Institute Calendar
October 2026
Monday, October 12th, 2026
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Informal Seminar - Shosei Yoshida
"Spatiotemporal dynamics of mammalian spermatogenesis: from stem cells to tissue organization"
Shosei Yoshida,
National Institute for Basic Biology,
Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Topic to be announced
Shiyu (Jake) Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
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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Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Seminar - Stanislav Shvartsman
TBD
Stanislav Shvartsman,
Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Biology Symposium
10AM: Yael David Shternberg,
Associate Member, Chemical Biology,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, October 15th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Bridging Scales in Mechanics: Integrating Data-Rich Experiments with Symmetry-Aware Scientific Machine Learning
Samantha Daly,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Contantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Madeline (Maddy) Murphy,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Statistical mechanics of classical and quantum computation
Alexander Zlokapa,
PhD Candidate,
Center for Theoretical Physics,
MIT,
Friday, October 16th, 2026
9:00am
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10/18
3:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Vignesh Bhethanabotla,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
Aldana Grichener,
Prize Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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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
9:00am
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7:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Kavli Nanoscience Institute Special Lecture: KNI-Wheatley Scholarship
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,
Monday, October 19th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of catalyst systems enabling sp3 C‒H functionalization reactions
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Ultrafast Optical Excitation of Antiferromagnetic or Inertial Magnons in 2D Magnets
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lectureship in Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
'Water and Weathering - The Two Towers'
Niels Hovius,
Professor, Institute for Earth and Environment Sciences,
Department of Geomorphology, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences,
University of Potsdam,
Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
9:00am
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2:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Topic to be announced
Egor Stoyan,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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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
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
TBD
Douglas Hamilton,
Asst Professor Aerosol, Earth System Modelling, Wildfires, Biogeochemical Cycles,
Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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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,
Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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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,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Topic to be announced
Camila Farres Rodriguez,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, October 23rd, 2026
2:00pm
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Sunday, October 25th, 2026
9:00am
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10/26
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