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Monday, February 3rd, 2020
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Derived traces for Soergel categories
Eugene Gorsky, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
SUSY Rilles: A Speculation on Superstring Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background
S. James Gates, Jr., Brown University,
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Cosmography and Black Hole Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves
Will Farr, Professor, Stoneybrook,
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Reliability, Equity, and Reproducibility in Modern Machine Learning
Yaniv Romano, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Statistics, Stanford University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Central limit theorem on conjugacy class measure of the symmetric group
Yuhui Jin, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Weak containment of subgroups
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 314
Fault-tolerant quantum error correction in bosonic systems
Kyungjoo Noh, Graduate Student, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Detecting the Shadow of the Black Hole in M87
Feryal Ozel, Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona,
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Invariance Theory
Bowen Yang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Christy Lecture: Cosmic alchemy in the era of gravitational wave astronomy
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz,
Friday, February 7th, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
OPE inversion and light cone bootstrap in generic dimensions
Carlos Cardona, Bohr Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Conformal field theories are magical
Christopher White, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Maryland Condensed Matter Theory Center,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Watson 104
Transformative Meta-Optical Systems
Dragomir N. Neshev, Professor, Physics, Australian National University,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Surface bundles, monodromy, and arithmetic groups
Bena Tshishiku, Department of Mathematics, Brown University,
4:00pm – 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Local smoothing for the wave equation in $2+1$ dimensions
Ruixiang Zhang, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
5:00pm – 5:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Counting rational points close to a hypersurface
Jing-Jing Huang, Mathematics & Statistics, University of Nevada, Reno,
Monday, February 10th, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
The Blessings of Multiple Causes
Yixin Wang, Statistics, Columbia University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
The Blessings of Multiple Causes
Yixin Wang, Statistics, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
DG center and cocenter of a monoidal category
Matt Hogancamp, Mathematics Department, Northeastern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Structured neutron waves
Dmitry Pushin, University of Waterloo,
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Classical Coding Approaches to Quantum Applications
Narayanan Rengaswamy, Graduate Student, Duke University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Ultrafast Dynamics and Interactions of Molecular Vibrational Polaritons
Wei Xiong, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego,
Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Do ImageNet Classifiers Generalize to ImageNet?
Ludwig Schmidt, Computer Science, UC Berkeley,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Non-Archimedean tsi Polish groups, and obstructions to Borel reducibility
Shaun Allison, Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 314
Efficient Learning of Quantum Noise
Steve Flammia, Professor, University of Sydney,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Spitzer and the High Redshift Universe: Approaching Cosmic Dawn
Richard Ellis, Professor of Astrophysics, University College London,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Origami and Spacecraft Structures: Current Work and a Brief History

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Topological Phase Transitions in Random Geometric Complexes
Omer Bobrowski, Electrical Engineering, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Invariance Theory
Bowen Yang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Convolution morphisms and Kottwitz conjecture
Naoki Imai, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells
Ibrahim Cissé, MIT,
5:15pm – 6:15pm
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PMA TecherTalk

Linde Hall 310
Friday, February 14th, 2020
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Entanglement islands and the information paradox
Raghu Mahajan, IAS,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Keck 142
Creating Quantum Topological Materials with 3D Microwave Photons
Clai Owens, Research Scientist, Painter Group,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
On measuring the delay time distribution of binary neutron stars
Mohammad Safarzadeh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Asymptotic problems in spectral shape optimization
Simon Larson, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Decomposing sutured Instanton Floer homology
Zhenkun Li, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Film, Panel, & Stargazing

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Pale Blue Dot: Perspectives on Our Planet
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Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 187
A comparison between model categories for concurrency
Josh Lieber, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Group Meeting

SFCC Office, 315 S. Hill Ave., Rear Building
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Passing Hilbert's Final Test
Jack H. Lutz, Iowa State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Super-Eddington Accretion
Ramesh Narayan, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Quantifying quantum speedups: improved classical simulation from tighter magic monotones
Earl Campbell, EPSRC Research Fellow, University of Sheffield,
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Clifford Modules
Angus Gruen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
On the modularity of elliptic curves over imaginary quadratic fields
Patrick Allen, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Physical Dynamics of Ice Crystal Growth
Ken Libbrecht, Caltech,
Friday, February 21st, 2020
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Submillimeter galaxies as tracers of protoclusters and constraints on galaxy formation models
Chris Hayward, Associate Research Scientist, CCA, Flatiron Institute,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
TBA
Michael Willis, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:30pm – 5:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Discrete Maximal functions over curved subvarieties
Theresa Anderson, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University,
5:30pm – 6:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
A bilinear proof of decoupling for the moment curve
Zane Li, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington,