Institute Calendar
February 2026
Ongoing
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2/1
10:00am
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Sunday, February 1st, 2026
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, February 2nd, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special ChE Seminar
Droplets for High-throughput Cell-Cell Interaction Screening and All-Aqueous Miniaturized Systems
Prof. Anderson H. C. Shum,
City University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talks
Where the hot universe meets the energetic universe
Sanskriti Das,
Hubble Fellow,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Seismology on solar system terrestrial bodies"
Philippe Lognonné,
Directeur, Observatoire InSight,
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris,
Université Paris Cité,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Strong & Radiative Decays: two different stories in B-physics
Federico Cima,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
9:00am
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5:00pm
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James K. Knowles Lectures and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
"Variational phase-field modeling of fracture: toward second-generation models"
Laura De Lorenzis,
Professor of Computational Mechanics,
ETH Zürich,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
The Evolution of Amino Acids under Asteroidal Aqueous Alteration
Yuanyuan He,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Department of Geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture
The (algebraic) geometry of the Mandelbrot set
Laura DeMarco,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
8:00am
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2/10
11:59pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
The rank problem for complete, separable metric spaces
Asger Törnquist,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Copenhagen,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
The phase transition in the time-evolving random graphs
Sam Looi,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Astronomical instruments on a chip — Getting ready for the next-generation of telescopes
Pradip Gatkine,
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Microbial Navigation and Biofilm Morphodynamics in Subsurface Environments
Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez,
ETH Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Electron Spin, Chiral Symmetry Breaking, and Life's Homochirality
Thursday, February 5th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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LA Probability Forum (1/3)
A Limit in Law for the Cover Time of Wired Planar Domains
Oren Louidor,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Technion,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum (2/3)
The largest common subtree of two independent random trees
Robin Khanfir,
The largest common subtree of two independent random trees,
Department of Mathematics,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Bianxiao Cui
Membrane curvature-induced cell adhesion and drug development
Bianxiao Cui,
Job and Gertrude Professor of Chemistry and a fellow of the CHEM-H and Wu Tsai Stanford Neuroscience Institute,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
A p-adic approach to exotic Hecke correspondences between Shimura varietie
Jack Sempliner,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Katerina Chatziioannou,
Assistant Professor of Physics; William H. Hurt Scholar,
Department of Physics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum (3/3)
The phase transition in the time-evolving random graphs
Lutz Warnke,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
UCSD,
Friday, February 6th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Unitary Architecture of Renormalization
Sebastian Mizera,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Infinite temperature at zero energy
David Long,
Stanford,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Medical Engineering Defense, David Garrett
Human-Scale Ultrasound, Thermoacoustic, and Photoacoustic Tomography
David Garrett, MedE PhD Candidate,
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
Prediction and Control of Transverse Jet Shear Layer Instabilities
Ann Karagozian,
Professor,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Fernando Guerrero,
Graduate Student (Agapie Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Prof. Chulhong Kim
Multimodal Photoacoustic Ultrasound Imaging: From Bench To Bedside and Products
Chulhong Kim, Ph.D,
Namgo Chair Professorship of School of Convergence Science and Technology (Head) at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Republic of Korea.,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, February 9th, 2026
10:00am
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11:30am
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Henrique Rubira,
Cambridge University, KICC and Munich University Observatory,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Flow Maps: Flow-based generative models with lightning-fast inference
Nicholas Boffi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Machine Learning and Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours
Online Event
Trust and Confidence in Elections in Rural America
Cameron Wimpy,
Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Government, Law & Policy,
Arkansas State University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Soft theorems from higher symmetries
Jonah Berean-Dutcher,
University of British Columbia,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Negotiating Thermodynamics: Designing Periodic and Aperiodic Oxides on Demand
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:15pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
TBD
Emily Rauscher,
Associate Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Morphodynamics of Hanging Ice Dams in Northern Rivers
Gary Parker,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Topic to be announced
Christian Traeger,
Professor of Economics,
University of Oslo,
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
What a Digital Twin Can Learn from Data, Thermodynamics, and Action Principles for Damage Assessment in Complex Materials
Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen,
William Prager Chair Professor,
Department of Structural Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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