Institute Calendar
April 2026
Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Non-Hermitian skin effect in resonator systems
Silvio Barandun,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Department of Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Toward Structural Guarantees in AI: Quantum Tensor Networks for Sensitivity, Uncertainty, and Reliable Inference
Pragatheeswaran Vipulanandan,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Miami,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
An Era of Planetary Seismology?"
Chris Mankovich,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
10:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Ultralocal measure is not canonical
Maciek Kolanowski,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Local Problems on Grids: FIID/FFIID Separations and a Failure of Baire Shift Universality
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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Techer Live
Online Event
Einstein: Beyond the Myth
Diana Kormos-Buchwald,
Robert M. Abbey Professor of History; Director and General Editor, The Einstein Papers Project,
Patt Morrison,
LA Times columnist, author,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Do active galactic nuclei behave the way galaxy formation theorists need them to?
Michael Blanton,
Observatories Director and Crawford M. Greenewalt Chair,
Carnegie Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Integrating Multi-Scale Data to Constrain Forest Biomass Stocks and Dynamics
Xiangtao Xu,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axial vector form factors and the scalar charge of nucleons from lattice QCD
Rajan Gupta,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Autonomous Experiments and Accessible Automation for Soft Matter Research
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Shih-Chii Liu
"Brain-inspired technology for neuromorphic edge AI and visual-assistive neuroprosthesis"
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Predicting Chemical Reactivity?
Franziska Schoenebeck,
Professor of Chemistry and Chair,
Institute of Organic Chemistry,
RWTH Aachen University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Learning from an Unknown DGP: Experimental Evidence on Belief Updating with AI Recommendations
Daniel Martin,
Associate Professor of Economics and Wilcox Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Economics,
UC Santa Barbara,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Caltech Longevity Club Seminar
Peter Diamandis,
Executive Chairman of XPRIZE, Co-founder and Chairman of Fountain Life,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, April 16th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Recent Progress on Liquid Jet Atomization
Stéphane Zaleski,
Professor of Fluid Mechanics,
Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert,
Sorbonne Université,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar
"Sidewinder: new realm of freedom to write any DNA" and "Structural evolution of the MTCH family of mitochondrial insertases"
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar (1/2)
Frobenius structures on quantum connections on Calabi--Yau 3-folds
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar (2/2)
Holomorphic Lagrangians in Higgs and de Rham Moduli Spaces
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Diffusiophoresis-enhanced instabilities
Ankur Gupta,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Formation and Evolution of Small Bodies: Insights from Space Missions and Numerical Simulations"
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Moral Regulation and Cultural Production: Evidence from Hollywood
Ruixue Jia,
Professor of Economics,
UC San Diego,
6:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, April 17th, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Polar states in AdS3 holography
Ji Hoon Lee,
ETH-Zurich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum eigenvalue processing
Yuan Su,
AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
12:00pm
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7:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar (1/2)
TBD
Eduardo Reyes,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Pontifical Caltholic University of Chile,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Crystallization, Convection, and Magnetism in White Dwarf Stars
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium
Multiphysics Simulations on GPUs using high-order finite elements
Robert Rieben,
Computational Physicist,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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