Institute Calendar
October 2026
Friday, October 23rd, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Breakdown Model: from Disorder-free Glass to SPT
Biao Lian,
Princeton,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quasi-periodic eruptions: new transient probes of stars near supermassive black holes
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminars
Relating the Colored Jones Polynomial to Hyperbolic Volume Through Categorification
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium
Bridging rigorous methods with machine learning to build safe and intelligent autonomy
Chuchu Fan,
School of Engineering Leonardo Career Development Chair,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Quantitative chemical imaging with vibrational microscopy
Philip Kocheril, Graduate Student (Wei Group),
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 24th, 2026
11:00am
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12:30pm
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Sunday, October 25th, 2026
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, October 26th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:15pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Moduli-Space Laplacians, Asymptotic Geometry, and the Emergent String Conjecture
Alex Stewart,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Big Pulsations in Small Stars: The Remarkable Population of Large-Amplitude Hot-Subdwarf Pulsators/The Fraction of Bound Stars as a Function of Age within 500 pc
Corey Bradshaw,
PhD Candidate,
University of Hamburg,
Andrew Boyle,
PhD Candidate,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Distinguished Lecture Series
Computer Architecture in the Age of Agentic AI
William J. Dally,
Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research at NVIDIA Corporation and an Adjunct Professor and former chair of Computer Science at Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Where did life begin?
Benjamin Tutolo,
Professor of Earth, Energy, and Environment,
Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment,
University of Calgary,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Global structure, local constraints, and quantum advantage --- Multiplying quantum states to solve classical problems
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Crystal electric-field effect in rare-earth insulating magnets and its implications for thermal transport under magnetic field
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Multi-Text Representation Learning for Patent Validity Prediction
Nghia Tran Pham,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
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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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS/NB Seminar - Cliff Ragsdale
"Patterning and proprioception in the octopus arm"
Cliff Ragsdale,
Professor of Neurobiology,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
The Frozen Foundations of Solar Systems: Probing Icy Volatile Chemistry in the Earliest Stages of Star + Planet Formation with JWST
Katerina Slavicinska,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Fiscal Legibility and State Development (Elements in Political Economy)
Emily Sellars,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Yale University,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
12:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CANCELED: Linde Institute 15th Anniversary Seminar Series
This seminar has been canceled.
Ulrike Malmendier,
Cora Jane Flood Professor of Finance,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Bootstrapping String Theory from (Peculiar) Symmetries
Aidan Herderschee,
Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Star Formation at the Galactic Center
Tuan Do,
Associate Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Fate of Subducted Waters: Examples of Transport and Transformation Below the Mixed Layer
Leah Johnson,
Principle Oceanographer,
Applied Physics Laboratory, (APL),
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Ni-catalyzed functionalization of sp3 C-H bonds
Ruben Martin,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Seminar Series
Information-theoretic entropy imaging of quantum matter
5:30pm
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10/29
4:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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