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Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
Friday, December 12th, 2025
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Fast and scalable quantum simulation of fermionic systems
Nishad Maskara, MIT,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

From Models to Data: Toward a Unified Framework forAgile and Safe Bipedal Locomotion"
Min Dai, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Non-vanishing for cubic Hecke $L$-functions
Alexander Dunn, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Metastable helium in the upper thermosphere
Shri Kulkarni, Professor, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Late-time tails for nonlinear waves in four dimensions
Shi-Zhuo Looi, Olga Taussky and John Todd Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Chaotic properties of smooth systems and related topics
Adam Kanigowski, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Geophysical studies of geysers
Michael Manga, Professor, Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley,
Saturday, December 13th, 2025
Sunday, December 14th, 2025
Monday, December 15th, 2025
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talks

Creating Space-Based, All-Sky Surveys to Study the Death and Afterlife of Stars
Hannah Gulick, graduate student, UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, December 16th, 2025
Wednesday, December 17th, 2025
11:00am 12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Advancing Quantum Research and Education through the LPS Qubit Collaboratory
Kasra Sardashti, Assistant Professor of Physics, Executive Director, Quantum Collaborative Research Corp (QCoR), University of Maryland,
Friday, December 19th, 2025
Saturday, December 20th, 2025
6:00pm 8:30pm
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Kerckhoff Marine Lab Holiday Event

Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar
  • Public Event
Wednesday, December 24th, 2025
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Thursday, December 25th, 2025
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Thursday, January 1st, 2026
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Monday, January 5th, 2026
Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Anna Wolz, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

New Frontiers in Exoplanet Imaging and Pathways to Habitable Worlds
Jason Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Basal melt rates in the Ice Grounding Zones (IGZ)
Ratnakar Gadi, Caltech,
Thursday, January 8th, 2026
12:00pm 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

"The neighbor joining algorithm" and "Targeting Tail Anchored Proteins to the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Embryophytes"
Lior Pachter, Bren Professor of Computational Biology and Computing and Mathematical Sciences, BBE, Caltech,
Conner Wells, Graduate Student, Clemons Lab, BBE, Caltech,
2:30pm 3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Limitations of Noisy Geometrically Local Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar, University of Maryland,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Shruti Puri, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Department of Physics, Yale,
Friday, January 9th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Kurt Hinterbichler, Case Western Reserve University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Jeffrey Freymueller, Endowed Chair for Geology of the Solid Earth, Department Chair, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University,
Saturday, January 10th, 2026
7:30pm 9:30pm
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Monday, January 12th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

New algorithms for the electric grid: the interplay between control, learning and economics
Baosen Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Professor Wei Min

Lighting up chemical bonds for biomedicine
Wei Min, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

TBD
Keaton Burns, Principal Research Scientist of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, MIT of Mathematics,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Water at the Edge: On- Water Spectroscopy across Oil Droplets, Protein Surfaces, Biomolecular Condensate and Living Cells
Wei Min, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,