ESE
ESE scientists and engineers investigate the fundamental physical, chemical, and biological processes that shape Earth’s environment and provide the scientific and engineering underpinnings needed to inform resilient practices by governments, businesses, and consumers. The department trains students to solve problems that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries and equips them with a holistic knowledge base about environmental systems. Students in ESE receive a broad education and carry out research addressing some of the grand science and engineering challenges of our times.
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October 14, 2026
4:00 pm
EAS Young Alumni Lecture
Scalable Synthesis Routes to Low-Dimensional Materials for Next Generation Devices
Zakaria Al Balushi,
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley and Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
October 15, 2026
11:00 am
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Bridging Scales in Mechanics: Integrating Data-Rich Experiments with Symmetry-Aware Scientific Machine Learning
Samantha Daly,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
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October 16, 2026
12:00 am
Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes
October 17, 2026
10:30 am
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,
October 21, 2026
4:00 pm
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Pyrocene: Burning Through the Earth System
Douglas Hamilton,
Asst Professor Aerosol, Earth System Modelling, Wildfires, Biogeochemical Cycles,
Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
North Carolina State University,
