Institute Calendar
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:30am
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2:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Generative Modeling of Earthquake Ground Motion
Yaozhong Shi,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours
Online Event
Science, Trust, and the June 2nd Primary: A Deep Dive into Election Transparency and Reform
Thad Kousser,
Professor of Political Science,
UC San Diego,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Diffeomorphism invariant tensor networks for 3d gravity
Charlie Cummings,
University of Pennsylvania,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
The Total Synthesis of Aleutianamine, (–)-Crotonolide D, and (–)-Crotonine G
Hao Yu,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Stoltz Group),
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Coseismic fault-zone depressurization and postseismic evolution revealed from very-near-fault observation
Ruei-Jiun Hung,
Postdoc,
University of Kentucky,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Electrochemical Carboxylation of Aldehydes with CO2: Mechanistic Insights and Enantioselective Synthesis
Thu Ton,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Manthiram Group),
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Deep Stochastic Control for Regime-dependent Utility Maximization Problems
Harshkooshal Gandhi,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Rubin's LSST: the greatest movie of all time is about to begin!
Zeljko Ivezic,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Antarctic Sea Ice: Structural Change, Future Projections and Uncertainties
Marilyn Raphael,
Department of Geography and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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POSTPONED: Watson Lecture - Kirby Nielsen
Kirby Nielsen,
professor of economics; William H. Hurt Scholar,