PMA Calendar
April 2024
Monday, April 1st, 2024
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Journeys beyond the Standard Model in the flavor and dark sectors at LHCb and CODEX-b
Biplab Dev,
Eötvös University,
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Using Machine Learning to Deal with the Data from the CMS High-Granularity Calorimeter
Matteo Cremonesi,
Carnegie Mellon University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Minimal surfaces, representation theory and random permutations
Antoine Song,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
One-Form Symmetry in Dynamical Gravity
Joonhwi Kim,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Online Event
On Galaxies' Circumgalactic Media and Outflows
Claudia Scarlata,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Some problems and results on logarithmic potentials in prime number theory
Vesselin Dimitrov,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture)
The Simple Physics Behind CMB Spectral Distortions: Three Milestones in the Life of the Universe
Rashid Sunyaev,
Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
12:00am
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LA Probability Forum
On Pfaffians in spin models
Marcin Lis,
Mathematics Department,
Vienna University of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The shape of the front of multidimensional branching Brownian motion
Yujin Kim,
Courant Institute,
NYU,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum networks linking diamond spin qubits, inside and outside the lab
Ronald Hanson,
QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Equilibrium in functional stochastic games with mean-field interaction
Moritz Voss,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Product of Rankin-Selberg convolutions and applications
Pan Yan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Arizona,
Friday, April 5th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Experiments on a new favorite among diamond quantum networkers: the SnV center
Ronald Hanson,
Delft University of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Precision Black Hole Collider Physics
Enrico Herrmann,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Polya's conjecture in spectral geometry
David Sher,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
DePaul University,
Saturday, April 6th, 2024
10:00am
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5:00pm
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Monday, April 8th, 2024
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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12:30pm
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Caltech Optica Student Chapter Lecture Series
Synchronization Dynamics of Nonlinear Photonic Oscillators
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The accelerator-driven hunt for hidden sector dark matter in the US
Cristina Mantilla Suarez,
Fermilab,
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Exploring and Manipulating Novel Matter Phases with Ultrafast Linear and Nonlinear X-Ray Techniques
Michael Zuerch,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
More on Torus Wormholes in 3d Gravity
Cynthia Yan,
Stanford University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Probing the Smallest Interstellar Dust Grains with JWST in Different Galaxy Environments
Thomas Lai,
Caltech/IPAC,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Massive Particles at Spatial Infinity
Suvrat Raju,
ICTS, Tata Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Multiple radial SLE(0) system and classical Calogero-Sutherland model
Jiaxin Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
White Dwarfs as Probes of Convective Overshoot and Evolved Exoplanetary Systems
Tim Cunningham,
NASA Hubble Fellow,
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Predictive coding in neural networks can recover the environment's map
James Gornet,
Electrical Engineering Department, Computation and Neural Systems,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 11th, 2024
2:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Covers of P^1 and number fields
Sameera Vemulapalli,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Is it really cold and quiet? How mundane backgrounds that cause quasi-particle poisoning in superconducting sensors limit meV-GeV dark matter searches today and could ultimately limit superconducting QUBITs.
Matt Pyle,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, April 12th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Strings From Feynman Diagrams
Edward Mazenc,
ETH, Zurich,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech Postdocs Launch – April 12, 2024
Caltech Postdocs Launch
Dr. Riccardo Caniato,
PMA,
Dr. Maksym Figat,
Assistant Professor,
Warsaw University of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Keeping matter in the loop in 3D quantum gravity
Alejandra Castro,
University of Cambridge,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Informal Chemical Physics Seminar
MARVEL, SNAPS, and hubs
Attila G. Császár,
Professor of Chemistry,
Institute of Chemistry,
Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Surgery Exact Triangles in Instanton Theory
Deeparaj Bhat,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
Monday, April 15th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Flavorful New Physics and Wrinkles in the Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism
Sam Homiller,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Acceleration-Induced Effects in Stimulated Light-Matter Interactions
Barbara Soda,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Non-reciprocity in quantum materials
Philip Moll,
Max-Planck Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Groups without unitary representations, submeasures, and the escape property
Sławomir Solecki,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Recent progress on mathematical wave turbulence
Yu Deng,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Uniqueness problems for generalized quadrature domains with connections to Hele-Shaw flow and the Faber transform
Andrew Graven,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Large Fiber Array Spectroscopic Telescope
Chad Bender,
Associate Astronomer,
Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Toward a Control Theory of LLMs
Aman Bhargava,
Electrical Engineering Department, Computational & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
Shi-Zhuo Looi,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Algebra and geometry of camera resectioning
Jessie Loucks-Tavitas,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Washington,