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Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
4:30pm 5:30pm
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Everhart Lecture Series: John Lathrop

John Lathrop, Fifth Year PhD Student, Department of Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
  • Public Event
Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Atmospheric Gravity Waves: New Observations, High-Resolution Simulations, and Data-Informed Methods
Aditi Sheshadri, Assistant Professor of Earth System Science and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Atomic-Scale Imaging of Interfacial Structure, Charge, and Phonon Dynamics
Xiaoqing Pan, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine,
Thursday, April 9th, 2026
11:00am 4:01pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Safety Filters for Autonomous Systems: When They Misbehave and How to Fix Them
Pol Mestres, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Michael Levin

Online Event
Bioelectric signaling network underlie cellular collective behavior in embryogenesis, regeneration, and cancer
Professor Michael Levin, Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University and Director of the Allen Discovery Center,
Friday, April 10th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Convergent Equilibrium Learning through Risk-aversion
Yizhou Zhang, Graduate Student, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Processing massive classical data on small quantum computers
Haimeng Zhao, Huang and Preskill groups,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Unravelling hydrogen-material interactions: a challenge across scales and disciplines
Emilio Martinez Paneda, Associate Professor, Engineering Science, Oxford University,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Non-Hermitian skin effect in resonator systems
Silvio Barandun, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Integrating Multi-Scale Data to Constrain Forest Biomass Stocks and Dynamics
Xiangtao Xu, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Autonomous Experiments and Accessible Automation for Soft Matter Research
Lilo Pozzo, Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Washington,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Autonomous Experiments and Accessible Automation for Soft Matter Research
Lilo Pozzo, Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Washington,
Thursday, April 16th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Recent Progress on Liquid Jet Atomization
Stéphane Zaleski, Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Sorbonne Université,
Friday, April 17th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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3:00pm 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Multiphysics Simulations on GPUs using high-order finite elements
Robert Rieben, Computational Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Monday, April 20th, 2026
9:00am 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Nano-architected Composites Across Scales and Strain Rates
Kevin Nakahara, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
12:00pm 2:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Elasto-Plastic Stochasticity: The Role of Atomic Level Fluctuations on Mesoscale Deformation Properties in Complex Alloys
Jaime Marian, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
Friday, April 24th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Emulating the Bose-Hubbard Model with Arrays of Superconducting Qubits
William Oliver, Director of the Center for Quantum Engineering, MIT,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Carlos Alejandro Pantano-Rubino, Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California,
Saturday, April 25th, 2026
Monday, April 27th, 2026
Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
7:30pm 8:30pm
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POSTPONED: Watson Lecture - Sarkis Mazmanian

Sarkis Mazmanian, Luis B. and Nelly Soux professor of microbiology; Merkin Institute Professor,
  • Public Event
Thursday, April 30th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Robots That Learn To Model The World By Playing
Anirudha Majumdar, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) department, Princeton University,
Friday, May 1st, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Topic to be announced
Lauren Conger, Graduate Student, Department of Control & Dynamical Systems, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Maine Christos, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Hypervelocity Water Entry and Free Flight Experiments
Bryan Schmidt, Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University,
Saturday, May 2nd, 2026
Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

TBA
Nicholas Nelsen, Klarman Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Thursday, May 7th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

No Small Measure: Using Nanostructure to Create Materials with Superior Toughness
Lucas Meza, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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MedE Distinquished Seminar Series, Adam Cohen

Professor Adam Cohen, John P. Reardon, Jr., Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics, Department of Physics, Harvard University,