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Monday, April 6th, 2026
Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Controlling and Interrogating Matter at the Fundamental Limits of Space and Time
Mohammed Th. Hassan, University of Arizona,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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BBE Division Seminar - Itai Yanai

Can a cell learn? A mechanism for adaptive genome regulation
Itai Yanai, Scientific Director, Applied Bioinformatics Laboratories, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University - Langone Health,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Non-Hermitian skin effect in resonator systems
Silvio Barandun, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar

Toward Structural Guarantees in AI: Quantum Tensor Networks for Sensitivity, Uncertainty, and Reliable Inference
Pragatheeswaran Vipulanandan, PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

An Era of Planetary Seismology?"
Chris Mankovich, Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

The Eisenstein Ideal
Mladen Dimitrov, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Lille,
Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Ultralocal measure is not canonical
Maciek Kolanowski, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Local Problems on Grids: FIID/FFIID Separations and a Failure of Baire Shift Universality
Katalin Berlow, PhD candidate, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm 1:15pm
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Techer Live

Online Event
Einstein: Beyond the Myth
Diana Kormos-Buchwald, Robert M. Abbey Professor of History; Director and General Editor, The Einstein Papers Project,
Patt Morrison, LA Times columnist, author,
  • Public Event
2:00pm 3:30pm
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You and Your Thesis

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

Do active galactic nuclei behave the way galaxy formation theorists need them to?
Michael Blanton, Observatories Director and Crawford M. Greenewalt Chair, Carnegie Science,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Integrating Multi-Scale Data to Constrain Forest Biomass Stocks and Dynamics
Xiangtao Xu, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Axial vector form factors and the scalar charge of nucleons from lattice QCD
Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Autonomous Experiments and Accessible Automation for Soft Matter Research
Lilo Pozzo, Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Washington,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Shih-Chii Liu

"Brain-inspired technology for neuromorphic edge AI and visual-assistive neuroprosthesis"
Shih-Chii Liu, Sensors Group, Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Predicting Chemical Reactivity?
Franziska Schoenebeck​, Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Institute of Organic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Learning from an Unknown DGP: Experimental Evidence on Belief Updating with AI Recommendations
Daniel Martin, Associate Professor of Economics and Wilcox Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Economics, UC Santa Barbara,
6:00pm 7:00pm
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Caltech Longevity Club Seminar

Peter Diamandis, Executive Chairman of XPRIZE, Co-founder and Chairman of Fountain Life,
Thursday, April 16th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Recent Progress on Liquid Jet Atomization
Stéphane Zaleski, Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Sorbonne Université,
12:00pm 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

"Sidewinder: new realm of freedom to write any DNA" and "Structural evolution of the MTCH family of mitochondrial insertases"
Kaihang Wang, Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, BBE, Caltech,
Camryn Lee, Research Technician, BBE, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Finding Maps Online

Online Event
  • Internal Event
2:30pm 3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar (1/2)

Frobenius structures on quantum connections on Calabi--Yau 3-folds
Jae Hee Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar (2/2)

Holomorphic Lagrangians in Higgs and de Rham Moduli Spaces
Shengjing Xu, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Diffusiophoresis-enhanced instabilities
Ankur Gupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

"Formation and Evolution of Small Bodies: Insights from Space Missions and Numerical Simulations"
Harrison Agrusa, CNES Postdoctoral Fellow, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

On the Completions of General Period Mappings
Haohua Deng, John Wesley Young Research Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Can Antiferromagnetic Order Survive Lattice Melting?
Daniel Podolsky, Condensed Matter & Materials Physics, Technion,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Moral Regulation and Cultural Production: Evidence from Hollywood
Ruixue Jia, Professor of Economics, UC San Diego,
Friday, April 17th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Polar states in AdS3 holography
Ji Hoon Lee, ETH-Zurich,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Quantum eigenvalue processing
Yuan Su, AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar (1/2)

TBD
Eduardo Reyes, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Pontifical Caltholic University of Chile,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Crystallization, Convection, and Magnetism in White Dwarf Stars
Matias Castro-Tapia, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, McGill University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar (2/2)

Systoles of hyperbolic hybrids
Sami Douba, Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, University of Bonn,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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The Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium

Multiphysics Simulations on GPUs using high-order finite elements
Robert Rieben, Computational Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Saturday, April 18th, 2026
Sunday, April 19th, 2026
Monday, April 20th, 2026
9:00am 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Nano-architected Composites Across Scales and Strain Rates
Kevin Nakahara, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
10:30am 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Synthesis of Stereoenriched Polycyclic Scaffolds via Pd Enolates and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Hypermoin A
Ruby Chen, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

"Jet Streams in the Giant Planets of the Solar System"
Keren Duer-Milner, Postdoctoral Fellow, Leiden Observatory / SRON, Leiden University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Pablo Quilez, CERN,
Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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BBE Division Seminar - Junhyong Kim

Beyond single cells: Subcellular sequencing reveals mosaic evolution of the dendritic transcriptome in rodent neurons
Junhyong Kim, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Biology Co-Director, Penn Program in Single Cell Biology Secondary Professor, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania,
12:00pm 2:00pm
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