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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

East Bridge 114
High-threshold and low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum memory
Ted Yoder, IBM,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Black Holes and Revelations: Unseen Companions in Stellar Binaries
Kareem El-Badry, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, January 4th, 2024
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
On Triple Product L-functions
Miao Gu, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Ultracold polar molecules: an emerging tool for quantum science
Dave DeMille,
Friday, January 5th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
A new proposal for holographic Renyi entropy
Pratik Rath, UC Berkeley,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Numerical studies of high velocity outflows using an expanding mesh
Soham Mandal, Graduate Student, Duffell Research Group, Purdue University,
Monday, January 8th, 2024
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Microlocal methods in scattering for nonlinear evolution equations
Jesse Gell-Redman, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Melbourne,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Learning New Physics from Data – a Symmetrized Approach
Inbar Savoray, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
On the dynamical formation and interior structure of black holes
Christoph Kehle, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich,
Tuesday, January 9th, 2024
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Life at a Multi-TeV Muon Collider
Richard Ruiz, IFJ, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Machine Learning and Microelectronics for 'New' New Physics Searches at the Energy Frontier
Julia Gonski, SLAC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

Linde Hall 310
Meromorphic functions and modern Abel-Jacobi theory
Rahul Pandharipande, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich,
Wednesday, January 10th, 2024
10:40am – 11:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Minimax Surfaces and Covariant Holographic Entropy
Brianna Grado-White, Brandeis University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Measurements of Higgs Boson Properties with the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
Abhisek Datta, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
From quantum learning theory to dimension-free Remez inequalities
Joseph Slote, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
Thursday, January 11th, 2024
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Special cycles on compactifications of Shimura varieties
Eugenia Rosu, Mathematical Institute, Universiteit Leiden,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture

Online and In-Person Event
Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: From Particle Colliders to Neutron Star Mergers
Jorge Noronha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Friday, January 12th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
How Bootstrap and Monte Carlo became friends
Minjae Cho, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Quantum criticality under imperfect teleportation
Sara Murciano, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Quantum-inspired incoherent imaging and optomechanical sensing
Mankei Tsang, Quantum Measurement Group, National University of Singapore,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
On a generalization of Geroch's conjecture
Sven Hirsch, Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Supernovae: The Brilliant Endings of Massive Stars
Michael Pajkos, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition: Collider-Gravitational Wave Complementarity
Michael Ramsey-Musolf, UMass Amherst,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Extended-Path Intensity Correlation (EPIC)
Ken Van Tilburg, NYU,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Nonlinear interactions of multiple wave fronts
John Anderson, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Linear-in-temperature conductance in electron hydrodynamics
Leonid S. Levitov, Professor of Physics, Condensed Matter Theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
10:40am – 11:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Low entanglement states in black holes and many-body systems
Zixia Wei, Harvard University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Ultrafast photoexcitation and propagation of coherent magnons
Changmin Lee, Professor, Hanyang University (Korea),
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
The Nearest Black Holes Are Quiet (But White Dwarfs Are Not)
Antonio Rodriguez, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Uncovering the Nature of Dark Matter with Stellar Streams in the Milky Way
Ana Bonaca, Staff Scientist, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Boosted Higgs production and smart trackers of the future
Jennet Dickinson, Fermilab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Lie Groups and Hierarchy for Neural Visual Representations
Christian Shewmake, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience & Vision Science Group, UC Berkeley,
Thursday, January 18th, 2024
2:30pm – 3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Cohomological properties of cyclic coverings
Tariq Syed, Department of Mathematics, USC,
3:45pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Asymptotic characters of modules for parity KLR algebras
Anne Dranowski, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Artificial Intelligence and Three-Dimensional In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy: From High Spatial Resolution to High Autonomies, From High Dimensions to High Statistical Reliability
Huolin Xin, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Linde Hall 310
Emergent dynamics of infinitely many Kuramoto oscillators
Seung-Yeal Ha, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
mod p analogue of Mumford-Tate and André-Oort conjectures for GSpin Shimura varieties
Ruofan Jiang, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture

Online and In-Person Event
Moiré Materials
Allan H. MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Linde Hall 310
The frog model on trees
Matt Junge, Baruch College, Department of Mathematics, CUNY,
Friday, January 19th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The g-function and Defect Changing Operators from Wavefunction Overlap on a Fuzzy Sphere
Yijian Zou, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Magic Angles and Fractional Chern Insulators in Twisted Homobilayer TMDs
Allan MacDonald, Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Physics, University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SFCC x CCID Presents: Neurodiversity at Work Part II

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Coating Thermal Noise - Reaching New Limits in Precision Laser Stabilisation
Namisha Chabbra,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Kerr perturbations for EMRI modeling via elliptic PDEs
Thomas Osburn, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY Geneseo,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Kirby and the Skein Lasagna Module of $S^2 \times S^2$
Melissa Zhang, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis,
Monday, January 22nd, 2024
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Caltech Connect suicide prevention training for staff and postdocs

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Probing dark matter with cosmic voids
Elena Pinetti, Fermilab & KICP,
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar

East Bridge 114
Some Mathematical Aspects of Modern Machine Learning
Mikhail Belkin, Halicioglu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar- CANCELLED

Online and In-Person Event
Nelson-Barr solutions to the strong CP problem
Clara Murgui, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona / IFAE,