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Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Engineering

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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Quantum Matter Seminar

Quantum thermodynamics on superconducting circuits: bolometry and thermalization
Jukka Pekola, Finnish professor of experimental nanophysics, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland,
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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,
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 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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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
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,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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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

Emilio Martinez Paneda, Associate Professor, Engineering Science, Oxford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

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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Biology 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

TBA
Silvio Barandun, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Maciek Kolanowski, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm 1:15pm
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Techer Live

Online Event
Einstein: Beyond the Myth
Diana Kormos-Buchwald, Robert M. Abbey Professor of History; Director and General Editor, The Einstein Papers Project,
Patt Morrison, LA Times columnist, author,
  • Public Event
2:00pm 3:30pm
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You and Your Thesis

Online Event
  • Internal Event
3:30pm 4:30pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Axial vector form factors and the scalar charge of nucleons from lattice QCD
Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Predicting Chemical Reactivity?
Franziska Schoenebeck​, Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Institute of Organic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Learning from an Unknown DGP: Experimental Evidence on Belief Updating with AI Recommendations
Daniel Martin, Associate Professor of Economics and Wilcox Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Economics, UC Santa Barbara,
Thursday, April 16th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Recent Progress on Liquid Jet Atomization
Stéphane Zaleski, Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Sorbonne Université,
12:00pm 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

"Sidewinder: new realm of freedom to write any DNA" and "Structural evolution of the MTCH family of mitochondrial insertases"
Kaihang Wang, Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, BBE, Caltech,
Camryn Lee, Research Technician, BBE, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Diffusiophoresis-enhanced instabilities
Ankur Gupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Daniel Podolsky, Condensed Matter & Materials Physics, Technion,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Moral Regulation and Cultural Production: Evidence from Hollywood
Ruixue Jia, Professor of Economics, UC San Diego,
Friday, April 17th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Ji Hoon Lee, ETH-Zurich,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Crystallization, Convection, and Magnetism in White Dwarf Stars
Matias Castro-Tapia, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, McGill University,
Saturday, April 18th, 2026
Sunday, April 19th, 2026
Monday, April 20th, 2026
10:30am 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Synthesis of Stereoenriched Polycyclic Scaffolds via Pd Enolates and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Hypermoin A
Ruby Chen, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Pablo Quilez, CERN,
Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Junhyong Kim

Junhyong Kim, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Biology Co-Director, Penn Program in Single Cell Biology Secondary Professor, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania,