Institute Calendar
Spring 2025-2026
Monday, March 30th, 2026
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Visual Culture Program Event
Environmental Feeling and Environmental Fact: The Case of the Monterey Shore
Margaret Cohen,
Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization, and Professor of English, and by courtesy, of French and Italian and of Comparative Literature,
Stanford University,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Engineering Interfacial Microenvironments: Electrocatalysis for Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing and PFAS Destruction
Astrid Mueller,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dark Matter NMR and its sensitivity to extra couplings
Carl Beadle,
University of Toronto,
Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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Biology Seminar - Erica Larschan
X marks the spot: Identification of the X-chromosome for coordinated gene regulation
Erica Larschan,
Associate Prof. of Biology Brown University,
Department of Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry Director,
Brown University,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Negative Ions: From Multiplexed Coincidence Spectroscopy to Hypervelocity Ice Grain Impacts
Robert Continetti,
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Senior Associate Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
Spectral Reciprocity, Subconvexity, and Arithmetic Applications
Liyang Yang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Relational Perspectives in Quantum Gravity: Quantum Reference Frames and the Observer Dependence of Entropy
Anne-Catherine de la Hamette,
ETH Zurich,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Building a new era of atom-by-atom materials characterization with electron ptychography
Pinshane Y. Huang,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Tectonic pump closes the evolutionary loop for long-buried subseafloor microbes
Zhengze Li,
Ph.D. Student,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Heuristics of Plant Water-Use and the Problem of Scale
Emma Reich,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
(Spatially) resolved clues about giant planets with JWST and friends
Laurent Pueyo,
Associate Astronomer,
Space Telescope Science Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Engineering
Understanding (and controlling) electrified interfaces for energy and health
Yuzhang Li,
Associate Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Revealed Convex Preference
Rui Tang,
Assistant Professor in Economics,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST),
Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
11:00am
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3:49pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Data-Driven Modeling of Turbulent Flows: Nonlinear Modal Dynamics and Transient Forecasting
Oliver Schmidt,
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Transcriptional Regulation of Zebrafish Enteric Nervous System Development
Yuanyun (Rose) Huang,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Transcription and RNA quality control in health and disease
Karen Adelman,
Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Synthetic Biology for Human Health: RNA Sensors, Protein Circuits, and Machine-Guided Humanization
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Simulation of the Unknown: Observation of Pseudogap Physics in the Fermi–Hubbard Model at Ultralow Temperatures
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Religion and Conflict: Evidence from China, 1860-1911
Felipe Valencia Caicedo,
Dean's Assistant Professor of Political Economy & Economics,
Brown University,
Friday, April 3rd, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Navigating Collider Phenomenology with Light-Ray Operators & Chew-Frautschi Plot
Hao Chen,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Finite Time Bounds for Robust Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation
Yashaswini Murthy,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
From Fractionalization to Superconductivity in Flat Chern Bands — And What AI Enables Next
Ahmed Abouelkomsan,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
When waves are important, what is the best constitutive law for impact mitigation and how can we realize it?
Nicholas Boechler,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar 2/2
Classification of ancient cylindrical mean curvature flows and the Mean Convex Neighborhood Conjecture
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Dynamics of orogeny and continental lithosphere
Thorsten Becker,
Professor; Distinguished Chair in Geophysics,
Jackson School of Geosciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin),
Monday, April 6th, 2026
9:00am
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4/24
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Probing Binaries and Black Holes with Microlensing
Natasha Abrams,
PhD candidate,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Meteorology Meets Mineralogy: Extreme Weather from Jupiter to Super-Jupiters"
Xi Zhang,
Professor of Planetary Sciences,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of California - Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Toward a Science of Auditing AI-Mediated Information Ecosystems
Chara Podimata,
Class of 1942 Career Development Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Statistics,
MIT,