Institute Calendar
Fall 2025-2026
Thursday, November 6th, 2025
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Inhibition of nucleocytoplasmic transport by β- coronaviruses"
Chia Yu Chien,
Graduate Student,
Hoelz group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Quantum Schubert Calculus from lattice models
Leonardo Mihalcea,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Virginia Tech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Wall crossing for moduli of stable pairs
Fanjun Meng,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California - San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Scaling limit of the half-space KPZ equation
Christian Serio,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Affine Schubert varieties are splinters
Robert Cass,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Claremont McKenna College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Productivity and Knowledge Transfer: Evidence from Prisoner Employment
Michela Giorcelli,
Associate Professor of Economics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Promise and puzzles of neuroforecasting
Brian Knutson,
Professor of Psychology,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Locality of Epidemics on Graphs
Yeganeh Alimohammadi,
Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations,
Marshall School of Business,
USC,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
TBA
Christopher Hoffman,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Washington,
Friday, November 7th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Entropic Order
Fedor Popov,
Stony Brook University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Testing Quantum Theory on Curved Space-Time with Atomic Clocks
Igor Pikovski,
Stevens Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The role of triple evolution in shaping Galactic binaries and transients
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Experiments on passive-scalar high Schmidt number dispersion in grid turbulence
Paul Dimotakis,
John K. Northrop Professor,
Aeronautics and Professor of Applied Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Singularities of Hamiltonian Stationary Lagrangian Surfaces
Filippo Gaia,
SNSF Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
3:45pm
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5:15pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Taming Electrons: From Sustainable Molecular Transformations to Quantum Information
Matthew Espinosa,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Continental below-Moho earthquakes: How to find them, and what do they signify?
Simon Klemperer,
Professor of Geophysics, and of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Stanford University,
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, November 8th, 2025
11:30am
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12:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, November 9th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, November 10th, 2025
7:30am
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11/11
4:00pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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3:00pm
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3:55pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations About Math Teaching
Tynan Ochse,
Curriculum Director,
Art of Problem Solving,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
A Radical Approach: Paramagnetic Nickel and Palladium Species in Organometallic Catalysis
Liviu M. Mirica,
William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor of the School of Chemical Sciences,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Tracing the Invisible: M31's Halo Revealed by FRB Dispersion/Algorithms for pulsar detection in gamma-rays and radio
Lordrick Kahinga,
Graduate Student,
University of California, Santa Cruz; University of Dodoma, Tanzania,
Barak Zackay,
Assistant Professor,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Finding an answer to the 'phosphate problem of the origin of life'"
David Catling,
Professor of Earth and Space Sciences,
College of the Environment,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Stein-Log-Sobolev inequalities for the continuous Stein variational gradient descent method
Jose Carrillo,
Professor of the Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations,
Mathematical Institute,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology of dark forces: strong limits and 𝜈 effects
Erwin Tanin,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
From phason mass to the magneto-chiral instability: THz nonlinear electrodynamics of collective excitations in solids
Professor Fahad Mahmood,
Assistant Professor,
Condensed Matter Physics,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Writers in Residence Program
When We Were Real
Daryl Gregory,
American science fiction, fantasy and comic book author,
- Public Event
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
All Day
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9:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Automated Conjecturing and Discovery in Mathematics
Randy Davila,
Lecturer,
Department of Computational Applied Mathematics & Operations Research,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Formation and dissociation of hydrocarbons under interstellar conditions
Jordy Bouwman,
Assistant Professor of Cosmochemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Kepler's Legacy: Planet formation as revealed by orbital dynamics and planetary system architectures
Greg Gilbert,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Where can free waves concentrate?
Ruixiang Zhang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California - Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Neural Nets as a Model of "Knowing How"
Kenny Easwaran,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of California, Irvine,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
10:30am
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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
A Black Hole Airy Tail
Pratik Rath,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:50pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Minimal Subdynamics: Descriptive ideas about Dynamical Questions
Josh Frisch,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California - San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Earthquake clustering and stress inversion in the Mendocino Triple Junction region
Yu-Fang Hsu,
Graduate Student,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres and protostellar mass flows with JWST
Tom Greene,
Research Professor of Astronomy; Executive Director IPAC,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar
Body Area Network – Connecting and Powering Things Together Around the Body
Jerald Yoo,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Seoul National University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Field-Based Evaluation of Regional Climate Model Fidelity for Meltwater Infiltration in Greenland Firn
Joel Harper,
University of Montana,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fold-transversal surface code cultivation
Kaavya Sahay,
Yale,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Extreme environment materials testing: thermochemical life prediction and improved material design
Elizabeth Opila,
Department Chair, Rolls Royce Commonwealth Professor of Engineering,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Virginia,
Thursday, November 13th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Chaos in "Confinement: Using Polymers to Mix Fluids and Speed Up Chemical Reactions in Porous Media"
Sujit Datta,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"In situ imaging of metastasis dynamics using acoustic reporter genes"
Pierina Barturen-Larrea,
Graduate Student,
Shapiro Group,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Matrix points on varieties
Yifan Wei,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
UW-Madison,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
An area law for metastable states
Chi Fang (Anthony) Chen,
Simons Postdoctoral Scholar,
UC Berkeley,