Institute Calendar
March 2026
Thursday, March 12th, 2026
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Cesar Cuenca,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
The Ohio State University,
Andreas Klippel,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Mathematics,
TU Darmstadt,
Hindy Drillick,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Bilinear sums with trace functions
Philippe Michel,
Full Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology from Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, March 13th, 2026
10:30am
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11:30am
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BBE Informal Seminar - Dr. Pei Su
From Tissues to Single Cells: Direct Proteoform Profiling Using Orbitrap-Based Single Molecule Mass Spectrometry
Pei Su,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry,
University of California, Riverside,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Fortuity and hairy black holes in AdS
Sunjin Choi,
IPMU, University of Tokyo,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Incentivizing Quality Text Generation via Statistical Contracts
Eden Saig,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Rigorous bounds on dynamics and correlations in thermal and driven quantum systems and their comparison to experiment
Zohar Nussinov,
Washington University in St. Louis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
The Feeling of Cosmology
Gabriel Trop,
Professor of German Literature,
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Hybridization of WaSABI-C inspirals with numerical relativity waveforms for quasi-circular, spin-aligned, asymmetric black hole binaries
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Is stick-slip a mechanism for earthquakes?: Observational constraints on foreshocks, aftershocks and repeaters from the lab-experiments
Thomas Goebel,
Associate Professor,
Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI),
University of Memphis,
Monday, March 16th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Searching for the Shortest-wavelength Aromatic Infrared Bands/Contact binaries: Tightest buddies in space
Dennis Lee,
Postdoc,
JPL,
Matthias Fabry,
Postdoc,
Villanova University,
Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Fluids and Analysis Seminar
Global Regularity for a Dyadic Model of the Navier-Stokes Equations
Sam Looi,
Postdoc,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech (California Institute of Technology),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
The Dusty Ring of Jupiter as viewed by Juno WAVES & Earth's Magnetic Field as viewed by the NASA TRACERS mission
Hao Cao,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
All Day
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Dr. Andreas Fichtner,
Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
ETH Zurich,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Data Foundations for Functional Prediction in Enzyme Engineering
Yueming Long,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: History Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Emilie Connolly,
Assistant Professor of History,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, March 19th, 2026
8:00am
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3/29
11:59pm
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4:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar Series
Atomic dynamics across phases
Jaeyun Moon,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Florida,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar Series
Why do the refractive indexes of different materials differ so little and are also so difficult to change?
Jacob B Khurgin,
Professor and Cynology Expert,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
A First Principles Understanding of how Sonochemistry Orchestrates Chemical Synthesis with Analogies to Atmospheric Chemistry
Tej Choksi,
Professor,
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering,
Nanyang Technological University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
A New Diophantine Approximation and Degeneracy of Integral Points
Zheng Xiao,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Colorado Boulder,
Friday, March 20th, 2026
8:30am
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4:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Local Control in a Sr quantum computing demonstrator
Kevin Mours,
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Asymptotically geodesic hypersurfaces and the fundamental groups of hyperbolic manifolds
Hans Han,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences (SIMIS),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Ion Transport and Rheological Behavior in Polymeric Systems
Alexandros Tsamopoulos,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Wang Lab),
Caltech,
Monday, March 23rd, 2026
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9:01am
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A Light in the Dark: Unveiling Delayed Star Formation Histories Within Cosmic Voids
Olivia Curtis,
Postdoc,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
From Fabrication to System-Level Validation: Approaches toward High-Quality Superconducting Qubits
Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Can Local Data Reveal Global Fluid Dynamics?
Ali Pakzad,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Bahounar University of Kerman,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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