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Monday, March 16th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Searching for the Shortest-wavelength Aromatic Infrared Bands/Contact binaries: Tightest buddies in space
Dennis Lee, Postdoc, JPL,
Matthias Fabry, Postdoc, Villanova University,
Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
1:00pm 2:00pm
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3:00pm 4:00pm
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Fluids and Analysis Seminar

Global Regularity for a Dyadic Model of the Navier-Stokes Equations
Sam Looi, Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, Caltech (California Institute of Technology),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

The Dusty Ring of Jupiter as viewed by Juno WAVES & Earth's Magnetic Field as viewed by the NASA TRACERS mission
Hao Cao, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles,
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Jun Wu

Dynamic pluripotent stem cell states and their applications
Jun Wu, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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3:00pm 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Data Foundations for Functional Prediction in Enzyme Engineering
Yueming Long, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: History Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Emilie Connolly, Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University,
Thursday, March 19th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Ivan Dikic

Guardians of cellular homeostasis - Ubiquitin and Autophagy networks
Ivan Dikic, Director, Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University Frankfurt,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Ed Discussion Demo

Online Event
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

A First Principles Understanding of how Sonochemistry Orchestrates Chemical Synthesis with Analogies to Atmospheric Chemistry
Tej Choksi, Professor, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

A New Diophantine Approximation and Degeneracy of Integral Points
Zheng Xiao, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder,
Friday, March 20th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Local Control in a Sr quantum computing demonstrator
Kevin Mours, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Asymptotically geodesic hypersurfaces and the fundamental groups of hyperbolic manifolds
Hans Han, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences (SIMIS),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Transport and Rheological Behavior in Polymeric Systems
Alexandros Tsamopoulos, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Wang Lab), Caltech,
Monday, March 23rd, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

From Fabrication to System-Level Validation: Approaches toward High-Quality Superconducting Qubits
Chung-Ting Ke, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica Taiwan,
Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

TBA
Ali Pakzad, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Bahounar University of Kerman,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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NB/CNS Seminar - Xin Sun

Body-Brain Interoception: Consider the Lung as a Sensory Organ
Xin Sun, Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California - San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Revisiting Woodward–Hoffmann Allowed and Forbidden Electrocyclic Reactions
Kendall N. Houk, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
7:30pm 8:30pm
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POSTPONED: Watson Lecture - Katie Bouman: Illuminating the Hidden Universe with Physics and AI

Katie Bouman, associate professor of computing and mathematical sciences, electrical engineering and astronomy; Rosenberg Scholar; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
  • Public Event
Thursday, March 26th, 2026
2:00pm 3:00pm
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2:30pm 3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Samson Wang, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Brandao and Preskill Groups,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Ady Arie, Tel-Aviv University

Application of structured quantum light in sensing, communication and computing
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Is Ultra Low Low Enough? Nucleation, Volatility and the Tug of War Between Vapor Pressure and Oxidation Chemistry
Neil Donahue, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University,
Friday, March 27th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Horowitz Lecture - Jason Chin

TBD
Jason Chin, Executive Director, Generative Biology Institute, Ellison Medical Institute,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Constant depth pseudoentanglement---How trivial states can have non-trivial entanglement structure
Alexandru Gheorghiu, IBM,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Multi-messenger impact seismology on Mars and the Moon
Philippe Lognonné, Professor, Paris Institute of Earth Physics (IPGP),
8:00pm 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Space Exploration and Discovery: From the Deserts of Egypt to Saturn's Moon Titan
Charles Elachi, Former Director of NASA JPL, Professor of Planetary Science, Emeritus, Caltech,
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Saturday, March 28th, 2026
Sunday, March 29th, 2026
Monday, March 30th, 2026
12:00pm 1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program Event

Environmental Feeling and Environmental Fact: The Case of the Monterey Shore
Margaret Cohen, Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization, and Professor of English, and by courtesy, of French and Italian and of Comparative Literature, Stanford University,
3:45pm 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Astrid Mueller, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Carl Beadle, University of Toronto,
Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Erica Larschan

X marks the spot: Identification of the X-chromosome for coordinated gene regulation
Erica Larschan, Associate Prof. of Biology Brown University, Department of Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry Director, Brown University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Negative Ions: From Multiplexed Coincidence Spectroscopy to Hypervelocity Ice Grain Impacts
Robert Continetti, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Senior Associate Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego,
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Anne-Catherine de la Hamette,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Revealed Convex Preference
Rui Tang, Assistant Professor in Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST),