PMA Calendar
May 2024
Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
12:15pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Mapping the Expansion History with DESI Y1 Data
Nikhil Padmanabhan,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The More the Merrier - Stellar Physics in the Era of Stellar, Transient, and Gravitational Wave
Selma de Mink,
Scientific Director,
Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Almost-idempotent quantum channels and approximate C*-algebras
Alexei Kitaev,
Department Theoretical Physics & Mathematics,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 16th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On the arithmetic nature of special values of Dirichlet L-functions
Vesselin Dimitrov,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,
MIT,
Friday, May 17th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Multipartite Edge Modes and Tensor Networks
Ronak Soni,
University of Cambridge,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Next Generation Moiré Quantum Matter
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
To infinity and beyond: the hyperboloidal framework in Black-hole perturbation theory
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Khovanov skein lasagna modules and exotica
Michael Willis,
Department of Mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Integer and Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Crystalline Rhombohedral Graphene
Long Ju,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Monday, May 20th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Electron Beam Driven Plasmas and the Quest for Precise Control in Materials Processing
Scott G. Walton, PhD,
Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Ribbon concordances and slice obstructions: experiments and examples
Sherry Gong,
Department of Mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Temporal entanglement and complexity of quantum many-body dynamics
Dmitry Abanin,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Group actions, algebra up to homotopy, and flavors of commutativity
Mike Hill,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Towards predictive protein separations: Imaging protein dynamics at nanoscale interfaces
Christy Landes,
Jerry A. Walker Endowed Chair in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign,
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A Celestial Dual for MHV Amplitudes
Walker Melton,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Special Lunch Seminar
The SDSS-V Open Fiber Call and Data Access for Caltech Scientists
Thomas Prince,
Caltech,
Zachary Vanderbosch,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Stellar Processes Around Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Centers
Re'em Sari,
Professor,
Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science,
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An Enriched Category Theory of Language
Tai-Danae Bradley,
Sandbox AQ,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
12:00am
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5/24
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10:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
From the early Universe to colliders: Low-scale leptogenesis
Yannis Georis,
Louvain University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Some results on the weight part of Serre's conjecture
Daniel Le,
Department of Mathematics,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Searching for topological superconductors using ultrasound
Brad Ramshaw,
Cornell University,
Friday, May 24th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Certifying almost all quantum states with few single-qubit measurements
Mehdi Soleimanifar,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Double White Dwarf Binaries, their explosions and their survivors
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Area estimates and intersection properties for minimal hypersurfaces in space forms
Jonathan Zhu,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - *rescheduled*
Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology with varying constants: hyperlight, coupled scalars across cosmic history
Masha Baryakhtar,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, May 29th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Hyperbolic Mass in 2+1 Dimensions
Raphaela Wutte,
Arizona State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Borel graphable equivalence relations
Patrick Lutz,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Cosmology with Roman's High Latitude Imaging Survey
Katarina (Dida) Markovic,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Mass Transfer and Global Solutions in a Micro-Scale Model of Superfluidity
Pranava Jayanti,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Time-Domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data
Ashley Villar,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
Harvard University,
Thursday, May 30th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Effective field theory treatment of the freeze-out mechanism of thermal non-relativistic dark matter pairs
Gramos Qerimi,
Tech Univ Munich (TUM),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Commutation relation for two SLEs
Hao Wu,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Tsinghua University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Fuchsian automorphic functions and functional transcendence
Ronnie Nagloo,
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, & Computer Science,
University of Illinois, Chicago,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
An Expansion for the Critical Intensity of Random Connection Models
Matthew Dickson,
Department of Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Uniqueness and CLT for the Ground State of the Disordered Monomer-Dimer Model on Z^d
Gourab Ray,
Mathematics & Statistics,
University of Victoria,
Friday, May 31st, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Type I von Neumann algebras from gravitational path integrals: Ryu–Takayanagi as entropy without holography
Eugenia Colafranceschi,
University of Western Ontario,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
High eccentricity dynamics of few body systems reduce to simple pendulum models
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Orbifold singularity formation along ancient and immortal Ricci flows
Tristan Ozuch,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,