Institute Calendar
January 2026
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Thursday, January 1st, 2026
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Monday, January 5th, 2026
12:00pm
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
1:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Deciphering Evidence of Extant and Extinct Cellular Preservation in Evaporites
Scott Perl,
Research Scientist,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Analyticity of the black hole S-matrix
Anna Wolz,
UCLA,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
New Frontiers in Exoplanet Imaging and Pathways to Habitable Worlds
Jason Wang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Northwestern,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Basal melt rates in the Ice Grounding Zones (IGZ)
Ratnakar Gadi,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Thursday, January 8th, 2026
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Characterizing and Utilizing Terrain Responses for Robot-aided Earth and Planetary Explorations
Feifei Qian,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar
"Evolution of cooperation" and "Targeting tail anchored proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum in embryophytes"
Lior Pachter,
Bren Professor of Computational Biology and Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
BBE,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Friday, January 9th, 2026
9:00am
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Medical Engineering Defense, Xin Tong
Advanced Imaging with Sound and Light: Photoacoustic Tomography and Quantum Microscopy
Xin Tong,
MedE/EE PhD Candidate,
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering,
Caltech (Advised by Professor Lihong Wang-COIL Lab),
- Internal Event
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Constraints on Long-Range Forces in De Sitter Space
Kurt Hinterbichler,
Case Western Reserve University,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Limitations of Noisy Geometrically Local Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar,
University of Maryland,
3:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
Emergent Functionality Through 3D Architected Electronic Materials
Xiaoyu Zheng,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
The 2020-2021 Alaska Peninsula Earthquake Sequence and Megathrust Earthquake Cycle
Jeffrey Freymueller,
Endowed Chair for Geology of the Solid Earth, Department Chair,
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Michigan State University,
7:00pm
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Saturday, January 10th, 2026
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, January 12th, 2026
9:00am
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Laboratory Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences of Ice and Organics – Towards Understanding the Origin of Life on Earth and Elsewhere"
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
New algorithms for the electric grid: the interplay between control, learning and economics
Baosen Zhang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington, Seattle,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
CMB constraints on non-minimally coupled ultralight dark matter
Subhajit Ghosh,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Professor Wei Min
Lighting up chemical bonds for biomedicine
Wei Min, Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Columbia University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
10:30am
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Solving PDEs exactly over polynomials
Keaton Burns,
Principal Research Scientist of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT of Mathematics,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Sensing of Gravitational Frame-Dragging and Time Dilation with a Superfluid 4He Gyrometer
Kai Ellers,
UC Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Enabling Technologies and Algorithms for Antenna Arrays
Ailec Wu,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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Cancelled: DIX Planetary Science Seminar
An Era of Planetary Seismology?
Chris Mankovich,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Water at the Edge: On- Water Spectroscopy across Oil Droplets, Protein Surfaces, Biomolecular Condensate and Living Cells
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
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
Inside the 2025 Caltech Election Integrity Project Conferences: Research, Risks, and Real-World Implications
Betsy Sinclair,
Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science, Chair of Political Science, and Assistant Vice Provost of Digital Transformations,
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU),
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Hollow-grams: Generalized Entanglement Wedges from the Gravitational Path Integral
Sami Kaya,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Idealistic equivalence relation remastered
Filippo Calderoni,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics Department,
Rutgers University,
2:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
From cosmic web to molecular clouds: the multiple scales of galaxy evolution
Amelie Saintonge,
Director,
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Detecting and Quantifying Methane Emissions from Facility to Basin Scales Using Imaging Spectrometry
Steven Wofsy,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
2D Hole Gas at GaN/AlN interface – an Unprecedented Platform to Probe the Valence Band of GaN
Huili Grace Xing,
William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering,
Cornell,
4:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
From Kramers' legacies in Bloch electrons to a new class of strongly correlated Fe-based transition metal dichalcogenides
4:00pm
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Thursday, January 15th, 2026
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Efficient Planning and Learning for Contact-rich Manipulation via Structured Exploration
Pang Tao,
Senior Research Scientist,
RAI Institute,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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32nd Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition Finals
Perpall SURF Speaking Competition
- Public Event
4:00pm
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Geoclub Seminar Series
Himalayan Leucogranites: The Story They Tell About Partial Melting
Pranjit Hazarika,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Polina Anikeeva
Bioelectronics Tools to Probe Brain-Body Communication
Polina Anikeeva, PhD,
Matoula S. Salapatas Professor and Head Department of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Director, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center McGovern Institute for Brain Research Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Spectral Reciprocity and Arithmetic Applications
Liyang Yang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Friday, January 16th, 2026
9:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Signal in the Scatter: Advancing Speckle-Based Optical Sensing for Deep Cerebral Blood Flow Monitoring
YuXi Huang,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Hamiltonian approach to near extremal black hole physics
Per Kraus,
UCLA,