PMA Calendar
May 2022
Monday, May 2nd, 2022
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Categories phantoms and applications
Ludmil Katzarkov,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Miami,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Quantitative theory of the trace character
Anna Szumowicz,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Was There an Electroweak Phase Transition
Michael Ramsey-Musolf,
T.D. Lee Institute/Shanghai Jiao Tong U., U Mass Amherst, Caltech,
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
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Astronomy Colloquium
The IllustrisTNG Project
Lars Hernquist,
Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics,
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard University,
Thursday, May 5th, 2022
4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Near-critical dimers and massive SLE
Nathanael Berestycki,
University of Vienna,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Playing with quantum toys: Atomic Newton's cradles and Archimedes' screws
Benjamin Lev,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Plateaux estimates and their implications for percolation and self-avoiding walks in high-dimensions
6:00pm
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Friday, May 6th, 2022
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Multi-way cuts from reflected entropy in random tensor networks
Tom Faulkner,
UIUC,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum computation in a hybrid array of molecules and Rydberg atoms
Chi Zhang,
David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hutzler Group,
2:00pm
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Monday, May 9th, 2022
10:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantinuum and TKET
Mark Jackson,
Senior Quantum Evangelist,
Quantinuum,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
CANCELLED - WILL BE RESCHEDULED -- Euler systems and the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for abelian surfaces
12:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Enhancing Entanglement Percolation
Yanxuan (Charlotte) Shao,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Normalization in the integral models of Shimura varieties of Hodge (abelian) type
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
An experimental overview of effective field theory exploration at the LHC
Saptaparna Bhattacharya,
Northwestern University,
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
2:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
The existence of Prandtl-Batchelor flows on disk and annulus
3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Extreme Complex Mixture Analysis in Space and in the Laboratory
Michael McCarthy,
Deputy Director; Interim Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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Colloquium Talk
Online Event
Learning Math is Not a Spectator Sport
Maria Andersen,
Core Adjunct Faculty, Westminster College,
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
The number of ergodic models of an infinitary sentence
Rehana Patel,
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Astrophysical Lessons from LIGO-Virgo's Black Holes
Maya Fishbach,
NASA Einstein Fellow,
CIERA,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Elastic and inelastic collisions, probed with transient sub-Doppler spectroscopy"
Gregory Hall,
Sr. Chemist Emeritus,
Chemistry,
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Watson Lecture: What Entanglement Can Tell Us About Our World
Online and In-Person Event
Scott K. Cushing,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Thursday, May 12th, 2022
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Physics Colloquium - CANCELED
Online and In-Person Event
Towards a theory of strange quantum metals
Senthil Todadri,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 13th, 2022
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Encoded Silicon Qubits: A High-Performance & Scalable Platform for Quantum Computing
1:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Do current pollution monitoring networks give a false sense of security? First results from the world's largest dense sensor network
Matthew S. Johnson,
Professor, American atmospheric chemistry scientist,
Chemistry,
University of Copenhagen,
2:00pm
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Monday, May 16th, 2022
10:00am
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Unravelling binary and multiple star formation
Rajika Lakmali Kuruwit,
University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
2:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Two Analogues of the Euclidean Spherical Maximal Function on Heisenberg Groups
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Tackling the electronic structure problem on near-term quantum devices: algorithmic improvements and error mitigation techniques
Mario Motta,
research staff scientist,
IBM,
4:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Order and disorder in multiscale substitution tilings
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Molecular design blueprints: materials and catalysts from new simulation and machine learning tools
Heather J Kulik,
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Strong ergodicity phenomena for Bernoulli shifts of bounded algebraic dimension
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Event Horizon Telescope Imaging of Sagittarius A*
Geoff Bower,
Research Astronomer,
ASIAA,
Thursday, May 19th, 2022
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Searches for New Physics with Quantum Sensors in the Laboratory and in Space
Marianna Safronova,
University of Delaware,