Institute Calendar
October 2026
Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Seminar - Stanislav Shvartsman
TBD
Stanislav Shvartsman,
Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Biology Symposium
10AM: Yael David Shternberg,
Associate Member, Chemical Biology,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measuring fundamental particle interactions with levitated optomechanical sensors
Yu-Han Tseng,
Yale,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A Panchromatic Picture of the Red Supergiant Liminality
Wynn Jacobson-Galan,
Postdoc,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EAS Young Alumni Lecture
Scalable Synthesis Routes to Low-Dimensional Materials for Next Generation Devices
Zakaria Al Balushi,
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley and Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, October 15th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Bridging Scales in Mechanics: Integrating Data-Rich Experiments with Symmetry-Aware Scientific Machine Learning
Samantha Daly,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Nivin Nystrom,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Shapiro Group,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Unravelling Specific Ion Effects in Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction: The Interplay of Interfacial Structure and Ion-specific Transport
Madeline Murphy,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Statistical mechanics of classical and quantum computation
Alexander Zlokapa,
PhD Candidate,
Center for Theoretical Physics,
MIT,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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6:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, October 16th, 2026
9:00am
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10/18
3:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Data-driven computational approaches for chemistry across scales
Vignesh Bhethanabotla,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Thermal Giant Graviton Expansion
Kasia Budzik,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Evolution and Fates of Massive Stars and Binaries: From Nuclear Burning to Explosive Outcomes
Aldana Grichener,
Prize Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium
Towards a New School in Aerodynamics: Fluid Mechanics as a Minimization problem
Haithem Taha,
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Samueli School of Engineering,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Matouš Vobořil
"Thymflammation: A novel concept of central immune tolerance"
Matouš Vobořil,
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science,
Department of Cell Biology,
Charles University in Prague,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 17th, 2026
9:00am
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10:30am
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9:00am
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7:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Kavli Nanoscience Institute Special Lecture: 10 years of the KNI-Wheatley Scholarship in Nanoscience
Andrei Faraon,
William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering and Fletcher Jones Foundation Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute.,
Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Sunday, October 18th, 2026
1:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, October 19th, 2026
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Jackie Caminiti,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
9:30am
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10:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
High-Precision Photoacoustic and Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy of the Oxygen A-Band in Support of Remote Sensing
Leah Stevenson,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Okumura Lab),
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:15pm
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2:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:15pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of catalyst systems enabling sp3 C‒H functionalization reactions
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Distilling Quantum Structure: Efficiently Simulating and Learning Quantum Systems
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Ultrafast Optical Excitation of Antiferromagnetic or Inertial Magnons in 2D Magnets
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lectureship in Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
'Water and Weathering - The Two Towers'
Niels Hovius,
Professor, Institute for Earth and Environment Sciences,
Department of Geomorphology, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences,
University of Potsdam,
Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
9:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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