PMA Calendar
December 2023
Friday, December 1st, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Massive gravity is not positive
Giulia Isabella,
UCLA,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
W state is not the unique ground state of any local Hamiltonian
Lei Gioia,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Xie Chen Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CaJAGWR Seminar
High-Precision Waveforms with the Small-Mass-Ratio Limit
Scott A. Hughes,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
High-precision waveforms with the small-mass-ratio limit
Scott Hughes,
Professor of Physics,
Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Optimal regularity for minimizers of the prescribed mean curvature functional over isotopies
Monday, December 4th, 2023
10:30am
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11:30am
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Special AMO Seminar
Dipole-dipole interactions between individual molecules in an optical tweezer array
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Neutrino Scattering for Neutrino Oscillations
Kevin McFarland,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Floquet codes, automorphisms, and quantum computation
Margarita Davydova,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap
"Energy Beaming" and "Space Dust"
Michael Kelzenberg,
Senior Research Scientist,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Brenda Rubenstein,
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics,
Department of Chemistry,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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12/15
5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
State-of-the art R&D on optical photon detection at Fermilab
Alexander Kish,
Fermilab,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
Irregular conformal blocks and braiding properties
Xia Gu,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
RAPID: Roman Alerts Promptly from Image Differencing
Mansi Kasliwal,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Modeling Luminous Accretion Flows Around Black Holes
James Stone,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton University,
Friday, December 8th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Data-driven compression of electron-phonon interactions
Yao Luo,
Bernardi Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
bhpwave: A perturbative waveform model for binaries with spinning massive black holes
Zach Nasipak,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
With great precision comes great challenges: Gravitational Wave Observations of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
Lorenzo Speri,
Graduate Student,
Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity,
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI),
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 10th, 2023
8:00am
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12/13
12:00pm
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Monday, December 11th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetization oscillations in a kagome spin liquid candidate: evidence for fermionic spinons and emergent gauge field
Patrick Lee,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Untangling Photodriven Mechanisms using Computation
Lisa Fredin,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Lehigh University,
Wednesday, December 13th, 2023
12:00pm
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12/16
5:00pm
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12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Masses and Orbits for Planets Likely to be Observed with Ariel/CASE
Robert Zellem,
JPL,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, December 14th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Deep Learning for Theory: from Particle Physics to the Poincaré Conjecture
Jim Halverson,
Friday, December 15th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Emergence of highly coherent two-level systems in a noisy and dense quantum network
Adrian Beckert,
Faraon Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Toward unified Bayesian parameter inference of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds
Leo Tsukada,
Monday, December 18th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Anomalous Hall Crystals in Rhombohedral Multilayer Graphene: Interaction-Driven Chern Bands and Fractional Quantum Hall States at Zero Magnetic Field
Tianle Wang,
University of California at Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Illuminating exotic chemistry and physics with single-quantum-state spectroscopy
Bryan Changala,
Postdoctoral Physicist,
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard & Smithsonian,
Wednesday, December 20th, 2023
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar
The Roman Galaxy Redshift Survey Project Infrastructure Team
Yun Wang,
Caltech/IPAC,