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Tuesday, April 4
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Entanglement requirements for non-local games
  • William Slofstra, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo,
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
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Wednesday, April 5
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Thin Cremona Planes (after Tits and Deligne)
  • Koen Thas, Department of Mathematics, Ghent University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Coming Revolution in Computational Astrophysics
  • Saul Teukolsky, Caltech,
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4:45 pm - 5:30 pm
Combinatorial characterizations of varieties
  • Koen Thas, Department of Mathematics, Ghent University,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
On a Generalized Model for B-Type Landau-Ginzburg Theories
  • Dmitry Doryn, Center for Geometry and Physics, IBS,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Breuil--Kisin modules and crystalline cohomology
  • Bryden R. Cais, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Deconstructing (and reconstructing) wall turbulence: Characterizing natural and synthetic self-sustaining processes
  • Beverley McKeon, Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics; Associate Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, Caltech,
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Friday, April 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Causality and Universality at Strong Coupling
  • Tom Hartman, Cornell University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
The quadrupole formula: a hundred years later
  • Beatrice Bonga, Graduate Student, Penn State,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Quantitative methods in hyperbolic geometry and applications to lifting curves simply
  • Priyam Patel, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Enhancing atom-light interactions with "selective radiance": the recipe to exponentially improve photon storage fidelities
  • Ana Asenjo Garcia, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Kimble Group,
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Monday, April 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wall-crossing formula for Gromov-Witten invariants
  • Chris Woodward, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
A small weak scale from a small cosmological constant
  • Ken Van Tilburg, IAS,
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Tuesday, April 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
An Introduction to the Kapustin-Witten Equations and Witten's Program
  • Siqi He, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Building Training Sets for Astronomical Data; A Bayesian Feature Transformation for Domain Adaptation
  • Pavlos Protopapas, Inst. for Applied Computational Science, Cambridge, MA,
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3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Overview of Seminar Content
  • Serin Hong, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Quantum fluctuations in hydrogen bond networks: From proton transport to enzyme catalysis
  • Thomas E. Markland, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
  • Dr. Stephanie Tonnesen, Carnegie Observatories,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Semiconductor Quantum Technologies for Communications and Computing
  • Dirk Englund, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Wednesday, April 12
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Graphs Generated by Commuting Borel Functions
  • Connor Meehan, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Making the Most Accurate Possible Measurements with Telescopes
  • David Hogg, NYU,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Pointed Gromov-Hausdorff Topology on Graphs, With Applications to Economics
  • Omer Tamuz, Departments of Economics & Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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Thursday, April 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum many-body control
  • Manuel Endres, Assistant Professor of Physics, Caltech,
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Friday, April 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Chaos in 2D CFT and Spinning Particle in AdS
  • Chi-Ming Chang, QMAP, UC Davis,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Annenberg 106
Quantum metrology gets real
  • Konrad Banaszek, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Helping to paint a more realistic picture of the intergalactic and circumgalactic media through simulation
  • Devin Silva, NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan State University,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Translation flow on holomorphic maps out of the poly-plane
  • Dmitri Gekhtman, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Endpoint bounds for the lacunary spherical maximal operator
  • Laura Cladek, Department of Mathematics, The University of British Columbia,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Fermi Arcs and Their Topological Character in the Candidate Type-II Weyl Semimetals WTe2 and MoTe2
  • Flavio Yair Bruno, Ambizione Research Fellow, University of Geneva,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Differentiating Blaschke products
  • Oleg Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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Monday, April 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Vector bundles and finite covers
  • Anand Deopurkar, Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Effective theories for point sources
  • Cliff Burgess, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Characterizing slopes for torus knots
  • Duncan McCoy, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin,
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Tuesday, April 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Theory of Pseudo-differential Operators on the Noncommutative n-Torus
  • Jim Tao, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Advanced LIGO Calibration Uncertainty for Precision Astrophysics
  • Craig Cahillane, LIGO, Caltech),
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Flat Photonics Using High Contrast Metastructures
  • Connie Chang-Hasnain, Associate Dean for Strategic Alliances of College of Engineering and Whinnery Distinguished Chair Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
  • Dr. Jen van Saders, Carnegie Observatories,
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Wednesday, April 19
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Ergodic theory from a new perspective
  • Amos Nevo, Department of Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A Homology Theory for Smale Spaces
  • Ian Putnam, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
An Idiosyncratic Look at LIGO�s Detections and Prospects
  • Stan Whitcomb, Caltech,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Limit multiplicities of cohomological automorphic forms
  • Simon L. Marshall, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Can we reverse-engineer the brain?
  • Michael Roukes, Robert M. Abbey Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
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Friday, April 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Holographic lattice field theories
  • Ingmar Saberi, University of Heidelberg,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Edge of darkness: The splashback radius as a physical halo boundary
  • Benedikt Diemer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Symplectic Instanton Homology via Traceless Character Varieties: SO(3)-Bundles and Dehn Surgery
  • Henry Horton, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Fault-tolerance in topological stabilizer codes and universal workarounds
  • Tomas Jochym O'Connor, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
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Monday, April 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Derived categories of canonical covers of bielliptic and Enriques surfaces in positive characteristic
  • Katrina Honigs, Mathematics Department, University of Utah,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Nnaturalness
  • Tim Cohen, University of Oregon,
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Tuesday, April 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
  • Dr. Ben Shappee, Carnegie Observatories,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Extremes: nonlinear PDEs, random walk, Gaussian processes and random matrices
  • Ofer Zeitouni, Department of Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science,
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Wednesday, April 26
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Two-spectra theorem with uncertainty
  • Alexei Poltoratski, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
On The Interplay Between Representations and Topological Actions
  • Omer Tamuz, Economics & Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization
  • Eduardo Banados, Carnegie,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Harper, extended Harper, and sharp spectral transitions in the arithmetics of the flux
  • Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,
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Thursday, April 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Watson 104
MEMS are becoming 3D and atomically precise
  • Andrei Shkel, Prof., Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Building Science: Multiple Agendas
  • Thom Mayne, Architect and Design Director, Morphosis,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum simulations: From condensed matter to high energy models
  • Ignacio Cirac, Professor Doctor of Physics, Director of the Theory Division, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik,
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Friday, April 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Vortices in 4d, N=2 SQCD and their Worldsheet Theory from Supersymmetric Localization
  • Efrat Gerchkovitz, Weizmann Institute,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The cap set problem
  • Allison Wang, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Observing the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation with the South Pole Telescope
  • Christine Moran, Postdoctoral Scholar, TAPIR, Caltech,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Heegaard Floer invariants and satellite knots
  • Wenzhao Chen, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Average Decay of the Fourier Transform of Measures
  • Keith Rogers, Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Plasmonics for Chemistry: Sensing and controlling chemical reactions using plasmons
  • Andrea Baldi, PhD, Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
On-chip quantum memories for telecom photons using ensembles of erbium ions
  • Ioana Craiciu, Graduate Student, Faraon Group,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Spectral theory of confining magnetic fields via symplectic geometry
  • San Vu Ngoc, Department of Mathematics, Universite de Rennes,
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Monday, May 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The EW phase transition improved and unrealized
  • Patrick Meade, Stony Brook University,
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Tuesday, May 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Determinacy
  • Connor Meehan, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
The optimality of projections for quantum state exclusion
  • Abel Molina, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo,
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3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rapoport-Zink Spaces
  • Zavosh Amir-Khosravi, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • David Nadler, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Light, Electrons, Protons: Lessons from Model Systems and Potentials for Photocatalysis
  • Jahan Dawlaty, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
  • Dr. Andrew Wetzel, Carnegie Observatories - Caltech,
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Wednesday, May 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
How to break the electroweak symmetry naturally
  • Jing Shu, Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Science ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
A Tale of Two Stars - Planetary Formation with Stellar Binaries
  • Gongjie Li, Harvard,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Extracting the Universe from the Wave Function
  • Sean Carroll, Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology,
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Thursday, May 4
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
East Bridge 114
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Sheared Pleated surfaces and Limiting Configurations for Hitchin's equations
  • Michael Wolf, Department of Mathematics, Rice University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Physics and Material Science of Modern Particle Accelerators
  • Anna Grassellino, Deputy Division Head, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL),
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Diophantine Problems and the p-adic Torelli Map
  • Brian Lawrence, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University ,
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Friday, May 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Integrability of refined Chern-Simons theory
  • Shamil Shakirov, Harvard University,
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1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Entanglement branes in a two-dimensional string theory
  • Gabriel Wong, University of Virginia,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
The Importance of being Eccentric
  • Ann-Marie Madigan, Assistant Professor of Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Simulating the Galaxies of our Universe
  • Andrew Wetzel, Caltech-Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR), Caltech,
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Monday, May 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Reconstruction in Gauge Gromov-Witten Theory
  • Seunghee Ye, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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Tuesday, May 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Universal fault-tolerant computing with Bacon-Shor codes
  • Theodore Yoder, MIT,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Enumerative geometry and geometric representation theory
  • Andrei Okounkov, Mathematics Department, Columbia University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
SEMINAR POSTPONED
  • Daniel M. Neumark, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
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Wednesday, May 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noncommutative Geometry from non-Laplace Type Operators
  • Ivan Avramidi, Department of Mathematics, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Neutrino physics with liquid xenon detectors
  • Michelle Dolinski, Drexel University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Young Galaxies Forming in the High-Redshift Universe
  • Rychard Bouwens, Leiden,
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Generating functions and enumeration in finite classical groups
  • Jason Fulman, Department of Mathematics, USC,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, May 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Current and future searches for neutrinoless double beta decay
  • Michelle Dolinski, Assistant Professor of Physics, Drexel University,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
A Regularized Geometric Theta Lift for Diagonal Cycles
  • Zavosh Amir Khosravi, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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Friday, May 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Covariant Entanglement Constructs
  • Veronika Hubeny, QMAP, UC Davis,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Feedback and its Role in Shaping (dwarf) Galaxies
  • Ferah Munshi, VIDA Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Conway mutation and knot Floer homology
  • Peter Lambert-Cole, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University ,
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Monday, May 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Non-WIMP dark matter and the structure of galaxies
  • Katelin Schutz, UC Berkeley,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
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Tuesday, May 16
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Quantum and private capacities of low-noise channels
  • Graeme Smith, JILA, CU Boulder,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Affine Grassmannian and Geometric Stake
  • Jize Yu, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy of Molecular, Biological and Materials Dynamics
  • Graham R. Fleming, Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
On the arithmetic degree of Shimura curves
  • Xinyi Yuan, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley,
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Wednesday, May 17
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Continuous categories and continuous logic
  • Ronnie Chen, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Trade-offs in Convex Optimization
  • Volkan Cevher, EPFL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Downs 103
The critical exponent of a graph
  • Apoorva Khare, Department of Mathematics & Department of Statistics, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Exploring the low surface brightness sky with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array
  • Pieter van Dokkum, Yale,
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Thursday, May 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Annenberg 314
Random variables, entanglement and nonlocality in infinite translation-invariant systems
  • Miguel Navascues, University of Vienna,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Remarkable Power of General Relativity
  • Gary Horowitz, Distinguished Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
On the Gross-Stark Conjecture
  • Samit Dasgupta, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz,
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Friday, May 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Applications of light-cone cuts in holography
  • Gary Horowitz, UC Santa Barbara,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Moduli Space of Flat Tori
  • Mark Greenfield, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Mirror Symmetry for HOMFLYPT Knot Homology
  • Alexei Oblomkov, University of Massachusetts,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Pulsar Accretion: This Time, It's Magnetized
  • Kyle Parfrey, Einstein Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL),
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Tight Contact Structures via Admissible Transverse Surgery
  • James Conway, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
TBA
  • Steven Heilman, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Analysis on models of polymeric fluids
  • Konstantina Trivisa, Department of Mathematics & Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University Of Maryland,
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Monday, May 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Confronting CPT and Equivalence Principle with Cold Trapped Antihydrogen
  • Makoto C. Fujiwara, TRIUMF,
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Tuesday, May 23
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Introduction to Rapoport-Zink Spaces III: Local Models
  • Zavosh Amir-Khosravi, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Hyper-invariant tensor networks and holography
  • Glen Evenbly, University of Sherbrooke,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
  • Dr. J. J. Eldridge, Univ. of Auckland,
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Wednesday, May 24
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
A direct solution to the Generic Point Problem
  • Andy Zucker, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Etudes for the Inverse Spectral Problem
  • Nikolai G. Makarov, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Structure of Gaseous Halos Around and Between Galaxies
  • Eliot t Quataer, Berkeley,
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Thursday, May 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Physics of Soft Particles
  • Henriette Elvang, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Michigan,
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Friday, May 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
New Indices in Four-Dimensional N=2 Theories
  • Thomas Dumitrescu, Harvard University,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Complexity in Holographic Theories and QFT
  • Robert Myers, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
A Multi-dimensional Approach to Track Molecular Dynamics at Extreme Scales
  • Elad Harel, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Irving M. Klotz Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Interpreting Dwarf Galaxies
  • Alyson Brooks, Assistant Professor, Astronomy Department, Rutgers University,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Degenerations of Goldman's coordinates along neck pinches for convex real projective structures
  • John Loftin, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Rutgers University,
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Tuesday, May 30
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Hyperfinite ergodic subgraphs, Part I
  • Anush Tserunyan, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Fault-tolerant quantum computation with few qubits
  • Ben Reichardt, USC,
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Wednesday, May 31
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Hyperfinite ergodic subgraphs, Part II
  • Anush Tserunyan, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Convergence of Quantum Metric Spaces
  • Frederic Latremoliere, Department of Mathematics, University of Denver,
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Thursday, June 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Coulomb blockade in one-dimensional fractional topological superconductors
  • Roman Lutchyn, Station Q, Microsoft Research, Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Probing the Dark Universe with Galaxy Surveys
  • Risa Wechsler, Associate Professor of Physics, Stanford University/SLAC,
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Friday, June 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Emergent spacetime and Quantum Entanglement in Matrix theory
  • Vatche Sahakian, Harvey Mudd College,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The table turning problem
  • Eitan Borgnia, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Spin-precessing compact binaries and their Gravitational Waves
  • Katerina Chatziioannou, CITA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Probing A Gravitational Cat State: Theoretical Problems And Experimental Prospects
  • Maaneli Derakhshani, Researcher, Utrecht University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A Partially Hyperbolic Model in Plasma Physics: Deterministic and Stochastic Zakharov-Kuznetsov Equation
  • Chuntian Wang, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Inhomogeneous circular laws for random matrices with non-identically distributed entries
  • Nicholas Cook, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Origin of the Elements
  • Ivanna Escala, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
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Monday, June 5
8:40 am - 12:30 pm
South Mudd 365
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Entanglement in One-Dimensional Quantum Liquids
  • Adrian Del Maestro, Assistant Professor, Physics, University of Vermont,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
First-row seats for "the photonic control of single atoms, charges and spins in nanostructures". Courtesy of femtosecond electron microscopy
  • Fabrizio Carbone, Assistant Professor, Laboratory for Ultrafast Microscopy and Electron Scattering (LUMES), Institute of Physics, Lausanne Center for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland,
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Tuesday, June 6
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Symmetry-protected quantum memories
  • Stephen Bartlett, University of Sydney,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Bozhi Tian, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago,
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Wednesday, June 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Loop soups and the pinned random walk on the 2D torus
  • Pierre-Francois Rodriguez, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Astronomical Transients that defy all classification schemes
  • Raffaella Margutti, Northwestern University,
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Monochromatic configurations in finite colorings of \mathbb{N}
  • Joel Moreira, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,
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Friday, June 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Dualities in 2+1 dimensions and quantum Hall physics
  • Andreas Karch, University of Washington,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Approximate representation theory of finite groups
  • Jalex Stark, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Searching for dark matter with atomic clocks in space
  • Tigran Kalaydzhyan, Postdoc, JPL,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Collar lemma and positive cross-ratios
  • Nicolas Tholozan, Département de Mathématiques et Applications, École Normale Supérieure,
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Tuesday, June 13
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Quantum many-body dynamics in strongly interacting dipolar spin systems: from time-crystals to quantum metrology
  • Soonwon Choi, Harvard University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Geometric Local Models
  • Zavosh Amir-Khosravi, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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