Institute Calendar
January 2026
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Thursday, January 1st, 2026
All Day
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Monday, January 5th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
1:00pm
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
11:00am
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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
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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
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1:00pm
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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,
2:30pm
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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
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Friday, January 9th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Kurt Hinterbichler,
Case Western Reserve University,
12:00pm
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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
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9:30pm
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Monday, January 12th, 2026
4:00pm
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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
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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
10:30am
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12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
TBD
Keaton Burns,
Principal Research Scientist of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT of Mathematics,
2:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Water at the Edge: On- Water Spectroscopy across Oil Droplets, Protein Surfaces, Biomolecular Condensate and Living Cells
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
11:00am
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Thursday, January 15th, 2026
11:00am
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2:00pm
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32nd Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition Finals
Perpall SURF Speaking Competition
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Polina Anikeeva
Bioelectronics Tools to Probe Brain-Body Communication
Polina Anikeeva, PhD,
Matoula S. Salapatas Professor and Head Department of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Director, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center McGovern Institute for Brain Research Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Friday, January 16th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
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Beni Yoshida,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:15pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Juliette Whiteside,
Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Emily Brodsky,
Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, NAS,
University of California, Santa Cruz,
Sunday, January 18th, 2026
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, January 19th, 2026
All Day
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12:00am
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
12:00pm
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Jeremy van der Heijden,
University of British Columbia,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Core-Collapse Supernovae in 3D: New Theoretical Insights
Adam Burrows,
Professor,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Lead Contamination: An Old Foe Rises from the Ashes of the Eaton Fire, with Francois Tissot
Francois Tissot,
professor of geochemistry; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
- Public Event
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
12:00pm
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