PMA Calendar
October 2021
Friday, October 1st, 2021
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
2d N=(0,1) gauge theories, Spin(7) orientifolds and triality
Xingyang Yu,
NYU,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Permanent of random matrices from representation theory: moments, numerics, concentration, and comments on hardness of boson-sampling
Sepehr Ghazi Nezami,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Constraining Dark Matter through Gravitational Heating and Cooling Processes
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, October 4th, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
The SMEFT program at the LHC
Ilaria Brivio,
Universität Heidelberg,
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
8:30am
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Mateo Diaz
Complexity, conditioning, and saddle avoidance in nonsmooth optimization
Mateo Diaz,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:45pm
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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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KNI Distinguished Webinar with Dr. Jennifer Lewis (Harvard University)
Online Event
Responsive soft matter via 3D multi-material printing
Jennifer A. Lewis,
Jianming Yu Professor of Arts and Sciences; Wyss Professor for Biologically Inspired Engineering in the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, October 6th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Realization of real-time fault-tolerant quantum error correction
Ciarán Ryan-Anderson,
Honeywell Quantum Solutions,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Informal Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A Novel Framework for Higher Loop Witten Diagrams
Aidan Hederschee,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Astrophysical Probes of the Microphysical Nature of the Dark Matter
Kathryn Zurek,
Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Department of Physics, Math and Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 7th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum minimal surfaces from quantum error correction
Geoffrey Penington,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Black holes, information and wormholes
Geoffrey Penington,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 8th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Higher lattice gauge theories
Blazej Ruba,
Jagellonian University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Nuclear spin-wave quantum register for a rare-earth ion qubit
Andrei Ruskuc,
Graduate Student,
Faraon Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Interpreting Gravitational Waves from Core-collapse Events Using Supernova Simulations
Michael Pajkos,
Graduate Student, University Distinguished Fellow,
Astrophysics and High Performance Computing,
Michigan State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Solutions to the Monge-Ampere equation with polyhedral and Y-shaped singularities
Monday, October 11th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Electroweak Bubble Wall Velocity
Yikun Wang,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
11:00am
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Abstract and physical constraints on quantum LDPC codes
Anirudh Krishna,
Bloch Postdoctoral Fellow in quantum science and engineering,
Stanford,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Algorithmic information theory, effective descriptive set theory and geometric measure theory
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Imaging Stellar Surfaces at the CHARA Array
Theo ten Brummelaar (Director) / Gail Schaefer (Associate Director),
Director, CHARA Array,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Georgia State University,
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
First Results from the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab's Muon Campus
Chris Polly,
Fermilab,
Friday, October 15th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Aspects of the black hole/string transition
Yiming Chen,
Princeton University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Probing Topological Phenomena in Time-Multiplexed Photonic Resonator Networks
Christian Leefmans,
Graduate Student, Marandi Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
Tiny but Powerful: Hunting for Extreme White Dwarfs
Ilaria Caiazzo,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Theoretical Astrophysics,
Caltech,
Monday, October 18th, 2021
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
On p-adic uniformization of abelian varieties with good reduction
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
EFT on the sky: from galaxies to black holes
Mikhail Ivanov,
NYU,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
A Conversation with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson,
Marine Biologist, Policy Expert, Writer, and Brooklyn Native. She is founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for coastal cities, and is co-creator and co-host of the Spotify/Gimlet podcast How to Save a Planet.,
3:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Iwasawa theory in the Gan-Gross-Prasad setting
Shilin Lai,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor
Vedika Khemani,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Stanford,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Systems of Short-Period Exoplanets: Regularities and Anomalies
Sarah Millholland,
NASA Sagan Fellow,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Megasupramolecules: From Disaster to Discovery
Online Event
Julia A. Kornfield (BS '83, MS '84),
Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 21st, 2021
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Progress and Prospects for the Second Quantum Revolution
Steven M. Girvin,
Department of Physics & Yale Quantum Institute,
Yale University,
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Imaging the quantum extremal surface
Adam Levine,
Institute for Advanced Study,