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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Charles R. DePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

What is a Mock Theta Function?
Amanda Folsom, Visiting Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Coherent Nonlinear Magnonics: Energy Transfer and Wave Mixing Between Collective Spin Excitations
Edoardo Baldini, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin,
Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Seminar

Chemical Complexity around Young Protostellar Objects
Kotomi Taniguchi, NAOJ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Towards a Full Picture of Massive Stars in the First Gigayear
Peter Senchyna, Astronomer, Carnegie Science,
7:30pm – 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Katie Bouman: Illuminating the Hidden Universe with Physics and AI

Katie Bouman, associate professor of computing and mathematical sciences, electrical engineering and astronomy; Rosenberg Scholar; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
Thursday, November 5th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra, Geometry, & Number Theory Seminar

Divergent Trajectories into Maximal Parabolic Cusps
Taehyeong Kim, Instructor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Search for dark matter particle interactions in an extended nuclear recoil energy window with the LZ experiment
Hugh Lippincott, Vice Chair for Research, Infrastructure & Facilities, Associate Professor, Physics, UCSB,
Friday, November 6th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Acoustic Levitation in the van der Waals Regime
Albert Isaac Nazeeri, Stanford,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
White Dwarf Physics Across Ten Orders of Magnitude
Dang Pham, McCray Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar

Title: TBD
Beibei Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University,
Monday, November 9th, 2026
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Shada Ali Ahmad, New York University,
Tuesday, November 10th, 2026
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Seminar

More than two decades of the variable infrared sky revealed with NEOWISE, SPHEREx and Roman
Kishalay De, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

The never-ending pursuit of OH radical: Its formation via carbonyl photolysis and reactions with SO2 and HNO3.
A.R. ( Ravi) Ravishankara, Professor of Chemistry, Departments of Chemistry and Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University,
Wednesday, November 11th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes from Pop III.1 Seeds and Implications for Particle Physics and Cosmology
Jonathan C. Tan, Professor of Astronomy, Chalmers University/University of Virginia,
Thursday, November 12th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Exploring Young Brown Dwarfs Down to Planetary Masses
Ray Jayawarhana, President; Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair; Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,
Friday, November 13th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Laura Lewis, University of California, Berkeley,
Monday, November 16th, 2026
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Zachary Bogorad, Fermilb,
Tuesday, November 17th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Elucidating Charge, Spin, and Solvation Dynamics at Electrochemical Interfaces
L. Robert Baker, Phyllis and Richard Leet Endowed Chair, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University,
Wednesday, November 18th, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Juno, Jupiter, and jupiters: How a low cost planetary mission has revolutionized our understanding of giant planets
Jonathan Lunine,
Thursday, November 19th, 2026
Friday, November 20th, 2026
1:35pm – 2:45pm
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Caltech/IPAC Seminar

Copernicus Revisited: is the Earth special?
Dr. Laura Kreidberg, Managing Director, Max Plank Institute For Astronomy,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Rocking Out to Heavy Metals: Improving Radiative Transfer Modeling of R-Process Transients
Daniel Brethauer, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, U.C. Berkeley,
Friday, November 27th, 2026
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
Valentin Skoutnev, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Physics, Columbia University,
Monday, November 30th, 2026
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Andrea Caputo, CERN,
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2026
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Innes Bigaran, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Thursday, December 3rd, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Synthetic quantum matter, atom by atom: digitally enhanced analog quantum simulation
Monika Aidelsburger, Professor, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and LMU Munich,
Friday, December 4th, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
Yuri Shprits, Professor, Space Weather and Space Physics, University of Potsdam,
Wednesday, December 9th, 2026
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Thursday, December 10th, 2026
Wednesday, December 16th, 2026
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Seminar

Emily Pass, Juan Carlos Torres Fellow, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT,
Thursday, January 7th, 2027
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Thursday, January 14th, 2027
Thursday, January 21st, 2027
Wednesday, January 27th, 2027
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Thursday, February 4th, 2027
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Thursday, February 18th, 2027