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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Jeremy van der Heijden, University of British Columbia,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CES Special Seminar

The Nature of History: Chance, Contingency, and the Reality of Historical Principles
Geerat Vermeij, Distinguished Professor, Geobiology and Paleobiology, UC Davis,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Comeager isomorphism classes in zero-dimensional dynamics
Todor Tsankov, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Finding Maps Online

Online Event
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Core-Collapse Supernovae in 3D: New Theoretical Insights
Adam Burrows, Professor, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Analytical Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes and Information Content from Satellite Data
Hannah Nesser, NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, JPL,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Artificial oxide quantum heterostructures and twisted membranes
Honyung Lee, PhD, Corporate Fellow and Senior Advisor, Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Nonholonomic Stabilization and Pursuit-Evasion: Not-so-hard After All
Miroslav Krstić, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Advances in Low-Noise, High-Speed SiGe BiCMOS for LEO Satellite Communications and Optical Interconnects
Pascal Chevalier, PhD, Analog/RF Technology Architect and Fellow of Technical Staff, STMicroelectronics,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Modified Theories of Gravity, Parity, and the Dark Sector
Tatsuya Daniel, Postdoctoral Fellow, Trottier Space Institute, McGill University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geoclub Seminar Series

Oxygen isotopic evidence that Gale crater, Mars was home to an Early Hesperian water reservoir that underwent significant evaporation
Amy Hoffman, Postdoctoral Scholar, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor W. Hong Yeo

Soft Wearable Intelligent Bioelectronics for Health Monitoring
W. Hong Yeo, Ph.D, G.P. "Bud" Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Endowed Professor Harris Saunders, Jr. Endowed Professor of the Woodruff School, Georgia Tech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

The condensed fundamental group of a scheme
Peter Haine, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
StarShot – from Metaphotonics to Spacecraft
Harry A. Atwater, Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Caltech,
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Large extra dimensions from higher-dimensional inflation
Ignatios Antoniadis, LPTHE - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Modified Theories of Gravity, Parity, and the Dark Sector
Tatsuya Daniel, McGill University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Waveform Systematics Across the Gravitational-Wave Spectrum: From LIGO to LISA
Aasim Jan, Graduate Student, Center for Gravitational Physics, University of Texas, Austin,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Fluid Mechanics of the Dead Sea: Rise of the Salt Giants
Eckart Meiburg, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara,
3:45pm 4:15pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

"Ultrafast spin coherence reveals ion-pairing and molecular dynamics in solution".
Juliette Whiteside, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Aditya Varma Muppala, UC Berkeley

Affine Synthetic Arrays for Millimeter-wave Imaging and Metrology
Aditya Varma Muppala, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Adventures in Measuring Variations in High-Frequency Radiation for Small to Moderate Earthquakes
Peter Shearer, Professor of Geophysics, University of California, San Diego,
8:00pm 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

"Simulating Galaxies, Stars, Planets, and Giant Black Holes on a Computer"
Phil Hopkins, Ira S. Bowen Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, January 24th, 2026
Sunday, January 25th, 2026
Monday, January 26th, 2026
10:00am 11:00am
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Special Seminar

Exploring the wave nature of life across scales: from active matter to ecology
Prof. Thomas Shimizu, AMOLF & VU Amsterdam,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Thesis PhD Seminar

The Total Synthesis of (+)-Ineleganolide, the Lycojapomine Alkaloids, and a New Strategy for Radical Deoxygenation
Benjamin Gross, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:45pm 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

From Heterogeneous to Homogeneous: Molecular Mimicry for Understanding and Advancing Small Molecule Activation."
Seung Jun Hwang, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

HOW TO REVERSE-ENGINEER THE 3D LANDSCAPE OF FIELD-SCALE FLUVIAL CATCHMENTS FROM 2D PIXEL-BASED NETWORKS
Gary Parker, Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth Science and Environmental Change, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Resilient Autonomy: Perception and Planning for Dynamic, Unknown Environments
Jonathan How, Ford Professor of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Special Seminar - Paul Campbell

TBD
Paul Campbell, Scientific Director, Cell Biology and Preclinical Cancer Research, American Cancer Society,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Composition Gradients and Convective Layers in Coffees and Giant Planets
J. Rafael Fuentes, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Topic to be announced
Leeat Yariv, Uwe E. Reinhardt Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Diego Garcia Sepulveda, Harvard University,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Seeing and Shaping Quantum Matter at the Atomic Scale
Jane Park, PhD Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Galaxy Evolution in the Resolved Universe
Daniel Weisz, Associate Professor of Astronomy; Head Graduate Advisor, Astronomy Department, UC Berkeley,