Institute Calendar
July 2026
Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Development of sensitive aluminum MKIDs for submillimeter and far-IR spectroscopy
Elijah Kane,
Graduate Student,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
Friday, July 3rd, 2026
All Day
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Science Tuesdays: Hannah Way
Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar
How Microbes Paint the Earth
Hannah Way,
Gradaute student, Resnick Graduate Scholar,
Caltech,
Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
11:00am
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:15pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, July 10th, 2026
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Engineering Multi-Protein Assemblies with Machine Learning and Experimental Optimization
Ishaan Dev,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Shapiro Lab),
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Monday, July 13th, 2026
9:30am
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11:30am
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
9:30am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seismo Lab Seminar
Factors affecting the stability of slip on faults – a view from the lab
Dan Faulkner,
Professor in Geology and Geophysics,
University of Liverpool,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Science Tuesdays: Smruthi Karthikeyan
Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar
Smruthi Karthikeyan,
Gordon and Carol Treweek Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; William H. Hurt Scholar,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
9:00am
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10:00am
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9:30am
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11:30am
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Thursday, July 16th, 2026
9:30am
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11:30am
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12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
A combined X-ray and SZ analysis of filamentary gas surrounding the Abell 3391/3395 system
Delaney White,
Graduate Student,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, July 17th, 2026
9:30am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Special ChE Seminar
Learning to Phase-Separate: Contrastive Representation Learning as Active Matter
Tianhao Li,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
NYU,
Monday, July 20th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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Special Seismo Lab Seminar
Evidence of Aseismic Slip and Slip-Induced Permeability Enhancement on a Fault Activated by Hydraulic Stimulation in EGS
Taeho Kim (Stanford University),
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Energy Science & Engineering (ESE),
Stanford University,
Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
8:00am
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5:30pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Science Tuesdays: Dieter Baumgartner
Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar
The Marine Snowball Event—How Encounters Shape Carbon Export
Dieter Baumgartner,
Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in Geobiology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
10:00am
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11:30am
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3:00pm
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4:15pm
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Special ChE Seminar
From Microstructure to Macroscopic Flow in Disordered Materials
Sarah Hormozi,
Associate Professor,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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5:12pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar
"Passive drive: Harnessing evolutionary pressure as a non-transgenic method for removing conjugative virulent plasmids" and "Sweet Talk: Bacterial small RNAs as Key Mediators of Inter-Kingdom Communication in the Bobtail Squid"
12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Hunting Systematics in the Spherical Fourier-Bessel Basis: fNL from eBOSS LRGs and QSOs
Sean Bruton,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Physics,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
Friday, July 24th, 2026
11:45am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Special Seminar
Model Discovery in Mechanics: From Conventional to Data-Driven Methods
Adeline Wihardja,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, July 25th, 2026
4:00pm
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9:00pm
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6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Science and Sunsets
Kerckhoff Marine Lab, 101 Dahlia Ave, Corona del Mar
Deep Sea GAStronomy: Animal Microbiome Hacks for Life in Extreme Environments
Dr. Shana Goffredi,
Chair of the Biology Department,
Occidental College,
Sunday, July 26th, 2026
4:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, July 27th, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Special ChE Seminar
The Mechanical Strategies of Bacterial Pathogens
Alex Persat,
Associate Professor,
EPFL,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Exotic Quantum Statistics in 1D Bose Gases
Yi Zeng,
University of Innsbruck,