Institute Calendar
Week of January 25, 2026
Sunday, January 25th, 2026
All Day
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11:00am
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9:00pm
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Monday, January 26th, 2026
10:00am
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11:30am
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Special Seminar
Exploring the wave nature of life across scales: from active matter to ecology
Prof. Thomas Shimizu,
AMOLF & VU Amsterdam,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis PhD Seminar
The Total Synthesis of (+)-Ineleganolide, the Lycojapomine Alkaloids, and a New Strategy for Radical Deoxygenation
Benjamin Gross,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
From Heterogeneous to Homogeneous: Molecular Mimicry for Understanding and Advancing Small Molecule Activation."
Seung Jun Hwang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Pohang University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
HOW TO REVERSE-ENGINEER THE 3D LANDSCAPE OF FIELD-SCALE FLUVIAL CATCHMENTS FROM 2D PIXEL-BASED NETWORKS
Gary Parker,
Professor Emeritus,
Department of Earth Science and Environmental Change, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Resilient Autonomy: Perception and Planning for Dynamic, Unknown Environments
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar (1/2)
Closed-strings mirror symmetry for semiprojective toric manifolds
Filip Zivanovic,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
SUNY Stonybrook,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar (2/2)
The Last Kervaire Invariant Problem
Zhouli Xu,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar - Paul Campbell
"Investigator-Initiated Funding Opportunities for the American Cancer Society Extramural Discovery Science Piller"
Paul Campbell,
Scientific Director,
Cell Biology and Preclinical Cancer Research,
American Cancer Society,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Graduate Student Seminar
A new bound for the critical point of the FK model for q<1
Tejas Oke,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Composition Gradients and Convective Layers in Coffees and Giant Planets
J. Rafael Fuentes,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Extreme Equilibria: The Benefits of Correlation
Leeat Yariv,
Uwe E. Reinhardt Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Princeton University,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours
Online Event
Beyond the Hype: A Research Driven Look at Claims About New Voting Technology
Michael Specter,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Cybersecurity & Privacy,
Georgia Tech,
Delaney Gomen,
PhD Student in Computer Science,
Georgia Tech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Particle-Soliton Degeneracy in 2D QCD from Spontaneously Broken Non-invertible Symmetry
Diego Garcia Sepulveda,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Seeing and Shaping Quantum Matter at the Atomic Scale
Jane Park,
PhD Candidate,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:50pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Hyperfinite partial orders
Patrick Lutz,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Galaxy Evolution in the Resolved Universe
Daniel Weisz,
Associate Professor of Astronomy; Head Graduate Advisor,
Astronomy Department,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A World Tour of Nitrite: Revealing the Ocean's Invisible Chemistry
Mariana Bif,
Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science,
University of Miami,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech Longevity Club Speaker Series
Remember the Future' Strategies for a Meaningful Life in Medicine
Jordan Shlain,
Founder and CEO of Private Medical,
Thursday, January 29th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Homogenizing Origami and Kirigami Metamaterials
Paul Plucinsky,
Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Most regular graphs are Ramanujan
Theo McKenzie,
Stanford Science Fellow,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geoclub Seminar Series
Insights into catalysts of environmental methane oxidation across landscapes
John Magyar,
Research Scientist in Geobiology,
Geological and Planetary Science,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions & Visual Culture Program Seminar
From Text to Media
Anna Shechtman,
Assistant Professor of Literatures in English,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Rachel Rosen,
Associate Professor of Quantum Field Theory and Gravity,
Department of Physics,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Friday, January 30th, 2026
9:00am
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Ongoing
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement oscillations and many-body quantum scars
Nicholas O'Dea,
Princeton,
1:15pm
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2:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar - POSTPONED
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Null Ray: Localized gauge invariant observables and covariant quantization
Laurent Freidel,
Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
The Separation Aerodynamics of Idealized Fragmenting Meteoroids
Stuart Laurence,
Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Maryland, College Park,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar
Smoothly knotted surfaces in small closed 4-manifolds
Dave Auckly,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Kansas State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Earthquake-Cycle Modality Revealed by Paleoseismic Inter-Event Time Distributions
Michael Oskin,
Professor of Geology,
University of California, Davis,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, January 31st, 2026
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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