PMA Calendar
February 2022
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
2:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Tidal energy in Newtonian two-body motion
Sohrab Shahshahani,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Iterated Cauchy--Schwarz arguments and true complexity
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Probing Dynamics at Individual Defects with Ultrafast Electron Microscopy
David Flannigan,
Associate Professor and L.E. Scriven Chair, DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
A circuit-level protocol and analysis for twist-based lattice surgery
Christopher Chamberland,
AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
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 Event
Approaching the solar dynamo from unusual angles: M-dwarf stars, polar views, and different dynamo mechanisms
Benjamin Brown,
Assistant Professor,
Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Quantum Optimal Transport Learning Seminar
Quantum Optimal Transport Learning Seminar
Juan Pablo Vigneaux,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Unveiling the Higgs's secrets to unlock new physics
Caterina Vernieri,
SLAC,
Friday, February 4th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The O(n) and S_Q Conformal Field Theories in 2 dimensions
Hubert Saleur,
University of Southern California,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, February 7th, 2022
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Eichler-Shimura relations
Si Ying Lee,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Machine learning at the atomic scale: from structural representations to chemical insight
Michele Ceriotti,
Associate Professor,
Institute of Materials,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Online Event
Abelian Varieties not Isogenous to Jacobians over global fields
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Evaporative Transmission Spectroscopy at Close-in Exoplanet and Exomoon Systems
Apurva Oza,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Unlocking the CMS Experiment to Catch Long-lived Particles
Cristian Peña,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
The time-like minimal surface equation in Minkowski space: low regularity solutions
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Our experience with tensor network methods in magnetic resonance
Ilya Kuprov,
University of Southampton,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Measurable combinatorics in hyperfinite graphs
Matthew Bowen,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Galaxy Evolution with Space-Based Spectroscopy: From Hubble to JWST and Beyond
Casey Papovich,
Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy,
Texas A&M University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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CANCELED: Watson Lecture - Artificial Intelligence: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Online Event
Yaser Abu-Mostafa (PhD '83),
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Neutrino and Dark Radiation Properties from Cosmic Datasets
Marilena Loverde,
University of Washington,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, February 11th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm: MaxCut, Spin Glass, and Beyond
Leo Zhou,
Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Waists, widths and symplectic embeddings
Jonathan Zhu,
Mathematics Department,
Princeton University,
Monday, February 14th, 2022
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Crystalline local systems
Yong Suk Moon,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Arizona,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Efficient, problem-tailored variational quantum algorithms
Sophia Economou,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Online Event
Varieties of general type with doubly exponential asymptotics
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC
Ian Moult,
Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Quasi-Periodic Topological Bulk-Bulk Correspondence and the Dry Ten Martini Problem
Dan Borgnia,
Physics: Quantum Condensed Matter,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Precision Synthesis of Quantum Material Building Blocks
Thomas J. Kempa,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering,
Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Orbit equivalences of multidimensional Borel flows
Konstantin Slutsky,
Department of Mathematics,
Iowa State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Stress-Testing the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm
Priyamvada (Priya) Natarajan,
Professor of Astronomy,
Department of Astronomy and Physics,
Yale University,
Thursday, February 17th, 2022
12:54pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Keeping Up With Experimentalists: Accurate predictions for multimessenger gravitational wave astrophysics
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
14 Billion years on, what can we learn about Original Imperfection?
Eric Cornell,
JILA, University of Colorado,