Institute Calendar
Fall 2025-2026
Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Spectroscopic Probes of (Interstellar) Aromatic Molecular Evolution
Brett A McGuire,
Associate Professor; Adjunct Assistant Astronomer,,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Bring Balance to the "Force" on Giant Planets: Nonlinear Turbulent Mixing of Chemical Tracers
Huazhi Ge,
51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
On Theories of Neutrino Masses and Dark Matter
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
Case Western University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Foreign Sponsor's Dilemma
Xiaoyan (Christy) Qiu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
8:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Flat Space/Carrollian Limit of AdS/CFT
Romain Ruzziconi,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Isometry groups of Polish ultrametric spaces
Riccardo Camerlo,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Università di Genova,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Characterizing Mechanics of Earthquake Ruptures in Complex Fault Zones Using Damage Rheology Model
Chunhui Zhao,
PhD Candidate,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
2:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Discoveries of Interstellar PAHs from Cold Clouds to the Solar System
Brett McGuire,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Attributing Intensified Fire Weather And Droughts In The Western United States using An Observation-based Machine Learning Approach
Rong Fu,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Impact of Induced Fitting and Secondary Noncovalent Interactions on Site-Selective and Enantioselective C–H Functionalization
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Thursday, October 30th, 2025
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing for Shape-Morphing Structures and 4D Printing"
Jerry Qi,
Woodruff Endowed Professor,
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Determining gene specificity from multimodal single-cell data"
Nikhila Swarna,
Graduate Student,
Pachter Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum advantage from random geometrically-two-local Hamiltonian dynamics
Yihui Queck,
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Difficult to remove host cell protein contaminants in biotherapeutic products and collaborative innovation ecosystems
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Kevin Plaxco
Molecular vital signs: recent advances in in vivo biosensors
Kevin Plaxco, Distinguished Professor,
Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and of BioEngineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Hunting the Unexpected: Anomaly Detection and Real-Time Triggers at the Large Hadron Collider
Jennifer Ngadiuba,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Friday, October 31st, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Continuous Non-Invertible Symmetries
Diego Delmastro,
UCLA,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Kinetic Pathways in Diblock Copolymer Micelles
Samuel Varner,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Wang Lab),
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Planar fault-tolerant circuits for non-Clifford logic gates – decoding non-Abelian phases
Julio Magdalena,
Freie Universitat Berlin,
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Towards Next-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors: Intermediate-Mass Black Holes and Stochastic Backgrounds
Luca Reali,
Graduate Student,
Astrophysics & Gravitational-Wave Astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Curvature, macroscopic dimensions, and symmetric products of surfaces
Ekansh Jauhari,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthesis of Anionic Phosphine-Phenoxide Nickel Catalysts for Ethylene/Acrylate Copolymerization
Paramita Saha,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
When stable faults shake: the role of frictional healing in induced earthquakes
Meng Li,
Stanford University,
Saturday, November 1st, 2025
10:00am
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Monday, November 3rd, 2025
8:45am
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Informal Seminar - Hong Ma
A novel factor and mechanisms for regulating floral RNA splicing and genome-wide implications of alternative splicing across angiosperms.
Hong Ma,
Professor of Biology,
Plant Reproductive Development and Evolution,
Pennsylvania State University,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Chemistry at Interfaces: Macrocyclic Templates Facilitating Strong and Weak Interactions
Raul Hernandez Sanchez,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Tides, Tori, and Disintegration: Spectral and Photometric Signatures of Volcanic Exoplanets and Exomoons
Apurva V. Oza,
Research Scientist,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Assembling supercontinent Rodinia and tracking its development in the late Proterozoic"
Yiming Zhang,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Institute of Rock Magnetism, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cavendish Tests of Millicharged Particles
Asher Berlin,
Fermilab,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Pattern Formation in Soft Mechanics
Ousmane Kodio,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
A Lie-Algebraic Perspective on Tree-Adjoining Grammars
Elizabeth Xiao,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Astronomy Seminar
Unraveling Dust Production from Wolf-Rayet Binaries with JWST
Ryan Lau,
Associate Scientist,
IPAC,
Riko Senoo,
PhD Student,
University of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Unorthodox planet-disk interaction: Eccentricity, Turbulence and Winds
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Asymptotics for the Toda Lattice
Amol Aggarwal,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech Election Integrity Project
Online Event
The Votes are in: A Post-Election Day Discussion on the Results' Implications
Christian Grose,
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy,
USC,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Free mutual information and higher-point OTOCs
Jinzhao Wang,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Rokhlin's lemma for infinite measure preserving bijections
François Le Maître,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Burgundy Institute of Mathematics (IMB),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Decoding Fault Stress Evolution from Ambient Seismic Noise
Dr. Nader Shakibay Senobari,
Project Scientist and Lecturer in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of California, Riverside,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Sparsity in the numerical six-point bootstrap
Sebastian Harris,
DESY,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
r(3,k) in two bites
Dylan King,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An introduction to quantum image encryption
Claire Levaillant,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems from the Outside In
Brendan Bowler,
Associate Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Juliet T. Gopinath, U Colorado Boulder
Nonlinear integrated optical chalcogenide devices
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Creating Certainty in an Uncertain Universe
Forest Rohwer,
San Diego State University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Discovering Compounds and Designing Materials
Ram Seshadri,
Professor,
Materials Department, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UC Santa Barbara,
Thursday, November 6th, 2025
11:30am
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