Institute Calendar
February 2026
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Utilizing Mass Transport To Enhance CO2 Conversion to Multi-Carbon Products
Matthew Salazar,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Agapie Lab),
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours
Online Event
Bridging the Gap: Supporting Election Stakeholders at the Intersection of Administration, Technology, and Security
Mike Moser,
Founder of Moser Solutions LLC,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Physics at a high energy plasma wakefield collider
Simon Knapen,
LBNL, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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12:50pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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EE & MedE Distinguished Speaker Seminar, Richard J. Cote
Beyond Seeing: AI and the Digital Pathology Revolution
Richard J. Cote, MD, FRCPath, FCAP,
The Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor and the immediate past Chair of the Department of Pathology and Immunology,
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Manifold classification from a descriptive viewpoint
Jeffrey Bergfalk,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Mathematics,
University of Barcelona,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Excitability in quantum field theory
Jackie Caminiti,
Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe: from Luminous Quasars to the Little Red Dots
Xiaohui Fan,
Regents Professor of Astronomy,
Astronomer, Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, February 26th, 2026
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Hydrogel Encapsulation of Sentinel Cells for Noninvasive Ultrasound Imaging of Inflammation"
Elizabeth (Liz) Hughes,
Graduate Student,
Shapiro Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra & Geometry Seminar (1/2)
SYZ mirror symmetry for non-Fano Hirzebruch surfaces
Honghao Jing,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra & Geometry Seminar (2/2)
TBD
Alekos Robotis,
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Ordinary primes for GL_2 type abelian varieties
Tian Wang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mathematics,
Concordia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Theodore Y. Wu and Chin-Hua Wu Lecture
How to Improve the Performance of an Airtanker Drop
Dominique Legendre,
Professor,
Fluid Mechanics,
Toulouse INP, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, February 27th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
New insights into holographic entropy inequalities
Veronika Hubeny,
UC Davis,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Structural characterization of a filament-forming prokaryotic Argonaute protein
Katelyn Radford,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Towards sample-optimal learning of bosonic Gaussian quantum states
Senrui Chen,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
Behcet Acikmese,
Professor,
Aeronautics & Astronautics,
University of Washington,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
A Synthetic Iron Model of Carbon–Sulfur Bond Activation by the Nitrogenase-family Enzyme Methylthio-alkane Reductase
Derek R. Kuno-Williams,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Determining the c-value in the modified Omori's law for early aftershock decay following moderate-size earthquakes at interplate and intraplate regions
Zhigang Peng,
Professor of Geophysics,
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 28th, 2026
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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