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Monday, January 6th, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Manifold Learning on Fibre Bundles
Tingran Gao, William H. Kruskal Instructor, Department of Statistics and Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago,
12:00pm – 6:00pm
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Human Resources
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 255
q-Opers, QQ-Systems and Bethe Ansatz
Peter Koroteev, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Separate Universe Techniques for Nonlinear Gravitational Evolution
Marilena Loverde, C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY Stony Brook,
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020
12:00pm – 6:00pm
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Human Resources
Wednesday, January 8th, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Elliptic PDEs on regions with corners
Jeremy Hoskins, Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Yale University,
Thursday, January 9th, 2020
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Moments of half integral weight modular L–functions, bilinear forms and applications
​Alexander Dunn, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Instruments for the exploration of the Universe and the brain
Günther Dissertori, ETH Zürich,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Gradient Flows: From PDE to Data Analysis
Franca Hoffmann, von Karman Instructor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
Friday, January 10th, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy
Rob Myers, Perimeter Institute,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Replica wormholes and the black hole information paradox
Edgar Shaghoulian, Cornell University,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Logic Seminar

A universal characterization of standard Borel spaces
Ronnie Chen, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Pulsar Timing Arrays: The Next Window to Open on the Gravitational-Wave Universe
Chiara Mingarelli, Associate Research Scientist, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Geodesic planes in hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Amir Mohammadi, Department of Mathematics, UCSD,
4:00pm – 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Jose Ramon Madrid Padilla, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
5:00pm – 5:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Ioan Bejenaru, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
Monday, January 13th, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Light-Matter Interactions for Energy Storage and Thermal Management
Yuan Yang, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 255
The section conjecture at the boundary of moduli space
Daniel Litt, Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Thinking about Simulations of Quantum Field Theories using Digital Quantum Computers
Martin Savage, University of Washington,
Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Do We Understand Tidal Disruption Events?
Wenbin Lu, David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Astrophysics, Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture

Annenberg 213
Data-Driven Control for Societal-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems
Yuanyuan Shi, Fifth-year PhD student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington,
Thursday, January 16th, 2020
2:45pm – 3:45pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 359
Hida-theoretic simplicial deformation rings and Selmer groups
Jacques Tilouine, Universite Paris 13,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Pseudo differential operators I
TBA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Local p-indecomposability of modular p-adic Galois representations
Haruzo Hida, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Cosmology in the era of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves
Marcelle Soares-Santos, Brandeis University,
Friday, January 17th, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Hemisphere partition function, LG orbifolds and FJRW invariants
Mauricio Romo, Tsinghua University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Robust encoding of a qubit in a molecule
Victor Albert, DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Preskill Group,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Almost Sure Scattering for the Energy-Critical Nonlinear Wave Equation
Bjoern Bringmann, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Large scale geometry of large mapping class groups
Kathryn Mann, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Analysis and computation of nonlocal models
Xiaochuan Tian, Bing Instructor, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Using redundant ancilla encoding and flags for low overhead magic state preparation
Christopher Chamberland, Researcher, Amazon Quantum Group,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
DECam/GROWTH follow-up of a possible neutron star-black hole merger
Igor Andreoni, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
From inverse design to implementation of practical (quantum) photonics
Jelena Vučković, Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy of Applied Physics, Stanford University; Director of Q-FARM, Stanford University,
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 187
3-manifolds and q-series
Sunghyuk Park, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Light Echoes of Etz Carinae, Massive Star Mergers, and Pre-Supernova Eruptions
Nathan Smith, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Astronomy, University of Arizona,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 310
p-adic integration for Hitchin systems and the fundamental lemma
Michael Groechenig, Mathematical & Computational Sciences, University of Toronto,
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Pseudo differential operators II
Adam Artymowicz, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Heegner points in Hida families and non-vanishing of central derivatives
Francesc Castella, Department of Mathematics, UCSB,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
From Scattering Amplitudes to Gravitational Waves
Zvi Bern, UCLA,
Friday, January 24th, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Monodromy relations in string theory from twisted homology
Eduardo Casali, UC Davis/QMAP,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Cooperative and Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in Solids
Xinwei Li, Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics, Hseih Group,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
SpECTRE: Rethinking simulations of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
Nils Deppe, Graduate Student, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CCAPS), Cornell University,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Harmonic maps and anti-de Sitter 3-manifolds
Nathaniel Sagman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:30pm – 5:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Graph homomorphism inequalities
David Conlon, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
5:30pm – 6:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
The H^1 projection problem and the Navier-Stokes equations
Matt Jacobs, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
Monday, January 27th, 2020
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Geometric Langlands for hypergeometric sheaves
Lingfei Yi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
On the Exotic Particles of de Sitter Spacetime
Rachel Rosen, Columbia University,
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Approximate Bacon-Shor Code and Holography
Charles Cao, QuICS, University of Maryland,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Lecture

Linde Hall 310
Recent progress on the Birch--Swinnerton-Dyer Conjectures
Christopher Skinner, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,