Institute Calendar
November 2026
Monday, November 16th, 2026
8:15am
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12:30pm
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2:30pm
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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
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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,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2026
9:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:15pm
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1:15pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
All Day
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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Astronomy Colloquium
Juno, Jupiter, and jupiters: How a low cost planetary mission has revolutionized our understanding of giant planets
Jonathan Lunine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
TBD
Ian Eisenman,
Professor,
Scripps Institution of Oceanograpy,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Marisa C. Kozlowski,
Ponzy Lu Endowed Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, November 19th, 2026
12:00am
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Ongoing
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9:30am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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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,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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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
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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
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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
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
"Cellular Electrochemistry Powered by Phase Transitions"
Friday, November 20th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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Special ChE Seminar
"Marangoni-Driven Flows and Instabilities: From Droplets to Interfaces"
Hyoungsoo Kim,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
KAIST,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Rocking Out to Heavy Metals: Improving Radiative Transfer Modeling of R-Process Transients
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium
Setthivoine You,
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist,
Helicity Space,
Saturday, November 21st, 2026
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2026
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2026
10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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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Wednesday, November 25th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:15pm
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Thursday, November 26th, 2026
12:00am
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11/27
11:59pm
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7:00am
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11/27
5:00pm
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Friday, November 27th, 2026
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, November 30th, 2026
8:00am
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Ongoing
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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