Seminars
April 2026
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Building a new era of atom-by-atom materials characterization with electron ptychography
Pinshane Y. Huang,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Heuristics of Plant Water-Use and the Problem of Scale
Emma Reich,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
11:00am
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3:49pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Data-Driven Modeling of Turbulent Flows: Nonlinear Modal Dynamics and Transient Forecasting
Oliver Schmidt,
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
Friday, April 3rd, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Finite Time Bounds for Robust Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation
Yashaswini Murthy,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
From Fractionalization to Superconductivity in Flat Chern Bands — And What AI Enables Next
Ahmed Abouelkomsan,
MIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium
When waves are important, what is the best constitutive law for impact mitigation and how can we realize it?
Nicholas Boechler,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
Monday, April 6th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Toward a Science of Auditing AI-Mediated Information Ecosystems
Chara Podimata,
Class of 1942 Career Development Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Statistics,
MIT,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Convergence Analysis of Deep Galerkin Methods for solving PDEs and Adjoint-optimized Neural-Network PDE Models
12:00pm
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
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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
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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,
4:15pm
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5:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, April 9th, 2026
11:00am
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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
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1:00pm
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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
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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
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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
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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,
Monday, April 13th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Optimization by Decoded Quantum Interferometry
Stephen Jordan,
Research Scientist,
Google Quantum AI,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Controlling and Interrogating Matter at the Fundamental Limits of Space and Time
Mohammed Th. Hassan,
University of Arizona,
12:00pm
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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,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
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2:00pm
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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
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Autonomous Experiments and Accessible Automation for Soft Matter Research
Thursday, April 16th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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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,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, April 17th, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum eigenvalue processing
Yuan Su,
AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu 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
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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,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Adventures in Building Structure into Models: Lessons from Constructing Euclidean Neural Networks for Physics
Tess Smidt,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
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2:00pm
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Medical Engineering Defense, Canran Wang
Smart Bandages for Chronic Wound Sampling, Monitoring, and Management
Canran Wang, PhD Candidate,
Medical Engineering Department,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
9:30am
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3:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Chemistry in condensed matter: from nuclear quantum effects to detonations
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Distinguished Materials Seminar Series
Intersection of Solid-State Ionics, Chemistry and Physics in Intercalation Compounds
William Chueh,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science & Engineering & of Energy Science & Engineering,
Stanford University,
Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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