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Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mental Health First Aid Training

383 S. Hill Ave., Annex
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Dehn surgery and SU(2) representations
Steven Sivek, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Homotopy Type Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Lecture: Stimulating a Culture of Innovation at The Aerospace Corporation

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday, April 18th, 2019
10:00am – 2:00pm
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Take Our Children to Work Day 2019

Bechtel Residence Dining Hall
12:15pm – 12:45pm
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Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
On the geometry of the Hodge-Tate period morphism
Ana Caraiani, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Building Single Molecules – reactions, collisions, and spectroscopy of two atoms
Kang-Kuen Ni, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,
Friday, April 19th, 2019
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Asymptotic Symmetries and the Soft Photon Theorem in Arbitrary Dimension
Temple He, Asymptotic Symmetries and the Soft Photon Theorem in Arbitrary Dimension, UC Davis,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Probing Topological Superconductivity in a Phase-Controlled Planar Josephson Junction
Hechen Ren, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Nadj-Perge Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Introduction to homological blocks
Sunghyuk Park, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
CORRELATED WORLDLINE THEORY of QUANTUM GRAVITY
P.C.E. Stamp, Professor - Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia and Caltech,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Strands algebras and Ozsváth-Szabó's Kauffman states functor
Marco Marengon, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Head and tail speeds of mean curvature flow with forcing
Hongwei Gao, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Coping with Procrastination and Work Avoidance

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)
5:00pm – 5:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Weissler's conjecture on the Boolean cube
Paata Ivanisvili, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar

Factorization homology: sigma-models as state-sum TQFTs
David Ayala, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University,
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar

Counting square-tiled surfaces with prescribed real and imaginary foliations
Francisco Arana Herrera, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
Tuesday, April 23rd, 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
The complexity of sampling from a weak quantum computer
Saeed Mehraban, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Counseling Group

Counseling Center
Wednesday, April 24th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Emotional Well-Being Workshop Series - Cultivating emotional agility and resilience

Avery Library
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mental Health First Aid Training

383 S. Hill Ave., Annex
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Conformally soft photons and gravitons
Andrea Puhm, CPHT - Centre de Physique Theorique,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Three-Dimensional Supernova Explosion Simulations
Adam Burrows, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Tapio Schneider - Clouds and Climate Tipping Points

Beckman Auditorium
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
12:15pm – 12:45pm
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Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Beyond Representation: Data to Improve the Situation of Women and Minorities in Physics and Astronomy
Rachel Ivie, Director, Statistical Research Center (SRC), American Institute of Physics,
Friday, April 26th, 2019
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Identifying Phonon Coupling Effects in Strongly Anharmonic Functional Materials with Raman Crystallography
Thomas M. Brenner, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel),
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Supersymmetric Wilson Loops, Instantons, and Deformed W-algebras
Nathan Haouzi, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Increasing spin-photon interface efficiencies via a tunable Fabry-Perot microcavity
Daniel Riedel, Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Physics and Material Science, Faraon Group,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
The stellar local velocity distribution and its implications for dark matter
Lina Necib, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, High Energy Physics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Homogenization of random quasiconformal mappings and random Delauney triangulations
Oleg Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Construction of hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature
Jonathan Zhu, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
Monday, April 29th, 2019
4:00pm – 4:50pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Khovanov homology and the Fukaya category of the 3-punctured disc
Claudius Zibrowius, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Non-Thermal Production of Bosonic Dark Matter
Raymond Co, University of Michigan,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 310
A spectral sequence from Khovanov homology to knot Floer homology
Nathan Dowlin, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College,
Tuesday, April 30th, 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

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Engineering Coherent Defects in Diamond
Nathalie de Leon, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Electric Excitations in Nanomaterials
Timothy Berkelbach, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University and Research Scientist Center for Computational Quantium Physics at Flatiron Institute,