Upcoming Events
Monday, January 12th, 2026
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
New algorithms for the electric grid: the interplay between control, learning and economics
Baosen Zhang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington, Seattle,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Professor Wei Min
Lighting up chemical bonds for biomedicine
Wei Min, Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Columbia University,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Solving PDEs exactly over polynomials
Keaton Burns,
Principal Research Scientist of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT of Mathematics,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Sensing of Gravitational Frame-Dragging and Time Dilation with a Superfluid 4He Gyrometer
Kai Ellers,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Detecting and Quantifying Methane Emissions from Facility to Basin Scales Using Imaging Spectrometry
Steven Wofsy,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
2D Hole Gas at GaN/AlN interface – an Unprecedented Platform to Probe the Valence Band of GaN
Huili Grace Xing,
William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering,
Cornell,
Thursday, January 15th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Efficient Planning and Learning for Contact-rich Manipulation via Structured Exploration
Pang Tao,
Senior Research Scientist,
RAI Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Polina Anikeeva
Bioelectronics Tools to Probe Brain-Body Communication
Polina Anikeeva, PhD,
Matoula S. Salapatas Professor and Head Department of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Director, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center McGovern Institute for Brain Research Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, January 16th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Oracle Distillations and their Applications
Soonwoon Choi,
MIT,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Norton Simon Museum & Visual Culture Program Event
Off Campus
Film Screening | Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017), Directed by Bill Morrison
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
12:00pm
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
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Watson Lecture - Lead Contamination: An Old Foe Rises from the Ashes of the Eaton Fire, with Francois Tissot
Francois Tissot,
professor of geochemistry; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
- Public Event
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor W. Hong Yeo
Soft Wearable Intelligent Bioelectronics for Health Monitoring
W. Hong Yeo, Ph.D,
G.P. "Bud" Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Endowed Professor Harris Saunders, Jr. Endowed Professor of the Woodruff School,
Georgia Tech,
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
8:00am
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Aerospace Colloquium
Fluid Mechanics of the Dead Sea: Rise of the Salt Giants
Eckart Meiburg,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of California Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Aditya Varma Muppala, UC Berkeley
Affine Synthetic Arrays for Millimeter-wave Imaging and Metrology
Aditya Varma Muppala,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
UC Berkeley,
4:30pm
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7:00pm
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Norton Simon Museum & Visual Culture Program Event
Off Campus
Film Screening | The Hidden Fortress (1958), Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
12:00pm
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Thursday, January 29th, 2026
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Literary Dimensions & Visual Culture Program Seminar
From Text to Media
Anna Shechtman,
Assistant Professor of Literatures in English,
Cornell University,
Friday, January 30th, 2026
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
The Separation Aerodynamics of Idealized Fragmenting Meteoroids
Stuart Laurence,
Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Maryland, College Park,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Norton Simon Museum & Visual Culture Program Event
Off Campus
Film Screening | Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Directed by Werner Herzog
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
4:00pm
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
9:00am
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2/19
4:30am
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James K. Knowles Lectures and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
"Variational phase-field modeling of fracture: toward second-generation models"
Laura De Lorenzis,
Professor of Computational Mechanics,
ETH Zürich,
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
8:00am
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2/10
11:59pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
TBD
Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez,
visiting UC Santa Barbara, from ETH Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology,
Thursday, February 5th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, February 6th, 2026
3:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
Ann Karagozian,
Professor,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
TBD
Nicholas Boffi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Machine Learning and Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
TBD
Gary Parker,
TBD,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
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Friday, February 13th, 2026
3:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
Suhas Eswarappa Prameela,
Assistant Professor,
Metallurgical Engineering,
University of Utah,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
9:00am
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9:01am
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
TBD
Kirsten Findell,
TBD,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Thursday, February 19th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"The Inherent Resilience of Large Cities to Natural Hazards: Records, Evidence and Predictions"
Nicos Makris,
Professor of Structures and Mechanics, Addy Family Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Southern Methodist University,
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Colin Cook, PhD
Colin Cook, PhD,
CTO and Co-Founder,
XDEMICS Corporation,
Friday, February 20th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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Aerospace Colloquium
Manipulating Spectral Energy Flux in Turbulent Flows: Applications and Implications Across Scales
Lei Fang,
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Pittsburgh,
Monday, February 23rd, 2026
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Generative Design via Optimal Transport for Shape and Field Exploration
Charbel Farhat,
Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
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