Institute Calendar
May 2026
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Friday, May 1st, 2026
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Imaginary Liouville theory
Gaston Giribet,
New York University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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► CANCELED: Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Lauren Conger,
Graduate Student,
Department of Control & Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Arab Heritage Month: Seminar
Decolonized Futures: Indigenous Visions
Dr. Nour Joudah,
Asst. Professor,
Deparment of Asian American Studies,
UCLA,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Template-Free Assembly of Three-Dimensional Mesostructures via Polarization Control
Natasha Reich,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Lewis Group),
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Non-Abelian Quantum Low Depth Parity Check Codes
Maine Christos,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
EDGE: Constraining dark matter with the smallest dwarf galaxies
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Characterizing the lipid II flippase MurJ as an antibiotic target
Yancheng Evelyn Li,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium
Hypervelocity Water Entry and Free Flight Experiments
Bryan Schmidt,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
Case Western Reserve University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mixed valent iron in a lithium-rich metal sulfide and the effects of metal-deficiency on electrochemical anion redox
Colin Morrell,
Graduate Student (See Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Long-Reach Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing over Repeated Submarine Cables
Mikael Mazur,
Member of Technical Staff,
Nokia Bell Labs,
5:45pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2026
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2026
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, May 4th, 2026
2:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar - Stephen Long (Sloan Kettering)
Structure, Ca2+-dependent regulation, and ion selectivity of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter
Stephen B. Long,
Professor,
Structural Biology Program,
Sloan Kettering Institute,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Structure and function of copper membrane monooxygenases
Amy Rosenzweig,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Characterizing High-Redshift Sources with Optical Emission Line Ratios
Nikko Cleri,
Eberly Postdoctoral Fellow,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"From gas dwarfs to rocky worlds: The compositional evolution of low mass planets."
Robin Wordsworth,
Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Co-Director of Graduate Studies,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Uncool soft-wall phase transitions and gravitational waves
Ameen Ismail,
University of Chicago,
Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Bioinspired Microfluidic Wearable Sensors for Continuous Sweat Sampling and Metabolic Monitoring
Soyoung Shin,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Gao Lab),
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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BBE Division Seminar - Krishna Shrinivas
Gene regulation and decision-making: Exploring the role of biomolecular condensates
Krishna Shrinivas,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Cell and Developmental Biology,
Northwestern University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Towards the Enzymatic Mineralization of Siloxanes
Ryen O'Meara,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Arnold Lab),
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Infrared Action Spectroscopy of Biomolecules for Planetary Science Applications
Tyler Nguyen,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics and Machine Learning Seminar
Numerical differential geometry and machine learning; solving geometric PDEs motivated by string theory
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Kang-Kuen Ni,
Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics,
Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Rapid Planet Formation in the Protoplanetary Disk Snowband" & "Radiolyzed Cryogenic Carbonates as Potential CO₂ Reservoirs on Europa"
Tony Yap & Ashma Pandya,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Information and the Politics of School Quality: Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Brazil
Claudio Ferraz,
Professor of Economics,
University of British Columbia,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Efficient Evaluation of Coulomb Interactions for Large-Scale Quantum Chemistry
Rui Li,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Chan Group),
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours
Online Event
The Pioneer's Perspective: Three Decades of Protecting the California Voter with Kim Alexander
Kim Alexander,
President & Founder,
California Voter Foundation,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Soft Algebras in AdS4 from Lightray Operators in CFT3
Ahmed Sheta,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Maximum information divergence from linear and toric models
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium: Biard Lecture
The Swiftly Mission: Swift Lift in a Year
Brad Cenko,
Research Astrophysicist,
Department of Astronomy,
NASA,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Global Stratospheric Methane Loss from Satellite Observations
Qiang Fu,
Calvin Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Science,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Chirality and Topology of Collective Excitations: From Altermagnets to Chiral Crystals
Chen Li,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Programmable Syntheses of Polycyclic Natural Products via a Polyfunctional Intermediate Approach