Institute Calendar
March 2026
Thursday, March 19th, 2026
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Applied Physics Seminar Series
Why do the refractive indexes of different materials differ so little and are also so difficult to change?
Jacob B Khurgin,
Professor and Cynology Expert,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
A First Principles Understanding of how Sonochemistry Orchestrates Chemical Synthesis with Analogies to Atmospheric Chemistry
Tej Choksi,
Professor,
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering,
Nanyang Technological University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
A New Diophantine Approximation and Degeneracy of Integral Points
Zheng Xiao,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Colorado Boulder,
Friday, March 20th, 2026
8:30am
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4:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Local Control in a Sr quantum computing demonstrator
Kevin Mours,
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Asymptotically geodesic hypersurfaces and the fundamental groups of hyperbolic manifolds
Hans Han,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences (SIMIS),
4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Ion Transport and Rheological Behavior in Polymeric Systems
Alexandros Tsamopoulos,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Wang Lab),
Caltech,
Monday, March 23rd, 2026
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A Light in the Dark: Unveiling Delayed Star Formation Histories Within Cosmic Voids
Olivia Curtis,
Postdoc,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
From Fabrication to System-Level Validation: Approaches toward High-Quality Superconducting Qubits
Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
10:30am
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Can Local Data Reveal Global Fluid Dynamics?
Ali Pakzad,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Bahounar University of Kerman,
12:00pm
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2:30pm
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
11:00am
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Election Science Office Hours
Online Event
Modernizing California Elections: Insights from Marin County Registrar of Voters Natalie Adona
Natalie Adona,
Registrar of Voters (ROV) for Marin County, California,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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POSTPONED: Watson Lecture - Katie Bouman: Illuminating the Hidden Universe with Physics and AI
Katie Bouman,
associate professor of computing and mathematical sciences, electrical engineering and astronomy; Rosenberg Scholar; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
- Public Event
Thursday, March 26th, 2026
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POSTPONED: EE Devices Seminar- Ady Arie, Tel-Aviv University
Application of structured quantum light in sensing, communication and computing
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Is Ultra Low Low Enough? Nucleation, Volatility and the Tug of War Between Vapor Pressure and Oxidation Chemistry
Neil Donahue,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Friday, March 27th, 2026
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Constant depth pseudoentanglement---How trivial states can have non-trivial entanglement structure
Alexandru Gheorghiu,
IBM,
2:30pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Multi-messenger impact seismology on Mars and the Moon
Philippe Lognonné,
Professor,
Paris Institute of Earth Physics (IPGP),
7:00pm
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11:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Space Exploration and Discovery: From the Deserts of Egypt to Saturn's Moon Titan
- Public Event
Saturday, March 28th, 2026
9:00am
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Sunday, March 29th, 2026
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Monday, March 30th, 2026
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Visual Culture Program Event
Environmental Feeling and Environmental Fact: The Case of the Monterey Shore
Margaret Cohen,
Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization, and Professor of English, and by courtesy, of French and Italian and of Comparative Literature,
Stanford University,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Engineering Interfacial Microenvironments: Electrocatalysis for Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing and PFAS Destruction
Astrid Mueller,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dark Matter NMR and its sensitivity to extra couplings
Carl Beadle,
University of Toronto,
Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
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11:00am
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Biology Seminar - Erica Larschan
X marks the spot: Identification of the X-chromosome for coordinated gene regulation
Erica Larschan,
Associate Prof. of Biology Brown University,
Department of Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry Director,
Brown University,
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Negative Ions: From Multiplexed Coincidence Spectroscopy to Hypervelocity Ice Grain Impacts
Robert Continetti,
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Senior Associate Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
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