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Week of October 4, 2026

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Sunday, October 4th, 2026
Monday, October 5th, 2026
1:30pm – 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 – 5:00pm
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Cancelled: Dr. Marshall Brennan, "Device" journal

Dr. Marshall Brennan, Editor in Chief, Device,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

The Role of Academia in Lithium and Critical Mineral Exploration
Thomas Benson, Chief Executive Officer, Lithium Africa Corporation,
4:00pm – 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
Thomas Hou, Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech,
Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
12:00pm – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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,
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
10:00am – 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 – 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 – 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,
1:30pm – 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 – 3:00pm
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MedE : EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar

Biointegrated electronics for disease monitoring and intervention
3:00pm – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Rewriting Protein Modifications with Molecular Glues
Christina Woo, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,
Thursday, October 8th, 2026
12:00pm – 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 – 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,
2:30pm – 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,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra, Geometry, & Number Theory Seminar

A Proof of Sylvester's Conjecture
Ashay Burungale, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 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 – 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,
Friday, October 9th, 2026
11:00am – 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 – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Quantum Gibbs sampling by classical decoding
Alexander Schmidhuber, MIT,