Institute Calendar
Fall 2026-2027
Thursday, September 17th, 2026
8:00am
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9/19
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar
"Localized spatial interactions as a defining feature in glioma malignant transformation," and "Half a Million Species, a Dozen Plant Types: What Climate Models Miss About Plant Diversity"
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Friday, September 18th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Self-Gravity and In-Situ Object Formation in AGN Disks
Hannalore Gerling-Dunsmore,
Graduate Student,
Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences 391 UCB,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, September 19th, 2026
10:00am
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4:00pm
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Sunday, September 20th, 2026
10:00am
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9/27
4:00pm
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Monday, September 21st, 2026
9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Electrochemical Routes to Value-Added Products: From CO₂ Reduction to Hydroformylation
Grace Chen,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Goddard Group),
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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9/25
5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Marcus Center Special Seminar
Synergizing Quantum Chemistry and Machine Learning for Molecular Discoveries in the Condensed Phase
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Mysterious Pulsar X-ray Filaments: Observational and Theoretical Advances/Precise Masses and Radii for Metal-Poor Eclipsing Binaries
Jack Dinsmore,
PhD candidate,
Stanford University,
Dom Rowan,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"The Physical and Chemical Lifecycle of Acetylene and its Relatives on Titan"
Jonathan Lunine,
Professor of Planetary Science & Chief Scientist,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech & Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Enhanced Correlations in Hawking Radiation from Near-Extremal Collapse
Per Kraus,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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Thursday, September 24th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:10pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Probing Baryon Feedback with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effects and Weak Lensing
Henry Liu,
Graduate student,
Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Friday, September 25th, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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4:45pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Ringdown from Eccentric Binary Black Hole Coalescences in the Extreme Mass Ratio Regime
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Saturday, September 26th, 2026
5:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, September 28th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Constant Stress Experiments Reveal the Mechanics of Creep and Earthquakes"
Greg Hirth,
Vice President for Research,
Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science,
Brown University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Confusion Caused by Artificial Intelligence: From the View of Philosophy of Science
Paul Song,
Professor of Physics and Director of the Space Science Laboratory,
Department of Physics,
University of Massachusetts Lowel,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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