PMA Calendar
December 2024
Monday, December 2nd, 2024
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A New Window into Common Envelope Evolution: The First Catalog of Candidate White Dwarf-Main Sequence Binaries in Open Star Clusters / Constraining Black Hole Growth History With Population Spin Measurements
Steffani Grondin,
Final-year Ph.D. student,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Toronto,
Asia Piotrowska-Karpov,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A Quantum Description of Wave Dark Matter
Nicholas Rodd,
LBNL,
Tuesday, December 3rd, 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,
Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Tidal Effects of Compact Objects From Theory to Observations
Zihan Zhou,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Construction and obstruction results in Baire measurable combinatorics
Clark Lyons,
Eötvös Loránd University and the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Old and new results on active scalars
Javier Gomez-Serrano,
Department of Mathematics,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Turning particles into probes in plasma by machine learning
Wentao Yu,
senior graduate student,
Physics,
Emory University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Nature of Small Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs
Jacob Bean,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
The University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, December 5th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Exotic hidden-heavy hadrons
Roberto Bruschini,
The Ohio State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Explaining Exotic Heavy Hadrons from QCD
Roberto Bruschini,
Ohio State University,
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Decomposition and framing of F-bundles and applications to quantum cohomology
Thorgal Hinault,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Mirror symmetry for theta divisors in principally polarized abelian varieties
Heather Lee, PhD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Large Deviation Principle for the Directed Landscape
Sayan Das,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED - Tori with discrete group actions in arithmetic
Peter Xu,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Faraday's Challenge: Batteries and Wires
Peter Littlewood,
University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Convergence of Pfaffian Point Processes to the Airy Line Ensemble
Zhengye Zhou,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Community Detection with the Bethe-Hessian
Yizhe Zhu,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
Friday, December 6th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Randomness in conformal field theories
Moshe Rozali,
University of British Columbia,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Non-reciprocal phase transitions
Peter Littlewood,
University of Chicago,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The "visible" and "invisible": stars as tracers for the Milky Way formation
Xiaowei Ou,
Graduate Student,
Dept. of Physics and MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The Isoperimetric Problem in the Cube and Torus
Federico Glaudo,
Institute for Advanced Study,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, December 9th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The chemical compositions of massive quiescent galaxies across cosmic time with JWST / The first sample of orbital properties for stars stripped in binaries: towards population statistics
Aliza Beverage,
Final-year Ph.D. student,
Department of Astronomy,
University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Explore Bourgain and Chang's nonlinear Roth theorem in various settings
Guo-Dong Hong,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Faint Quasar Candidates at z~6 in the COSMOS Field
Yu-Heng (Ian) Lin,
Caltech/IPAC,
Thursday, December 12th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Charting the Gravitational-wave Universe At Light-year Wavelengths
Stephen Taylor,
Vanderbilt University,
Monday, December 16th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, December 18th, 2024
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Online Event
First Exploration of Barred Galaxies in the Young Universe out to z~4 Using JWST CEERS Data
Shardha Jogee,
University of Texas at Austin,
Thursday, December 19th, 2024
11:00am
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1:00pm
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