Institute Calendar
April 2026
Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Interconnects and Modularity via Waveguide QED
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 24th, 2026
9:30am
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11:00am
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Medical Engineering PhD Defense, Akash Dhawan
Hierarchical Assembly of Collagen Type I Using a Photobase Generator
Akash Dhawan,
MD/PhD Candidate,
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Information technologies at the fundamental physical limits
Volkan Gurses,
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
Zeros and Singularities of Cosmological Wavefunctions
Shruti Paranjape,
Brown University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Unlocking the Solar System: Exploring Planetary Interiors to Orbital Motion"
Ryan Park,
Senior Research Scientist,,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Emulating the Bose-Hubbard Model with Arrays of Superconducting Qubits
William Oliver,
Director of the Center for Quantum Engineering,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Gravitational-wave observables beyond timing: astrometry and weak lensing probes
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
Carlos Alejandro Pantano-Rubino,
Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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BBE Informal Seminar - L Mahadevan
Evolutionary tales of biological shape: bodies, guts and beaks
L Mahadevan,
Professor of Physics; de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics; Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CGSC Industry Seminar
Inventing for Life at Merck
Dr. Kevin Campos,
Vice President, Process R&D,
Merck,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
The Lunar Environmental Monitoring Station for Artemis (LEMS)
Nicholas Schmerr,
Associate Professor,
Department of Geology,
University of Maryland,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Saturday, April 25th, 2026
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Sunday, April 26th, 2026
2:30pm
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Monday, April 27th, 2026
11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Expanding molecular designs for mechanochromic polymers
Yan Sun,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Enantioselective Reactions of Palladium Enolates and Progress Toward Mitomycin B
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Christian Strong,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Stoltz Group),
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Real-time electrocatalytic control of C-H and C-C bond transformation and fuel formation
Marcel Shreier,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Calibrating Galaxy Formation Models for the Roman Era
Andrew Robertson,
Postdoc at Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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4:30pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"A global discrepancy in atmospheric humidity trends between models and observations"
Isla Simpson,
Scientist 3, Section CAS Head,
Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory,
University Corporation of Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Global Structure of Symmetries in Particle Physics
Seth Koren,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Thermalization and chaos in many-body quantum and classical dynamical systems of algebraic origin
Anton N. Kapustin,
Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics,
Department of Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
10:30am
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
A Hopf algebra on nonplanar binary forests
Elizabeth xiao,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech (California Institute of Technology),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Daniel Mucida
Daniel Mucida,
Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Immunology, Virology, and Microbiology,
The Rockefeller University,
2:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"How is the Neptune Desert Populated? Insights from 21 Newly Validated Exoplanets" & "A First Look at the 3-12 µm Spectrum of the Bare-rock Exoplanet LHS 3844 b"
Jonathan Gomez Barrientos & Kimberly Paragas,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Marcus Center Special Seminar
Real-time simulations of ultrafast electron relaxation dynamics
Joshua S. Kretchmer,
Assistant Professor,
School of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Donor Dilemma
B. Pablo Montagnes,
Associate Professor of Data & Decision Sciences and Political Science,
Emory University,
4:15pm
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
8:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Water-Wave Scattering Amplitudes and the Waterhedron
Francesco Calisto,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Monica Kohler,
Research Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A paradigm shift in the landscape of Type Ia supernova progenitors
Ken Shen,
Research Specialist,
Department of Astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Thermodynamic Control of Hydroclimate Change in the Western United States and Its Consequences
Alex Hall,
Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; Faculty Director, Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Institute of the Environment and Sustainability,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Probing Nanoscale Structures and Magnetism: An Introduction to Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS)
4:00pm
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POSTPONED: Watson Lecture - Sarkis Mazmanian
Sarkis Mazmanian,
Luis B. and Nelly Soux professor of microbiology; Merkin Institute Professor,
Thursday, April 30th, 2026
10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Principles of Proton-coupled Electron Transfer Mediator Design
Enric Adillon,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Peters Group),
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Robots That Learn To Model The World By Playing
Anirudha Majumdar,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) department,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Precision Redshifts for SPHEREx Cosmology
Gemma Huai,
Graduate student,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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