PMA Calendar
October 2019
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
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Physics Colloquium
Compact Proton Therapy: Improving Access to Advanced Cancer Treatment
James Cooley,
Director of Advanced Development,
Mevion Medical Systems,
Friday, October 18th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Extensions of Kac-Moody algebras and Calabi-Yau singularities.
Miroslav Rapčak,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Defect-Level Switching: A New Mechanism for Electronic Devices
Rafael Jaramillo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, October 21st, 2019
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Connecting early Universe with Observations: from Primordial Black Holes to Sterile Neutrinos
Volodymyr Takhistov,
UCLA,
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory in the Verlinde category in positive characteristic
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Understanding coupled nuclear-electronic dynamics near a metal surface
Joseph Subotnik,
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Guannan Qu
Distributed optimization in multi-agent systems: bridging the gap between centralized and distributed algorithms
Guannan Qu,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Basic Examples of Factorization Algebras
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
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Astronomy Colloquium
Hints of the Earliest Galaxies
Steven Furlanetto,
Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy,
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
2:30pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Reduced Whitehead groups of algebras over p-adic curves
Nivedita Bhaskhar,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
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Friday, October 25th, 2019
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Networks of Optical Parametric Oscillators: From Ising Machines to Quantum Photonic Engineering
Alireza Marandi,
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Ignorance is Cheap: From Black Hole Entropy To Energy-Minimizing States In QFT
Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam,
UC Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Field Formation of Compact Binaries: Common Envelope, Natal Kicks, and Gravitational Waves
A. Miguel Holgado,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
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Monday, October 28th, 2019
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar/Number Theory Seminar
Moduli of Drinfeld shtukas over the projective line
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
On the robustness of inflation to inhomogeneities
Raphael Flauger,
UC San Diego,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Jupiter
Candice Hansen-Koharcheck,
Senior Scientist,
Planetary Science Institute,
Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
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KNI Distinguished Seminar
Lithium Niobate Nanomechanical Devices: New classical and quantum opportunities
3:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Guannan Qu
Exponential stability of primal-dual gradient dynamics and its applications in network control
Guannan Qu,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Holomorphic Field Theories and Vertex Algebras
Victor Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
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Astronomy Colloquium
Near Field Cosmology with the Rapid Neutron-Capture Process
Alexander Ji,
Carnegie Observatories,
Thursday, October 31st, 2019
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Number Theory Seminar
Geometry of the eigencurve at CM points and trivial zeros of Katz p-adic L-functions
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