Institute Calendar
December 2025
Friday, December 5th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
End-to-End Efficient Quantum Thermal and Ground State Preparation Made Simple
Yongtao Zhan,
Preskill group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Emergent Flat Space from Quantum Entanglement
Tianli Wang,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
PolymerMechanochemistry Using Ultrasound: From Fundamental Reactivity to Controlled Drug Delivery
Meng (Stella) Luo,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Stellar forensics: tracing the origin of interaction-powered supernovae and Type-Ia supernova remnants
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Yasaman Ghasempour, Princeton U
Physics-guided Wireless Communication and Sensing above 100 GHz
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Title: Simple Mechanics for Life-Saving Technologies: Milli-Spinner Thrombectomy for Stroke Treatment
Renee Zhao,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
3:45pm
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5:15pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Development and Mechanistic Interrogation of Photomediated Skeletal Editing Strategies for Nitrogenous Heterocycles"
Sojung Kim,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Hadt Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Painlevé VI: the search for canonical representations
Aaron Landesman,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Mapping the Global Seafloor Using Satellites and Ships: Recent Improvements from SWOT Gravity Using Machine Learning
David Sandwell,
Professor of Geophysics,
Scripps Institute of Oceanography,
University of California, San Diego,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 6th, 2025
8:00am
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12/9
11:59pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, December 8th, 2025
10:00am
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Global well-posedness of the stochastic Abelian-Higgs equations in two dimensions.
Bjoern Bringmann,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Veronica Augustyn,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Sleeping Giants: Telling Case Studies of Changing-look Quasars
Laura Duffy,
graduate student, Penn State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Using synchrotron X-rays to unravel the physics of earthquakes"
François Renard,
Professor of Department of Geosciences, Director of NJORD Centre for Studies of the Physics of the Earth,
Department of Geosciences, The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences,
University of Oslo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Return of the Kaon
Yuval Grossman,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) Seminar
Chaos and Coherence in the New Administrative Law
Daniel B. Rodriguez,
Harold Washington Professor of Law,
Pritzker School of Law,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Mathematics Teaching Seminar
Jedi Tsang,
CTLO Program Manager,
Center for Teaching, Learning, & Outreach,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Electron Spin, Chiral Symmetry Breaking, and Life's Homochirality
Furkan Ozturk,
Assistant Professor of Geobiology and Geochemistry; William H. Hurt Scholar,
Geobiology and Geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
9:00am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special CMX Lunch Seminar
Understanding Generalization of Deep Generative Models Requires Rethinking Underlying Low-dimensional Structures
Qing Qu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Flow matching for (generalized) Schrödinger bridges and dynamical optimal transport
Stephen Zhang,
PhD Student,
School of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Melbourne,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Mean-Field Actor-Critic Flow: A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Mean-Field Game
Haosheng Zhou,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Statistics & Applied Probability,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Dynamo Action Inside Giant Planets
Paula Wulff,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Heat, wave, and Schrödinger dynamics of Gibbs measures
Bjoern Bringmann,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
8:00am
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12/12
11:59pm
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10:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
The Linked Complexity of Coseismic and Postseismic Faulting Revealed by Seismo-Geodetic Dynamic Inversion of the 2004 Parkfield Earthquake
Nico Schliwa,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Euclid space mission
M. Claudia Scarlata,
Distinguished McKnight University Professor (Director of MIfA),
Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Modern Tools For Modern Ocean Mixing Puzzles
Matthew Alford,
UCSD Scripps,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
When Democracy Refuses to Die: Evaluating a Training Program for New Politicians
Ernesto Dal Bo,
Phillip Girgich Professor of Business,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
10:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the U.S.
Ellora Derenoncourt,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Decoding the sub-parsec scale environment of LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Joanna Aizenberg
Non-fouling Medical Devices
Proessor Joanna Aizenberg,
Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Neutron Star Mergers, Kilonovae, and Kilonova Impostors