Institute Calendar
January 2026
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
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Materials Science Research Lecture
2D Hole Gas at GaN/AlN interface – an Unprecedented Platform to Probe the Valence Band of GaN
Huili Grace Xing,
William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering,
Cornell,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
From Kramers' legacies in Bloch electrons to a new class of strongly correlated Fe-based transition metal dichalcogenides
4:00pm
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Thursday, January 15th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Efficient Planning and Learning for Contact-rich Manipulation via Structured Exploration
Pang Tao,
Senior Research Scientist,
RAI Institute,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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Geoclub Seminar Series
Himalayan Leucogranites: The Story They Tell About Partial Melting
Pranjit Hazarika,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Polina Anikeeva
Bioelectronics Tools to Probe Brain-Body Communication
Polina Anikeeva, PhD,
Matoula S. Salapatas Professor and Head Department of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Director, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center McGovern Institute for Brain Research Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Spectral Reciprocity and Arithmetic Applications
Liyang Yang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Friday, January 16th, 2026
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Signal in the Scatter: Advancing Speckle-Based Optical Sensing for Deep Cerebral Blood Flow Monitoring
YuXi Huang,
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
Hamiltonian approach to near extremal black hole physics
Per Kraus,
UCLA,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Using electronic assessment to test and improve proof comprehension
Juma Zevick Otieno,
Doctoral Researcher,
Department of Mathematics and Earth Sciences,
University of Trieste,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Computation-Protected Phases of Matter
Soonwon Choi,
MIT,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Negative energies and the breakdown of bulk lengths in JT gravity
Shreya Vardhan,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
The Physics of Purposeful Biological Dynamics
Rob Phillips,
Professor,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
The Friction of Dense Granular Flows
Emily Brodsky,
Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, NAS,
University of California, Santa Cruz,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 17th, 2026
6:30pm
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Sunday, January 18th, 2026
3:30pm
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Monday, January 19th, 2026
All Day
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1/20
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Astronomy Tea Talks
The sparkling end of compact binaries: mergers, Pa 30, and other animals
Ilaria Caiazzo,
Professor,
Institute of Science and Technology Austria,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
New linear response formulas with applications to variational data assimilation and generative SDE models
12:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Geophysical bridges between the present-day interiors and long-term evolution of icy and rocky solar system bodies
Amirhossein Bagheri,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
First moment obstructions
Huy Tuan Pham,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Rosenberg Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
8:30am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A Berry phase for algebras in holography
Jeremy van der Heijden,
University of British Columbia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CES Special Seminar
The Nature of History: Chance, Contingency, and the Reality of Historical Principles
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Comeager isomorphism classes in zero-dimensional dynamics
Todor Tsankov,
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1,
12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Core-Collapse Supernovae in 3D: New Theoretical Insights
Adam Burrows,
Professor,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Analytical Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes and Information Content from Satellite Data
Hannah Nesser,
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow,
JPL,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Artificial oxide quantum heterostructures and twisted membranes
Honyung Lee, PhD,
Corporate Fellow and Senior Advisor,
Materials Science and Technology Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Lead Contamination: An Old Foe Rises from the Ashes of the Eaton Fire, with Francois Tissot
Francois Tissot,
professor of geochemistry; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Nonholonomic Stabilization and Pursuit-Evasion: Not-so-hard After All
Miroslav Krstić,
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Advances in Low-Noise, High-Speed SiGe BiCMOS for LEO Satellite Communications and Optical Interconnects
Pascal Chevalier,
PhD,
Analog/RF Technology Architect and Fellow of Technical Staff, STMicroelectronics,
12:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Modified Theories of Gravity, Parity, and the Dark Sector