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Thursday, April 1st, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Tools And Techniques to Prevent - Treat Anxiety Disorders and or Mild Depression

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
Maass forms and the mock theta function f(q)
Alexander Dunn, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online Event
AI for physics & physics for AI
Max Tegmark, MIT,
Friday, April 2nd, 2021
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar - CANCELLED

Online Event
TBD
Geoff Penington, UC Berkeley,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Verifying quantum computations using interactive proofs
Urmila Mahadev, Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Tackle the Term - start the term off on the right foot!

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online Event
Halo's Magnetic field as Evident from stRiated Interstellar Clouds (HOMERIC)
Aris Tritsis, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mount Stromlo Observatory, ANU,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

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Skein lasagna modules of 2-handlebodies
Ikshu Neithalath, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
Monday, April 5th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Subgroups of PLo(I)PLo^fo(I) which do not embed into Thompson's group FF
Justin Moore, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

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Cosmology and Unification
Raman Sundrum, University of Maryland,
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Meditation Mob - a drop-in mindfulness meditation group for students

Online Event
3:00pm – 3:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
The extremals of the Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality
Ramon van Handel, Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

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Explicit and nonlinear variants of Bourgain's projection theorem
Pablo Shmerkin, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia,
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Revealing Massive Star Mass Loss Through Supernovae
Takashi Moriya, Assistant Professor, NOA Japan,
Thursday, April 8th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Thriving Through a Rolling Cycle of Change

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
The Relative Trace Formula and Its Applications
Liyang Yang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online Event
Unveiling Our Dynamic Infrared Sky
Mansi Kasliwal, Caltech,
Friday, April 9th, 2021
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
Probing gravitational EFTs with the four-graviton amplitude
Sasha Zhiboedov, CERN,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Universal Lindblad Equation for Open Quantum Systems
Frederik Nathan, Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online Event
Radiative turbulence in magnetically-dominated astrophysical plasmas
Emanuele Sobacchi, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Amphichiral knots with large 4-genera
Allison Miller, Mathematics Department, Rice University,
Monday, April 12th, 2021
9:00am – 10:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar

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Enabling Searches for Long-lived Particles and Precision Timing at CMS
Cristian Peña, Fermilab,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
The Wadge hierarchy on Zariski topologies
Riccardo Camerlo, Department of Mathematics, University of Genoa,
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar with Dr. Paul McEuen (Cornell University)

Online Event
Microscopic Robots?
Paul McEuen, John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science and the Director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University,
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Getting Better Sleep workshop

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Knocking at the Gravitational Wave Door
Maura McLaughlin, Eberly Family Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University,
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
9:00am – 9:55am
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Analysis Seminar

Online Event
On the stability of classical boundary layers
Toan Nguyen, Mathematics Department, Pennsylvania State University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Third Thursday TED Talks - Finding Benefit in Stress

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
The distribution of closed geodesics on the modular surface
Alexandre Perozim de Faveri, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online Event
Active Topology
Cristina Marchetti, UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, April 16th, 2021
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
Dynamics of 1+1 Dimensional Gauge Theories and Exotic Symmetries
Zohar Komargodski, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Building a quantum computer with cat codes
Fernando Brandão, Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics, Head of Quantum Algorithms AWS,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

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A hidden Markov model search for gravitational waves from twelve young supernova remnants
Meg Millhouse, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Physics, University of Melbourne,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Existence of static vacuum extensions
Lan-Hsuan Huang, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Operator algebras and the emergence of spacetime
Elliott Gesteau, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Online Event
Endless Hunt for Black Holes
Wenbin Lu, David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
Sunday, April 18th, 2021
8:00am – 2:00pm
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Barry Simon's 75th Birthday Conference

Online Event
Monday, April 19th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
A characterization of high transitivity for groups acting on trees
François Le Maître, Jussieu Mathematics Institute – PRG, University of Paris,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Online Event
Improving Policy Learning via Programmatic Domain Knowledge
Yisong Yue, Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Computing and Mathematical Sciences Dept., California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Dark photons and the cosmic radiation background
Hongwan Liu, Princeton University,
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
10:00am – 10:50am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
The mysteries of low-degree Boolean functions
Nathan Keller, Department of Mathematics, Bar Ilan University,
11:00am – 11:50am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
On the zeros of Fekete polynomials
Oleksiy Klurman, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol,
11:00am – 12:15pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Online Event
Ionic transport in nanoscale fluids far from equilibrium
David Limmer, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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An introduction to the Getting Things Done system of productivity

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Cosmology with Massive Neutrinos
Jia Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Sunlight to Everything: Catalyzing a Sustainable Future

Online Event
Jonas Peters, Bren Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
9:00am – 9:55am
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Analysis Seminar

Online Event
On the well-posedness of the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation
Maria Ntekoume, Department of Mathematics, Rice University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
A conjecture of Perrin-Riou
Ashay Burungale, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online Event
The Dark Phase of Quantum Matter
Louis Taillefer, Université de Sherbrooke and CIFAR,
Friday, April 23rd, 2021
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
Real-time gravitational replicas
Mukund Rangamani, UC Davis/QMAP,