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January 2026
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Monday, January 5th, 2026
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
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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,
Thursday, January 8th, 2026
11:00am
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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,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
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,
Thursday, January 15th, 2026
11:00am
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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,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
4:00pm
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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,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Lead Contamination: An Old Foe Rises from the Ashes of the Eaton Fire, with Francois Tissot
Francois Tissot,
professor of geochemistry; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
- Public Event
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
11:00am
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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
8:00am
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
4:00pm
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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
11:00am
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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,