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Wednesday, October 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Towards an Analytic Bootstrap Framework for Thermal CFTs
  • Deniz Bozkurt, DESY,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Mapping Lines and PAHs Across Cosmic Time in the Infrared Spectral-Photometry Era
  • Yun-Ting Cheng, Caltech/JPL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Cosmic Evolution of Star Formation, Gas, and Dust in Galaxies
  • Nick Scoville, Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, Astronomy Department, Caltech,
  • Andreas Faisst, Staff Scientist, IPAC, Caltech,
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Thursday, October 2
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Linde Hall 187
Unoriented 2-dimensional TQFTs
  • Agustina Czenky, Simons Collaboration Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, USC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Quot schemes of points on torus knot singularities
  • Yifeng Huang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, USC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Scaling limit of a weakly asymmetric simple exclusion process in the framework of regularity structures
  • Hendrik Weber, Professor, Münster Mathematics, Universität Münster,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Intersection of Hecke correspondences and a general conjecture
  • Qiao He, Ritt Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Columbia University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Fundamental Physics with Polyatomic Molecules and Exotic Nuclei
  • Nick Hutzler, Assistant Professor of Physics, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
The Zigzag Strategy for Random Band Matrices.
  • Volodymyr Riabov, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Erdoes Research Group,
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Sampling Duality
  • Adrian Gonzalez Casanova, Associate Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizone State University,
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Friday, October 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
TBD
  • Ali Naseri Sadr, PhD Candidate, Department of Mathematics, Boston College,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Searching for Near-Earth Objects
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Monday, October 6
8:00 am -
Wednesday 5:00 pm
Ramo Auditorium
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Final Results from the Muon $g-2$ Experiment at Fermilab
  • James Labounty, University of Washington,
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Tuesday, October 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Bridging Quantum and Classical: an Efficient Framework for Capturing Zero-Point Effects in Hydrogen-Rlated Chemistry
  • Yang Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin- Madison,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Covariance-Modulated Optimal Transport and Gradient Flows
  • Franca Hoffmann, Assistant Professor, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
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Wednesday, October 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Bottom-up de Sitter holography
  • David Kolchmeyer, Institute for Advanced Study,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Multidimensional Physics of Stars & other Astrophysical Bodies
  • Daniel Lecoanet, Assistant Professor, CIERA, Northwestern University,
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Thursday, October 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Watson 104
Could modern CMOS ICs provide a platform for quantum sensors, computers and simulators?
  • John Morton, Professor, Nanoelectronics & Nanophotonics, University College London (UCL),
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Arithmetic aspects of Hecke traces
  • Liubomir Chiriac, Associate Professor, Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Portland State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Energy Correlators at the Collider Frontier
  • Ian Moult, Assistant Professor of Physics, Particle Physics, Yale,
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Friday, October 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Horizon Edge Modes in Λ > 0 Quantum Gravity
  • Albert Law, Stanford University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Prethermal dynamical regimes and resonant melting in quenched quantum matter
  • Alexey Khudorozhkov, Boston University,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Energy Operators in Particle Physics, QFT, and Gravity
  • Ian Moult, Yale University,
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1:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Ramo Auditorium
Welcome
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Accretion and Feedback from Galaxies to Event Horizons
  • Minghao Guo, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
TBD
  • Kai Nakamura, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University,
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Monday, October 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Forces in Standard Model and Dark Sector
  • Bingrong Yu, Cornell University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill 370
The Inhomogeneous Evolution of Uranus and Neptune
  • Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Astrophysical Sciences Department, Princeton University,
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Tuesday, October 14
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Action Gaps and Advantages in Continuous-Time Distributional Reinforcement Learning
  • Yash Jhaveri, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Rutgers University–Newark,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Action Gaps and Advantages in Continuous-Time Distributional Reinforcement Learning
  • Yash Jhaveri, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Rutgers University-Newark,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Detecting the First Hydration Shell Structures of Biopolymers
  • Elsa Yan, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Yale University,
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Wednesday, October 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
The soft physics of amplitudes in background fields
  • Sonja Klisch, Perimeter Institute,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Exponential anticoncentration of the permanent
  • Matthew Kwan, Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online Event
Tarski's circle squaring problem with algebraic translations and few pieces
  • Andrew Marks, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
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Determination of Physical Properties of Main Belt Asteroids Using WISE/NEOWISE Data
  • Kiana McFadden, University of Arizona,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Lagrangian Dual Sections: A Topological View of Hidden Convexity
  • Kevin Shu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Triple Connection: Black Hole Mergers, EM Counterparts, and Galactic Black Holes
  • Smadar Naoz, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA,
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Thursday, October 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Malle's conjecture over function fields
  • Aaron Landesman, Benjamin Peirce Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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The search for axion dark matter
  • Ben Safdi, Associate Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley,
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Friday, October 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Triangulating Quantum Gravity in AdS_3
  • Tom Hartman, Cornell University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Broad 100
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Engineering Coupled Quantum Interfaces for Superconducting Quantum Technologies
  • Hung-Yu Yang, UCLA,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
The Evolution of Gas Giant Planets
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Unoriented link Floer homology and Khovanov homology
  • Gheehyun Nahm, PhD Student, Princeton Math, Princeton University,
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Monday, October 20
8:15 am - 12:30 pm
Chen 100
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Towards coarse-grained models of molecules
  • David Pekker, Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Probing Ultra-heavy Particle Physics using Precision Cosmology
  • Soubhik Kumar, Tufts University,
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Tuesday, October 21
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Linde Hall 255
Percolation on transitive graphs
  • Minghao Pan, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Fast, Ultrasensitive, Label-Free Molecular Detection with Light
  • Judith Su, Craig M. Berge Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor in Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Equivariant Birational Geometry
  • Yuri Tschinkel, Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,
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Wednesday, October 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
The Analytic Functional in the Numerical Conformal Bootstrap
  • Zechuan Zheng, Perimeter Institute,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Generic group properties
  • Tamás Kátay, Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
New Tools for Debris Disk Imaging: Keck/NIRC2-Pol and GRaTer-JAX GPU Models
  • Briley Lewis, UC Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Missing Link: Planet Formation from Millions to Billions of Years
  • Meredith Hughes, Chair, Astronomy Department; Associate Professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan University,
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4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Chen 100
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, October 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Watson 104
Fast, Ultrasensitive, Label-Free Molecular Detection with FLOWER and Beyond
  • Judith Su, Associate Professor, Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona,
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Whittaker averaging and singular support
  • Jeremy Taylor, Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California - Los Angeles,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Manin's conjecture for Châtelet surfaces
  • Katharine Woo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Quantum cohomology of variations of GIT quotients and flips
  • Zhaoxing Gu, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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From Lab to Cosmos: Three Frontiers in the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
  • Sara Seager, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MIT,
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Friday, October 24
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Online and In-Person Event
Gravitational Waves from the Fifth-Force Mergers
  • Xingpeng Wang, Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Algebras for generalized entanglement wedges?
  • Mark Van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Digital quantum simulation and error correction frontier with atom arrays
  • Simon Evered, Harvard,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Bridging Scales in Black Hole Accretion and Feedback: Relativistic Jet linking the Horizon to the Host Galaxy
  • Hyerin Cho, Graduate Student, CfA, Harvard University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Splitting spheres and barbells
  • Alison Tatsuoka, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
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Monday, October 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Dark Radiation from the Axiverse
  • Christopher Dessert, Flatiron Institute CCA,
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Exoplanets
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Tuesday, October 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
On Theories of Neutrino Masses and Dark Matter
  • Pavel Fileviez Perez, Case Western University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Spectroscopic Probes of (Interstellar) Aromatic Molecular Evolution
  • Brett A McGuire, Associate Professor; Adjunct Assistant Astronomer,, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Wednesday, October 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Flat Space/Carrollian Limit of AdS/CFT
  • Romain Ruzziconi, Harvard University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Isometry groups of Polish ultrametric spaces
  • Riccardo Camerlo, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Università di Genova,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Kernel Based Moving Object Detection
  • Dino Bektešević, U. Washington,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Discoveries of Interstellar PAHs from Cold Clouds to the Solar System
  • Brett McGuire, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Thursday, October 30
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
East Bridge 114
Quantum advantage from random geometrically-two-local Hamiltonian dynamics
  • Yihui Queck, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Hunting the Unexpected: Anomaly Detection and Real-Time Triggers at the Large Hadron Collider
  • Jennifer Ngadiuba, Fermilab,
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Friday, October 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Continuous Non-Invertible Symmetries
  • Diego Delmastro, UCLA,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Planar fault-tolerant circuits for non-Clifford logic gates – decoding non-Abelian phases
  • Julio Magdalena, Freie Universitat Berlin,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Towards Next-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors: Intermediate-Mass Black Holes and Stochastic Backgrounds
  • Luca Reali, Graduate Student, Astrophysics & Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Curvature, macroscopic dimensions, and symmetric products of surfaces
  • Ekansh Jauhari, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida,
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