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Monday, April 3rd, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
LISA's role in multi-band and multi-messenger astronomy for stellar-origin source
Katie Breivik, Flatiron Institute,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Spinning black hole binary dynamics: perturbation theories, nonperturbative probe limits, and hidden symmetries
Justin Vines, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Quantum science with alkaline-earth atoms: from simulating orbital physics to spin-squeezed optical clocks
Nelson Darkwah Oppong, Department of Physics, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder,
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Infinitely many solutions to the isentropic system of gas dynamics
Cheng Yu, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Analytical, geometrical, and applied aspects in nonlocal frameworks
Petronela Radu, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln,
Wednesday, April 5th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Illuminating the Origins of the Universe's Fastest Transients
Wen-fai Fong, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University,
Thursday, April 6th, 2023
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Informal Chemical Physics Seminar

"Construct exchange-correlation functional via machine learning"
Guanhua Chen, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Materials by Design
Andrea Damascelli, University of British Columbia,
Friday, April 7th, 2023
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Mass shift in lattice Hamiltonian approach to Schwinger model
Silviu Pufu, Princeton University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Visible Light Photonics for Atomic and Quantum Applications
Dan Blumenthal, Distinguished Professor, ECE, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Area-minimizing subvarieties of general manifolds
Zhenhua Liu, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
Monday, April 10th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Putting Generalized Symmetries to Work for Particle Physics
Seth Koren, University of Chicago,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series: Leroy (Lee) Hood, BS '60, PhD '68

Catalyzing a Shift in Healthcare from Disease-Care to Wellness and Prevention Care
7:30pm 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

Launching and Landing Spacecraft on Mars
Shannon Statham, Group Supervisor, Environmental Test Lab, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Rob Manning, Chief Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
10:30am 11:30am
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

Online Event
Quantum Tanner codes
Anthony Leverrier, Inria,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Cardinalities Below the Power Set of the First Uncountable Cardinals
William Chan, Department of Mathematics, University of North Texas,
12:15pm 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar

Illuminating the Dark Ages: Luminous Quasars and Their Massive Host Galaxies in the Reionization Epoch
Fabian Walter, MPIA Heidelberg,
2:00pm 3:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

On The Origins of the Boltzmann Distribution, or Support Preserving Endomorphisms of Convolution Semigroups, joint with Fedor Sandomirskiy
Omer Tamuz, Economics & Mathematics, Caltech,
Thursday, April 13th, 2023
3:00pm 4:00pm
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KNI Microscopy Seminar

Application of gas field ion source and liquid metal alloy ion source-based focused ion beams
Gregor Hlawacek, Head of the Ion Induced Nanostructures Group, Institute for Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz—Zentrum Dresden—Rossendorf,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Uniform bounds on the Harish-Chandra characters
Anna Szumowicz, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Oscillating Stars in Bloom: Asteroseismology and Wave Transport Phenomena
Richard Townsend, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Friday, April 14th, 2023
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Thermalization and Chaos from Energy Eigenstates in QFT
Liam Fitzpatrick, Boston University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Superconductivity in materials with flat bands: Insights from the quantum geometry
Valerio Peri, Moore Postdoctoral Scholar,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Testing General Relativity with black hole X-ray data
Cosimo Bambi, Xie Xide Junior Chair Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Fudan University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Scattering rigidity for analytic metrics
Malo Jézéquel, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
8:00pm 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

The Quest for Cosmic Dawn: First Results from the James Webb Space Telescope
Richard Ellis, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London,
Monday, April 17th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Tate semisimsimplicity over finite fields
Ananth Shankar, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
Tracing AGN Feedback on the Star-Forming ISM in NGC 7469 with JWST
Thomas Lai, Caltech/IPAC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Going Underground or Listening to the Sky?
Anupam Ray, UC Berkeley & University of Minnesota,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Topological skyrmion phases of matter
Ashley Cook, Physics of Quantum Materials, Max Planck Institute,
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
2:30pm 3:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Turbulence for quasilinear waves on Schwarzschild-AdS
Christoph Kehle, Mathematics Department, ETH Zurich,
3:30pm 4:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Lower bounds on the top Lyapunov exponent of Galerkin-Navier-Stokes and other stochastic differential equations
Jacob Bedrossian, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
Wednesday, April 19th, 2023
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
The Local Lemma in descriptive combinatorics: survey and recent developments
Anton Bernshteyn, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:15pm 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar

Online Event
Particle Acceleration in Galaxy Outflows
Marco Ajello, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Typicality for Stratified Measures
Juan Pablo Vigneaux, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Constraining the Cosmic Baryon Cycle with ALMA
Fabian Walter, Senior Staff Scientist, MPIA Heidelberg,
7:30pm 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Electrifying and Decarbonizing Chemical Synthesis

Online and In-Person Event
Karthish Manthiram, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry; William H. Hurt Scholar, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Thursday, April 20th, 2023