Institute Calendar
April 2026
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Relational Perspectives in Quantum Gravity: Quantum Reference Frames and the Observer Dependence of Entropy
Anne-Catherine de la Hamette,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Building a new era of atom-by-atom materials characterization with electron ptychography
Pinshane Y. Huang,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Tectonic pump closes the evolutionary loop for long-buried subseafloor microbes
Zhengze Li,
Ph.D. Student,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Heuristics of Plant Water-Use and the Problem of Scale
Emma Reich,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
(Spatially) resolved clues about giant planets with JWST and friends
Laurent Pueyo,
Associate Astronomer,
Space Telescope Science Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Engineering
Understanding (and controlling) electrified interfaces for energy and health
Yuzhang Li,
Associate Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Revealed Convex Preference
Rui Tang,
Assistant Professor in Economics,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST),
Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
11:00am
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3:49pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Data-Driven Modeling of Turbulent Flows: Nonlinear Modal Dynamics and Transient Forecasting
Oliver Schmidt,
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Transcriptional Regulation of Zebrafish Enteric Nervous System Development
Yuanyun (Rose) Huang,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Transcription and RNA quality control in health and disease
Karen Adelman,
Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Synthetic Biology for Human Health: RNA Sensors, Protein Circuits, and Machine-Guided Humanization
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Simulation of the Unknown: Observation of Pseudogap Physics in the Fermi–Hubbard Model at Ultralow Temperatures
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Religion and Conflict: Evidence from China, 1860-1911
Felipe Valencia Caicedo,
Dean's Assistant Professor of Political Economy & Economics,
Brown University,
Friday, April 3rd, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Hao Chen,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Finite Time Bounds for Robust Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation
Yashaswini Murthy,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
From Fractionalization to Superconductivity in Flat Chern Bands — And What AI Enables Next
Ahmed Abouelkomsan,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
When waves are important, what is the best constitutive law for impact mitigation and how can we realize it?
Nicholas Boechler,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar 2/2
Classification of ancient cylindrical mean curvature flows and the Mean Convex Neighborhood Conjecture
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Chris Totoiu,
Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Dynamics of orogeny and continental lithosphere
Thorsten Becker,
Professor; Distinguished Chair in Geophysics,
Jackson School of Geosciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin),
Monday, April 6th, 2026
9:00am
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4/24
5:00pm
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3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Women in Chemistry Special Seminar: Prof. Jenny Yang
Jenny Y. Yang,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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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
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
10:30am
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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
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1:00pm
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Biology 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
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1:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Pushing Ab Initio Electron-Phonon Theory Beyond Perturbation: From Polaron Structure to Transport
Jooonho Lee,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Topic to be announced
James Read,
Associate Professor, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy,
Pembroke College,
Oxford University,
Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Spinspacetime: A New Chapter in Relativity
Joonhwi Kim,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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12:50pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Nanoscale Spectroscopic Imaging of Carriers and Heat in Photocatalysts
Levi Palmer,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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4:00pm
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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
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
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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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4:15pm
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5:30pm
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Dedication Ceremony for the Lynn Booth and Kent Kresa Department of Aerospace
Olive Walk
- Internal Event
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, April 9th, 2026
All Day
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11:00am
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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
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Applications of Acetal Radicals in Organic Synthesis
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
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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
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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
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5:00pm
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Friday, April 10th, 2026
8:00am
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4/11
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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