Institute Calendar
Spring 2025-2026
Thursday, April 16th, 2026
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Formation and Evolution of Small Bodies: Insights from Space Missions and Numerical Simulations"
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Moral Regulation and Cultural Production: Evidence from Hollywood
Ruixue Jia,
Professor of Economics,
UC San Diego,
6:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, April 17th, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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
Polar states in AdS3 holography
Ji Hoon Lee,
ETH-Zurich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum eigenvalue processing
Yuan Su,
AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
12:00pm
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7:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar (1/2)
TBD
Eduardo Reyes,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Pontifical Caltholic University of Chile,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Crystallization, Convection, and Magnetism in White Dwarf Stars
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium
Multiphysics Simulations on GPUs using high-order finite elements
Robert Rieben,
Computational Physicist,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, April 18th, 2026
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Sunday, April 19th, 2026
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, April 20th, 2026
9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Nano-architected Composites Across Scales and Strain Rates
Kevin Nakahara,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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Seismo Lab Seminar
How earthquakes stop and scale: Insights from near-fault observations and dynamic rupture modeling
Yoshihiro Kaneko,
Professor of Geophysics,
Kyoto University,
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Synthesis of Stereoenriched Polycyclic Scaffolds via Pd Enolates and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Hypermoin A
Ruby Chen,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Frequency-dependent viscoelastic magma transport and deformation signatures at Kīlauea volcano
Leif Karlstrom,
Professor,
University of Oregon,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Ultraluminous X-ray Sources: Accretion Physics at the Extremes
Roberta Amato,
Postdoc at National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Adventures in Building Structure into Models: Lessons from Constructing Euclidean Neural Networks for Physics
Tess Smidt,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Multiple axions: Strong CP, Dark Matter and how to count them
Pablo Quilez,
CERN,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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BBE Division Seminar - Junhyong Kim
Beyond single cells: Subcellular sequencing reveals mosaic evolution of the dendritic transcriptome in rodent neurons
Junhyong Kim,
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Biology Co-Director, Penn Program in Single Cell Biology Secondary Professor, Computer and Information Science,
University of Pennsylvania,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:15pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Global Regularity for a Viscous Dyadic Model of the Navier-Stokes Equations
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Variability and Controversy: What can we resolve from observations of small earthquake sources?
Rachel Abercrombie,
Professor,
Boston University,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Defense, Canran Wang
Smart Bandages for Chronic Wound Sampling, Monitoring, and Management
Canran Wang, PhD Candidate,
Medical Engineering Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Deciphering & controlling the mechanisms of energy flow across materials
Andres Montoya Castillo,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Dynamics in Extreme Environments: From Lava to Tatooine Planets
Mohammad Farhat,
Miller Postdoctoral Fellow,
Astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Have Fiscal Policy Failures Diminished American Democracy?
Seth Hill,
Professor of Political Science,
UC San Diego,
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
9:30am
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3:00pm
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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
Light-ray operators and the w(1+infinity) algebra
Mina Himwich,
Princeton University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Chemistry in condensed matter: from nuclear quantum effects to detonations
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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