Institute Calendar
May 2026
Friday, May 8th, 2026
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PhD Thesis Defense
Efficient Synthetic Transformations Enabled by Group X Catalysis
Kimberly Sharp,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Stoltz Group),
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Modular flow in a large holographic code
Xi Dong,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fault-Tolerant Computation with Rotated 4D Toric Codes
Dave Aasen,
Microsoft Station Q,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Two complementary approaches to gravitational-wave data analysis
Chiara Anselmo,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
University of Milano-Bicocca (TAPIR VSR - 4/13/26-7/13/26),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium
Christoph Brehm,
Associate Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Constraints on mantle convection from a massive seismic dataset
Jonathan Wolf,
Miller Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, May 9th, 2026
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, May 11th, 2026
9:00am
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9:01am
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12:15pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Probing Polaron Design Principles in Iron Oxides with Transient Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy.
Jocelyn Mendes,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Cushing Group),
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Good Vibrations Only: Vibrational Imaging of Subcellular Metabolism in Health & Disease
Rahuljeet (RJ) Chadha,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Wei Group),
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Controlling Electrocatalytic Outcomes via Speciation, Second Coordination Spheres, and Interfacial Design
Eva Nichols,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Dunes and the changing landscape of Earth and other planets"
Mackenzie Day,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences,
University of California - Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Noble Dark Baryons and Dark Mesons Stopped in Their Tracks
Austin Batz,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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APhMS Special Seminar
Programming Matter with Electrons
Julian Klein, PhD,
Research Scientist,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Writers in Residence Program
AI, Ethics, and Imagination: A Conversation with Bruce Holsinger
Bruce Holsinger,
Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English,
University of Virginia,
Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
10:30am
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12:00pm
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BBE Informal Seminar - Jishnu Das
Studying immunomodulation using interpretable machine learning and network approaches
Jishnu Das,
Associate Professor,
Department of Immunology and Computational & Systems Biology,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Spatially Resolved ALMA Observations of Main-Belt Asteroids: Ground-Truthing with Vesta" & "Revealing the origins of refractory organic solids in solar system materials"
Rebecca Williams,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
William Lawrence,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Time is Knowledge: What Response Times Reveal
Shuo Liu,
Associate Professor,
Guanghua School of Management,
Peking University,
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Anomalies and Non-Supersymmetric String Theory
Matilda Delgado,
Harvard & MPP Munich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Distributed quantum science with neutral atom arrays
Jacob Covey,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Maximal unfriendliness of back-and-forth relations
Matthew Harrison-Trainor,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,
University of Illinois Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Crustal Structure of Southern California from Velocity and Attenuation Tomography
Thomas Jordan,
University Professor, William M. Keck Foundation Chair in Geological Sciences and Professor of Earth Sciences,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California (USC),
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Higher dimensional conformal fields from neural network statistics
Joydeep Naskar,
Northeastern University,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:15pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Dawn of Low-Frequency Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
Maura McLaughin,
Department Chair,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
West Virginia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
MegaMolecules and Applications as Antibody Mimics
Milan Mrksich,
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry,
School of Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Decoding the Bacterial Lanthanome for Scalable Rare Earth Element Recovery from Complex Feedstocks
Cecilia Martinez-Gomez,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, May 14th, 2026
9:00am
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5/17
4:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Metabolic Raman imaging: enhancing sensitivity and molecular insight
Adrian Colazo,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Wei Group),
Caltech,
12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Linear Relativistic effects in Galaxy Clustering
Yunfei (Robin) Wen,
Graduate Student,
The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Social Sciences History Seminar
This seminar has been postponed.
Wei Xiong,
John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance and Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Transcription and Splicing Specificity Through Kinetic Proofreading
Daniel Larson,
Chief, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression; Head, Systems Biology of Gene Expression; Co-Chair, Trans-NIH Myeloid Malignancies Program,
Center for Cancer Research,
National Institutes of Health,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Electrochemical Direct Air Capture: In Space, On Land, and Under Sea
Yushan Yan,
Henry Belin du Pont Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Delaware,
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
Optical cavities for bioimaging, atom interferometers, and trapping molecules
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, May 15th, 2026
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development and Exploration of Electrochemical Cascades for Titanium-Mediated Nitrogen Reduction to Ammonia
Channing Klein,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Manthiram Group),
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
c=1 strings as a matrix integral
Victor Rodriguez,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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