Institute Calendar
Week of February 22, 2026
Sunday, February 22nd, 2026
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, February 23rd, 2026
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:15pm
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3:00pm
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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
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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
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
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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
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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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,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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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,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
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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
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Large deviations in random graphs
Wojciech Samotij,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Tel Aviv University,
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
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
Utilizing Mass Transport To Enhance CO2 Conversion to Multi-Carbon Products
Matthew Salazar,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Agapie Lab),
Caltech,
11:00am
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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
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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
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12:50pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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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
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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1:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Excitability in quantum field theory
Jackie Caminiti,
Perimeter Institute,
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
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
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Chasing Sustainable Battery Chemistries for the Future with Kimberly See
Kimberly See,
professor of chemistry,
- Public Event
Thursday, February 26th, 2026
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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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,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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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
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
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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
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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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,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Senrui Chen,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
Behcet Acikmese,
Professor,
Aeronautics & Astronautics,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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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,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 28th, 2026
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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