Seminars
October 2026
Thursday, October 1st, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Building the Tools for a New Generation of Intelligent Ionic Materials
Max Tepermeister,
Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Friday, October 2nd, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium
Unraveling interactions between extreme-scale wind power systems and stratified, turbulent environmental flows
Michael F. Howland,
Jeffrey Cheah Career Development Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Monday, October 5th, 2026
12:11pm
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1:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Singularity Formation in 3D Euler and Nonuniqueness in Unforced 3D Navier–Stokes: Computer-Assisted Proofs
Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering: Trailblazer Seminar
Autonomous Robotic Endovascular Navigation via Imitation Learning
Noah Barnes,
PhD Candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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MedE : EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Biointegrated electronics for disease monitoring and intervention
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Trailblazers Seminar
Designing imaging systems to maximize information capture
Leyla Kabuli, PhD Candidate,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley advised by Professor Laura Waller,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Aerospace: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
A Study of Hypersonic Shockwave/Boundary-Layer Interaction Dynamics Using High-Temperature Plasma Discharges
Emma Nicotra,
Zonta International Ameila Earhart Fellow and Graduate Student,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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APhMS: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Hybridization and Electromechanics at Atomically Thin Interfaces
Sathvik Ajay Iyengar,
Schmidt Science Fellow, EECS Department at UC Berkeley and Bakar Innovation Fellow,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMS : EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Building AI for better societal outcomes
Myra Cheng,
PhD Candidate, Knight-Hennessy Scholar; NSF Graduate Research Fellow,
Computer Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EAS Trailblazers/Applied Physics and Materials Science Research Lecture
Hybridization and Electromechanics at Atomically Thin Interfaces
Sathvik Ajay Iyengar,
Schmidt Science Fellow,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ESE: EAS Trailblazers Seminar
Understanding Atmospheric Composition Using Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Observations
Laura H. Yang,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering,
Washington University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, October 8th, 2026
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Reshaping Metrology with Quantum Information Processing
Sisi Zhou,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Friday, October 9th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Gibbs sampling by classical decoding
Alexander Schmidhuber,
MIT,
Monday, October 12th, 2026
12:00pm
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10/19
1:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Quantitative hypocoercive convergence estimates for underdamped Langevin equations
Jianfeng Lu,
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics,
Duke University,
Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Self-supervised In-context Operator Learning on Probability Measure Space: Theory and Applications
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech AI Colloquium
Analytic Theories of Language, Creativity, and Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measuring fundamental particle interactions with levitated optomechanical sensors
Yu-Han Tseng,
Yale,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EAS Young Alumni Lecture
Scalable Synthesis Routes to Low-Dimensional Materials for Next Generation Devices
Zakaria Al Balushi,
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley and Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Thursday, October 15th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Bridging Scales in Mechanics: Integrating Data-Rich Experiments with Symmetry-Aware Scientific Machine Learning
Samantha Daly,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:30pm
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Friday, October 16th, 2026
12:00am
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10/17
12:00am
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Higher Berry Curvature of Crystalline Insulators: From Generalized Cohomology to Magnetoelectric Coupling
Niclas Heinsdorf,
Humboldt Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium
Towards a New School in Aerodynamics: Fluid Mechanics as a Minimization problem
Haithem Taha,
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Samueli School of Engineering,
University of California, Irvine,
Saturday, October 17th, 2026
10:30am
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11:30am
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Kavli Nanoscience Institute Special Lecture: 10 years of the KNI-Wheatley Scholarship in Nanoscience
Andrei Faraon,
William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering and Fletcher Jones Foundation Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute.,
Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, October 19th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Distilling Quantum Structure: Efficiently Simulating and Learning Quantum Systems
Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
8:15am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Seminar Series
From Light to Learning: Predicting Excited-State Dynamics at the Spectroscopic Frontier
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Pyrocene: Burning Through the Earth System
Douglas Hamilton,
Asst Professor Aerosol, Earth System Modelling, Wildfires, Biogeochemical Cycles,
Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
North Carolina State University,
Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Mechanical design in the age of AI
Antoine Jerusalem,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering/Fellow at St Hugh's College,
Department of Engineering Science,
University of Oxford,
Friday, October 23rd, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Breakdown Model: from Disorder-free Glass to SPT
Biao Lian,
Princeton,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium
Bridging rigorous methods with machine learning to build safe and intelligent autonomy
Chuchu Fan,
School of Engineering Leonardo Career Development Chair,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Monday, October 26th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
12:00am
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Ongoing
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Leah Johnson,
Principle Oceanographer,
Applied Physics Laboratory, (APL),
University of Washington,
Thursday, October 29th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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