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Monday, April 1st, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
The coherent Satake category and Wilson-‘t Hooft operators
Harold Williams, Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics, UC Davis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Unlocking Neutron Stars as Sensitive Probes of Dark Matter
Tim Linden, Ohio State University,
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
12:15pm – 12:45pm
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Outdoors Guided Meditation

Beckman Institute Lawn
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Emotional Well-Being Workshop Series - Breathing techniques for emotional self-regulation

Avery Library
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Coffee@Caltech

Bechtel Residence Dining Hall
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Evolved Planetary Systems Around White Dwarfs
Boris Gaensicke, University of Warwick,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Azita Emami - Tiny Chips for Brain-Body-Machine Interfaces

Beckman Auditorium
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
12:15pm – 12:45pm
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Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Towards real world quantum networks
Raju Valivarthi, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Weak containment, co-induction and invariant random subgroups
Alexander Kechris, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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California Nonresident Tax Workshop

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Koszul duality for Iwasawa algebras modulo $p$
Claus M. Sorensen, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Dark Matter direct detection at a crossroads
Ranny Budnik, Senior Scientist, Weizmann Institute,
5:15pm – 7:15pm
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PMA TecherTalk

Linde Hall 310
Friday, April 5th, 2019
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Entanglement as a connection for holographic spacetimes
Lampros Lamprou, MIT,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
"Quantum Nanophotonics with Ytterbium in Yttrium Orthovanadate"
Jon Kindem, Postdoctoral Scholar, Faraon Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Path counting and rank gaps in differential posets
Praveen Venkataramana, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Tackle the Term - Workshop on productivity without procrastination

Avery Library
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Homology directions and veering triangulations
Michael Landry, Mathematics Department, Yale University,
4:30pm – 5:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Polynomial Roth theorems in Salem sets
Shaoming Guo, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin Madison,
5:30pm – 6:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
TBA
Irina Holmes, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University,
Saturday, April 6th, 2019
9:30am – 5:00pm
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N+10th Southern California Topology Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Monday, April 8th, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Primordial black holes as dark matter
Alexander Kusenko, UCLA & Kavli IPMU,
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
12:15pm – 12:45pm
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Outdoors Guided Meditation

Beckman Institute Lawn
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar - Special Event with Condensed Matter Physics

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Making matter from light: Mott Insulators and Topological Fluids
Jonathan Simon, Associate Professor of Physics & The James Franck Institute, and IME Fellow, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Coherent Electron Dynamics in Inter-dimensional Metals: From Atomically Precise Clusters to Plasmonic Transducers
Kenneth L. Knappenberger, Jr., Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University,
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Discovery of Pulsars - A Graduate Student's Story
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Oxford,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Homotopy Type Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Organizational Meeting
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Joint Algebra and Geometry/Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Cohomology of the space of polynomial morphisms on A^1 with prescribed ramifications
Oishee Banerjee, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
8:30am – 11:00am
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International Scholar Orientation

Moore 239
12:15pm – 12:45pm
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Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Bernoulli disjointness
Todor Tsankov, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu–PRG, Université Paris Diderot,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Mindfully Resilient: An 8-week Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy group to help prevent relapse of depression and anxiety

Counseling Center
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Grad Students' Choice: Topological order and topological excitation
Xiao-Gang Wen, Professor of Physics, MIT,
Friday, April 12th, 2019
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Evaporating Eternal Black Holes
Ahmed Ahlmeiri, IAS,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Emergent higher symmetry in topological phases of matter
Xiao-Gang Wen, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Special Seminar in CMS

Annenberg 105
Imaging a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope
Katherine (Katie) Bouman, Visiting Associate, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Higher Spin Theories, Swampland and W-Supergravity
Dieter Luest, MPI, Munich and Ludwig-Maximillians Univ,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Understanding blazar jet microphysics through their radio variability
Ioannis Liodakis, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, Stanford University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
A boundedness criterion for bilinear Fourier multipliers
Lenka Slavikova, Mathematics Department, University of Missouri,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Dynamical and cohomological obstruction to extending group actions
Sam Nariman, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: Revealing the Invisible
Marja Seidel, Staff Scientist, IPAC, Caltech,
Monday, April 15th, 2019
4:00pm – 4:50pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar

Bridge trisections and the Thom conjecture
Peter Lambert-Cole, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
A new semiclassical picture of vacuum decay
Matthew Johnson, York University & Perimeter Institute,
5:00pm – 5:50pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar

Classifying contact structures on hyperbolic 3-manifolds
James Conway, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
12:15pm – 12:45pm
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Outdoors Guided Meditation

Beckman Institute Lawn
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Entropy decays for 1D quantum Gibbs samplers
Angela Capel Cuevas, ICMAT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Canceled-Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
David Reichman, Centennial Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Shimura varieties, Galois representations, and torsion classes
Ana Caraiani, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College,
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building