PMA Calendar
November 2025
Monday, November 17th, 2025
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Open Effective Field Theory of Inflation
Santiago Agüí-Salcedo,
University of Chicago,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Can quantum invariants read the geometry of a knot?
Lara San Martinez Suarez,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
From Optimal Transport to Collective Intelligence: Lifelong and Agentic Reinforcement Learning via Task Embeddings
Eva Liu,
Ph.D. student,
Machine Intelligence and Neural Technologies,
Vanderbilt University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Yang-Mills, probability, and stochastic PDE
Sky Cao,
NSF postdoctoral fellow and C.L.E. Moore Instructor,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Ensemble Averages of Fuzzballs
Yoav Zigdon,
Tel Aviv University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
The Radon–Nikodym topography of measure-class-preserving equivalence relations
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
New Views on Extreme Starbursts: Clumps in Local ULIRGs with JWST
Laura Lenkić,
Caltech/IPAC,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Rotationally symmetric plabic graphs and the Lagrangian Grassmannian
Olha Shevchenko,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
New Views of Gas, Stellar Feedback, and the Interstellar Medium
Adam Leroy,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
Ohio State University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Thirteen Years in the Dust: How a Robot Showed that Mars Was Once Habitable, with Ashwin Vasavada
Ashwin Vasavada,
project scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, JPL,
Thursday, November 20th, 2025
11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Local fault-tolerant error correction with simulated confinement
Ethan Lake,
UC Berkeley,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Quantum Invariants and Fiberedness
Lara San Martin Suarez,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
The homology of the Hilbert scheme of points in affine space
Jaspreet Singh,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Rings of scalar-valued automorphic forms on certain Deligne–Mostow Shimura varieties
Yuxin Lin,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Universality in the Collective Behavior of Open Quantum Systems
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, November 21st, 2025
10:30am
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11:30am
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Astronomy Special Seminar
Mapping the Diffuse Ultraviolet Universe with NASA's Aspera Mission and Advancing UV Detector Technologies
Aafaque R. Khan,
PhD. Candidate, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Maximizing the Interaction Strength
Miguel Correia,
McGill University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement Bootstrap and Conformal Field Theory
Ting-Chun (David) Lin,
University of California San Diego,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Star formation and evolution in AGN disks - general applications of planet formation across cosmic scales
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Non-collapsing of Ricci shrinkers with bounded curvature
Conghan Dong,
Assistant Research Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Duke University,
Monday, November 24th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Cosmic Detectives: Discovering High-Redshift Quasars and Solving the Mystery of Their Gas Halos
Tatevik Mkrtchyan,
graduate student; Universidad Diego Portales, Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Spectrum completeness from dispersion relations
Michele Tarquini,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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4:55pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations About Teaching
Jaeden Bardati,
PhD Student,
Department of Physics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Charles R. DePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
What is your number? Logic puzzles for mathematicians
Joel David Hamkins,
John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Logic,
Department of Philosophy,
University of Notre Dame,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
Bhargava's geometry-of-numbers beyond Davenport's lemma
Artane Siad,
Assistant Professor,
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,