PMA Calendar
May 2025
Monday, May 19th, 2025
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Neutrino Self-interaction: Motivations and Future Probes
Yue Zhang,
Carleton University,
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
A Glimpse into AI + Science at Google DeepMind: RL for Fusion & AlphaGeometry2
Yuri Chervonyi,
Google DeepMind,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions
Joshua Zahl,
Department of Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Area Fluctuations from Gravitational Phase Space
Temple He,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Small Galaxies, Big Impact: Compact Lyman-alpha Emitters as Drivers of the Early Universe's Transformation
Keunho Kim,
Caltech/IPAC,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum lightning from non-Abelian group actions
John Bostanci,
Yuen Group,
Columbia University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Reformulations of Furstenberg's x2x3 conjecture
Jane Panangaden,
Mathematics Field Group,
Pitzer College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Biard Lecture)
Spectra Ex Machina: Spectroscopic Surveys for the Modern Mid-Century
Juna Kollmeier,
Staff Scientist,
Carnegie Observatories,
Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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Number Theory Seminar
Diophantine problems arising from tetrahedra
Christopher Lyons,
Department of Mathematics,
California State University, Fullerton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, May 23rd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A connection between non-invertible symmetries and quantum error correction
Ning Bao,
Northeastern University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Influence of the dark first structures
M. Sten Delos,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Theoretical Astrophysics Center,
Carnegie Observatories,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
From phase transitions to minimal submanifolds in low codimensions
Davide Parise,
Mathematics Department,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
"Towards ab initio simulations of driven and non-equilibrium systems through novel theoretical and numerical approaches
Vojtech Vlcek,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Magnetomechanical detection of high-frequency gravitational waves
Giacomo Marocco,
LBNL, Berkeley,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
Legendrian knots and Lagrangian fillings
Honghao Gao,
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Physical Instabilities and the phase of the Euclidean Path integral
Victor Ivo,
Princeton University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Online Event
The Efficiency of Galaxy Formation And Feedback: Observations And Physics of Turbulent Multiphase Gas
Pierre Guillard,
IAP, Paris,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Detector operators in quantum gravity
Murat Kologlu,
Yale University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Well-posedness for the Schrodinger maps equation with initial data small in a Besov space
Benjamin Dodson,
Department of Mathematics,
Johns Hopkins University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Quantum Black Hole Entropy from a Localization Integral
Matthew Heydeman,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Joshua Winn,
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, May 29th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Precision QCD and Parton Shower matching for LHC event simulations
Christian Biello,
Max-Planck Institute for Physics, Boltzmannstrasse 8, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Xiaodong Xu,
Boeing Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
Friday, May 30th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quasinormal Corrections to Near-Extremal Black Hole Thermodynamics
Dan Kapec,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
To reset, or not to reset -- that is the question
Gyorgy Geher,
Riverlane,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Modelling the kilonovae from Binary Neutron Star Mergers: From Photospheric to Nebular Phase
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the topology of the manifolds with positive intermediate curvature
Xuan Yao,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,