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Monday, March 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Dark Matter NMR and its sensitivity to extra couplings
  • Carl Beadle, University of Toronto,
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Tuesday, March 31
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Linde Hall 187
P-adic Gamma classes and Frobenius structures
  • Shaoyun Bai, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Negative Ions: From Multiplexed Coincidence Spectroscopy to Hypervelocity Ice Grain Impacts
  • Robert Continetti, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Senior Associate Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
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  • James Hotchkiss, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Spectral Reciprocity, Subconvexity, and Arithmetic Applications
  • Liyang Yang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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Wednesday, April 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Relational Perspectives in Quantum Gravity: Quantum Reference Frames and the Observer Dependence of Entropy
  • Anne-Catherine de la Hamette, ETH Zurich,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Gδ​ Circle Squaring
  • Spencer Unger, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
New Views on Extreme Starbursts: Clumps in Local ULIRGs with JWST
  • Laura Lenkic, Caltech/IPAC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
(Spatially) resolved clues about giant planets with JWST and friends
  • Laurent Pueyo, Associate Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute,
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Thursday, April 2
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Linde Hall 187
TBD
  • Mee Song Im, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Quantum Simulation of the Unknown: Observation of Pseudogap Physics in the Fermi–Hubbard Model at Ultralow Temperatures
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Sums along binary quartic forms
  • Mayank Pandey, PhD Candidate, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Gluing in Heegaard-Floer theory
  • Peng Zhou, Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
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Friday, April 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Navigating Collider Phenomenology with Light-Ray Operators & Chew-Frautschi Plot
  • Hao Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
From Fractionalization to Superconductivity in Flat Chern Bands — And What AI Enables Next
  • Ahmed Abouelkomsan, MIT,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Black-hole METRICS, ringdown and fundamental physics
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Flexibility and degeneracy around a theorem of Thurston
  • Alex Nolte, Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, IHES,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Classification of ancient cylindrical mean curvature flows and the Mean Convex Neighborhood Conjecture
  • Yi Lai, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCI,
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Monday, April 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
A quantum many-body index for 2d chiral superconductors
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Flavor, Accidentally
  • Hannah Banks, New York University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill 370
Probing Binaries and Black Holes with Microlensing
  • Natasha Abrams, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley,
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Tuesday, April 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Pushing Ab Initio Electron-Phonon Theory Beyond Perturbation: From Polaron Structure to Transport
  • Joonho Lee, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,
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Wednesday, April 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Spinspacetime: A New Chapter in Relativity
  • Joonhwi Kim, Caltech,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
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Carbon dioxide and evidence for water in the Hottest exo-Neptune
  • Yoni Brande, University of Maryland,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Quantum thermodynamics on superconducting circuits: bolometry and thermalization
  • Jukka Pekola, Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Helsinki, FI,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Giant black hole jets and baryon feedback to the Cosmic Web
  • Martijn Oei, Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Department of Astronomy, CalTech,
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4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Chen 100
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Thursday, April 9
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs at the EDGE of galaxy formation
  • Ethan Taylor, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Surrey, UK,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Quantum Intelligence
  • Robert Huang, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics, PMA, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Higher theta series for reductive dual pairs and anomaly
  • Avi Zeff, Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
  • Ron Peled, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland,
  • Shalin Parekh, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maine,
  • Rahul Rajkumar, PhD Candidate, Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside,
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Friday, April 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Scattering on the Coulomb Branch of N=4 SYM
  • Kelian Häring, University of Amsterdam,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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A unified approach to the self force problem
  • Ira Rothstein, Carnegie Mellon University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Trapping in Strong Gravity: From Black Hole Images to Gravitational Turbulence
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Processing massive classical data on small quantum computers
  • Haimeng Zhao, Huang and Preskill groups,
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Monday, April 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Continuum Fractons
  • Shivaji Sondhi, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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A Few Thoughts on Flavor
  • Claudio Manzari, Institute for Advanced Study,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill 370
Study of Exotic Stellar Populations in Open Clusters and Galactic Fields
  • Anju Panthi, Postdoc at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore,
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Tuesday, April 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Controlling and Interrogating Matter at the Fundamental Limits of Space and Time
  • Mohammed Th. Hassan, University of Arizona,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Toward Structural Guarantees in AI: Quantum Tensor Networks for Sensitivity, Uncertainty, and Reliable Inference
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
The Eisenstein Ideal
  • Mladen Dimitrov, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Lille,
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Wednesday, April 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Ultralocal measure is not canonical
  • Maciek Kolanowski, UC Santa Barbara,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Local Problems on Grids: FIID/FFIID Separations and a Failure of Baire Shift Universality
  • Katalin Berlow, PhD candidate, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
The High Energy Radiation Environments of Sun-Like Stars with Directly Imageable Habitable Zones
  • Breanna Binder, Associate Professor, Cal Poly Pomona,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Axial vector form factors and the scalar charge of nucleons from lattice QCD
  • Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Do active galactic nuclei behave the way galaxy formation theorists need them to?
  • Michael Blanton, Observatories Director and Crawford M. Greenewalt Chair, Carnegie Science,
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Thursday, April 16
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Linde Hall 187
Frobenius structures on quantum connections on Calabi--Yau 3-folds
  • Jae Hee Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Can Antiferromagnetic Order Survive Lattice Melting?
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
On the Completions of General Period Mappings
  • Haohua Deng, John Wesley Young Research Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Holomorphic Lagrangians in Higgs and de Rham Moduli Spaces
  • Shengjing Xu, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania,
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Friday, April 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Polar states in AdS3 holography
  • Ji Hoon Lee, ETH-Zurich,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
  • Yuan Su, AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Crystallization, Convection, and Magnetism in White Dwarf Stars
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
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  • Eduardo Reyes, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Pontifical Caltholic University of Chile,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Systoles of hyperbolic hybrids
  • Sami Douba, Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, University of Bonn,
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Monday, April 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Pablo Quilez, CERN,
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Wednesday, April 22
9:30 am - 3:00 pm
Gates-Thomas 135
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Light-ray operators and the w(1+infinity) algebra
  • Mina Himwich, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Resetting Cosmic Ray Propagation Theory
  • Ellen Zweibel, W. L. Kraushaar Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
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Thursday, April 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Coexistence of spatially decoupled unconventional superconducting condensates in 4Hb-TaSSe
  • Miguel Ugeda, Professor, Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastián, Spain,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Quantum Interconnects and Modularity via Waveguide QED
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Friday, April 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Shruti Paranjape, Brown University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Emulating the Bose-Hubbard Model with Arrays of Superconducting Qubits
  • William Oliver, Director of the Center for Quantum Engineering, MIT,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Gravitational-wave observables beyond timing: astrometry and weak lensing probes
  • Tal Adi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, USC,
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Monday, April 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Seth Koren, University of Notre Dame,
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Wednesday, April 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Francesco Calisto, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
TBD
  • Ken Shen, Research Specialist, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
  • Sarkis Mazmanian, Luis B. and Nelly Soux professor of microbiology; Merkin Institute Professor,
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Thursday, April 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
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Friday, May 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Gaston Giribet, New York University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
  • Stacy Kim, Nashman/CTAC Postdoctoral Fellow, CTAC, Carnegie Observatories,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
East Bridge 114
  • Maine Christos, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
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Monday, May 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Ameen Ismail, University of Chicago,
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Wednesday, May 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Ahmed Sheta, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
TBD
  • Brad Cenko, Research Astrophysicist, Department of Astronomy, NASA,
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Thursday, May 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
The Quantum Twisting Microscope: Visualizing Waves in Quantum Matter
  • Shahal Ilani, Professor of Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science,
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Friday, May 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Xi Dong, UC Santa Barbara,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
  • Dave Aasen, Microsoft Station Q,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
  • Chiara Anselmo, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, University of Milano-Bicocca,
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Monday, May 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Inducing quantum states in materials with light
  • Gregory Fiete, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Northeastern University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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TBA
  • Austin Batz, University of Oregon,
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Wednesday, May 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Matilda Delgado, Harvard & MPP Munich,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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TBA
  • Aidan Herderschee, Institute for Advanced Study,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Higher dimensional conformal fields from neural network statistics
  • Joydeep Naskar, Northeastern University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
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  • Maura McLaughin, Department Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University,
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Thursday, May 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
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Friday, May 15
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
  • Jin Ming Koh, Harvard,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Beyond Parker: The Origin of Cosmic Magnetic Fields
  • Bindesh Tripathi, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Physics, Columbia University,
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Monday, May 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Gustavo Alves, Fermilab and Northwestern University,
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Tuesday, May 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Marissa Weichman, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
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Wednesday, May 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
TBD
  • Zeljko Ivezic, Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington,
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
  • Kirby Nielsen, professor of economics; William H. Hurt Scholar,
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Thursday, May 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Particles of the Moment
  • David Hertzog, Arthur B. McDonald Professor of Physics, Director of CENPA, Department of Physics, University of Washington,
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Friday, May 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Sabrina Pasterski, Perimeter Institute,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
  • Benjamin McDonough, University of Colorado, Boulder,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
  • Semih Tuna, Graduate Student, Metzger Group, Department of Physics, Columbia University,
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
Machine Assisted Proof
  • Terence Tao, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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Tuesday, May 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Revisiting Woodward–Hoffmann Allowed and Forbidden Electrocyclic Reactions
  • Kendall N. Houk, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,
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Wednesday, May 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
TBD
  • Chung-Pei Ma, Professor of Astronomy and Physics, UC Berkeley,
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Thursday, May 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
  • Ruben Verresen, Assistant Professor, Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago,
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Friday, May 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Minjae Cho, University of Chicago,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
  • Samson Wang, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Title to be announced
  • Jayana Saes, Graduate Student, Physics Department, UIUC,
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Wednesday, June 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
TBD
  • Chas Beichman, Executive Director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Caltech,
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Friday, June 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
  • Ruohan Shen, MIT,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Title to be announced
  • Adrian Fraser, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Math Department, University of Colorado, Boulder,
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