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Monday, September 28th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Sunil Simha, Postdoc, Northwestern + UChicago,
Jared Siegel, Graduate student, Princeton,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

"Constant Stress Experiments Reveal the Mechanics of Creep and Earthquakes"
Greg Hirth, Vice President for Research, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science, Brown University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Relax, it's stable! Superconductivity and kinetics of electron-phonon systems at strong coupling
Noga Bashan, Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar - Israel Fernández

CRISPR, transposons and the role of RNAs as genomic targeting agents
Israel Fernández, Ikerbasque Research Professor, Biofisika Institute (CSIC, EHU),
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Black Holes" and "Galaxy Simulations"
Elias Kammoun, Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Nicole Sanchez, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Confusion Caused by Artificial Intelligence: From the View of Philosophy of Science
Paul Song, Professor of Physics and Director of the Space Science Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowel,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech AI Colloquium

Eric Mazumdar, Assistant Professor, Computing + Mathematical Sciences and Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Lessons from the Third Interstellar Object and Preparing for the Fourth"
Matthew Belyakov, Postdoctoral Researcher, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar, Prof. Ed Wu

Ultra-low-field MRI for Accessible Healthcare: A Future Driven by Computing?
Professor Ed X. Wu, PhD, Lam Woo and Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Seismolab Seminar: Greg Hirth (Brown University)

Rheology of the Interface between the Mantle Wedge and the Subducting Slab
Prof. Greg Hirth, Vice President for Research, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Political Multipliers and Rapid Reversals: Understanding the Secularization of Canada
Benjamin Tremblay-Auger, Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics and Society, Chapman University,
Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Observation of pairing in a Pfaffian quantum Hall state of ultracold bosons
Perrin Segura, Harvard,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

Influence of Bulk Composition and Lava Flows on the Long-Term Evolution of Venus
Diogo Lourenço, Lecturer at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, ETH Zürich,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DNA Storage and Computation Seminar

Storing Data in DNA: Are We There Yet?
Eitan Yaakobi, Professor, Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Do High Arctic Lakes Stratify in the Summer?
Jamie McFarlin, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Simple-Looking but Non-Obvious Transformations for Late-Stage Modification
Guangbin Dong, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,
Thursday, October 1st, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Building the Tools for a New Generation of Intelligent Ionic Materials
Max Tepermeister, Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

"How productive was the early biosphere?" and "Modeling embryonic quality control: how stem cell-based embryo models reveal lineage-specific selection against chromosomally abnormal cells"
Laura Amaya Hernandez, Postdoctoral Scientist, BBE, Caltech,
Woodward Fischer, Professor of Geobiology, GPS, Caltech,
12:05pm – 1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar

Toward a Consensus Picture of Baryon Feedback: Joint X-ray, Sunyaev-Zeldovich, and Weak Lensing Measurements
Jared Siegel, Graduate Student, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra Geometry & Number Theory Seminar

Motivic Theta Lifting and Beilinson's Conjectures
Linli Shi, Postdoctoral Researcher, Mathematics, ETH Zurich,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Engineering

Learning physical dynamics with generative machine learning
Aditi Krishnapriyan, Bruce & Susan Stangeland Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Error-corrected quantum processing with neutral atoms
Dolev Bluvstein, CEO at Oratomic, Visiting associate in physics at Caltech,
Friday, October 2nd, 2026
8:30am – 2:00pm
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BOND Colloquium "Careers in Academia: Beyond the R1"

Prof. Kenneth Childers, Cal State Fullerton,
Prof. Raul Navarro, Occidental College,
Prof. Khuloud Sweimeh, Pasadena City College,
Dr. Mike Vicic, Caltech CCE,
Kala Youngblood, USC East College Prep,
Dr. Jasmine Bryant, Caltech CTLO,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
From Closed to Ajar: Effective Actions and Symmetry Breaking in Non-Equilibrium Many-Body Systems
Riccardo Penco, Carnegie Mellon University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Signatures of Black Hole Spin and Plasma Acceleration in Jet Polarimetry
Zachary Gelles, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Princeton University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (1/2)

Flexible Exponent of 3-Manifolds
Shicheng Wang, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Peking University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium

Unraveling interactions between extreme-scale wind power systems and stratified, turbulent environmental flows
Michael F. Howland, Jeffrey Cheah Career Development Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:10pm – 5:10pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (2/2)

Shortest Filling Geodesics on Hyperbolic Surfaces
Zhongzi Wang, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University,
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
Xingkang Wang, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dr. Marshall Brennan, "Device" journal

Publishing Applied Technology Research at Cell Press
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,
Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar

Topic to be announced
Binyamin (Ben) Wincelberg, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
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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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 – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute 15th Anniversary Seminar Series

Topic to be announced
Pietro Ortoleva, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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MedE : EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar

Biointegrated electronics for disease monitoring and intervention