PMA Calendar
January 2021
Monday, January 4th, 2021
10:30am
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10:45am
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2021
11:00am
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12:15pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
Free Range Frequency Combs: mobilizing frequency comb laser technology from hypersonic research to atmospheric sensing
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:55pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Radon-like Transforms, Geometric Measures, and Invariant Theory
4:00pm
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4:55pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Extreme values of the argument of the zeta function
Wednesday, January 6th, 2021
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Informal Seminar
Online Event
A violation of global symmetries from replica wormholes and the fate of black hole remnants
Luca Iliesiu,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:45pm
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▶︎POSTPONED: Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning & Related Fields and Its Consequences
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Cosmic Rays in Multiphase Gas
Ellen Zweibel,
W. L. Kraushaar Professor of Astronomy and Physics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Thursday, January 7th, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Enabling novel light phenomena at the subwavelength scale
Marin Soljačić,
MIT,
Friday, January 8th, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, January 11th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
A new regularity property of the Haar null ideal
Zoltán Vidnyánszky,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap
Online Event
"The Cosmic Gold Rush" and "The Secret to Building the Biggest Galaxies: Cannibalism"
Rachel Bezanson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Pittsburgh,
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
10:00am
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11:15am
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
Nucleation enhancement in new particle formation from the vapor phase and water transport through gas-liquid interfaces in organic aerosols
Ruth Signorell,
Professor of Physical Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience,
ETZ Zurich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Online Event
Thin sets of primes from reductions of abelian varieties and K3 surfaces
Wednesday, January 13th, 2021
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Ensemble averages of torus orbifolds
Nathan Benjamin,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Artificial Intelligence: How it Works and What it Means for the Future
Online Event
Yisong Yue,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 14th, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Choreographing Quantum Spin Dynamics with Light
Monika Schleier-Smith,
Stanford University,
Friday, January 15th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
New non-perturbative effects in the gravitational path integral
Jordan Cotler,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Towards realistic post-merger simulations of binary neutron stars with SphericalNR
Vassilios Mewes,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Computational Astrophysics,
Oak Ridge National Lab,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
3:00pm
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3:55pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Stationary random entire functions and related questions
4:00pm
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4:55pm
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Mergers, magnetars and multi-messengers
Stephen Smartt,
Professor,
Queens University Belfast,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Universal minimal flows of homeomorphism groups of high-dimensional manifolds
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Neutrino Geoscience: measuring the Earth's neutrino flux and constraining its composition
Hiroko Watanabe,
Tohoku University,
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy
Rob Myers,
Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
A family of 3d steady gradient solitons that are flying wings
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Generalizing the Double-Copy: Masses and Higher-Derivatives
Callum Jones,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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POSTPONED: KNI Distinguished Webinar: Dr. Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University
Online Event
Colloidal Crystal Engineering with DNA: Repurposing the Blueprint for Life
Chad A. Mirkin,
Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Medicine,
Northwestern University,
Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Reverberation mapping black hole accretion flows
Erin Kara,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, January 28th, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Nonlinear wave equations, the weak null condition, and radiation fields
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Predicting the universe today from looking at the past with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Suzanne Staggs,
Princeton University,
Friday, January 29th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Pole-skipping in holographic theories
David Vegh,
Queen Mary University of London,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Using Metrological Bounds in Quantum Error Correction
Aleksander Kubica,
AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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