PMA Calendar
Week of October 11, 2026
Monday, October 12th, 2026
1:30pm
–
2:30pm
Add to Cal
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
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Astronomy Tea Talk
John Franklin,
Rubin Postdoctoral Fellow; KIPAC,
Stanford University,
Manami Roy,
CCAP Fellow,
Ohio State University,
Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
5:00pm
–
6:00pm
Add to Cal
Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
From Calabi–Yau Singularities to 6D Gravitational Anomaly Cancellation
Kai Xu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
12:15pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Calltech/IPAC Seminar
Roman Microlensing Detection Efficiency and Planet Occurrence
Christopher Lam,
IPAC,
Caltech,
2:30pm
–
3:30pm
Add to Cal
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measuring fundamental particle interactions with levitated optomechanical sensors
Yu-Han Tseng,
Yale,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Astronomy Colloquium
A Panchromatic Picture of the Red Supergiant Liminality
Wynn Jacobson-Galan,
Postdoc,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 15th, 2026
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Observational Cosmology Seminar
Precise and Robust Models of Large-scale Structure for Spectroscopic Surveys via Perturbative Bias Phenomenology
Jamie Sullivan,
Postdoc/Brinson Prize Fellow,
MIT,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Algebra, Geometry & Number Theory Seminar
Modular Heights of Unitary Shimura Varieties
Ziqi Guo,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Peking University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Physics Colloquium
Statistical mechanics of classical and quantum computation
Alexander Zlokapa,
PhD Candidate,
Center for Theoretical Physics,
MIT,
Friday, October 16th, 2026
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Thermal Giant Graviton Expansion
Kasia Budzik,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
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
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
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,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
Saturday, October 17th, 2026
10:30am
–
11:30am
Add to Cal
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,