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Monday, January 5th, 2026
Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
Thursday, January 8th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Characterizing and Utilizing Terrain Responses for Robot-aided Earth and Planetary Explorations
Feifei Qian, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California,
Friday, January 9th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Limitations of Noisy Geometrically Local Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar, University of Maryland,
Monday, January 12th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

New algorithms for the electric grid: the interplay between control, learning and economics
Baosen Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Solving PDEs exactly over polynomials
Keaton Burns, Principal Research Scientist of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, MIT of Mathematics,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Quantum Sensing of Gravitational Frame-Dragging and Time Dilation with a Superfluid 4He Gyrometer
Kai Ellers, UC Berkeley,
Thursday, January 15th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Efficient Planning and Learning for Contact-rich Manipulation via Structured Exploration
Pang Tao, Senior Research Scientist, RAI Institute,
Friday, January 16th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Computation-Protected Phases of Matter
Soonwon Choi, MIT,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

New linear response formulas with applications to variational data assimilation and generative SDE models
Angxiu Ni, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Nonholonomic Stabilization and Pursuit-Evasion: Not-so-hard After All
Miroslav Krstić, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego,
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
Monday, January 26th, 2026
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Resilient Autonomy: Perception and Planning for Dynamic, Unknown Environments
Jonathan How, Ford Professor of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT,
Thursday, January 29th, 2026
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Homogenizing Origami and Kirigami Metamaterials
Paul Plucinsky, Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California,
Friday, January 30th, 2026