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Friday, April 1st, 2022
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
A mathematical definition of the abelian group Q(X) := quantum cellular automata / finite depth quantum circuits and ancilla residing on a space X.
Michael Freedman, USCB/Microsoft,
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
A mathematical definition of the abelian group Q(X) := quantum cellular automata / finite depth quantum circuits and ancilla residing on a space X
Michael Freedman, USCB/Microsoft,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Searches for new physics with a multiplexed optical lattice clock
Shimon Kolkowitz, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Agnostic Planetary Assessment using Epsilon Machines
Stuart Bartlett, Research Staff, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
Monday, April 4th, 2022
12:30pm 1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
A positive proportion of integers are not the sum of two rational cubes
Manjul Bhargava, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Persistent Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking at High Temperatures
Eliezer Rabinovici, CERN, HU of Jerusalem,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online Event
Intermediate mass black holes everywhere?
James Paynter, University of Melbourne,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Light Quarks at Large N
Michael Dine, UC Santa Cruz,
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Genome Organization through Phase Separation: Random yet Precise
Bin Zhang, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Associate Member of the Broad Institute, Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Professorship, Department of Chemistry, Massachussetts Institute of Technolocy,
Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Constructing Wadge classes and describing Wadge quasi-orders
Raphaël Carroy, University of Turin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Precision Strong-Field Gravity Tests with the Double Pulsar
Ingrid Stairs, Professor, Division of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia,
Thursday, April 7th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Multiplicative chaos of the Brownian loop soup
Antoine Jego, MSRI, Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Machine learning and knots
Sergei Gukov, Caltech,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

SLE, energy duality, and foliations by Weil-Petersson quasicircles
Yilin Wang, MSRI, Berkeley,
6:00pm 7:00pm
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Friday, April 8th, 2022
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The S-matrix bootstrap in two and four dimensions: primal and dual problem
Martin Kruczenski, Purdue University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Chromatic invariants of vector bundles on projective spaces
Morgan Opie, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Motion and monodromy
Nalini Joshi, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney,
7:00pm 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Online Event
Black Holes and Gravitational Waves: Was Einstein Right?
Saul Teukolsky, Robinson Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
Monday, April 11th, 2022
12:30pm 1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
Algebraic twists of automorphic L-functions
Philippe Michel, EPFL,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
The axion-photon coupling and grand unified theories
Mario Reig, Oxford University,
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Alex Iosevich, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Extending the Reach of the Point-to-Set Principle
Jack Lutz, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

What to Know About GWs for Those in the Know
Rana Adhikari, Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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Watson Lecture: The Rhetoric of Chance in Times of Pandemic

Online and In-Person Event
Jennifer A. Jahner, Professor of English, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Thursday, April 14th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - CANCELED

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Many-body theory in the Quantum Information era
Matthew P.A. Fisher, UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, April 15th, 2022
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Semiclassical 3D gravity as an average of large-c CFT
Scott Collier, Princeton University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Deterministic Generation of 2D Photonic Cluster States by a Single Quantum Emitter
Vinicius Ferreira, Graduate Student, Painter Group,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Self-Force Waveforms with a Spinning Secondary
Josh Mathews, Graduate Student, Maths Support Centre, University College Dublin,
Monday, April 18th, 2022
9:30am 10:30am
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INQNET Seminar

Online Event
Thulium Doped Garnets for Quantum Repeaters and Optical Quantum Memory
Jake Davidson, QuTech, Delft University of Technology,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Surprising and Dark Implications of a Supersymmetric Gravity Sector
Clifford Burgess, Perimeter Institute and McMaster University,
12:30pm 1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
A multiplicity formula of K-types
Chen Wan, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Rutgers University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Online Event
Galois action on the pro-algebraic fundamental group
Alexander Petrov, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online Event
Shaping Extrasolar Systems with Giant Planets
Laetitia Rodet, Cornell University,
Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
2:30pm 3:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
A small cap decoupling for the twisted cubic
Hongki Jung, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Bloomington,
3:30pm 4:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
On the competition between advection and vortex stretching
Jiajie Chen, Computing + Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Isomorphism of locally compact Polish metric structures
Maciej Malicki, IMPAN,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Planets, Patterns, and the Origin of Life
Lauren Weiss, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame,
Thursday, April 21st, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Characterization and construction of the local Langlands correspondence for supercuspidal parameters
Tasho Kaletha, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
Friday, April 22nd, 2022
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Interacting boundary gravitons
Ruben Monten, UCLA,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Binary evolution, gravitational-wave mergers and explosive transients in multiple-populations gas-enriched globular-clusters
Mor Rozner, Azrieli Fellow Graduate Student, Physics Department, Technion,
Monday, April 25th, 2022
12:30pm 1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
Infinitely many primes of basic reduction for abelian varieties
Elena Mantovan, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online Event
Gas Flows in Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Noon with Integral Field Spectroscopy
Andrey Vayner, Johns Hopkins University,
7:30pm 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

Online Event
"First Galaxies" and "Magnetic Fields"
Ethan Siegel, Senior Science Contributor, Forbes Magazine,
Sam Ponnada, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Cancelled Chemical Physics Seminar

Amish Patel, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,