Institute Calendar
March 2026
Friday, March 6th, 2026
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3:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (1/2)
3-symmetric spaces, their moduli, and Ricci solitons
Tommy Murphy,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Cal State Fullerton,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Cliff Tabin
Control of timing in the limb field
Cliff Tabin,
Chair, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
Karthik Duraisamy,
Arthur B. Modine Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Michigan,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (2/2)
New quantum invariants and knot fiberedness
Lara San Martin Suarez,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Jonathan Aalto,
Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
GNSS and InSAR integration for 3-D crustal deformation in California-Western Nevada and the Tibetan Plateau
Zheng-Kang Shen,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Saturday, March 7th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, March 9th, 2026
8:30am
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1:30pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Professor Taro Kitazawa
"Whole-genome single-cell history-tracing to reveal neuronal identity transition and memory formation"
Taro Kitazawa,
Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience, Associate Professor Aarhus University in Denmark,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Operando Infrared Spectroscopy to Probe Electrified Interfaces
Yu Katayama,
Associate Professor,
The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research,
University of Osaka,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Jackie Blaum,
PhD Candidate,
UC Berkeley,
Scott Lucchini,
ITC Postdoctoral Fellow,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"From Pebbles to Planets: New Frontiers in Planet Formation"
Richard Teague,
Kerr-McGee Career Development Assistant Professor,
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Detecting uHz Gravitational Waves with Binary Resonances
Josh Foster,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar w/Scott K. Cushing
The role of ultrafast dynamics in battery and solar photoabsorber materials
Scott K. Cushing,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
9:00am
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10:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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HPS/LCSSP Seminar
Defining and Detecting Discrimination: A New Way Forward
Issa Kohler-Hausmann,
Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Alex Mori Carroll,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Peter Walter
Targeting the Cell's Stress Pathways for Therapeutic Benefit
Peter Walter,
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco Investigator Emeritus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Tianyu Zhu,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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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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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
People as Intuitive Modelers: How Model Complexity Adapts to Data
Guillaume Fréchette,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours
Online Event
Paper, Pixels, and Policy: A Conversation with Steve Trout on the Future of Verifiable Elections
Steve Trout,
Director of Strategic Partnerships,
Clear Ballot,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
3D Gravity and Chaos in CFTs with Fermions
Elisa Tabor,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Linings, treeings, and the continuous automorphism problem
Stephen Jackson,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of North Texas,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Noncommutative Taylor Remainders and the BMV Conjecture
Chandan Pradhan,
Postdoc,
Department of Mathematics,
University of New Mexico,
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
Unraveling the origins of fast radio bursts and using them as probes of extreme plasmas
Kenzie Nimmo,
NHFP Einstein Fellow,
Northwestern,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Impact of Soil Respiration Pulses on Continental Scale Carbon Fluxes
Eva-Marie Metz,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Powered by symmetry. Protected by topology. A journey through the special mechanics of kagome metamaterials.
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Reducing Lost Votes by Mail: Evidence on Vote Curing from Pennsylvania
Marc Meredith,
Professor of Political Science,
University of Pennsylvania,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, March 12th, 2026
8:00am
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3/15
11:59pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Talking To Cells Using Mechanically Unusual Proteins And Ultrasound
Mikhail G. Shapiro,
Max Delbrück Professor of Chemical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Engineering protein circuits for cancer therapy"
Lukas Moeller,
Graduate Student,
Elowitz Group,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar
Evolving Transparency: The Origins of Leaf-Like Phenotypes in Neotropical Amphibians
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Optimal learning of quantum channels in diamond distance
Antonio Anna Mele,
Freie Universität Berlin,