PMA Calendar
January 2022
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
High-Energy Neutrino Astrophysics with IceCube
Ignacio Taboada,
Professor,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium **POSTPONED**
Online and In-Person Event
Energetic Constraints on Biological Assembly and Motion
Michael Murrell,
Yale University,
Friday, January 7th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Branes, Quivers and BPS Algebras
Miroslav Rapcak,
UC Berkeley,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
A quantum processor based on coherent transport of entangled atom arrays
Dolev Bluvstein,
Grad School of Arts and Sci,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, January 10th, 2022
9:45am
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11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Dressing and Tuning-Dressing of a spin 1/2 system
Guiseppe Bevilacqua,
DSFTA - University of Siena (Italy),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Photonic resource state generation from a minimal number of quantum emitters
Bikun Li,
Physics,
Virginia Tech,
Tuesday, January 11th, 2022
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Sharp L^p estimates for oscillatory integral operators of arbitrary signature
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Polynomial and multidimensional configurations in dense sets
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Fast Transients, High Redshift Galaxies, and the Keck Wide-Field Imager
Jeff Cooke,
Professor,
Swinburne University,
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Iterating Infrastructure from High Volts to X-Rays to Nuclear Physics: Early Caltech Science in the Archives
Peter S. Collopy,
University Archivist and Head of Archives and Special Collections,
Caltech,
Friday, January 14th, 2022
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Automorphic Spectra and the Conformal Bootstrap
Sridip Pal,
Institute for Advanced Study,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Clifford-deformed Surface Codes
Arpit Dua,
UQM-IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Xie Chen Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
How to Rip Apart a Star
Samantha Wu,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Online Event
Weyl symmetry for curve counting invariants via spherical twists
Tim-Henrik Buelles,
ETH Zürich,
10:00am
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11:00am
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Nonuniqueness results from 2D Euler equations to 3D Navier-Stokes equations
Maria Colombo,
EPFL,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Mathematical wave turbulence and propagation of chaos
Yu Deng,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Discrete Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Results on the largest sum-free subsets of integers
Shukun Wu,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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canceled- Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
Todd Martinez,
Ehrsam and Franklin Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Pinpointing fast radio bursts in space and time
Jason Hessels,
Professor,
University of Amsterdam & ASTRON,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum-chemical calculations for ultracold ion-atom scattering experiments
Michal Tomza,
Habilitaiton in Physics,
Faculty of Physics,
University of Warsaw,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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CANCELED: Watson Lecture - When Earth Breathed Deeply
Online Event
Claire E. Bucholz,
Assistant Professor of Geology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 20th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, January 21st, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Magnetism and Superconductivity in Crystalline Few-layer Graphene
Haoxin Zhou,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Nadj-Perge Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
From 3-manifolds to modular data
Yang Qiu,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
Monday, January 24th, 2022
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
The Number of Rational Points on a Curve of Genus > 1
Philipp Habegger,
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Basel,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Reinforcement learning for designing quantum protocols
Alexey A. Melnikov,
Terra Quantum AG,
Valiev Institute of Physics and Technology of Russian Academy of Sciences,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
All Gas no Brakes: Uncovering the gas physics driving galaxy evolution
Jed McKinney,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Analyticity and Unitarity for Cosmological Correlators
Victor Gorbenko,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Discrete Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Harmonic analysis over $\mathbb{Q}_p$ and decoupling
Zane Li,
Department of Mathematics,
Indiana University Bloomington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
An effective strengthening of Mathias' theorem
Severin Mejak,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Copenhagen University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Multi-messenger Studies of Relativistic Jets at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory
Anthony (Tony) Readhead,
Robinson Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, January 27th, 2022
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Prospects for observing gravitationally-lensed gravitational-wave transients with second-generation detector networks
Friday, January 28th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Floquet engineering of quantum materials on demand
Junyi Shan,
Graduate Student, Hsieh Group,
11:30am
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12:30pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Conformal Field Theory for SLEs
Jiaxin Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
D-instanton Superpotential in String Theory
Manki Kim,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Stellar feedback in galaxies: from the dense interstellar medium to circumgalactic gas
Benjamin Keller,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
MUSTANG Group, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut,
Universität Heidelberg,
Monday, January 31st, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Fast Radio Burst exploration with Apertif
Ines Pastor-Marazuela,
University of Amsterdam,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Quadratic forms in 8 prime variables