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Monday, November 1st, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Rethinking false vacuum decay
Djuna Croon, Durham University,
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
Bounds for standard L-functions
Paul Nelson, Mathematics, IAS,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Reflection in algebra and topology
Aaron Mazel-Gee, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar/Webinar: Dr. Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University

Online Event
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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Astronomy on Tap (Español)

Online Event
Ciencia con el Telescopio James Webb de la NASA
Sofía Gallego, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Gerónimo Villanueva, Planetary Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
10:00am – 11:00am
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Worklife Discussion Circle

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Discrete Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Supercritical percolation on finite transitive graphs
Philip Easo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Fedor Sandomirskiy (part 1 of 2)

Annenberg 105
Private Private Information (part 1 of 2)
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Webinar with Dr. Charles Elachi: How a team of young Caltech/JPL researchers transformed the field of Earth Observation with Spaceborne Radars

Online Event
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
A randomized quantum algorithm for statistical phase estimation
Kianna Wan, PhD Candidate, Stanford,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Embedding Borel quasi-orders into the Turing degrees
Patrick Lutz, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Increasing Accuracy in Measuements of the Hubble Constant: Is There Evidence for New Physics?
Wendy Freedman, John and Mary Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago,
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
CANCELLED - The Ratios Conjecture over function fields
Alexandra Florea, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Computing at the Speed of Light
Terry Rudolph, PsiQuantum and Imperial College London,
Friday, November 5th, 2021
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
JTbar-deformed CFTs as non-local CFTs
Monica Guica, IPhT-Saclay,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Probing many-body quantum chaos in quantum simulators via randomized measurements
Andreas Elben, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
What's Happening in Halos?
J. Michael Shull, Professor, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Volume estimates of complements of lifts of geodesics in projective tangent bundles
Tommaso Cremaschi, Department of Mathematics, USC,
Monday, November 8th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Online Event
Non-ergodicity and emergent Hilbert-space fragmentation in tilted Fermi- Hubbard chains
Monika Aidelsburger, Professor, University of Munich,
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
Sparsity of Integral Points on Moduli Spaces of Varieties
Brian Lawrence, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Essential dimension via prismatic cohomology
Jesse Wolfson, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

Online Event
JWST, The Origin of Beer, and Exoplanets
Colette Salyk, Professor, Department of Astronomy, Vassar College,
Sasha Hinkley, Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Exeter,
Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Fedor Sandomirskiy (part 2 of 2)

Annenberg 105
Private Private Information (part 2 of 2)
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Long lived clock qubit entanglement in strontium tweezer arrays
Nathan Schine, NRC Postdoc, NIST and JILA, CU Boulder,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Torsion-free abelian groups are Borel complete
Gianluca Paolini, Department of Mathematics, University of Torino,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
The Debris Disk Paradigm and its Challenges
Mark Wyatt, Professor of Astronomy, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Quantum Matter: Why it Matters

Online Event
Xie Chen, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Theory Group Seminar

Annenberg South Tent
Learning from noisy quantum experiments
Hsin Yuan (Robert) Huang, Graduate Student,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Conditional algorithmic Mordell
Brian Lawrence, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Creating and measuring the elusive Majorana fermion
Vidya Madhavan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Friday, November 12th, 2021
10:00am – 11:40am
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Nc Hodge Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
New perspectives on nc Hodge theory
Ludmil Katzarkov, Department of Mathematics, University of Miami,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Fun with SUSY defects
Fei Yan, Rutgers University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Quantum error correction meets continuous symmetries: fundamental trade-offs and case studies
Sisi Zhou, Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Sloan Annex
The K(π,1) conjecture
Giovanni Paolini, Amazon Web Services, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Neutron Star Dynamics and Radio Pulsars in Globular Clusters
Claire Ye, Graduate Student, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Singular behavior of min-max minimal hypersurfaces in dimension 8
Luca Spolaor, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
Monday, November 15th, 2021
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
The unbounded denominators conjecture
Yunqing Tang, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
A compactly supported motivic Euler characteristic via the Hochschild complex
Morgan Opie, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Searching for New Physics at Future Muon Colliders
Cari Cesarotti, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Online Event
The transmon as a probe of Andreev bound states
Angela Kou, Professor, Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
3:00pm – 4:15pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar with Dr. R. Lee Penn

Online Event
Technical Talk and Personal Story with Dr. R. Lee Penn
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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PCP Theorem Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Concentration for Trotter error
Anthony (Chi-Fang) Chen, Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Descriptive complexity of Banach spaces and generic objects
Michal Doucha, Department of Abstract Analysis, Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Towards a Better Understanding of Low-mass Galaxies Beyond the Local Group
Shany Danieli, NASA Hubble Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University,
Thursday, November 18th, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caregivers' Group Meeting

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

Online and In-Person Event
Electrically charged skyrmions and superconductivity
Michael Zaletel, UC Berkeley,
Friday, November 19th, 2021
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
w(1+infinty) and the Symmetries of Nature
Andrew Strominger, Harvard University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Coherent light-matter interfaces with highly-excited thermal atoms
Ran Finkelstein, Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar, Endres Group,