Institute Calendar
May 2026
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Anomalies and Non-Supersymmetric String Theory
Matilda Delgado,
Harvard & MPP Munich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Distributed quantum science with neutral atom arrays
Jacob Covey,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Maximal unfriendliness of back-and-forth relations
Matthew Harrison-Trainor,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,
University of Illinois Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Crustal Structure of Southern California from Velocity and Attenuation Tomography
Thomas Jordan,
University Professor, William M. Keck Foundation Chair in Geological Sciences and Professor of Earth Sciences,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California (USC),
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Higher dimensional conformal fields from neural network statistics
Joydeep Naskar,
Northeastern University,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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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
The Dawn of Low-Frequency Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
Maura McLaughin,
Department Chair,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
West Virginia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
MegaMolecules and Applications as Antibody Mimics
Milan Mrksich,
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry,
School of Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Decoding the Bacterial Lanthanome for Scalable Rare Earth Element Recovery from Complex Feedstocks
Cecilia Martinez-Gomez,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, May 14th, 2026
9:00am
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5/17
4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Metabolic Raman imaging: enhancing sensitivity and molecular insight
Adrian Colazo,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Wei Group),
Caltech,
12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Linear Relativistic effects in Galaxy Clustering
Yunfei (Robin) Wen,
Graduate Student,
The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Social Sciences History Seminar
This seminar has been postponed.
Wei Xiong,
John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance and Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Transcription and Splicing Specificity Through Kinetic Proofreading
Daniel Larson,
Chief, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression; Head, Systems Biology of Gene Expression; Co-Chair, Trans-NIH Myeloid Malignancies Program,
Center for Cancer Research,
National Institutes of Health,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Electrochemical Direct Air Capture: In Space, On Land, and Under Sea
Yushan Yan,
Henry Belin du Pont Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Delaware,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Optical cavities for bioimaging, atom interferometers, and trapping molecules
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, May 15th, 2026
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development and Exploration of Electrochemical Cascades for Titanium-Mediated Nitrogen Reduction to Ammonia
Channing Klein,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Manthiram Group),
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
c=1 strings as a matrix integral
Victor Rodriguez,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Phantom codes: Entangling logical qubits without physical operations
Jin Ming Koh,
Harvard,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Abiotic Strategies and C-H Functionalization toward Natural Product Total Synthesis and Studies toward CNS-Penetrant Drug Derivatives
Camila Suarez,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Stoltz Group),
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium
Scott Jackson,
Associate Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Reductive Carbonyl Functionalization Driven by Ligand Non-Innocence
Nathan Friede,
Graduate Student (Reisman Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Complex fault architecture and heterogeneous stresses profoundly affect earthquake mechanics
Greg McLaskey,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Cornell University,
6:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, May 16th, 2026
9:00am
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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