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Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
9:00am 10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Utilizing Mass Transport To Enhance CO2 Conversion to Multi-Carbon Products
Matthew Salazar, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Agapie Lab), Caltech,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours

Online Event
Bridging the Gap: Supporting Election Stakeholders at the Intersection of Administration, Technology, and Security
Mike Moser, Founder of Moser Solutions LLC,
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Physics at a high energy plasma wakefield collider
Simon Knapen, LBNL, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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EE & MedE Distinguished Speaker Seminar, Richard J. Cote

Beyond Seeing: AI and the Digital Pathology Revolution
Richard J. Cote, MD, FRCPath, FCAP, The Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor and the immediate past Chair of the Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Manifold classification from a descriptive viewpoint
Jeffrey Bergfalk, Ph.D. Candidate, Mathematics, University of Barcelona,
12:30pm 1:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Excitability in quantum field theory
Jackie Caminiti, Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe: from Luminous Quasars to the Little Red Dots
Xiaohui Fan, Regents Professor of Astronomy, Astronomer, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
Thursday, February 26th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

"Hydrogel Encapsulation of Sentinel Cells for Noninvasive Ultrasound Imaging of Inflammation"
Elizabeth (Liz) Hughes, Graduate Student, Shapiro Group,
2:30pm 3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra & Geometry Seminar (1/2)

SYZ mirror symmetry for non-Fano Hirzebruch surfaces
Honghao Jing, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Harvard University,
3:30pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Autonomous learning and design of proteins
Philip Romero, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

ZAK activation at the colliding ribosome
Rachel Green, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra & Geometry Seminar (2/2)

TBD
Alekos Robotis, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Ordinary primes for GL_2 type abelian varieties
Tian Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mathematics, Concordia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Theodore Y. Wu and Chin-Hua Wu Lecture

How to Improve the Performance of an Airtanker Drop
Dominique Legendre, Professor, Fluid Mechanics, Toulouse INP, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse,
Friday, February 27th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
New insights into holographic entropy inequalities
Veronika Hubeny, UC Davis,
11:00am 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Structural characterization of a filament-forming prokaryotic Argonaute protein
Katelyn Radford, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Towards sample-optimal learning of bosonic Gaussian quantum states
Senrui Chen, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill group,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Behcet Acikmese, Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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3:45pm 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

A Synthetic Iron Model of Carbon–Sulfur Bond Activation by the Nitrogenase-family Enzyme Methylthio-alkane Reductase
Derek R. Kuno-Williams,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Determining the c-value in the modified Omori's law for early aftershock decay following moderate-size earthquakes at interplate and intraplate regions
Zhigang Peng, Professor of Geophysics, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology,
8:00pm 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Revealing the Primordial Universe Through Its Oldest Light
W. L. Kimmy Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, February 28th, 2026
Sunday, March 1st, 2026
Monday, March 2nd, 2026
3:45pm 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

The Photophysics and Photochemistry of First-row Transition Metal Complexes: Quantum Coherence, the Marcus Inverted Region, and Applications in Excited-state Chemistry
James K. McCusker, Joseph Zichis Endowed Chair and MSU Research Foundation Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Luminous Black Hole Accretion: How Radiation and Magnetic Fields Regulate Accretion Flows/INFUSE II - science and upgrades for the second launch of the far ultraviolet integral field spectrograph
Lizhong Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study and the Center for Computational Astrophysics,
Alex Haughton, PhD candidate, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

"Reconciling cyanosulfidic chemistry with geochemical constraints"
John Sutherland, Group Leader, Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Stable and Unstable Objects in the PDE Analysis of the Navier-Stokes Equations
Vladimir Sverak, Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Light Boson Dark Matter & Nonlinear Plasma Dynamics
Junwu Huang, Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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QCSA Speaker Event: Dolev Bluvstein @ Caltech

Dolev Bluvstein, Professor, Caltech,
  • Public Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Solvable models of quantum annealing
Nikolai Sinitsyn, Nikolai Sinitsyn, CNLS Postdoctoral Research Associate, CNLS, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
9:00am 11:30am
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Version Control with Git

Online Event
  • Internal Event
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Sohini Ramachandran

Variations on a theme of structure: leveraging recent relatedness and mixed-membership clustering to gain insights from high-dimensional genomics datasets
Sohini Ramachandran, Professor, Biology and Data Science, Brown University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Scalable Arrays From Millimeter-Wave Sensing to Microwave Wireless Power Transfer
Alex Ayling, Graduate student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

A Ground Motion-based Approach to Earthquake Warning, Forecasting, and Statistics
Timothy Clements, Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Doubly Robust Inference in Causal Latent Factor Models
Alberto Abadie, Professor of Economics, MIT,
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Neural Networks and Liouville Field Theory
Christian Ferko, Northeastern University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Dwarf Galaxies at the Dawn of the Rubin Era
Josh Simon, Staff Scientist, Carnegie Science,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Tropical Weather: A New 30' STEAM Film, Liquid Sunshine
Brian Mapes, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Aberrant glycosylation patterns in hyperglycemic diseases: tools and targets
Charlie Fehl, Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter/Materials Science Research Lecture

Nonlocal photogalvanic spectroscopy as a probe of complex matter: topological light meets topological materials
Ritesh Agarwal, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,
Thursday, March 5th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Intelligent Learning Strategies for Thermal Science in the AI Era
Yoonjin Won, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCI Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine,
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