Institute Calendar
March 2026
Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
9:00am
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10:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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HPS/LCSSP Seminar
Defining and Detecting Discrimination: A New Way Forward
Issa Kohler-Hausmann,
Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Alex Mori Carroll,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Peter Walter
Targeting the Cell's Stress Pathways for Therapeutic Benefit
Peter Walter,
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco Investigator Emeritus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Tianyu Zhu,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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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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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
People as Intuitive Modelers: How Model Complexity Adapts to Data
Guillaume Fréchette,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours
Online Event
Paper, Pixels, and Policy: A Conversation with Steve Trout on the Future of Verifiable Elections
Steve Trout,
Director of Strategic Partnerships,
Clear Ballot,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
3D Gravity and Chaos in CFTs with Fermions
Elisa Tabor,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Linings, treeings, and the continuous automorphism problem
Stephen Jackson,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of North Texas,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Noncommutative Taylor Remainders and the BMV Conjecture
Chandan Pradhan,
Postdoc,
Department of Mathematics,
University of New Mexico,
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
Unraveling the origins of fast radio bursts and using them as probes of extreme plasmas
Kenzie Nimmo,
NHFP Einstein Fellow,
Northwestern,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Impact of Soil Respiration Pulses on Continental Scale Carbon Fluxes
Eva-Marie Metz,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Reducing Lost Votes by Mail: Evidence on Vote Curing from Pennsylvania
Marc Meredith,
Professor of Political Science,
University of Pennsylvania,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, March 12th, 2026
8:00am
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3/15
11:59pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Talking To Cells Using Mechanically Unusual Proteins And Ultrasound
Mikhail G. Shapiro,
Max Delbrück Professor of Chemical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Engineering protein circuits for cancer therapy"
Lukas Moeller,
Graduate Student,
Elowitz Group,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar
Evolving Transparency: The Origins of Leaf-Like Phenotypes in Neotropical Amphibians
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Optimal learning of quantum channels in diamond distance
Antonio Anna Mele,
Freie Universität Berlin,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Cesar Cuenca,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
The Ohio State University,
Andreas Klippel,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Mathematics,
TU Darmstadt,
Hindy Drillick,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Bilinear sums with trace functions
Philippe Michel,
Full Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology from Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, March 13th, 2026
10:30am
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11:30am
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BBE Informal Seminar - Dr. Pei Su
From Tissues to Single Cells: Direct Proteoform Profiling Using Orbitrap-Based Single Molecule Mass Spectrometry
Pei Su,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry,
University of California, Riverside,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Fortuity and hairy black holes in AdS
Sunjin Choi,
IPMU, University of Tokyo,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Incentivizing Quality Text Generation via Statistical Contracts
Eden Saig,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Rigorous bounds on dynamics and correlations in thermal and driven quantum systems and their comparison to experiment
Zohar Nussinov,
Washington University in St. Louis,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Hybridization of WaSABI-C inspirals with numerical relativity waveforms for quasi-circular, spin-aligned, asymmetric black hole binaries
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Thomas Goebel,
Associate Professor,
Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI),
University of Memphis,
Monday, March 16th, 2026
10:00am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
All Day
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Seminar
Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States
Emilie Connolly,
Assistant Professor of History,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, March 19th, 2026
8:00am
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3/29
11:59pm
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8:30am
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4:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
A First Principles Understanding of how Sonochemistry Orchestrates Chemical Synthesis with Analogies to Atmospheric Chemistry
Tej Choksi,
Professor,
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering,
Nanyang Technological University,
Friday, March 20th, 2026
8:30am
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4:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Local Control in a Sr quantum computing demonstrator
Kevin Mours,
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Alexandros Tsamopoulos,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Wang Lab),
Caltech,
Monday, March 23rd, 2026
9:00am
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9:01am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
From Fabrication to System-Level Validation: Approaches toward High-Quality Superconducting Qubits