Institute Calendar
March 2026
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours
Online Event
Modernizing California Elections: Insights from Marin County Registrar of Voters Natalie Adona
Natalie Adona,
Registrar of Voters (ROV) for Marin County, California,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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POSTPONED: Watson Lecture - Katie Bouman: Illuminating the Hidden Universe with Physics and AI
Katie Bouman,
associate professor of computing and mathematical sciences, electrical engineering and astronomy; Rosenberg Scholar; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
Thursday, March 26th, 2026
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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POSTPONED: EE Devices Seminar- Ady Arie, Tel-Aviv University
Application of structured quantum light in sensing, communication and computing
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Is Ultra Low Low Enough? Nucleation, Volatility and the Tug of War Between Vapor Pressure and Oxidation Chemistry
Neil Donahue,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Friday, March 27th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Constant depth pseudoentanglement---How trivial states can have non-trivial entanglement structure
Alexandru Gheorghiu,
IBM,
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Multi-messenger impact seismology on Mars and the Moon
Philippe Lognonné,
Professor,
Paris Institute of Earth Physics (IPGP),
7:00pm
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11:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Space Exploration and Discovery: From the Deserts of Egypt to Saturn's Moon Titan
Saturday, March 28th, 2026
9:00am
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6:00pm
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Sunday, March 29th, 2026
9:00am
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6:00pm
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Monday, March 30th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program Event
Environmental Feeling and Environmental Fact: The Case of the Monterey Shore
Margaret Cohen,
Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization, and Professor of English, and by courtesy, of French and Italian and of Comparative Literature,
Stanford University,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Engineering Interfacial Microenvironments: Electrocatalysis for Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing and PFAS Destruction
Astrid Mueller,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dark Matter NMR and its sensitivity to extra couplings
Carl Beadle,
University of Toronto,
Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Erica Larschan
X marks the spot: Identification of the X-chromosome for coordinated gene regulation
Erica Larschan,
Associate Prof. of Biology Brown University,
Department of Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry Director,
Brown University,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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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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Chemical Physics Seminar
Negative Ions: From Multiplexed Coincidence Spectroscopy to Hypervelocity Ice Grain Impacts
Robert Continetti,
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Senior Associate Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
Spectral Reciprocity, Subconvexity, and Arithmetic Applications
Liyang Yang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,