PMA Calendar
May 2025
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Polarized endomorphism of log Calabi-Yau pairs
José Yáñez,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Root recovery for infection processes on trees and graphs
Louigi Addario-Berry,
Department of Mathematics & Statistics,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Enumerative invariants of derived categories
Reginald Anderson,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Claremont McKenna College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Smyth's conjecture and a non-deterministic Hasse principle
Jordan Ellenberg,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Ashvin Vishwanath,
Harvard University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
TBA
Miklos Racz,
Department of Statistics and Data Science & Department of Computer Science,
Northwestern University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 2nd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Towards quantum simulating holographic duality
Julian Sonner,
University of Geneva,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Extracting the topological spins from bulk multipartite entanglement
Yarden Sheffer,
Weizmann Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Remnants of Double and Quadruple Detonations in Binary White Dwarfs
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Nearly geodesic surfaces are filling
Xiaolong Hans Han,
Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Fudan University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, May 5th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations about Math Teaching
Matthew Gherman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Autonomous Model Building with Reinforcement Learning: An Application with Neutrino Flavor Symmetries
Jake Rudolph,
UC Irvine,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Dynamic Control of Radiative Thermal Transport: Fundamentals and Applications
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Stark's Conjectures and Explicit Class Field Theory
Samit Dasgupta,
Department of Mathematics,
Duke University,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe
Misha Usatyuk,
KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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KNI Special Seminar with Dr. Christian Haffner
Christian Haffner,
Principal Member of Technical Staff,
imec,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Forcing and Borel Equivalence Relations
Dima Sinapova,
Mathematics Department,
Rutgers University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Deciphering Cosmic History And Cosmic-Ray Physics with Radio Emission
Allison Matthews,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture)
The Time Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei
Christopher Kochanek,
Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar,
Ohio State University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, May 8th, 2025
9:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Unveiling the First Galaxies & Black Holes in the Universe
Priyamvada Natarajan,
Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor in Astronomy & Physics,
Yale University,
Friday, May 9th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Collinear Corrections to the Cachazo-Strominger Soft Theorem
Sruthi Narayanan,
Perimeter Institute,
2:15pm
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3:15pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dynamical tides in binary neutron stars: effects of spin, tidal spin, and nonlinear hydrodynamics
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The Dehn twist on a connected sum of two homology tori
Haochen Qiu,
Department of Mathematics,
Brandeis University,
Monday, May 12th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Dr. Devontae Baxter,
NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics and UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC San Diego,
Minjie Lei,
PhD student,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
How the universe came to be smooth and flat
Paul Steinhardt,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
Distortion growth
Assaf Naor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
From distortion growth to isoperimetry, and back again
Assaf Naor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
First examples of categorification of U_{q} (sl_{2}) invariants of 3-manifolds
Sergei Gukov,
Director, Richard N. Merkin Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics/Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Signatures of high-energy neutrinos from sources for r-process nuclei
Yongzhong Qian,
University of Minnesota,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Measurable 2-factors of regular bipartite graphs
Clinton Conley,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Tracing the Evolution of Short-Period Exoplanets: Insights from Young Stellar Clusters
Rachel Fernandes,
Pennsylvania State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
A mysterious appearance of quantum probability in projective geometry
Jonathan Beardsley,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Explosive Life of Massive Binaries
Mathieu Renzo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
Random zero sets
Assaf Naor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Thursday, May 15th, 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
A positive dichotomy between Diophantine geometry and frieze patterns
Robin Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Multimessenger Perspectives on High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
Kohta Murase,
Pennsylvania State University,
Friday, May 16th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Soft Metric Fluctuations in Cosmology
Daniel Green,
UC San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor
Ruslan Shaydulin,
JPMorganChase,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Modeling Black Hole Accretion with Radiation GRMHD: A Parameter Survey and Connection to Observations
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the Horowitz-Myers conjecture
Pei-Ken Hung,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Monday, May 19th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Galactic Population of Quiet Black Holes
Dr. Casey Lam,
Carnegie/Harrison Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Observatories,