PMA Calendar
November 2024
Friday, November 1st, 2024
8:30am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Multi-Twist Trajectories, Light Ray Wave Functions and the Missing Zeroes
Alexandre Homrich,
KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Anyon quantum dimensions from an arbitrary ground state wave function
Shang Liu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The (fractional) Dehn twist coefficient and infinite-type surfaces
Hannah Turner,
School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics,
Stockton University,
Monday, November 4th, 2024
8:15am
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12:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Prevalence of Distant Giant Companions to Inner Small Planets / Kinematic Lensing with the Roman Space Telescope and other experiments
Judah Van Zandt,
Final-year Ph.D. student,
Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Tim Eifler,
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
Department of Physics,
The University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass at CMS
Josh Bendavid,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Classifying vector bundles on complex projective spaces
Morgan Opie,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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QUANTUM MATTER SEMINAR
Dynamic Manipulation of Charge Density Waves
Vidya Madhaven,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Bohr-Sommerfeld surgeries on Lagrangian submanifolds
Soham Chanda,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Burke Institute Lecture Series
Online and In-Person Event
Introduction to turbulence for physicists
Gregory Falkovich,
Weizmann Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold
Michael Newman,
Google,
Kevin Satzinger,
Google,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Charles R. dePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Using Math to Invent Solutions to Large-Scale Human Problems, Just in Time to Survive AI
Po-Shen Loh,
Mathematical Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Wednesday, November 6th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum gravity corrections to absorption and emission of 4d near-extremal black holes in supergravity and Einstein gravity
Anna Biggs,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
A hierarchy of cli Polish groups and non-reducibility results
Shaun Allison,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Uncommon linear systems of two equations
Dingding Dong,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Decoding Neural Networks: A New Frontier in Astrophysical Discovery
Brice Menard,
Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
The strong law of large numbers as an axiom
Tobias Fritz,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Innsbruck,
Thursday, November 7th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Identifying the topological order of quantized half-filled Landau levels through their daughter states
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
On Symmetries, Boundaries, and Entanglement Entropy
Brandon Rayhaun,
Stony Brook University,
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Topological Laplace transform and decomposition of nc-Hodge structures
Shaowu Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Equivariant formal group laws and Quillen theorem
Yunze Lu,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Computing crystalline deformation rings via the Taylor-Wiles-Kisin patching method
Chengyang Bao,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Precision and Discovery at the Frontiers of Elementary Particle Physics
Josh Bendavid,
MIT,
Friday, November 8th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Classical Double Copy: Solutions, Horizons, and Penrose Limits
Cindy Keeler,
Arizona State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A local automaton for the 2D toric code
Shankar Balasubramanian,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Impact of Stellar Interactions on Black Hole Spin Evolution
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The Space of Minimal Surfaces in S^3 and in B^3
Peter McGrath,
Department of Mathematics,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Ubiquity of conical intersections in ultrafast photochemistry
Luis Banares,
Director of the Center for Ultrafast Lasers; Associate Research Professor,
Physical Chemistry Department,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
How Viable is Electroweak Baryogenesis?
Michael Ramsey-Musolf,
U Mass Amherst & Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, November 11th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Low-latency gravitational-wave data products intended for multi-messenger searches in the fourth observing run of the International Gravitational-Wave Network
Andrew Toivonen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Using cogsworth to make self-consistent population synthesis & galactic dynamics simulations of observable populations of massive binary products / Searching For Additional Planets in Multi-Planet Systems
Emma Turtelboom,
Final-year PhD student,
Department of Astronomy,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Limiting Light Dark Matter with Luminous Hadronic Loops
Melissa Diamond,
Queens University,
Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Challenging the Standard Model of Particle Physics and the CMS tracker with flavour
Luigi Marchese,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
How the Hilbert space of two-sided black holes factorises
Guanda Lin,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Limits of sparse hypergraphs
Riley Thornton,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Reionization: Lessons from Observations of Nearby Lyman-Continuum Emitters
Alexandra Le Reste,
University of Minnesota,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Astronomy Research Talk
To 100 kpc and Beyond: Tales from the Milky Way's Distant Horizon / Linking Gas, Dust, and Star Formation: Probing the baryonic cycle in early galaxies with the ALPINE survey
Prasad Sawant,
Final-year PhD student,
Department of Astronomy,
National Centre for Nuclear Reasearch,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Present and Future of A New Era in High-Redshift Supernova Discovery
Justin Pierel,
Einstein Fellow,
Space Telescope Science Institute,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Regular Functions in Linguistics and Language Models
Jon Rawski,
Department of Linguistics & Language Development,
San Jose State University,
Thursday, November 14th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Degree $d$ points on curves
Lea Beneish,
Department of Mathematics,
University of North Texas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
From neutron stars to dense matter
M Coleman Miller,
University of Maryland,