PMA Calendar
May 2019
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
8:00am
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5/15
5:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmic "Dust" (Galaxies, Stars and Actual Dust)!
Philip Hopkins,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Fracton order: from quantum hard drive to foliated manifold
Xie Chen,
Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
To the Heart of Neutrinos with CUORE and CUPID
Yuri Kolomensky,
UC Berkeley,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Room temperature photo-induced electron-hole gas-to-liquid transition in 2D materials
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The NICER mission and the Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Sky
Andrea Lommen,
Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Haverford College,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Single Photon Detectors, Parity Measurements and Heralded Cat States in the Microwave Domain
Andreas Wallraff,
Professor for Solid State Physics,
Department of Physics,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:30pm
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5:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
High frequency limits and Burnett's conjecture in general relativity
5:30pm
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6:20pm
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Random walks, harmonic functions, 0-1 laws, and the Poisson boundary of groups
Joshua Frisch,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New accelerator experiments for dark sectors
Stefania Gori,
UC Santa Cruz,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Alistair Sinclair
The Lee-Yang Theorem and the Ising Model
Alistair Sinclair,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The stable cohomology of the moduli space of curves with level structures
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dwarf Galaxies and Their Dark Matter Content
Laura Sales,
Assistant Professor,
Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, May 9th, 2019
8:00am
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2:00pm
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8:30am
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11:00am
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9:30am
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms
Antoine Browaeys,
CNRS Research Director,
Institut d'Optique, Paris,
Friday, May 10th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Weak Gravity Conjecture and Repulsive Forces
Ben Heidenreich,
UMass Amherst,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement, Decoherence, & Quantum Ising Systems
P.C.E. Stamp,
Professor,
University of British Columbia,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Interpreting the range of spectral properties from the tidal disruptions of stars by super-massive black holes
Nathan Roth,
Space-Science Institute Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Maryland and NASA Goddard,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
PT-symmetry breaking in microscopic gain-loss systems
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar
Heat kernel expansion of the Dirac-Laplacian of multifractal Robertson-Walker cosmologies
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
A Star is Born
Mike Grudic,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR),
Caltech,
Monday, May 13th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Towards Resolution of the MiniBooNE Anomaly with the MicroBooNE Experiment
Brooke Russell,
Yale University,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Hamiltonian simulation meets holographic duality
Toby Cubitt,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Revealing the chemistry in quantum chemistry: from diatomics to proton coupled electron transfer in enzymes
Gerald Knizia,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
The Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Adam Smith
The Structure of Optimal Private Tests for Simple Hypotheses
Adam Smith,
Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
Boston University,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
In (Data-Driven) Pursuit of Galactic Archaeology
Melissa Ness,
Assistant Professor,
Astronomy,
Columbia University,