Institute Calendar
December 2025
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Using synchrotron X-rays to unravel the physics of earthquakes"
François Renard,
Professor of Department of Geosciences, Director of NJORD Centre for Studies of the Physics of the Earth,
Department of Geosciences, The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences,
University of Oslo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) Seminar
Chaos and Coherence in the New Administrative Law
Daniel B. Rodriguez,
Harold Washington Professor of Law,
Pritzker School of Law,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Mathematics Teaching Seminar
Jedi Tsang,
CTLO Program Manager,
Center for Teaching, Learning, & Outreach,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Electron Spin, Chiral Symmetry Breaking, and Life's Homochirality
Furkan Ozturk,
Assistant Professor of Geobiology and Geochemistry; William H. Hurt Scholar,
Geobiology and Geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
9:00am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special CMX Lunch Seminar
Understanding Generalization of Deep Generative Models Requires Rethinking Underlying Low-dimensional Structures
Qing Qu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Flow matching for (generalized) Schrödinger bridges and dynamical optimal transport
Stephen Zhang,
PhD Student,
School of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Melbourne,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Mean-Field Actor-Critic Flow: A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Mean-Field Game
Haosheng Zhou,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Statistics & Applied Probability,
UC Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Dynamo Action Inside Giant Planets
Paula Wulff,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Heat, wave, and Schrödinger dynamics of Gibbs measures
Bjoern Bringmann,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
8:00am
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12/12
11:59pm
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10:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Nico Schliwa,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Euclid space mission
M. Claudia Scarlata,
Distinguished McKnight University Professor (Director of MIfA),
Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Modern Tools For Modern Ocean Mixing Puzzles
Matthew Alford,
UCSD Scripps,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
When Democracy Refuses to Die: Evaluating a Training Program for New Politicians
Ernesto Dal Bo,
Phillip Girgich Professor of Business,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
10:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the U.S.
Ellora Derenoncourt,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Decoding the sub-parsec scale environment of LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Joanna Aizenberg
Non-fouling Medical Devices
Proessor Joanna Aizenberg,
Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Neutron Star Mergers, Kilonovae, and Kilonova Impostors
Friday, December 12th, 2025
All Day
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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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
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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
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
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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
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Michael Manga,
Professor, Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
Saturday, December 13th, 2025
8:00am
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Ongoing
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Sunday, December 14th, 2025
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, December 15th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2025
9:00am
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9:01am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:15pm
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Friday, December 19th, 2025
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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Saturday, December 20th, 2025
6:00pm
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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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Thursday, December 25th, 2025
All Day
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
All Day
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