-frequency magnons and chiral phonons in a kagome ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal
Luyi Yang, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (1/2)

TBD
Jared Marx-Kuo, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Rice University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

From higher-dimensional Fermiology to higher Hall crystals in moiré materials
Nisarga Paul, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Mechanics and Materials for Extreme Propulsion: Tuning Micro-Particle Impacts using Novel High Throughput Dynamic Experiments
Suhas Eswarappa Prameela, Assistant Professor, Metallurgical Engineering, University of Utah,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (2/2)

Min-max constructions in noncompact manifolds
Doug Stryker, NSF Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

The hunt for the explosive aftershock sequence.
Nicholas van der Elst, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Sunday, February 15th, 2026
Monday, February 16th, 2026
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

A Principled Framework for Discrete Diffusion Models via Denoising
Ricardo Baptista, Assistant Professor, Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Special QM Seminar

Cavity-altered superconductivity
Itai Keren, Research Scientist, Department of Physics, Columbia University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Joint CPS/GPS seminar

Chirality and the electron spin- A miraculous match
Ron Naaman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Isreal,
3:00pm 4:30pm
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You and Your Thesis

Online Event
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Lionel Christiaen

From deterministic to regulative development in a variable ocean
Lionel Christiaen, Director of the Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar

Excited-State Catalysts for Selective Bond Activations
Robert R. Knowles, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CMS Special Seminar with Richard Anderson

Inside Baseball: ML in a Baseball Front Office
Richard Anderson, Director of Quantitative Analysis, Los Angeles Dodgers,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

The Many Faces of Mars During its Recent Past
Lucas Lange, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Semianr

Dyanmics and energy relaxation in correlated metals
Peter Armitage, Professor, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Johns Hopkins University,
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
No Shift Symmetries and Tensionless String Limits in AdS/CFT
Jose Calderon Infante, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Spectral theory and descriptive combinatorics for Borel pmp graphs
Cecelia Higgins, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Magnetism and morphology in the interstellar medium
Susan Clark, Assistant Professor of Physics, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Land-Atmosphere Interactions and the Changing Hydrologic Cycle
Kirsten Findell, Research Physical Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter/Materials Science Research Lecture

The materials physics of complex oxide interfaces
Charles Ahn, Professor, Physics and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University,
Thursday, February 19th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"The Inherent Resilience of Large Cities to Natural Hazards: Records, Evidence and Predictions"
Nicos Makris, Professor of Structures and Mechanics, Addy Family Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Methodist University,
12:00pm 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

"One genome, many phenotypes: evolutionary insights from complex traits in ants"
Megan Barkdull, Assistant Curator, Entomology, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Colin Cook, PhD

Crowded at the bottom: high-density, scalable production of cell and gene therapies in respiring bioreactors
Colin Cook, PhD (Caltech MedE 2019), Technical Founder and Chief Technology Officer, XDEMICS Corporation,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

A new case of the Harris-Viehmann conjecture
Sandra Nair, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Yuri Levin, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Columbia University,
Friday, February 20th, 2026
11:00am 3:00pm
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ChE Panel & Research Talks

Naga Phani Aetukuri, Associate Professor, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU), Indian Institute of Science — Bengaluru,
Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan, Associate Professor, Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science — Bengaluru,
Srinivasan Ramakrishnan, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology — Bombay,
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Exact Path Integral Methods in AdS$_2\times \mathbf{S}^2$ and Non-Perturbative Black Holes
Alberto Castellano, University of Chicago,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Testing the quantumness of gravity "ab absurdo"
Emanuele Panella, University of Rome Tor Vergata,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Manipulating Spectral Energy Flux in Turbulent Flows: Applications and Implications Across Scales
Lei Fang, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar

Ultra-low noise Phase-locked Loop Technique
Taekwang Jang, Associate Professor, Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, Louis B. and Martha B. Slichter Endowed Chair in Geosciences, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles,
Saturday, February 21st, 2026
Sunday, February 22nd, 2026
Monday, February 23rd, 2026