PMA Calendar
October 2025
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Towards an Analytic Bootstrap Framework for Thermal CFTs
Deniz Bozkurt,
DESY,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Mapping Lines and PAHs Across Cosmic Time in the Infrared Spectral-Photometry Era
Yun-Ting Cheng,
Caltech/JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Cosmic Evolution of Star Formation, Gas, and Dust in Galaxies
Nick Scoville,
Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus,
Astronomy Department,
Caltech,
Andreas Faisst,
Staff Scientist,
IPAC,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Unoriented 2-dimensional TQFTs
Agustina Czenky,
Simons Collaboration Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Quot schemes of points on torus knot singularities
Yifeng Huang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Scaling limit of a weakly asymmetric simple exclusion process in the framework of regularity structures
Hendrik Weber,
Professor,
MĂĽnster Mathematics,
Universität Münster,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Intersection of Hecke correspondences and a general conjecture
Qiao He,
Ritt Assistant Professor,
Mathematics Department,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Fundamental Physics with Polyatomic Molecules and Exotic Nuclei
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The Zigzag Strategy for Random Band Matrices.
Volodymyr Riabov,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Erdoes Research Group,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Sampling Duality
Adrian Gonzalez Casanova,
Associate Professor,
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences,
Arizone State University,
Friday, October 3rd, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBD
Ali Naseri Sadr,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Mathematics,
Boston College,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 6th, 2025
8:00am
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10/8
5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Final Results from the Muon $g-2$ Experiment at Fermilab
James Labounty,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Bridging Quantum and Classical: an Efficient Framework for Capturing Zero-Point Effects in Hydrogen-Rlated Chemistry
Yang Yang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin- Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Covariance-Modulated Optimal Transport and Gradient Flows
Franca Hoffmann,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Bottom-up de Sitter holography
David Kolchmeyer,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Multidimensional Physics of Stars & other Astrophysical Bodies
Daniel Lecoanet,
Assistant Professor,
CIERA,
Northwestern University,
,
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Could modern CMOS ICs provide a platform for quantum sensors, computers and simulators?
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Arithmetic aspects of Hecke traces
Liubomir Chiriac,
Associate Professor,
Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
Portland State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, October 10th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Horizon Edge Modes in Λ > 0 Quantum Gravity
Albert Law,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Prethermal dynamical regimes and resonant melting in quenched quantum matter
Alexey Khudorozhkov,
Boston University,
1:00pm
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5:30pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Energy Operators in Particle Physics, QFT, and Gravity
Ian Moult,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, October 13th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Inhomogeneous Evolution of Uranus and Neptune
Roberto Tejada Arevalo,
Astrophysical Sciences Department,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Forces in Standard Model and Dark Sector
Bingrong Yu,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Action Gaps and Advantages in Continuous-Time Distributional Reinforcement Learning
Yash Jhaveri,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Rutgers University-Newark,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Action Gaps and Advantages in Continuous-Time Distributional Reinforcement Learning
Yash Jhaveri,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Rutgers University–Newark,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Detecting the First Hydration Shell Structures of Biopolymers
Elsa Yan,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Yale University,
Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The soft physics of amplitudes in background fields
Sonja Klisch,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Exponential anticoncentration of the permanent
Matthew Kwan,
Assistant Professor,
Institute of Science and Technology, Austria,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Tarski's circle squaring problem with algebraic translations and few pieces
Andrew Marks,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar Talk
Online Event
Determination of Physical Properties of Main Belt Asteroids Using WISE/NEOWISE Data
Kiana McFadden,
University of Arizona,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Lagrangian Dual Sections: A Topological View of Hidden Convexity
Kevin Shu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Triple Connection: Black Hole Mergers, EM Counterparts, and Galactic Black Holes
Smadar Naoz,
Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
UCLA,
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
10:16am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Malle's conjecture over function fields
Aaron Landesman,
Benjamin Peirce Fellow,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, October 17th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Triangulating Quantum Gravity in AdS_3
Tom Hartman,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Engineering Coupled Quantum Interfaces for Superconducting Quantum Technologies
Hung-Yu Yang,
UCLA,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Evolution of Gas Giant Planets
Roberto Tejada Arevalo,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Unoriented link Floer homology and Khovanov homology
Gheehyun Nahm,
PhD Student,
Princeton Math,
Princeton University,