Institute Calendar
Spring 2025-2026
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Decoding the Bacterial Lanthanome for Scalable Rare Earth Element Recovery from Complex Feedstocks
Cecilia Martinez-Gomez,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, May 14th, 2026
9:00am
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5/17
4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Metabolic Raman imaging: enhancing sensitivity and molecular insight
Adrian Colazo,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Wei Group),
Caltech,
12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Linear Relativistic effects in Galaxy Clustering
Yunfei (Robin) Wen,
Graduate Student,
The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Social Sciences History Seminar
This seminar has been postponed.
Wei Xiong,
John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance and Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Transcription and Splicing Specificity Through Kinetic Proofreading
Daniel Larson,
Chief, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression; Head, Systems Biology of Gene Expression; Co-Chair, Trans-NIH Myeloid Malignancies Program,
Center for Cancer Research,
National Institutes of Health,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Electrochemical Direct Air Capture: In Space, On Land, and Under Sea
Yushan Yan,
Henry Belin du Pont Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Delaware,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Optical cavities for bioimaging, atom interferometers, and trapping molecules
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, May 15th, 2026
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development and Exploration of Electrochemical Cascades for Titanium-Mediated Nitrogen Reduction to Ammonia
Channing Klein,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Manthiram Group),
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
c=1 strings as a matrix integral
Victor Rodriguez,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Phantom codes: Entangling logical qubits without physical operations
Jin Ming Koh,
Harvard,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Abiotic Strategies and C-H Functionalization toward Natural Product Total Synthesis and Studies toward CNS-Penetrant Drug Derivatives
Camila Suarez,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Stoltz Group),
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium
Scott Jackson,
Associate Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Reductive Carbonyl Functionalization Driven by Ligand Non-Innocence
Nathan Friede,
Graduate Student (Reisman Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Complex fault architecture and heterogeneous stresses profoundly affect earthquake mechanics
Greg McLaskey,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Cornell University,
6:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, May 16th, 2026
9:00am
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, May 17th, 2026
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, May 18th, 2026
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Genetic Interrogation of Expression Regulation
Maria Carilli,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Designing for Disorder: Electrocatalytic Synthesis with Interfacial Control
Anna Wuttig,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Galactic Winds Are Kinematically Coherent and Turbulence-Regulated: New Insights from Lyα and UV Metal-Line Radiative Transfer
Zhihui Li,
Assistant Research Scientist and William Miller Postdoctoral Fellow,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Geocentric languages and the perception of the earth's magnetic field"
Felicity Meakins,
Professor of Linguistics,
School of Languages and Culture, Australian Research Council (ARC),
University of Queensland Australia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Open system approach to neutrinos propagating in an ultralight scalar background
Gustavo Alves,
Fermilab and Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Engineering Topological Quantum Matter in Space and Time
Shuolong Yang,
Assistant Professor,
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering,
The University of Chicago,