Institute Calendar
May 2026
Thursday, May 28th, 2026
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Skin-inspired Electronic Polymer Design
Zhenan Bao,
K. K. Lee Professor, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering, of Chemistry, and of Bioengineering,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures 3/3
The extreme off-diagonal Ramsey numbers: New progress on R(3,k)
Julian Sahasrabudhe,
Professor,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS),
University of Cambridge,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Special CMX Seminar
The Star Geometry of Regularizer Learning
Oscar Leong,
Assistant Professor,
Statistics and Data Science department,
University of California, Los Angeles,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, May 29th, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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9:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Computational Design of Protein-Based Biosensors for Nicotine
Nick Friesenhahn,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Mayo Lab),
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A bootstrap framework for equilibrium, nonequilibrium, and disorder
Minjae Cho,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Resource-efficient quantum matrix processing
Samson Wang,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar (1/3)
The Utility of Tangle Decompositions
Allison H. Moore,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics,
Virginia Commonwealth University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Discrete Shell Methods for Stimuli-Responsive and Deployable Structures: Buckling, Bistability, and Topology Optimization
Sathvik Sanagala,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Engineering Ultrasonic Reporters for Imaging Various Cellular Enzyme Activity
Jee Won Yang,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Shapiro Group),
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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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar
Closed-loop Bioelectronics: From Sensing to Therapy
Saransh Sharma,
Incoming Assistant Professor,
University of Cambridge, UK,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Sea level and ice sheet stability during past (and future) warming
Jacky Austermann,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Columbia University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Images of the Hidden Universe
Katie Bouman,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Departments of Electrical Engineering and Astronomy,
Caltech,
Saturday, May 30th, 2026
8:00am
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Ongoing
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Sunday, May 31st, 2026
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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