Institute Calendar
October 2026
Monday, October 19th, 2026
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Inner Horizon Saddles and a Spectral KSW Criterion
Jackie Caminiti,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:15pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Bootstrapping Hidden Symmetries
Zihan Zhou,
Princeton University,
2:15pm
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3:15pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of catalyst systems enabling sp3 C‒H functionalization reactions
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Oryna Ivashtenko,
PhD candidate,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Anthony Englert,
Postdoc,
Brown University & UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Ultrafast Optical Excitation of Antiferromagnetic or Inertial Magnons in 2D Magnets
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lectureship in Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
'The Crumbling Watertower'
Niels Hovius,
Professor, Institute for Earth and Environment Sciences,
Department of Geomorphology, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences,
University of Potsdam,
Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
8:15am
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12:30pm
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9:00am
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Connecting models with data: inverse problems, their well-posedness and computational techniques
Kathrin Hellmuth,
von Karman Instructor in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Coordination Without Shared Meanings: Experimental Evidence from the Rendezvous Problem
Egor Stoyan,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Characterizing Faults and Avalanches – South Island, New Zealand Aotearoa
Dr. Meghan Miller,
Australian National University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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BBE Division Seminar - Justin Crocker
Exploring biological design space: from perturbations to phenotypes
Justin Crocker,
Group Leader,
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Exoplanet System Age as a New Dimension of Giant Planet Formation, Structure, and Evolution"
Stephen Schmidt,
PhD Candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Shadow of Influence: Agenda Setting, Vote Buying, and Legislative Coalitions
Andre Van Parys,
Research Fellow, Hoover Institute,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
The Complexity of the Quasi-Isometry Relation for Finitely Generated Groups
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Rethinking the Lifecycle of Interstellar Dust
Brandon Hensley,
Scientist,
JPL,
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Pyrocene: Burning Through the Earth System
Douglas Hamilton,
Asst Professor Aerosol, Earth System Modelling, Wildfires, Biogeochemical Cycles,
Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Fat foraging: how pathogenic bacteria construct unusual cell envelopes
Laura M.K. Dassama,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Microbiology and Immunology,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Preferences for Risk, Intertemporal Substitution, and Temporal Resolution of Risk
Mu Zhang,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Seminar Series
From Light to Learning: Predicting Excited-State Dynamics at the Spectroscopic Frontier
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Mechanical design in the age of AI
Antoine Jerusalem,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering/Fellow at St Hugh's College,
Department of Engineering Science,
University of Oxford,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Developing human-applicable gene therapy: safe and purpose-specific AAVs"
Seongmin Jang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Gradinaru Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Behavioral Incentive Compatibility and Personalization
Camila Farres Rodriguez,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:05pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Dust-shrouded Cosmology Surveys: Impact of Milky Way Extinction on Galaxy Clustering and SNIa Cosmology
Tanveer Karim,
Postdoc,
University of Toronto,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Algebra, Geometry, & Number Theory Seminar
Independence of tautological classes and cohomological stability for strata of differentials
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
"Beyond "healthy vs. sick": clues on how to make stable isotopes actually useful in medicine"
Esther Lahoud-Heilbronner,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector Arrays for Time-Resolved Imaging and Infrared Detection
Matthew Shaw,
Senior Research Scientist, Supervisor of the Superconductive Materials and Devices Group,
JPL,