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Wednesday, November 11th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

TBD
Erin Baker, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Peter B. Dervan Lecture

Glycan Recognition in Health and Disease
Laura Kiessling, Novartis Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, MIT,
Thursday, November 12th, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

David Blunck, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, College of Engineering/Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar

"Ingredients for the secret sauce of flies" and "From foe to friend: rove beetles and the chemosensory basis of ant host-seeking behaviors"
Michael Dickinson, Professor, BBE, Caltech,
Hayley Smihula, Graduate Student, BBE, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Bin He

Professor Bin He, Trustee Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Ray Jayawarhana, President; Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair; Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,
Friday, November 13th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Laura Lewis, University of California, Berkeley,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium

Damage-tolerant structural materials for extreme environments
David Cook, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Saturday, November 14th, 2026
Sunday, November 15th, 2026
Monday, November 16th, 2026
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Zachary Bogorad, Fermilb,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Special ChE Seminar

Active Polymers in Porous Media: Activity-Driven Conformational and Transport Dynamics
Rajarshi Chakrabarti, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

"Thermal and thermodynamic perspectives on forming lithium-rich granites"
Owen Weller-Gibbs, Professor of Metamorphic Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge,
Tuesday, November 17th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Elucidating Charge, Spin, and Solvation Dynamics at Electrochemical Interfaces
L. Robert Baker, Phyllis and Richard Leet Endowed Chair, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Seminar - Eric Batchelor

p53 dynamics and the regulation of cell stress responses in single cells
Eric Batchelor, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota,
Wednesday, November 18th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Juno, Jupiter, and jupiters: How a low cost planetary mission has revolutionized our understanding of giant planets
Jonathan Lunine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

TBD
Ian Eisenman, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanograpy, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Marisa C. Kozlowski, Ponzy Lu Endowed Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania,
Thursday, November 19th, 2026
10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Information-efficient representations for genomics data
Nikhila Swarna, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

This seminar has been postponed.
Trevor Teitel, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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David G. Goodwin Memorial Lecture

"From Breathing Rocks to Sustainable Technologies: How Microbes Wire the Biotic-Abiotic Interface"
Moh El-Naggar, Dean's Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Physics, Biological Sciences, and Chemistry, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Sridevi Sarma

Professor Sridevi (Sri) Sarma, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Vice Dean for Graduate Education at the Whiting School of Engineering, and Associate Director, Institute for Computational Medicine, John Hopkins University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering

"Cellular Electrochemistry Powered by Phase Transitions"
Yifan Dai, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University,