Institute Calendar
Week of May 24, 2026
Ongoing
All Day
Ongoing
Add to Cal
Monday, May 25th, 2026
All Day
Add to Cal
Tuesday, May 26th, 2026
10:30am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
NB/CNS Seminar - Bing Brunton
Embodied intelligence: From connectomes to body models
Bing Brunton,
Professor & Richard and Joan Komen University Chair,
University of Washington, Seattle,
12:15pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Banks-McKelvey Memorial Lecture
Credibility in an Era of Chaos: Rebuilding Trust Between Universities and Society
Arthur Lupia,
Vice President for Research and Innovation, Gerald R. Ford Distinguished University Professor,
Department of Political Science,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Book Reading and Discussion with Vinita Gupta
Vinita Gupta,
Silicon Valley Entrepreneur. First Indian-American woman to take her company public. Thrice National Champion of bridge.,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Chemical Physics Seminar
Revisiting Woodward–Hoffmann Allowed and Forbidden Electrocyclic Reactions
Kendall N. Houk,
Distinguished Research Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Ruizhe Wang,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Ting-Juan Liao,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
MedE Distinquished Seminar Series, Xiaodong Chen
Electrochemomics profiling metabolic dynamics in biofluids
Xiaodong Chen,
Distinguished Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, with joint and courtesy appointments in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chemistry, and Medicine,
Nanyang Technological University (NTU),
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Wolff Memorial Lectures 1/3
The diagonal Ramsey numbers: New Upper bounds
Julian Sahasrabudhe,
Professor,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS),
University of Cambridge,
7:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Wednesday, May 27th, 2026
10:30am
–
11:30am
Add to Cal
PhD Thesis Defense
Reductive C-C Bond Construction Strategies by Samarium and Nickel Catalysis
Chungkeun Shin,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Reisman Group),
Caltech,
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
EE Devices Seminar- François Leo
Temporal patterns and solitons in optical parametric oscillators
François Leo,
Research Associate,
University of Brussels.,
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Baryon Junctions in Effective String Theory
Siwei Zhong,
Stony Brook University,
,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Mohamed Abdelmeguid,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Aerospace,
Lynn Booth & Kent Kresa Department of Aerospace,
Caltech,
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
PhD Thesis Defense
Decoding the dynamics and regulation of endogenous transcription factor hubs
Shawn Yoshida,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
1:30pm
–
2:30pm
Add to Cal
PhD Thesis Defense
Development of Strategies for Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Couplings
Angel Hernandez-Mejias,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Reisman Group),
Caltech,
3:00pm
–
4:15pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Astronomy Colloquium: Greenstein Lecture
Supermassive Black Holes in M87 and Beyond
Chung-Pei Ma,
Professor of Astronomy and Physics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Microbial Niches Govern N₂O Cycling in Marine Oxygen Minimum Zones
Daniel McCoy,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biosphere Sciences & Engineering Global Ecology, Carnegie Science,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Materials Science Research Lecture
Tuning Order and Disorder in Itinerant Magnetic Systems: Case of Intercalated Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Talk and Forget: How AI Enclaves Enable Information Sharing
Tanya Rosenblat,
Professor of Information, School of Information and Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
From Electronics Skin to NeuroString
Zhenan Bao,
K. K. Lee Professor, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering, of Chemistry, and of Bioengineering,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Wolff Memorial Lectures 2/3
The (almost) diagonal Ramsey numbers: Upper and lower bounds
Julian Sahasrabudhe,
Professor,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS),
University of Cambridge,
5:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
Thursday, May 28th, 2026
12:00pm
–
1:30pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
PhD Thesis Defense
Electron Spin-based Quantum Sensing in Biomolecular Systems
Christian Totoiu,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Hadt Lab),
Caltech,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
Special Probability Seminar
Discrete random matrices, fluctuations of random groups, and an interacting particle system
3:30pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Number Theory Seminar
Number Field Counting via Multiple Dirichlet Series
Brandon Alberts,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
Eastern Michigan University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
A Topological Quantum Computer, Inside a Gauge Theory, Inside a Quantum Computer
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Skin-inspired Electronic Polymer Design
Zhenan Bao,
K. K. Lee Professor, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering, of Chemistry, and of Bioengineering,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Wolff Memorial Lectures 3/3
The extreme off-diagonal Ramsey numbers: New progress on R(3,k)
Julian Sahasrabudhe,
Professor,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS),
University of Cambridge,
5:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
5:00pm
–
6:00pm
Add to Cal
Friday, May 29th, 2026
8:00am
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
8:00am
–
9:00am
Add to Cal
PhD Thesis Defense
Computational Design of Protein-Based Biosensors for Nicotine
Nick Friesenhahn,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Mayo Lab),
Caltech,
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A bootstrap framework for equilibrium, nonequilibrium, and disorder
Minjae Cho,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
Geometry and Topology Seminar (1/3)
The Utility of Tangle Decompositions
Allison H. Moore,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics,
Virginia Commonwealth University,
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Discrete Shell Methods for Stimuli-Responsive and Deployable Structures: Buckling, Bistability, and Topology Optimization
Sathvik Sanagala,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
1:30pm
–
2:30pm
Add to Cal
PhD Thesis Defense
Engineering Ultrasonic Reporters for Imaging Various Cellular Enzyme Activity
Jee Won Yang,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Shapiro Group),
Caltech,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
EE Devices Seminar
Closed-loop Bioelectronics: From Sensing to Therapy
Saransh Sharma,
Incoming Assistant Professor,
University of Cambridge, UK,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Seismo Lab Seminar
Jacky Austermann,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Columbia University,
5:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
9:30pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
Stargazing Lecture
Images of the Hidden Universe
Katie Bouman,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Departments of Electrical Engineering and Astronomy,
Caltech,
Saturday, May 30th, 2026
8:00am
–
Ongoing
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:30pm
Add to Cal