Seminars
October 2025
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Beyond strain and rotation: What do velocity gradients reveal about turbulent flows?
Rahul Arun,
Foster and Coco Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Engineering Emergent Material Behaviors with Controlled Microstructures
Marcia A. Cooper,
Associate Professor,
J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Dr. Dion Khodagholy
Translational Neuroelectronics
Dion Khodagholy, Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Samueli School of Engineering,
University of California, Irvine,
Friday, October 3rd, 2025
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Mud flocculation and the global sediment cycle
Michael Lamb,
Professor,
Geology,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, October 6th, 2025
12:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Understanding the Networked Dynamics of technology adoption: Application to Pollution-Reducing cookstoves in Nepal
Juni Singh,
Visiting Associate in Social Sciences of Sustainability,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Analytical and computational methods for metamaterials
Jinghao Cao,
von Karman Instructor in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering: Trailblazer Seminar
"Bridging Air and Sea: Physics-Inspired Models for Wind-Wave Interactions"
Manuel Ayala,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
12:00pm
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EE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Intelligent Decision-Making: Towards Higher Efficiency and Broader Applicability
4:00pm
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Aerospace Department - EAS Trailblazers Seminar
Understanding Thermo-Chemo-Mechanical Failure in Hypersonic Flight through Large-Scale Simulation
Daniel Pickard,
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.,
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CMS Trailblazer Symposium - Qianying Cao
Research Seminar Characterization and Inverse Design of Stochastic Mechanical Metamaterials Using Neural Operators
4:00pm
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ESE Trailblazer Symposium
Sensitivity of the ocean circulation to the rate of atmospheric CO2 increase
Camille Hankel,
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington,
4:00pm
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MedE : EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Systems Immunoengineering of Living Therapeutics for Solid Tumors: From Biomanufacturing to Tumor Microenvironment Adaptation
Yapeng Su,
Ph.D.,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"The "Underestimated" Unseen in Digital Image Correlation: Digital Twin in Material Identification, Full-Field Model Validation and Fracture Mechanics"
Pascal Lava,
Managing Director,
MatchID,
12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Could modern CMOS ICs provide a platform for quantum sensors, computers and simulators?
Friday, October 10th, 2025
10:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Prethermal dynamical regimes and resonant melting in quenched quantum matter
Alexey Khudorozhkov,
Boston University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The fluid-structure interaction of nanoparticles
John Sader,
Research Professor,
Aerospace & Applied Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, October 13th, 2025
10:00am
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Mathematics and AI
Sergei G. Gukov,
Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics,
The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
10:00am
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Lagrangian Dual Sections: A Topological View of Hidden Convexity
Kevin Shu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Mind the Carbon Gap: Bridging Observations and Process-Based Understanding for Land Surface Modeling Innovation
Renato Braghiere,
Caltech/JPL,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
What happened here?: Reconstructing stress history in ceramics with complex deformation pathways
Corinne Packard,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering & Materials Science,
University of Southern California,
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Compression-Driven Gas-Liquid Displacement"
Chris MacMinn,
Professor,
Department of Engineering Science,
University of Oxford,
12:00pm
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Friday, October 17th, 2025
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Engineering Coupled Quantum Interfaces for Superconducting Quantum Technologies
Hung-Yu Yang,
UCLA,
Monday, October 20th, 2025
8:15am
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2025
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Fast Upper-Level Jet Stream Winds Get Faster Under Climate Change
Tiffany Shaw,
University of Chicago,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Molecules, Mysteries, and the Matter of Existence, with Nick Hutzler
Nick Hutzler,
assistant professor of physics,
- Public Event
Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
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David G. Goodwin Memorial Lecture
The Challenges, Mysteries, and Promises of Metal Combustion
Nick Glumac,
Shao Lee Soo Professor,
Mechanical Science and Engineering Department,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Friday, October 24th, 2025
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Digital quantum simulation and error correction frontier with atom arrays
Simon Evered,
Harvard,
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Making robots trustworthy: Understanding risk and uncertainty for safe autonomy
Anushri Dixit,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Monday, October 27th, 2025
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Attributing Intensified Fire Weather And Droughts In The Western United States using An Observation-based Machine Learning Approach
Rong Fu,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Thursday, October 30th, 2025
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing for Shape-Morphing Structures and 4D Printing"
Jerry Qi,
Woodruff Endowed Professor,
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,