Seminars
January 2026
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Monday, January 5th, 2026
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
9:00am
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Basal melt rates in the Ice Grounding Zones (IGZ)
Ratnakar Gadi,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Thursday, January 8th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Characterizing and Utilizing Terrain Responses for Robot-aided Earth and Planetary Explorations
Feifei Qian,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Southern California,
Friday, January 9th, 2026
9:00am
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10:00am
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Medical Engineering Defense, Xin Tong
Advanced Imaging with Sound and Light: Photoacoustic Tomography and Quantum Microscopy
Xin Tong,
MedE/EE PhD Candidate,
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering,
Caltech (Advised by Professor Lihong Wang-COIL Lab),
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Limitations of Noisy Geometrically Local Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar,
University of Maryland,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
Emergent Functionality Through 3D Architected Electronic Materials
Xiaoyu Zheng,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Berkeley,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Norton Simon Museum & Visual Culture Program Event
Off Campus
Film Screening | The Gold Rush (1925), Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Monday, January 12th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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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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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Computation-Protected Phases of Matter
Soonwon Choi,
MIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
The Physics of Purposeful Biological Dynamics
Rob Phillips,
Professor,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
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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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
New linear response formulas with applications to variational data assimilation and generative SDE models
2:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Analytical Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes and Information Content from Satellite Data
Hannah Nesser,
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Artificial oxide quantum heterostructures and twisted membranes
Honyung Lee, PhD,
Corporate Fellow and Senior Advisor,
Materials Science and Technology Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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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
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Nonholonomic Stabilization and Pursuit-Evasion: Not-so-hard After All
Miroslav Krstić,
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Advances in Low-Noise, High-Speed SiGe BiCMOS for LEO Satellite Communications and Optical Interconnects
Pascal Chevalier,
PhD,
Analog/RF Technology Architect and Fellow of Technical Staff, STMicroelectronics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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
Monday, January 26th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Resilient Autonomy: Perception and Planning for Dynamic, Unknown Environments
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Seeing and Shaping Quantum Matter at the Atomic Scale
Jane Park,
PhD Candidate,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A World Tour of Nitrite: Revealing the Ocean's Invisible Chemistry
Mariana Bif,
Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science,
University of Miami,
Thursday, January 29th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Homogenizing Origami and Kirigami Metamaterials
Paul Plucinsky,
Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
Friday, January 30th, 2026
12:00pm
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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