Institute Calendar
Summer 2025-2026
Monday, June 15th, 2026
All Day
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9:00am
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2:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2026
8:00am
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6/18
12:00pm
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9:30am
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum advantages for syndrome-aware noisy logical observable estimation
Kento Tsubouchi,
University of Tokyo,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Special Seminar
Modeling and Controlling Nonlinear Dynamics from Data (without Neural Networks)
George Haller,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics,
Institute for Mechanical Systems,
ETH Zürich,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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11:15am
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11:30am
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1:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, June 18th, 2026
12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
A Multi-Wavelength Study of Cluster Cosmology and Astrophysics
Harshda Saxena,
Graduate Student,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Driven-Dissipative Entanglement of Distant Giant Atoms
Aziza Almanakly,
NYU,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Friday, June 19th, 2026
All Day
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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11:15am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Examining Redox Mechanisms for Applications in Energy Storage and Electrosynthesis
Christopher Povinelli,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (See Group),
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Information Geometry & Physics Seminar
When Heat Misleads: Toeplitz Operators, Weyl Symbols, and an Endpoint Counterexample
Sam Looi,
Olga Taussky and John Todd Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, June 25th, 2026
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar
"Reliability without rigidity in a learned vocal circuit" and "Human control of nitrogen fixation"
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Tracing Gas and Feedback in Massive Halos with the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
Yun-Hsin Hsu,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica,
Friday, June 26th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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CMS Special Seminar with Prof. SooJean Han
Autonomous Control for Stochastic Systems: Making Reliable Learning-Enabled Decisions under Uncertainty
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Sheng-hong Chen
Patterning Cell Death: Ferroptotic Waves, Self-Organization, and Tissue-Scale Morphogenesis
Sheng-hong Chen,
Associate Research Fellow, IMB,
Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Medical Engineering PhD Defense, José Lasalde-Ramirez
Non-invasive metabolite profiling using sweat sensing wearable platforms leveraging continuous enzymatic reactions
José Lasalde-Ramirez,
PhD Candidate,
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, June 27th, 2026
10:00am
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1:00pm
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Monday, June 29th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Construction of Carbon–Fluorine Bonds Through Catalytic Nucleophilic Fluorination
Zhuoyan Wang,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Fu Lab),
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The free neutron lifetime experiment 𝜏SPECT
Martin Fertl,
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz,
Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Development of sensitive aluminum MKIDs for submillimeter and far-IR spectroscopy
Elijah Kane,
Graduate Student,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
Friday, July 3rd, 2026
All Day
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