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Friday, October 9th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The String Landscape, precisely
Jakob Moritz, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Quantum Gibbs sampling by classical decoding
Alexander Schmidhuber, MIT,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Analysis Seminar (1/2)

An H-Principle for General Relativistic Initial Data Sets
Sung-Jin Oh, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Importance of accretion disk-driven torques on extreme mass ratio inspirals
Abhishek Hegade, Associate Research Scholar, Department of Physics, Princeton,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Analysis Seminar (2/2)

TBD
Kevin Ren, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar

Decompositions and diagrams of symplectic surfaces in Weinstein domains
Melissa Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Cationic Ionomer Coatings Promote Anion Electroreduction: Nitrate Reduction as a Model Reaction
Zikai Xu, Graduate Student (Agapie Group),
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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AIM Public Lecture Series: Terence Tao

Machine Assisted Proof
Terence Tao, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
Saturday, October 10th, 2026
Monday, October 12th, 2026
All Day
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
From Preons to Flavor: Probing Composite Quarks and Leptons
Amartya Sengupta, University at Buffalo,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

ArabIan Nights: Tales of AI, Science, and Trouble
Nihar Shah, Associate Professor, Machine Learning & Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

John Franklin, Rubin Postdoctoral Fellow; KIPAC, Stanford University,
Manami Roy, CCAP Fellow, Ohio State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

"How Earth became habitable in the Hadean"
Jun Korenaga, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Quantitative hypocoercive convergence estimates for underdamped Langevin equations
Jianfeng Lu, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, Duke University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Shosei Yoshida

"Spatiotemporal dynamics of mammalian spermatogenesis: from stem cells to tissue organization"
Shosei Yoshida, National Institute for Basic Biology,
Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Self-supervised In-context Operator Learning on Probability Measure Space: Theory and Applications
Rongjie Lai, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar

Topic to be announced
Shiyu (Jake) Zhang, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech AI Colloquium

Surya Ganguli, Assistant Professor, Applied Physics, Stanford University,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium

Online Event
From Calabi–Yau Singularities to 6D Gravitational Anomaly Cancellation
Kai Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

Manuela Hurtado Betancur, Geophysics Graduate Student, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Special Seminar - Stanislav Shvartsman

TBD
Stanislav Shvartsman, Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University,
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Biology Symposium

10AM: Yael David Shternberg, Associate Member, Chemical Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,
11AM: Stuart J. Conway, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Los Angeles,
2PM: Jin Zhang, Professor of Pharmacology, UC San Diego,
3PM: Raymond E. Moellering, Professor of Chemical Biology, University of Chicago,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Measuring fundamental particle interactions with levitated optomechanical sensors
Yu-Han Tseng, Yale,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

A Panchromatic Picture of the Red Supergiant Liminality
Wynn Jacobson-Galan, Postdoc, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EAS Young Alumni Lecture

Scalable Synthesis Routes to Low-Dimensional Materials for Next Generation Devices
Zakaria Al Balushi, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley and Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Thursday, October 15th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Bridging Scales in Mechanics: Integrating Data-Rich Experiments with Symmetry-Aware Scientific Machine Learning
Samantha Daly, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara,
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

"Computationally-guided Miniaturization of Acoustic Reporter Genes"
Nivin N. Nyström, Postdoctoral Scholar, Shapiro Group,