PMA Calendar
November 2025
Monday, November 3rd, 2025
8:45am
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12:30pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Tides, Tori, and Disintegration: Spectral and Photometric Signatures of Volcanic Exoplanets and Exomoons
Apurva V. Oza,
Research Scientist,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cavendish Tests of Millicharged Particles
Asher Berlin,
Fermilab,
7:00pm
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8:15pm
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
A Lie-Algebraic Perspective on Tree-Adjoining Grammars
Elizabeth Xiao,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Asymptotics for the Toda Lattice
Amol Aggarwal,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, November 5th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Free mutual information and higher-point OTOCs
Jinzhao Wang,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Rokhlin's lemma for infinite measure preserving bijections
François Le Maître,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Burgundy Institute of Mathematics (IMB),
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Systematic Uncertainties in Transiting Exoplanets and Their Host Stars
Alison Duck,
JPL,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Sparsity in the numerical six-point bootstrap
Sebastian Harris,
DESY,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
r(3,k) in two bites
Dylan King,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An introduction to quantum image encryption
Claire Levaillant,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems from the Outside In
Brendan Bowler,
Associate Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Thursday, November 6th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Quantum Schubert Calculus from lattice models
Leonardo Mihalcea,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Wall crossing for moduli of stable pairs
Fanjun Meng,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California - San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Scaling limit of the half-space KPZ equation
Christian Serio,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Affine Schubert varieties are splinters
Robert Cass,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Claremont McKenna College,
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
Locality of Epidemics on Graphs
Yeganeh Alimohammadi,
Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations,
Marshall School of Business,
USC,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
TBA
Christopher Hoffman,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Washington,
Friday, November 7th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Entropic Order
Fedor Popov,
Stony Brook University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Testing Quantum Theory on Curved Space-Time with Atomic Clocks
Igor Pikovski,
Stevens Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The role of triple evolution in shaping Galactic binaries and transients
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Singularities of Hamiltonian Stationary Lagrangian Surfaces
Filippo Gaia,
SNSF Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, November 10th, 2025
3:00pm
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3:55pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations About Math Teaching
Tynan Ochse,
Curriculum Director,
Art of Problem Solving,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology of dark forces: strong limits and 𝜈 effects
Erwin Tanin,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
From phason mass to the magneto-chiral instability: THz nonlinear electrodynamics of collective excitations in solids
Professor Fahad Mahmood,
Assistant Professor,
Condensed Matter Physics,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Automated Conjecturing and Discovery in Mathematics
Randy Davila,
Lecturer,
Department of Computational Applied Mathematics & Operations Research,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Formation and dissociation of hydrocarbons under interstellar conditions
Jordy Bouwman,
Assistant Professor of Cosmochemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Where can free waves concentrate?
Ruixiang Zhang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California - Berkeley,
Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A Black Hole Airy Tail
Pratik Rath,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Minimal Subdynamics: Descriptive ideas about Dynamical Questions
Josh Frisch,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California - San Diego,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Potential Target Stars and Planetary Systems for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Caleb Harada,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres and protostellar mass flows with JWST
Tom Greene,
Research Professor of Astronomy; Executive Director IPAC,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fold-transversal surface code cultivation
Kaavya Sahay,
Yale,
Thursday, November 13th, 2025
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Matrix points on varieties
Yifan Wei,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
UW-Madison,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
An area law for metastable states
Chi Fang (Anthony) Chen,
Simons Postdoctoral Scholar,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Hodge-theoretic open/closed correspondence and integral structures
Song Yu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Yan Mathematical Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Local and global biases of modular forms
Kimball Martin,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Osaka Metropolitan University and University of Oklahoma,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The quest to improve Gravitational wave detection, parameter inference algorithms, and multi-messenger astrophysics
Barak Zackay,
Professor,
Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Friday, November 14th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Algebras and Emergence of Time: global physics from a local state
Nima Lashkari,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Error Correction in Nearly Critical Toric Codes
Zack Weinstein,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Alicea Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
From Gravitational Wave Bursts to Binary Dynamics: Unlocking the Astrophysics of Eccentric Sources
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Beck-Fiala and Komlós Bounds Beyond Banaszczyk
Haotian Jiang,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science Department,
University of Chicago,
Saturday, November 15th, 2025
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Sunday, November 16th, 2025
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, November 17th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Rains & Quakes in 3D Massive Stars: First Light of the AREPO-Star Project
Jing-ze Ma,
PhD Student at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics,