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Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
4:30pm 6:00pm
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Science Tuesdays: Dieter Baumgartner

Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar
The Marine Snowball Event—How Encounters Shape Carbon Export
Dieter Baumgartner, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in Geobiology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
10:00am 11:00am
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Special ChE Seminar

From Microstructure to Macroscopic Flow in Disordered Materials
Sarah Hormozi, Associate Professor, Cornell University,
12:00pm 5:12pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

"Passive drive: Harnessing evolutionary pressure as a non-transgenic method for removing conjugative virulent plasmids" and "Sweet Talk: Bacterial small RNAs as Key Mediators of Inter-Kingdom Communication in the Bobtail Squid"
Thomas Adamo-Schmidt, Graduate Student, BBE, Caltech,
Viridiana Avila-Magaña, Postdoctoral Associate, Carnegie Institution for Science,
12:05pm 1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar

Hunting Systematics in the Spherical Fourier-Bessel Basis: fNL from eBOSS LRGs and QSOs
Sean Bruton, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Physics, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,
Friday, July 24th, 2026
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Special Seminar

Model Discovery in Mechanics: From Conventional to Data-Driven Methods
Adeline Wihardja, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
8:00pm 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

The Roman Space Telescope: NASA's Next Great Observatory
Lee Armus, Senior Research Scientist, Caltech IPAC,
Saturday, July 25th, 2026
6:30pm 8:30pm
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Science and Sunsets

Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar
Deep Sea GAStronomy: Animal Microbiome Hacks for Life in Extreme Environments
Dr. Shana Goffredi, Chair of the Biology Department, Occidental College,
Sunday, July 26th, 2026
Monday, July 27th, 2026
1:30pm 2:30pm
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Special ChE Seminar

The Mechanical Strategies of Bacterial Pathogens
Alex Persat, Associate Professor, EPFL,
2:30pm 3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Exotic Quantum Statistics in 1D Bose Gases
Yi Zeng, University of Innsbruck,
Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
4:30pm 6:00pm
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Science Tuesdays: Madison Dunitz

Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar
Geo-Engineering with Microbes
Madison Dunitz, Graduate Student in Geobiology, Caltech,
Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Thursday, July 30th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Dr. Jake Cornwall-Scoones

Bridging scales in developmental patterning
Dr. Jake Cornwall-Scoones, Cell & Developmental Biology, University College London & Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge,
Friday, July 31st, 2026
Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
4:30pm 6:00pm
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Science Tuesdays: Victoria Orphan

Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar
Victoria Orphan, Caltech,
Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Friday, August 7th, 2026
Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
4:30pm 6:00pm
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Science Tuesdays: Britt Abrahamson

Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar
The Balance Between Recycling and Loss in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle
Britt Abrahamson,
4:30pm 6:00pm
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Science Tuesdays: Pilar Vergeli

Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar
Applications of Chemical Space for Life Detection
Pilar Vergeli,
Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Friday, August 14th, 2026
Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Thursday, August 20th, 2026
12:00pm 5:18pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

"Towards genetically encoding any chemical reaction"
Chenghao Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, CCE, Caltech,
Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Graduate Student, Université de Montréal, Mila,