Institute Calendar
September 2026
Monday, September 21st, 2026
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Mysterious Pulsar X-ray Filaments: Observational and Theoretical Advances/Precise Masses and Radii for Metal-Poor Eclipsing Binaries
Jack Dinsmore,
PhD candidate,
Stanford University,
Dom Rowan,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"The Physical and Chemical Lifecycle of Acetylene and its Relatives on Titan"
Jonathan Lunine,
Professor of Planetary Science & Chief Scientist,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech & Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Enhanced Correlations in Hawking Radiation from Near-Extremal Collapse
Per Kraus,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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Thursday, September 24th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:10pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Probing Baryon Feedback with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effects and Weak Lensing
Henry Liu,
Graduate student,
Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Friday, September 25th, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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4:45pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Ringdown from Eccentric Binary Black Hole Coalescences in the Extreme Mass Ratio Regime
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Saturday, September 26th, 2026
5:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Monday, September 28th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Constant Stress Experiments Reveal the Mechanics of Creep and Earthquakes"
Greg Hirth,
Vice President for Research,
Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Relax, it's stable! Superconductivity and kinetics of electron-phonon systems at strong coupling
Noga Bashan,
Condensed Matter Physics,
Weizmann Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar - Israel Fernández
CRISPR, transposons and the role of RNAs as genomic targeting agents
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Confusion Caused by Artificial Intelligence: From the View of Philosophy of Science
Paul Song,
Professor of Physics and Director of the Space Science Laboratory,
Department of Physics,
University of Massachusetts Lowel,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Lessons from the Third Interstellar Object and Preparing for the Fourth"
Matthew Belyakov,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar, Prof. Ed Wu
Ultra-low-field MRI for Accessible Healthcare: A Future Driven by Computing?
Professor Ed X. Wu, PhD,
Lam Woo and Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
The University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seismolab Seminar: Greg Hirth (Brown University)
Rheology of the Interface between the Mantle Wedge and the Subducting Slab
Prof. Greg Hirth,
Vice President for Research, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences,
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Political Multipliers and Rapid Reversals: Understanding the Secularization of Canada
Benjamin Tremblay-Auger,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics and Society,
Chapman University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Observation of pairing in a Pfaffian quantum Hall state of ultracold bosons
Perrin Segura,
Harvard,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Influence of Bulk Composition and Lava Flows on the Long-Term Evolution of Venus
Diogo Lourenço,
Lecturer at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
ETH Zürich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DNA Storage and Computation Seminar
Storing Data in DNA: Are We There Yet?
Eitan Yaakobi,
Professor,
Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science,
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Do High Arctic Lakes Stratify in the Summer?
Jamie McFarlin,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geology and Geophysics,
University of Wyoming,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Simple-Looking but Non-Obvious Transformations for Late-Stage Modification