Events
January 2026
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Monday, January 5th, 2026
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Basal melt rates in the Ice Grounding Zones (IGZ)
Ratnakar Gadi,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Thursday, January 8th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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EVOxZankou Seminar
"Evolution of cooperation" and "Targeting tail anchored proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum in embryophytes"
Lior Pachter,
Bren Professor of Computational Biology and Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
BBE,
Caltech,
Friday, January 9th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Water at the Edge: On- Water Spectroscopy across Oil Droplets, Protein Surfaces, Biomolecular Condensate and Living Cells
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Detecting and Quantifying Methane Emissions from Facility to Basin Scales Using Imaging Spectrometry
Steven Wofsy,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
2D Hole Gas at GaN/AlN interface – an Unprecedented Platform to Probe the Valence Band of GaN
Huili Grace Xing,
William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering,
Cornell,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Analytical Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes and Information Content from Satellite Data
Hannah Nesser,
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Artificial oxide quantum heterostructures and twisted membranes
Honyung Lee, PhD,
Corporate Fellow and Senior Advisor,
Materials Science and Technology Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
8:00am
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4:15pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Ultrafast spin coherence reveals ion-pairing and molecular dynamics in solution".
Juliette Whiteside,
Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, January 26th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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Special Seminar
Exploring the wave nature of life across scales: from active matter to ecology
Prof. Thomas Shimizu,
AMOLF & VU Amsterdam,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis PhD Seminar
The Total Synthesis of (+)-Ineleganolide, the Lycojapomine Alkaloids, and a New Strategy for Radical Deoxygenation
Benjamin Gross,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
From Heterogeneous to Homogeneous: Molecular Mimicry for Understanding and Advancing Small Molecule Activation."
Seung Jun Hwang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Pohang University of Science and Technology,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
11:00am
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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
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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
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Computationally-guided Miniaturization of Acoustic Reporter Genes for Single-AAV Delivery to the Brain"
Nivin Nyström,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Shapiro Group,
Friday, January 30th, 2026
3:45pm
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5:15pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Hoimin Jung,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Peters Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,