Institute Calendar
Week of October 4, 2026
Sunday, October 4th, 2026
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 5th, 2026
12:11pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Alternative AdS Boundary Conditions and Their Implications
Xinkang Wang,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Role of Academia in Lithium and Critical Mineral Exploration
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Singularity Formation in 3D Euler and Nonuniqueness in Unforced 3D Navier–Stokes: Computer-Assisted Proofs
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Risk Aversion Reversals
Binyamin (Ben) Wincelberg,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Seismo Lab Seminar
Non-diffusive behaviors of Earth's lithosphere
Dr. Lijun Liu,
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Information-Theoretic Limits of Zero-Delay Communication and Control: Operational Bounds and Single-Letter Characterizations
Eray Atay,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Coupled astrophysical and geochemical models of terrestrial planet formation as probes of early Solar System evolution"
Gabriel Nathans,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Stable Homotopy Theory and Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories
Mayuko Yamashita,
Professor of Mathematical Physics,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering: Trailblazer Seminar
Autonomous Robotic Endovascular Navigation via Imitation Learning
Noah Barnes,
PhD Candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute 15th Anniversary Seminar Series
The Politics of Attention
Pietro Ortoleva,
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
The Science of Storytelling: A simple formula for high-impact science
Dr. Chad A. Greene,
Glaciologist and Remote Sensing Scientist,
Sea Level and Ice Group,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Global monopoles and Goldstone EFT
Pablo Quilez,
CERN,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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MedE : EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Biointegrated electronics for disease monitoring and intervention
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Trailblazers Seminar
Designing imaging systems to maximize information capture
Leyla Kabuli, PhD Candidate,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley advised by Professor Laura Waller,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Aerospace: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
A Study of Hypersonic Shockwave/Boundary-Layer Interaction Dynamics Using High-Temperature Plasma Discharges
Emma Nicotra,
Zonta International Ameila Earhart Fellow and Graduate Student,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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APhMS: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Hybridization and Electromechanics at Atomically Thin Interfaces
Sathvik Ajay Iyengar,
Schmidt Science Fellow, EECS Department at UC Berkeley and Bakar Innovation Fellow,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMS : EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Building AI for better societal outcomes
Myra Cheng,
PhD Candidate, Knight-Hennessy Scholar; NSF Graduate Research Fellow,
Computer Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EAS Trailblazers/Applied Physics and Materials Science Research Lecture
Hybridization and Electromechanics at Atomically Thin Interfaces
Sathvik Ajay Iyengar,
Schmidt Science Fellow,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ESE: EAS Trailblazers Seminar
Understanding Atmospheric Composition Using Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Observations
Laura H. Yang,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering,
Washington University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 8th, 2026
11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Selective Lipidome Editing through Structure-Directed Metabolic Routing"
Binyou Wang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Morstein Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
We Have Your Back? Discretion in Police Discipline and Peer Effects on Officer Misconduct
Paulo Cesar Matos Trifu,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Reshaping Metrology with Quantum Information Processing
Sisi Zhou,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar - James Shorter (UPenn)
Short RNA chaperones promote aggregation-resistant TDP-43 conformers to mitigate neurodegeneration
James Shorter,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Biology, Perelman School of Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
"The Zircon Record of Magma Redox Evolution Across the Great Oxidation Event"
Shane Houchin,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, October 9th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The String Landscape, precisely
Jakob Moritz,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Gibbs sampling by classical decoding
Alexander Schmidhuber,
MIT,