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Monday, October 3rd, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
The Transient Universe: Compact Objects Near and Far
Brendan O'Connor, The George Washington University / University of Maryland College Park,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Dark sector visible signals in neutron star mergers
Gustavo Marques Tavares, University of Maryland,
Tuesday, October 4th, 2022
Wednesday, October 5th, 2022
12:15pm 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar

A Unified Approach to M Dwarf Ages
Rocio Kiman, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
One ring to rule them all
Pratik Wagle, Graduate Student, Yunes Gravity Theory Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets
Bruce Macintosh, Professor of Physics, Stanford University,
Thursday, October 6th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Furstenberg entropy spectrum of stationary actions
Tianyi Zheng, Department of Mathematics, UCSD,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Towards a theory of strange quantum metals
Senthil Todadri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Percolation on finite transitive graphs
Philip Easo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
6:00pm 7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

TBA
Tim Austin, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
Friday, October 7th, 2022
12:00pm 1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity
Chris Akers, MIT,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity
Chris Akers, MIT,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

The development and evolution of CO2 capture solvents: Learnings from theory and experiment, and application to Direct Air Capture
Roger Rousseau, Physical Sciences Directorate, Chemical Sciences Division, Oakridge National Laboratory,
Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou, Distinguished Scientist, Computational Sciences and Mathematics Division, Oakridge National Laboratory,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Variants of Lehmer's Conjecture on Ramanujan's tau-function
Ken Ono, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
No peaks without valleys: (what) can we learn from features in the mass distribution of merging binary black holes?
Lieke van Son, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Words to describe a black hole
Ying-Hsuan Lin, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Blowing up and down with knot traces
Kai Nakamura, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin,
Monday, October 10th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
The COMAP Pathfinder: Early Results and Implications for High-redshift CO
Dongwoo Chung, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

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Direct detection of dark matter far from the weak scale
Benjamin Lehmann, UC Santa Cruz,
Tuesday, October 11th, 2022
2:30pm 3:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

A proto-inverse Szemer\'edi Trotter theorem (joint work in progress with Olivine Silier.)
Nets Katz, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Cosmology from the vacuum
Stefano Antonini, University of Maryland,
3:30pm 4:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

The scattering transform, a harmonic analysis perspective on neural networks
Michael Perlmutter, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
Wednesday, October 12th, 2022
11:00am 12:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Topological dynamics of kaleidoscopic groups
Todor Tsankov, Université Lyon 1,
12:15pm 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar

Mapping the Interstellar Medium
Mahdi Qezlou, Physics and Astronomy, UC Riverside,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

How to Form a Habitable Planet
Meredith Ann MacGregor, Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm 5:30pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar Series: Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin

Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin, Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cell Research, Departments of Psychology & Neuroscience at Columbia University,
7:30pm 8:45pm
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Watson Lecture: The Brain Hates Losing (and Other News from Neuroeconomics)

Online and In-Person Event
Colin Camerer, Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; Director, T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Thursday, October 13th, 2022
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar

Partitioning cubic graphs into two isomorphic linear forests
Liana Yepremyan, Department of Mathematics, Emory University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Modular forms of half-integral weight on G_2
Aaron Pollack, Department of Mathematics, UCSD,
Friday, October 14th, 2022
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Infrared finite scattering in QFT & quantum gravity
Kartik Prabhu, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Topological order from finite-depth circuits and measurements: from theory to quantum devices
Nat Tantivasadakarn, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Astrophysics of compact object binaries with gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts
Sylvia Biscoveanu, Graduate Student, LIGO Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

The Kervaire conjecture and the minimal complexity of surfaces
Lvzhou Chen, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University,
Monday, October 17th, 2022
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Dimer model. Introduction
Marianna Russkikh, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
The evolution of color gradients within galaxies and its effect on galaxy morphology
Tim Miller, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Gauge Invariance from On-Shell Massive Amplitudes and Tree-level Unitarity
Da Liu, UC Davis,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

"Inhomogeneous disordering at a photoinduced charge density wave transition"
Antonio Picano, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany,
7:30pm 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Exploding Stars" and "Plato and the Fundamental Nature of Gravity"
Abigail Polin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Spiros Michalakis, Staff Scientist, Institute for Quantum Information & Matter, Caltech,
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022