PMA Calendar
October 2024
Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axion interactions with Domain and Bubble Walls
Isabel Garcia Garcia,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
A new approach to strong convergence of random matrices
Jorge Garza Vargas,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Carrollian Partition Functions and the Flat Limit of AdS
Richard Myers,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Hyperfiniteness of Borel graphs of slow intermediate growth
Andrew Marks,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
When Data Is Not Enough: Illustrating Astrophysics for the Public
Robert Hurt,
Caltech/IPAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Stars Disrupted, Destroyed and Coalesced
Iair Arcavi,
Professor,
School of Physics and Astronomy,
Tel Aviv University,
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Delta Conjecture and affine Springer fibers
Eugene Gorsky,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Davis,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Homological combinatorics of Lagrangian coamoebae
Harold Williams,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The scaling limit of the colored asymmetric simple exclusion process
Milind Hegde,
Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Massive Redshift Surveys and First Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
David Schlegel,
LBL,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Inequalities for connectivity events in Bernoulli percolation
Nikita Gladkov,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Properties of first passage percolation above the (hypothetical) critical dimension
Ken Alexander,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
Friday, October 4th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dynamical Edge Modes and Entanglement in Gauge Theory
Adam Ball,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Simulations of Hadron Dynamics in the Schwinger Model using 112 Qubits
Roland Farrell,
Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
PDE analysis on stable minimal hypersurfaces: curvature estimates and sheeting
Costante Bellettini,
Department of Mathematics,
University College London,
Monday, October 7th, 2024
8:15am
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12:30pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
3D Interstellar Medium structure challenges the Serkowski "law" & Hybrid Foreground Removal for CHIME 21 cm Cosmology
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Weyl fermion on a finite lattice
Srimoyee Sen,
Iowa State University,
Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Probability threshold for group isomorphism
Edward Hou,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Strings near the conformal boundary of AdS3.
Vit Sriprachyakul,
ETH Zurich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Structurable equivalence relations and Lω1ωLω1ω interpretations
Ronnie Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Anthropology of Merging Stars - Tracing the Evolution And Impact of Stellar Mergers with Time-Domain Surveys
Viraj Karambelkar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Evolution, Influence, and Ultimate Fate of Massive Stars
Maria Drout,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Toronto,
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Anticyclotomic Iwasawa theory for newforms at Eisenstein primes
Mulun Yin,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Atomic quantum processors and the error-correction frontier
Dolev Bluvstein,
Harvard University,
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Friday, October 11th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Yang-Mills-Liouville Theory
Tomasz Taylor,
Northeastern University and University of Warsaw,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Exploring scientific frontiers in quantum error correction with reconfigurable atom arrays
Dolev Bluvstein,
Harvard University,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
How strong warps and strong magnetic fields upend the standard accretion disk paradigm
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Finiteness of Totally Geodesic Hypersurfaces in Negative Curvature
Ben Lowe,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 14th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A fast-cadenced search for gamma-ray burst orphan afterglows with the Deeper, Wider, Faster programme & A multimessenger, multiband view of compact binaries
James Freeburn,
PhD student,
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing,
Swinburne University of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Pulsed, Polarized and Sliced – Fundamental Ingredients in Neutron Precision Physics
Floria Piegsa,
Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics,
University of Bern,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
A multimodal approach to uncovering magnetic symmetries: the case of EuIn2As2
Veronika Sunko,
University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Pseudorandom unitaries, t-designs, and the incompressibility of random circuits
Tony Metger,
Graduate Student,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Mapping Decoherence Pathways in Molecules
Ignacio Franco,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Uniqueness and continuous dependence of geometric flows and applications
Richard Bamler,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
2d theory for asymptotic dynamics of 4d (self-dual) Einstein gravity
Wei Bu,
Northeastern University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Measurable Brooks's Theorem for Directed Graphs
Cecelia Higgins,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
DESI Y1 BAO Analysis: Reconstruction of Large-Scale Structures Using Optimal Transport Theory
Farnik Nikakhtar,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Large-Scale Structure Cosmology: Opportunities in the Systematics-Limited Regime
Elisabeth Krause,
Associate Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
A categorical approach to Lyapunov stability
Joseph Moeller,
Mechanical & Civil Engineering Department, AMBER Lab,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
10:17am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Relative Trace Formula and Uniform Non-vanishing of Hilbert Modular $L$-values
Liyang Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton Univ.,