PMA Calendar
October 2019
Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Automatic Tensor Network Contraction
Johnnie Gray,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu
Approximate counting, phase transitions & geometry of polynomials
Jingcheng Liu,
Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
From Protostars to Adolescence: A Tour of Young Stellar Systems
Gregory Herczeg,
KIAA / Peking University,
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
2:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Friday, October 4th, 2019
11:00am
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Mixed anomalies, semi-classics and quantum distillation in QCD
Mithat Unsal,
North Carolina State University,
2:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Fontaine-Mazur conjecture in the residually reducible case
Lue Pan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:30pm
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5:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Fractal properties of the Hofstadter's butterfly and singular continuous spectrum of the critical almost Mathieu operator
5:30pm
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6:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Hodge-theoretic analysis on manifolds with boundary, heatable currents, and Onsager's conjecture in fluid dynamics
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Why is the Sky Dark at Night?
Alessandro Schillaci,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Monday, October 7th, 2019
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searching for Long Lived Particles at the LHC with Codex-b
Michele Papucci,
LBNL & Caltech,
Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
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1:30pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Exploring Fast Chemistries "On-Water": Emulsions, Electrosprays, and the Air- Water Interface
Himanshu Mishra,
Assistant Professor,
Environmental Science and Engineering Division,
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu
Uniform Sampling Through the Lovász Local Lemma
Jingcheng Liu,
Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Free Field Theories and Their Observables (GW Vol 1, Chapter 2-4)
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
2:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA)
Josiah Schwab,
UC Santa Cruz,
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
8:30am
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3:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
New frontiers in exoplanet science with high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy
Dimitri Mawet,
Caltech & JPL,
Friday, October 11th, 2019
11:00am
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Analysis Seminar
Expanding polynomials for sets with additive or multiplicative structure
Cosmin Pohoata,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Monday, October 14th, 2019
8:45am
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Quantitative recurrence and hyperbolicity of the Teichmüller flow
Ian Frankel,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
Queen's University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Primordial Non-Gaussianity as a probe of (ultra high-energy) gauge theories.
Soubhik Kumar,
University of Maryland,
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
12:00am
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Ongoing
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Microscale Fluid-Structure Interactions: Something Old, Something New and Something Unexpected
Leslie Y Yeo,
Professor,
Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne, Australia),
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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CMI Seminar: Grigory Yaroslavtsev
Advances in Linear Sketching over Finite Fields
Grigory Yaroslavtsev,
Assistant professor of Computer Science,
Indiana University, Bloomington,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Factorization algebras: Definitions and Constructions
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Galactic Archaeology: Galaxy Formation and Nucleosynthesis
Evan Kirby,
Assistant Professor,
Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Causality: From Aristotle to Zebrafish
Frederick Eberhardt,
Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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