Seminar Calendar
October 2026
Thursday, October 1st, 2026
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Error-corrected quantum processing with neutral atoms
Dolev Bluvstein,
CEO at Oratomic, Visiting associate in physics at Caltech,
Friday, October 2nd, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
From Closed to Ajar: Effective Actions and Symmetry Breaking in Non-Equilibrium Many-Body Systems
Riccardo Penco,
Carnegie Mellon University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Signatures of Black Hole Spin and Plasma Acceleration in Jet Polarimetry
Monday, October 5th, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Alternative AdS Boundary Conditions and Their Implications
Xinkang Wang,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Seminar
How invisible stellar halos bias our understanding of ultra-faint galaxies
Coral Wheeler,
Cal Poly Pomona,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Global monopoles and Goldstone EFT
Pablo Quilez,
CERN,
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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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,
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
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The String Landscape, precisely
Jakob Moritz,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
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,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Importance of accretion disk-driven torques on extreme mass ratio inspirals
Monday, October 12th, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
From Preons to Flavor: Probing Composite Quarks and Leptons
Amartya Sengupta,
University at Buffalo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
John Franklin,
Rubin Postdoctoral Fellow; KIPAC,
Stanford University,
Manami Roy,
CCAP Fellow,
Ohio State University,
Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Calltech/IPAC Seminar
Roman Microlensing Detection Efficiency and Planet Occurrence
Christopher Lam,
IPAC,
Caltech,
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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Astronomy Colloquium
A Panchromatic Picture of the Red Supergiant Liminality
Wynn Jacobson-Galan,
Postdoc,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
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
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Statistical mechanics of classical and quantum computation
Alexander Zlokapa,
PhD Candidate,
Center for Theoretical Physics,
MIT,
Friday, October 16th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Thermal Giant Graviton Expansion
Kasia Budzik,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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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,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Evolution and Fates of Massive Stars and Binaries: From Nuclear Burning to Explosive Outcomes
Aldana Grichener,
Prize Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
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
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Inner Horizon Saddles and a Spectral KSW Criterion
Jackie Caminiti,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Bootstrapping Hidden Symmetries
Zihan Zhou,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Oryna Ivashtenko,
PhD candidate,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Anthony Englert,
Postdoc,
Brown University & UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Ultrafast Optical Excitation of Antiferromagnetic or Inertial Magnons in 2D Magnets
Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Calltech/IPAC Seminar
MSA-3D: Insights into the emergence of the modern Hubble Sequence
Ivana Barisic,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Seminar Series
From Light to Learning: Predicting Excited-State Dynamics at the Spectroscopic Frontier
Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector Arrays for Time-Resolved Imaging and Infrared Detection
Matthew Shaw,
Senior Research Scientist, Supervisor of the Superconductive Materials and Devices Group,
JPL,
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,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quasi-periodic eruptions: new transient probes of stars near supermassive black holes
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 26th, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Moduli-Space Laplacians, Asymptotic Geometry, and the Emergent String Conjecture
Alex Stewart,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Crystal electric-field effect in rare-earth insulating magnets and its implications for thermal transport under magnetic field
Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
11:00am
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Aidan Herderschee,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, October 29th, 2026
4:00pm
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Friday, October 30th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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