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Monday, April 6th, 2026
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Programming with Python

Online Event
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Probing Binaries and Black Holes with Microlensing
Natasha Abrams, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

"Meteorology Meets Mineralogy: Extreme Weather from Jupiter to Super-Jupiters"
Xi Zhang, Professor of Planetary Sciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California - Santa Cruz,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Toward a Science of Auditing AI-Mediated Information Ecosystems
Chara Podimata, Class of 1942 Career Development Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Statistics, MIT,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Flavor, Accidentally
Hannah Banks, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

A quantum many-body index for 2d chiral superconductors
Nikita A. Sopenko, Mathematical Physics, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Women in Chemistry Special Seminar: Prof. Jenny Yang

Integrated CO2 Capture and Electrocatalytic Conversion
Jenny Y. Yang, University of California, Irvine,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
10:30am 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Illuminating the Regulatory Dark Matter of E. coli with Massively Parallel Reporter Assays
Tom Röschinger, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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BBE Division Seminar - Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Are Biology and Computer Science the Same Discipline?
Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Chief Technology Officer, Technology & Society, Google,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Convergence Analysis of Deep Galerkin Methods for solving PDEs and Adjoint-optimized Neural-Network PDE Models
Justin Sirignano, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oxford,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Programming with Python

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  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Pushing Ab Initio Electron-Phonon Theory Beyond Perturbation: From Polaron Structure to Transport
Joonho Lee, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

From Compact to Fuzzy: The New Interior Paradigm for Jupiter, Saturn, and Giant Exoplanets
Ankan Sur, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Everettian chance in no uncertain terms
James Read, Associate Professor, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, Pembroke College, Oxford University,
4:15pm 5:15pm
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QCSA Speaker Event: Jason Alicea @ Caltech

Jason Alicea, Professor, Caltech,
  • Public Event
4:30pm 5:30pm
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Everhart Lecture Series: John Lathrop

John Lathrop, Fifth Year PhD Student, Department of Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
  • Public Event
Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours

Online Event
The Scale of Democracy: Managing the Fifth-Largest Voting Jurisdiction in the Country
Bob Page, Registrar of Voters (ROV) for Orange County, California,
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Spinspacetime: A New Chapter in Relativity
Joonhwi Kim, Caltech,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Programming with Python

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  • Internal Event
1:30pm 2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Nanoscale Spectroscopic Imaging of Carriers and Heat in Photocatalysts
Levi Palmer, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:15pm 4:15pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Network Source Coding in Scenarios with Uncertainty at the Decoder
Siming Sun, graduate student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Dirk Bergemann, Professor of Economics, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Atmospheric Gravity Waves: New Observations, High-Resolution Simulations, and Data-Informed Methods
Aditi Sheshadri, Assistant Professor of Earth System Science and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Engineering

Upcycling of Plastic Waste into Lubricants
Guoliang (Greg) Liu, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Macromolecules Innovation Institute, and Academy of Integrated Science-Nanoscience, Virginia Tech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Atomic-Scale Imaging of Interfacial Structure, Charge, and Phonon Dynamics
Xiaoqing Pan, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

Quantum thermodynamics on superconducting circuits: bolometry and thermalization
Jukka Pekola, Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Helsinki, FI,
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Thursday, April 9th, 2026
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
11:00am 4:01pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Safety Filters for Autonomous Systems: When They Misbehave and How to Fix Them
Pol Mestres, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar

Applications of Acetal Radicals in Organic Synthesis
Daniel Kim, Assistant Professor, College of Science and Technology, Temple University,
  • Internal Event
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Programming with Python

Online Event
  • Internal Event
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar

The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs at the EDGE of galaxy formation
Ethan Taylor, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Surrey, UK,
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Short RNA chaperones promote aggregation-resistant TDP-43 conformers to mitigate neurodegeneration
James Shorter, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History & Visual Culture Seminar

Pictures from the Arctic: The Colonized Draw Back
Valerie A. Kivelson, Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan,
4:00pm 7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Ron Peled, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland,
Shalin Parekh, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maine,
Rahul Rajkumar, PhD Candidate, Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Michael Levin

Online Event
Bioelectric signaling network underlie cellular collective behavior in embryogenesis, regeneration, and cancer
Professor Michael Levin, Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University and Director of the Allen Discovery Center,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Higher theta series for reductive dual pairs and anomaly
Avi Zeff, Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Intelligence
Robert Huang, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics, PMA, Caltech,
Friday, April 10th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Kelian Häring, University of Amsterdam,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Topic to be announced
Yizhou Zhang, Graduate Student, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
A unified approach to the self force problem
Ira Rothstein, Carnegie Mellon University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Processing massive classical data on small quantum computers
Haimeng Zhao, Huang and Preskill groups,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Synergizing microscopy, computation, and artificial intelligence to advance biomedical research
Haowen Zhou, Graduate student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Trapping in Strong Gravity: From Black Hole Images to Gravitational Turbulence
Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño, Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Wake Forest University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Unravelling hydrogen-material interactions: a challenge across scales and disciplines
Emilio Martinez Paneda, Associate Professor, Engineering Science, Oxford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

LLM Applications in Seismology
Mostafa Mousavi, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University,
Saturday, April 11th, 2026
Monday, April 13th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

Hongfeng Yang, Professor, Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Director, Aerospace Science and Earth Informatics + X Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Claudio Manzari, Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

TBA
Shivaji Sondhi, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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BBE Division Seminar - Itai Yanai

Can a cell learn? A mechanism for adaptive genome regulation
Itai Yanai, Scientific Director, Applied Bioinformatics Laboratories, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University - Langone Health,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Non-Hermitian skin effect in resonator systems
Silvio Barandun, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,