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Friday, October 16th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Higher Berry Curvature of Crystalline Insulators: From Generalized Cohomology to Magnetoelectric Coupling
Niclas Heinsdorf, Humboldt Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Xiongwei Liu, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The Evolution and Fates of Massive Stars and Binaries: From Nuclear Burning to Explosive Outcomes
Aldana Grichener, Prize Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar

TBD
Ka Ho Wong, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Yale University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium

Towards a New School in Aerodynamics: Fluid Mechanics as a Minimization problem
Haithem Taha, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Matouš Vobořil

"Thymflammation: A novel concept of central immune tolerance"
Matouš Vobořil, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, Department of Cell Biology, Charles University in Prague,
Saturday, October 17th, 2026
10:30am – 11:30am
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Kavli Nanoscience Institute Special Lecture: 10 years of the KNI-Wheatley Scholarship in Nanoscience

Andrei Faraon, William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering and Fletcher Jones Foundation Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute., Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
Sunday, October 18th, 2026
Monday, October 19th, 2026
All Day
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Jackie Caminiti, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
9:30am – 10:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense

High-Precision Photoacoustic and Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy of the Oxygen A-Band in Support of Remote Sensing
Leah Stevenson, Graduate Student, Chemistry (Okumura Lab), Caltech,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Zihan Zhou, Princeton University,
2:15pm – 3:15pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar

Development of catalyst systems enabling sp3 C‒H functionalization reactions
Harunobu Mitsunuma, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Distilling Quantum Structure: Efficiently Simulating and Learning Quantum Systems
Taylor Patti, Research Manager, Quantum Simulation and AI Group, Nvidia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Ultrafast Optical Excitation of Antiferromagnetic or Inertial Magnons in 2D Magnets
Branislav K. Nikolic, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware,
4:00pm – 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
12:00pm – 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 – 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

Characterizing Faults and Avalanches – South Island, New Zealand Aotearoa
Dr. Meghan Miller, Australian National University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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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 – 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,
Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Seminar Series

From Light to Learning: Predicting Excited-State Dynamics at the Spectroscopic Frontier
Diana Qiu, Assistant Professor, Materials Science, Yale University,
4:00pm – 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 – 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 – 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,
Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
11:00am – 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,