Institute Calendar
Week of October 5, 2025
Monday, October 6th, 2025
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RSI Research Seminar
Understanding the Networked Dynamics of technology adoption: Application to Pollution-Reducing cookstoves in Nepal
Juni Singh,
Visiting Associate in Social Sciences of Sustainability,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Deep subduction zone deformation: what exhumed rocks reveal about the slow slip and tremor source region
Whitney Behr,
Full Professor at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Deputy head of Dep. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Deputy head of Geological Institute,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
ETH Zurich,
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Final Results from the Muon $g-2$ Experiment at Fermilab
James Labounty,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Lu Wei,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
- Internal Event
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
9:00am
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3:00pm
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9:00am
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Analytical and computational methods for metamaterials
Jinghao Cao,
von Karman Instructor in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Bridging Quantum and Classical: an Efficient Framework for Capturing Zero-Point Effects in Hydrogen-Rlated Chemistry
Yang Yang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin- Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Thermodynamics of Rocks in Massive Planets
Junjie "JJ" Dong,
3CPE Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Covariance-Modulated Optimal Transport and Gradient Flows
Franca Hoffmann,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering: Trailblazer Seminar
"Bridging Air and Sea: Physics-Inspired Models for Wind-Wave Interactions"
Manuel Ayala,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Bottom-up de Sitter holography
David Kolchmeyer,
Institute for Advanced Study,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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EE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Intelligent Decision-Making: Towards Higher Efficiency and Broader Applicability
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
From Rocks to Ruptures: Multi-Scale Insights into Strike-Slip Faults
Sezim Guvercin,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Aerospace Department - EAS Trailblazers Seminar
Understanding Thermo-Chemo-Mechanical Failure in Hypersonic Flight through Large-Scale Simulation
Daniel Pickard,
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Multidimensional Physics of Stars & other Astrophysical Bodies
Daniel Lecoanet,
Assistant Professor,
CIERA,
Northwestern University,
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMS Trailblazer Symposium - Qianying Cao
Research Seminar Characterization and Inverse Design of Stochastic Mechanical Metamaterials Using Neural Operators
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ESE Trailblazer Symposium
Sensitivity of the ocean circulation to the rate of atmospheric CO2 increase
Camille Hankel,
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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MedE : EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Systems Immunoengineering of Living Therapeutics for Solid Tumors: From Biomanufacturing to Tumor Microenvironment Adaptation
Yapeng Su,
Ph.D.,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Roberts Lecture
Transient Strained Intermediates 70+ Years Later: Cyclic Allenes, Anti-Bredt Olefins, and More
Neil K. Garg,
Distinguished Kenneth N. Trueblood Professor & Vice Chair,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Talking across the Aisle
Peter Schwardmann,
Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Director of Undergraduate Studies,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"The "Underestimated" Unseen in Digital Image Correlation: Digital Twin in Material Identification, Full-Field Model Validation and Fracture Mechanics"
Pascal Lava,
Managing Director,
MatchID,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Could modern CMOS ICs provide a platform for quantum sensors, computers and simulators?
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Tuning extracellular metabolite transport: phenazine lipophilicity changes with functionalization and redox state"
Korbinian O. Thalhammer,
Graduate Student,
Newman group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Revisiting the updip and downdip extents of the seismogenic zone of subduction megathrusts
Kelin Wang,
Adjunct Professor,
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria,
Senior Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Arithmetic aspects of Hecke traces
Liubomir Chiriac,
Associate Professor,
Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
Portland State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Markita Landry,
Associate Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Biology,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 10th, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Horizon Edge Modes in Λ > 0 Quantum Gravity
Albert Law,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Prethermal dynamical regimes and resonant melting in quenched quantum matter
Alexey Khudorozhkov,
Boston University,
1:00pm
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5:30pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Energy Operators in Particle Physics, QFT, and Gravity
Ian Moult,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The fluid-structure interaction of nanoparticles
John Sader,
Research Professor,
Aerospace & Applied Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:45pm
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5:15pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Understanding Ir(III) Photosensitizer Structure-Activity Relationships with High-Throughput Experimentation."
Stephen DiLuzio,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Hadt Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Understanding subduction zone earthquake cycles in a viscoelastic Earth
Kelin Wang,
Adjunct Professor,
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria,
Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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Saturday, October 11th, 2025
10:00am
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2:00pm
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