PMA Calendar
February 2025
Monday, February 3rd, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
2 um fiber lasers and amplifiers for cryogenic silicon gravitational wave detectors
Georgia Bolingbroke,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversation about Math Teaching
Chris Towse,
Math Department,
Scripps College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Semiclassical Amplitudes and Black Holes
Donal O'Connell,
Edinburgh University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Exotic aspherical 4-manifolds
Danny Ruberman,
Department of Mathematics,
Brandeis University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Irreducible 4-manifolds can admit exotic diffeomorphisms
Hokuto Konno,
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Tokyo,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Phase space of JT gravity with positive cosmological constant
Elba Alonso-Monsalve,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Sigma Scattered Linear Orderings
William Chan,
Institute for Discrete Mathematics and Geometry,
Vienna University of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Geometric Approach to Quantum Theory
Albert Schwarz,
UC Davis & Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Extremal black hole formation as a critical phenomenon
Ryan Unger,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Probing Supermassive Black Holes and Quasars with the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project
Catherine (Kate) Grier,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Thursday, February 6th, 2025
11:00am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The Doubly Periodic Aztec Diamond Dimer Model: Gaussian Free Field and Discrete Gaussians
Matthew Nicoletti,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The Poisson boundary of hyperbolic groups without moment conditions
Kunal Chawla,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Bethe Ansatz for PushASEP on the ring
Axel Saenz Rodriguez,
Department of Mathematics,
Oregon State University,
Friday, February 7th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Pinning Defects, Fusion and Factorization
Yifan Wang,
New York University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Frustrated Quantum Devices: understanding how correlations, complex order and boundary states manifest in novel material functionalities
James Analytis,
UC Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Annular links and categorified invariants
Fraser Binns,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Monday, February 10th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Quantifying LIGO's response to environmental disturbances in O4 and beyond
Adrian Helmling-Cornell,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Constraints on Remnant Planetary Systems as a Function of Main-Sequence Mass with HST/COS
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dark showers from sneaky dark matter
Christiane Scherb,
UC Berkeley/LBNL,
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Probing the Frontiers of Interstellar Chemistry Through Cold and Controlled Ion Experiments
Heather Lewandowski,
Professor of Physics, Fellow of JILA,
Department of Physics,
University of Colorado Boulder,
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Characterizing the Space of UV-Complete Amplitudes
Justin Berman,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Σ12 -completeness results in Borel combinatorics via gadget reductions
Alex Kastner,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Census of Black Hole Accretion Structure and Mass
Yasaman Homayouni,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Revisiting the Core Accretion Paradigm for Giant Planet Formation: Analytic Framework for the Late Infall Stage and the Distribution of Planetary Masses
Fred Adams,
Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics,
University of Michigan,
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Cycles on the moduli space of abelian varieties
Dragos Oprea,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
CY3 Wall-Crossing using Virtual Classes
Felix Thimm,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Tori with discrete group actions in arithmetic
Peter Xu,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, February 14th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Antipodal (Self-)Duality in Planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
Lance Dixon,
SLAC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Extreme confinement with hyperbolic cavities - a new platform for quantum light-matter interactions
Hanan Herzig Sheinfux,
Bar-Ilan University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Mapping the Dark Matter Distribution of Galaxies with Stellar Streams
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Embedded Minimal Tori in the Three Sphere
Xingzhe Li,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Will we ever detect high frequency gravitational waves?
Raffaele Tito d'Agnolo,
Institut de Physique Théorique,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Bridging the pressure gap in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Synergies arising from Experimental and Theoretical Kinetics
Alex Wodtke,
Director and Professor of University of Göttingen,
Dynamics and Surfaces,
Max Planck Institute,
Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Moments and saddles of heavy CFT correlators
Gordon Rogelberg,
Yale University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Locally checkable labeling problems in the Borel hierarchy
Felix Weilacher,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Finding Black Holes with Microlensing: Current and Future Prospects
Casey Lam,
Carnegie Observatories,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Inclusive Scattering Matrix
Albert Schwarz,
UC Davis & Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Multi-Scale Circumgalactic Medium
Peng Oh,
Professor,
University of California Santa Barbara,
Thursday, February 20th, 2025
11:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Monodromy results for abelian surfaces and K3 surfaces with bad reduction
Tejasi Bhatnager,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin - Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Entangling Ultracold Molecules
Kang-Kuen Ni,
Harvard University,
,
Friday, February 21st, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Gravity and a universal cutoff for field theory
Simon Caron-Huot,
McGill University,
,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Precision tests of gravity on the table-top
Gautam Venugopalan,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Knot Detection Results in RP^3
Hongjian Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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2/23
2:00pm
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