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Monday, May 3rd, 2021
10:00am – 11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar

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Beyond Lorentz's Lamp-post: Positivity Bounds for Cosmology
Scott Melville, DAMTP, University of Cambridge,
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021
10:00am – 10:50am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

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Rigidity results for measurable sets
Dorin Bucur, Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université de Savoie,
11:00am – 11:50am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

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The matrix-weighted Hardy-Littlewood maximal function is unbounded
Stefanie Petermichl, Departement de Mathematiques, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse,
Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

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A Finite S-matrix
Hofie Hannesdottir, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

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Black Hole Mass Measurement with ALMA
Aaron Barth, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine,
Thursday, May 6th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar

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More than one sensorial modality to do mainstream science in astronomy?
Dr. Wanda Díaz-Merced, Astronomer,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

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Nonstandard thermal histories and the small-scale matter power spectrum
Jessie Shelton, UIUC,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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How to Avoid Tripping Over Your Own "Blind Spots"

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

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Sarnak's density hypothesis in horizontal families
Mikołaj Frączyk, Department of Mathematics, The University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

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The Cosmological Bootstrap
Daniel Baumann, University of Amsterdam,
Friday, May 7th, 2021
9:00am – 10:00am
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TAPIR Seminar

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The cycle of matter in the magnetized interstellar medium as revealed by machine vision
Juan Diego Soler, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Planet and Star Formation, MPIA Heidelberg,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

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Flatspace Holography: Celestial Amplitudes and Symmetries
Monica Pate, Harvard University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

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Definite surfaces, plumbing, and Tait's conjectures
Thomas Kindred, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Monday, May 10th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

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Arcs, knots, and convex embeddability
Luca Motto Ros, Mathematics Department, University of Turin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

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Cosmology at the end of the world
Brian Swingle, Brandeis University,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

Online Event
"Lunar Radio Telescope" and "SOFIA Telescope Aboard a 747 Jet"
Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, Robotics Technologist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Sabrina Pakzad, Mission Operations Specialist, NASA SOFIA Telescope,
Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

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Don't Fear the Spiders: New Insights from Redback Millisecond Pulsars
Jay Strader, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - From the Soil to the Clinic: How Infection-Causing Microbes Thrive Without Oxygen

Online Event
Dianne K. Newman, Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology and Executive Officer for Molecular Biology, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
Thursday, May 13th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Beating Burnout by Pumping Up Your Coping Skills

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

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Searching for Dark Matter Interactions throughout Cosmic History
Kim Boddy, UT Austin,
Friday, May 14th, 2021
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

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Worldsheet correlators in AdS3
Lorenz Eberhardt, Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

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Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from relativistic jets of Active Galactic Nuclei
Rostom Mbarek, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

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Khovanov homology via Floer theory of the 4-punctured sphere
Artem Kotelskiy, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Bloomington,
Monday, May 17th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

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Orbit equivalence and wreath products
Robin Tucker-Drob, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

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Thermal Squeezeout of Dark Matter
Pouya Asadi, MIT,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap (Español)

Online Event
"Mini Agujeros Negros" and "Enanas Marrones"
Lluis Mas-Ribas, Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi, Postdoctoral Fellow, American Museum of Natural History,
Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
3:00pm – 3:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

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Tiling the integers with translates of one tile: the Coven-Meyerowitz tiling conditions for three prime factors
Izabella Laba, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm – 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

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Energy of the Dilute Bose Gas in 3D
Søren Fournais, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University,
Wednesday, May 19th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caregivers' Group Meeting

Online Event
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

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Obstructions to Gapped Boundaries for (2+1)d TQFT
Justin Kaidi, SCGP,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Studying the Universe with Gravitational Waves: From Neutron Stars to Tests of Gravity
Katerina Chatziioannou, Assistant Professor of Physics, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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A Conversation with Alibaba Chairman and CEO Daniel Zhang

Online Event
Thursday, May 20th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Third Thursday TED Talks – Cultivating Resilience in the Face of Trauma

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

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Black Holes - Nature or Nurture?: The Roles of Rotation and Accretion in Powering Cosmic Sources
Roger Blandford, Stanford University,
Friday, May 21st, 2021
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

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From AdS/CFT to soft theorems in flat space
Eliot Hijano, Princeton University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

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Synchrotron Boilers in Embryonic Neutron-Star Wind Nebulae
Kazumi Kashiyama, Assistant Professor, School of Science, University of Tokyo,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

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Ancient solutions to mean curvature flow
Theodora Bourni, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Online Event
The Surprising World of Pulsars
Amruta Jaodand, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Monday, May 24th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Borel factor maps and embeddings between actions of Z^d
Spencer Unger, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

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Two short tales of axions
JiJi Fan, Brown University,
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar with Caltech Alumna Dr. Ellis Meng (USC)

Online Event
"Polymer-based Microfabricated Implants"
Ellis Meng, Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Chair in Convergent Bioscience and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California,
Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium - Neugebauer Lecture

Online Event
Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes
Andrea Ghez, Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles,
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

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Cavity acoustodynamics: insight into quantum noise in materials and opportunities for quantum computing
Oskar Painter, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Boba Magic

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Friday, May 28th, 2021
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

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Cosmology from confinement
Mark van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Quantum Weak Coin Flipping—where weakness is a virtue
Atul Singh Arora, Postdoctoral Scholar, Vidick Group,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

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The extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral problem
Alvin Chua, Postdoctoral Scholar, TAPIR, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

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Lens space surgeries, lattices, and the Poincaré homology sphere
Jacob Caudell, Mathematics Department, Boston College,