Institute Calendar
March 2026
Ongoing
Ongoing
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3/11
11:59pm
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Sunday, March 1st, 2026
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, March 2nd, 2026
10:00am
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4:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
The Photophysics and Photochemistry of First-row Transition Metal Complexes: Quantum Coherence, the Marcus Inverted Region, and Applications in Excited-state Chemistry
James K. McCusker,
Joseph Zichis Endowed Chair and MSU Research Foundation Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Luminous Black Hole Accretion: How Radiation and Magnetic Fields Regulate Accretion Flows/INFUSE II - science and upgrades for the second launch of the far ultraviolet integral field spectrograph
Lizhong Zhang,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Institute for Advanced Study and the Center for Computational Astrophysics,
Alex Haughton,
PhD candidate,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Reconciling cyanosulfidic chemistry with geochemical constraints"
John Sutherland,
Group Leader,
Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus,
Cambridge University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Stable and Unstable Objects in the PDE Analysis of the Navier-Stokes Equations
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Light Boson Dark Matter & Nonlinear Plasma Dynamics
Junwu Huang,
Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Solvable models of quantum annealing
Nikolai Sinitsyn,
Nikolai Sinitsyn, CNLS Postdoctoral Research Associate,
CNLS,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
9:00am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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4:00pm
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Sohini Ramachandran
Variations on a theme of structure: leveraging recent relatedness and mixed-membership clustering to gain insights from high-dimensional genomics datasets
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
A Ground Motion-based Approach to Earthquake Warning, Forecasting, and Statistics
Timothy Clements,
Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow,
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Scalable Arrays From Millimeter-Wave Sensing to Microwave Wireless Power Transfer
Alex Ayling,
Graduate student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics and Machine Learning Seminar
Machine construction and exploration of twisted connected sum G2 manifolds
Elli Heyes,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Physics,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Doubly Robust Inference in Causal Latent Factor Models
Alberto Abadie,
Professor of Economics,
MIT,
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
10:00am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Neural Networks and Liouville Field Theory
Christian Ferko,
Northeastern University,
11:45am
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dwarf Galaxies at the Dawn of the Rubin Era
Josh Simon,
Staff Scientist,
Carnegie Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical Weather: A New 30' STEAM Film, Liquid Sunshine
Brian Mapes,
Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science,
University of Miami,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Aberrant glycosylation patterns in hyperglycemic diseases: tools and targets
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter/Materials Science Research Lecture
Nonlocal photogalvanic spectroscopy as a probe of complex matter: topological light meets topological materials
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, March 5th, 2026
10:00am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Intelligent Learning Strategies for Thermal Science in the AI Era
Yoonjin Won,
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
UCI Samueli School of Engineering,
University of California, Irvine,
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Designing Wireless Living Materials for Soil Sensing and Beyond"
Raj Mukkamala,
Graduate Student,
Newman & Kornfield Groups,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar Series
Caminante, sí hay Camino : Networks in the First Transatlantic Migration, 1492-1540
José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez,
Associate Professor (on term) of Economics,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
How Fault Structure Controls Earthquake Rupture and Ground Motion: Insights from Laboratory Earthquakes
Yuval Tal,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Majorization theory for quasiprobabilities
Twesh Upadyaya,
University of Maryland,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Hui Cao
Programmable Laser Coherence for Multimodal Biomedical Imaging
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Atomic-scale imaging of symmetry-broken electronic states in kagome superconductors
Friday, March 6th, 2026
10:00am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
CFT entropy at large spin
Nathan Benjamin,
University of Southern California,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Reduced Forms: Feasibility, Extremality, Optimality
Ilia Krasikov,
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Arizona State University; Research Economist, National Bureau of Economic Research,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum witnesses with no classical substitutes
Chinmay Nirkhe,
University of Washington,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (1/2)
3-symmetric spaces, their moduli, and Ricci solitons
Tommy Murphy,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Cal State Fullerton,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Cliff Tabin
Control of timing in the limb field
Cliff Tabin,
Chair, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School,
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
Karthik Duraisamy,
Arthur B. Modine Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Michigan,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (2/2)
New quantum invariants and knot fiberedness
Lara San Martin Suarez,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Jonathan Aalto,
Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
GNSS and InSAR integration for 3-D crustal deformation in California-Western Nevada and the Tibetan Plateau
Zheng-Kang Shen,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Saturday, March 7th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, March 9th, 2026
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Professor Taro Kitazawa
"Whole-genome single-cell history-tracing to reveal neuronal identity transition and memory formation"
Taro Kitazawa,
Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience, Associate Professor Aarhus University in Denmark,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Operando Infrared Spectroscopy to Probe Electrified Interfaces
Yu Katayama,
Associate Professor,
The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research,
University of Osaka,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Jackie Blaum,
PhD Candidate,
UC Berkeley,
Scott Lucchini,
ITC Postdoctoral Fellow,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"From Pebbles to Planets: New Frontiers in Planet Formation"
Richard Teague,
Kerr-McGee Career Development Assistant Professor,
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Detecting uHz Gravitational Waves with Binary Resonances
Josh Foster,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar w/Scott K. Cushing
The role of ultrafast dynamics in battery and solar photoabsorber materials
Scott K. Cushing,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
8:30pm
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10:30pm
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