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Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
11:00am 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 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 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
3:00pm 4:00pm
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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 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 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 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Resilient Autonomy: Perception and Planning for Dynamic, Unknown Environments
Jonathan How, Ford Professor of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
11:00am 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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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 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
3:00pm 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 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 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

High Order Numerical Mmethods for hHyperbolic Eequations
Chi-Wang Shu, Theodore B. Stowell University Professor, Applied Mathematics, Brown University,
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
9:00am 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
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CMS Special Colloquium with Peter Gacs

A reliable Turing machine
Peter Gacs, Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, Boston University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

TBD
Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, ETH Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology,
Thursday, February 5th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Bianxiao Cui

Membrane curvature-induced cell adhesion and drug development
Bianxiao Cui, Job and Gertrude Professor of Chemistry and a fellow of the CHEM-H and Wu Tsai Stanford Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University,
Friday, February 6th, 2026
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Ann Karagozian, Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar Series, Prof. Chulhong Kim

Multimodal Photoacoustic Ultrasound Imaging: From Bench To Bedside and Products
Chulhong Kim, Ph.D, Namgo Chair Professorship of School of Convergence Science and Technology (Head) at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Republic of Korea.,
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
12:00pm 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
11:00am 12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Negotiating Thermodynamics: Designing Periodic and Aperiodic Oxides on Demand
Bharat Jalan, Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

TBD
Gary Parker, TBD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

What a Digital Twin Can Learn from Data, Thermodynamics, and Action Principles for Damage Assessment in Complex Materials
Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen, William Prager Chair Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego,
Friday, February 13th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Nisarga Paul, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Suhas Eswarappa Prameela, Assistant Professor, Metallurgical Engineering, University of Utah,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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 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 5:00pm
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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
3:00pm 4:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar

Ultra-low noise Phase-locked Loop Technique
Taekwang Jang, Associate Professor, Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich,
Monday, February 23rd, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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
Thursday, February 26th, 2026
Friday, February 27th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Senrui Chen, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill group,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Aerospace Colloquium

Behcet Acikmese, Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington,
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

TBD
David Mordecai, Adjunct Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business,