Institute Calendar
November 2025
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11/4
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Saturday, November 1st, 2025
10:00am
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1:00pm
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Monday, November 3rd, 2025
8:45am
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12:30pm
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Informal Seminar - Hong Ma
A novel factor and mechanisms for regulating floral RNA splicing and genome-wide implications of alternative splicing across angiosperms.
Hong Ma,
Professor of Biology,
Plant Reproductive Development and Evolution,
Pennsylvania State University,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Chemistry at Interfaces: Macrocyclic Templates Facilitating Strong and Weak Interactions
Raul Hernandez Sanchez,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Tides, Tori, and Disintegration: Spectral and Photometric Signatures of Volcanic Exoplanets and Exomoons
Apurva V. Oza,
Research Scientist,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Assembling supercontinent Rodinia and tracking its development in the late Proterozoic"
Yiming Zhang,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Institute of Rock Magnetism, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cavendish Tests of Millicharged Particles
Asher Berlin,
Fermilab,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:15pm
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Pattern Formation in Soft Mechanics
Ousmane Kodio,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
A Lie-Algebraic Perspective on Tree-Adjoining Grammars
Elizabeth Xiao,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Seminar
Unraveling Dust Production from Wolf-Rayet Binaries with JWST
Ryan Lau,
Associate Scientist,
IPAC,
Riko Senoo,
PhD Student,
University of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Unorthodox planet-disk interaction: Eccentricity, Turbulence and Winds
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Asymptotics for the Toda Lattice
Amol Aggarwal,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech Election Integrity Project
Online Event
The Votes are in: A Post-Election Day Discussion on the Results' Implications
Christian Grose,
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy,
USC,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Free mutual information and higher-point OTOCs
Jinzhao Wang,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Rokhlin's lemma for infinite measure preserving bijections
François Le Maître,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Burgundy Institute of Mathematics (IMB),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Decoding Fault Stress Evolution from Ambient Seismic Noise
Dr. Nader Shakibay Senobari,
Project Scientist and Lecturer in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of California, Riverside,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Sparsity in the numerical six-point bootstrap
Sebastian Harris,
DESY,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
r(3,k) in two bites
Dylan King,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An introduction to quantum image encryption
Claire Levaillant,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems from the Outside In
Brendan Bowler,
Associate Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Juliet T. Gopinath, U Colorado Boulder
Nonlinear integrated optical chalcogenide devices
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Creating Certainty in an Uncertain Universe
Forest Rohwer,
San Diego State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Discovering Compounds and Designing Materials
Ram Seshadri,
Professor,
Materials Department, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UC Santa Barbara,
Thursday, November 6th, 2025
11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Inhibition of nucleocytoplasmic transport by β- coronaviruses"
Chia Yu Chien,
Graduate Student,
Hoelz group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Quantum Schubert Calculus from lattice models
Leonardo Mihalcea,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Virginia Tech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Wall crossing for moduli of stable pairs
Fanjun Meng,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California - San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Scaling limit of the half-space KPZ equation
Christian Serio,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Affine Schubert varieties are splinters
Robert Cass,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Claremont McKenna College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Productivity and Knowledge Transfer: Evidence from Prisoner Employment
Michela Giorcelli,
Associate Professor of Economics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Promise and puzzles of neuroforecasting
Brian Knutson,
Professor of Psychology,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Locality of Epidemics on Graphs
Yeganeh Alimohammadi,
Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations,
Marshall School of Business,
USC,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
TBA
Christopher Hoffman,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Washington,
Friday, November 7th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Entropic Order
Fedor Popov,
Stony Brook University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Testing Quantum Theory on Curved Space-Time with Atomic Clocks
Igor Pikovski,
Stevens Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The role of triple evolution in shaping Galactic binaries and transients
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Experiments on passive-scalar high Schmidt number dispersion in grid turbulence
Paul Dimotakis,
John K. Northrop Professor,
Aeronautics and Professor of Applied Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Singularities of Hamiltonian Stationary Lagrangian Surfaces
Filippo Gaia,
SNSF Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
3:45pm
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5:15pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Taming Electrons: From Sustainable Molecular Transformations to Quantum Information
Matthew Espinosa,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Continental below-Moho earthquakes: How to find them, and what do they signify?
Simon Klemperer,
Professor of Geophysics, and of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 8th, 2025
11:30am
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12:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, November 9th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, November 10th, 2025
7:30am
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11/11
4:00pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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3:00pm
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3:55pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations About Math Teaching
Tynan Ochse,
Curriculum Director,
Art of Problem Solving,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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