Upcoming Events for Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy

Monday, December 8, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Sleeping Giants: Telling Case Studies of Changing-look Quasars/Creating Space-Based, All-Sky Surveys to Study the Death and Afterlife of Stars Laura Duffy, graduate student, Penn State University, Hannah Gulick, graduate student, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Yuval Grossman, Cornell University,

Wednesday, December 10, 2025
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Studying the three-dimensional architecture of transiting planets and their outer companions in the era of Gaia Jingwen Zhang, University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Euclid space mission M. Claudia Scarlata, Distinguished McKnight University Professor (Director of MIfA), Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, University of Minnesota,

Thursday, December 11, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture Online and In-Person Event Neutron Star Mergers, Kilonovae, and Kilonova Impostors Dan Kasen, Professor of Physics, Physics, UB Berkeley,

Wednesday, January 7, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Anna Wolz, UCLA,

Thursday, January 8, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Shruti Puri, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Department of Physics, Yale,

Friday, January 9, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Kurt Hinterbichler, Case Western Reserve University,

Wednesday, January 14, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Mina Himwich, Princeton University,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Elizabeth Himwich, Princeton University,

Thursday, January 15, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MIT,

Friday, January 16, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Beni Yoshida, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,

Wednesday, January 21, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Jeremy van der Heijden, University of British Columbia,

Thursday, January 22, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Holger Mueller, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley,

Friday, January 23, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Ignatios Antoniadis, LPTHE - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies,

Monday, January 26, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Gabriela Sato-Polito, Institute for Advanced Study,

Wednesday, January 28, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Diego Garcia Sepulveda, Harvard University,

Thursday, January 29, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Rachel Rosen, Associate Professor of Quantum Field Theory and Gravity, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University,

Friday, January 30, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Laurent Freidel, Perimeter Institute,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Rachel Rosen, Carnegie Mellon University,

Wednesday, February 4, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Francesco Calisto, Caltech,

Thursday, February 5, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Katerina Chatziioannou, Assistant Professor of Physics; William H. Hurt Scholar, Department of Physics, Caltech,

Friday, February 6, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Sebastian Mizera, Columbia University,

Monday, February 9, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Henrique Rubira, Cambridge University, KICC and Munich University Observatory,

Wednesday, February 11, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Sam Leutheusser, KITP, UC Santa Barbara,

Thursday, February 12, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event

Friday, February 13, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Björn Hassfeld, University of Wisconsin, Madison,

Wednesday, February 18, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Jose Calderon Infante, Caltech,

Thursday, February 19, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Yuri Levin, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Columbia University,

Friday, February 20, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Science Journey - Cosmic Fireworks: How Astronomers Explore the Changing Sky Beckman Auditorium
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Alberto Castellano, University of Chicago,

Wednesday, February 25, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Jackie Caminiti, Perimeter Institute,

Thursday, February 26, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Liang Fu, Professor of Physics, Condensed matter Theory, MIT,

Friday, February 27, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Veronika Hubeny, UC Davis,

Wednesday, March 4, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Christian Ferko, Northeastern University,

Thursday, March 5, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Ilija Zeljkovic, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Boston College,

Friday, March 6, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Raju Venugopalan, Brookhaven National Lab & Stony Brook University,

Wednesday, March 11, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Elisa Tabor, UC Berkeley,

Thursday, March 12, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Kimmy Wu, Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Caltech,

Thursday, April 2, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Markus Greiner, Professor of Physics, Physics, Harvard,

Thursday, April 9, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Robert Huang, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics, PMA, Caltech,

Friday, April 10, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Kelian Häring, University of Amsterdam,

Thursday, April 16, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Angel Rubio, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter,

Friday, April 17, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Ji Hoon Lee, ETH-Zurich,

Thursday, April 23, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event William Oliver, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MIT,

Thursday, April 30, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Nelson Darkwah Oppong, Assistant Professor of Physics, PMA, Caltech,

Thursday, May 7, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Shahal Ilani, Professor of Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science,

Thursday, May 14, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event ,

Thursday, May 21, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event TBA Cumrun Vafa, Chair, Department of Physics; Timken University Professor, Department of Physics, Harvard,

Thursday, May 28, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Ruben Verresen, Assistant Professor, Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago,