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Monday, February 23rd, 2026
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Planets in binary star systems
Thomas Baycroft, Siyuan fellow, Tsung-Dao Lee institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ernest H. Swift Lecture Series

Sustainable Production of Reduced Phosphorus Compounds
Christopher (Kit) Cummins, Henry Drefus Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

"Advances in the Forecasting of Man-made and Natural Earthquakes"
Jean-Philippe Avouac, Earle C. Anthony Professor of Geology and Mechanical and Civil Engineering Director, Center for Geomechanics and Mitigation of Geohazards, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Generative Design via Optimal Transport for Shape and Field Exploration
Charbel Farhat, Vivian Church Hoff Professor, School of Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Dynamical Love Numbers for Black Holes and Beyond from Shell Effective Field Theory
Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, CERN,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History Seminar

For Want of a Bale: Equine Energy in the American Civil War
Ariel Ron, Glenn M. Linden Associate Professor of the U.S. Civil War Era and Director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Designing quantum matter with light
Daniel Kaplan, Department of Physics, Rutgers University,
Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Extremal questions on independent sets, colorings, and graph homomorphisms
Jaehyeon Seo, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Yonsei University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Informal Chemical Physics Seminar

Towards in-vivo acousto-optic imaging of biological tissues
Dr. Maïmouna Bocoum, Researcher, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Institut Langevin ESPCI Paris Université PSL,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Miscibility of major planet forming materials at high pressure and temperature
Lars Stixrude, Professor, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History Seminar

Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States
Emilie Connolly, Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Large deviations in random graphs
Wojciech Samotij, Professor, Mathematics, Tel Aviv University,
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
9:00am 10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Utilizing Mass Transport To Enhance CO2 Conversion to Multi-Carbon Products
Matthew Salazar, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Agapie Lab), Caltech,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours

Online Event
Bridging the Gap: Supporting Election Stakeholders at the Intersection of Administration, Technology, and Security
Mike Moser, Founder of Moser Solutions LLC,
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Physics at a high energy plasma wakefield collider
Simon Knapen, LBNL, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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EE & MedE Distinguished Speaker Seminar, Richard J. Cote

Beyond Seeing: AI and the Digital Pathology Revolution
Richard J. Cote, MD, FRCPath, FCAP, The Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor and the immediate past Chair of the Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Manifold classification from a descriptive viewpoint
Jeffrey Bergfalk, Ph.D. Candidate, Mathematics, University of Barcelona,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Special QM Seminar

From Berry phase to fractionalized electrons and topological superconductivity
Liang Fu, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:30pm 1:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Excitability in quantum field theory
Jackie Caminiti, Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe: from Luminous Quasars to the Little Red Dots
Xiaohui Fan, Regents Professor of Astronomy, Astronomer, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter/Materials Science Research Lecture

Design of novel oxide quantum materials
Julia Mundy, Associate Professor, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Thursday, February 26th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

"Hydrogel Encapsulation of Sentinel Cells for Noninvasive Ultrasound Imaging of Inflammation"
Elizabeth (Liz) Hughes, Graduate Student, Shapiro Group,
2:30pm 3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra & Geometry Seminar (1/2)

SYZ mirror symmetry for non-Fano Hirzebruch surfaces
Honghao Jing, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Harvard University,
3:30pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Autonomous learning and design of proteins
Philip Romero, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

ZAK activation at the colliding ribosome
Rachel Green, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra & Geometry Seminar (2/2)

TBD
Alekos Robotis, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Ordinary primes for GL_2 type abelian varieties
Tian Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mathematics, Concordia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
First-Principles AI for Quantum Matter
Liang Fu, Professor of Physics, Condensed matter Theory, MIT,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Theodore Y. Wu and Chin-Hua Wu Lecture

How to Improve the Performance of an Airtanker Drop
Dominique Legendre, Professor, Fluid Mechanics, Toulouse INP, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse,
Friday, February 27th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
New insights into holographic entropy inequalities
Veronika Hubeny, UC Davis,
11:00am 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Structural characterization of a filament-forming prokaryotic Argonaute protein
Katelyn Radford, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Towards sample-optimal learning of bosonic Gaussian quantum states
Senrui Chen, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill group,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Behcet Acikmese, Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Determining the c-value in the modified Omori's law for early aftershock decay following moderate-size earthquakes at interplate and intraplate regions
Zhigang Peng, Professor of Geophysics, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology,
8:00pm 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Revealing the Primordial Universe Through Its Oldest Light
W. L. Kimmy Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, February 28th, 2026
Sunday, March 1st, 2026
Monday, March 2nd, 2026
3:45pm 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

James K. McCusker, Joseph Zichis Endowed Chair and MSU Research Foundation Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Stable and Unstable Objects in the PDE Analysis of the Navier-Stokes Equations
Vladimir Sverak, Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Junwu Huang, Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Solvable models of quantum annealing
Nikolai Sinitsyn, Nikolai Sinitsyn, CNLS Postdoctoral Research Associate, CNLS, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
9:00am 11:30am
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Version Control with Git

Online Event
  • Internal Event
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Sohini Ramachandran

Variations on a theme of structure: leveraging recent relatedness and mixed-membership clustering to gain insights from high-dimensional genomics datasets
Sohini Ramachandran, Professor, Biology and Data Science, Brown University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Scalable Arrays From Millimeter-Wave Sensing to Microwave Wireless Power Transfer
Alex Ayling, Graduate student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Timothy Clements, Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Topic to be announced
Alberto Abadie, Professor of Economics, MIT,