Institute Calendar
April 2026
Thursday, April 9th, 2026
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Special TAPIR Seminar
The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs at the EDGE of galaxy formation
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CANCELLED - Biochemistry Seminar
Short RNA chaperones promote aggregation-resistant TDP-43 conformers to mitigate neurodegeneration
James Shorter,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics,
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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History & Visual Culture Seminar
Pictures from the Arctic: The Colonized Draw Back
Valerie A. Kivelson,
Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Michael Levin
Online Event
Bioelectric signaling network underlie cellular collective behavior in embryogenesis, regeneration, and cancer
Professor Michael Levin,
Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University and Director of the Allen Discovery Center,
4:00pm
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Friday, April 10th, 2026
8:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Scattering on the Coulomb Branch of N=4 SYM
Kelian Häring,
University of Amsterdam,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Convergent Equilibrium Learning through Risk-aversion
Yizhou Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A unified approach to the self force problem
Ira Rothstein,
Carnegie Mellon University,
2:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Processing massive classical data on small quantum computers
Haimeng Zhao,
Huang and Preskill groups,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Synergizing microscopy, computation, and artificial intelligence to advance biomedical research
Haowen Zhou,
Graduate student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Trapping in Strong Gravity: From Black Hole Images to Gravitational Turbulence
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
Unravelling hydrogen-material interactions: a challenge across scales and disciplines
Emilio Martinez Paneda,
Associate Professor,
Engineering Science,
Oxford University,
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
LLM Applications in Seismology
Mostafa Mousavi,
Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
6:30pm
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Saturday, April 11th, 2026
7:00am
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Monday, April 13th, 2026
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Hongfeng Yang,
Professor, Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Director, Aerospace Science and Earth Informatics + X Programme,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Study of Exotic Stellar Populations in Open Clusters and Galactic Fields
Anju Panthi,
Postdoc at Indian Institute of Astrophysics,
Bangalore,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"When Did the Earth's Dynamo Begin?"
Benjamin Weiss,
Chair, Program in Planetary Science, Robert R. Shrock Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Optimization by Decoded Quantum Interferometry
Stephen Jordan,
Research Scientist,
Google Quantum AI,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A Few Thoughts on Flavor
Claudio Manzari,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
10:30am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Controlling and Interrogating Matter at the Fundamental Limits of Space and Time
Mohammed Th. Hassan,
University of Arizona,
12:00pm
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BBE Division Seminar - Itai Yanai
Can a cell learn? A mechanism for adaptive genome regulation
Itai Yanai,
Scientific Director,
Applied Bioinformatics Laboratories, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,
New York University - Langone Health,
12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Non-Hermitian skin effect in resonator systems
Silvio Barandun,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Department of Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Toward Structural Guarantees in AI: Quantum Tensor Networks for Sensitivity, Uncertainty, and Reliable Inference
Pragatheeswaran Vipulanandan,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Miami,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
An Era of Planetary Seismology?"
Chris Mankovich,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
10:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Ultralocal measure is not canonical
Maciek Kolanowski,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Local Problems on Grids: FIID/FFIID Separations and a Failure of Baire Shift Universality
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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Techer Live
Online Event
Einstein: Beyond the Myth
Diana Kormos-Buchwald,
Robert M. Abbey Professor of History; Director and General Editor, The Einstein Papers Project,
Patt Morrison,
LA Times columnist, author,
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Astronomy Colloquium
Do active galactic nuclei behave the way galaxy formation theorists need them to?
Michael Blanton,
Observatories Director and Crawford M. Greenewalt Chair,
Carnegie Science,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Integrating Multi-Scale Data to Constrain Forest Biomass Stocks and Dynamics
Xiangtao Xu,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axial vector form factors and the scalar charge of nucleons from lattice QCD
Rajan Gupta,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Autonomous Experiments and Accessible Automation for Soft Matter Research
4:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Shih-Chii Liu
"Brain-inspired technology for neuromorphic edge AI and visual-assistive neuroprosthesis"
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Predicting Chemical Reactivity?
Franziska Schoenebeck,
Professor of Chemistry and Chair,
Institute of Organic Chemistry,
RWTH Aachen University,
- Internal Event
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Learning from an Unknown DGP: Experimental Evidence on Belief Updating with AI Recommendations
Daniel Martin,
Associate Professor of Economics and Wilcox Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Economics,
UC Santa Barbara,
6:00pm
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Caltech Longevity Club Seminar
Peter Diamandis,
Executive Chairman of XPRIZE, Co-founder and Chairman of Fountain Life,
6:00pm
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Thursday, April 16th, 2026
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Recent Progress on Liquid Jet Atomization
Stéphane Zaleski,
Professor of Fluid Mechanics,
Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert,
Sorbonne Université,
11:00am
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EVOxZankou Seminar
"Sidewinder: new realm of freedom to write any DNA" and "Structural evolution of the MTCH family of mitochondrial insertases"
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar (1/2)
Frobenius structures on quantum connections on Calabi--Yau 3-folds
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar (2/2)
Holomorphic Lagrangians in Higgs and de Rham Moduli Spaces
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Diffusiophoresis-enhanced instabilities
Ankur Gupta,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
University of Colorado Boulder,
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Formation and Evolution of Small Bodies: Insights from Space Missions and Numerical Simulations"