Institute Calendar
Week of January 4, 2026
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Monday, January 5th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Deciphering Evidence of Extant and Extinct Cellular Preservation in Evaporites
Scott Perl,
Research Scientist,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Analyticity of the black hole S-matrix
Anna Wolz,
UCLA,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
New Frontiers in Exoplanet Imaging and Pathways to Habitable Worlds
Jason Wang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Northwestern,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Basal melt rates in the Ice Grounding Zones (IGZ)
Ratnakar Gadi,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Thursday, January 8th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Characterizing and Utilizing Terrain Responses for Robot-aided Earth and Planetary Explorations
Feifei Qian,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar
"Evolution of cooperation" and "Targeting tail anchored proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum in embryophytes"
Lior Pachter,
Bren Professor of Computational Biology and Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
BBE,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, January 9th, 2026
9:00am
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10:00am
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Medical Engineering Defense, Xin Tong
Advanced Imaging with Sound and Light: Photoacoustic Tomography and Quantum Microscopy
Xin Tong,
MedE/EE PhD Candidate,
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering,
Caltech (Advised by Professor Lihong Wang-COIL Lab),
- Internal Event
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Constraints on Long-Range Forces in De Sitter Space
Kurt Hinterbichler,
Case Western Reserve University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Limitations of Noisy Geometrically Local Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar,
University of Maryland,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
Emergent Functionality Through 3D Architected Electronic Materials
Xiaoyu Zheng,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
The 2020-2021 Alaska Peninsula Earthquake Sequence and Megathrust Earthquake Cycle
Jeffrey Freymueller,
Endowed Chair for Geology of the Solid Earth, Department Chair,
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Michigan State University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 10th, 2026
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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