PMA Calendar
December 2025
Monday, December 1st, 2025
8:45am
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Hot and (Un)bothered: Unveiling the Complex Dynamical Histories of Hot Jupiters
Brandon Radzom,
graduate student; Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Non-invertible chiral symmetry and the ABJ anomaly on the lattice
Professor Lukasz Fidkowski,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Condensed Matter - Quantum Information,
University of Washington, Seattle,
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Polynomial Szemerédi for sets with large Hausdorff dimension on the Torus
Guo Dong Hong,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Furkan Ozturk,
Assistant Professor of Geobiology and Geochemistry,
Division of Geological and Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
TBD
Sumanth Varambally,
PhD Student,
Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The inverse mean curvature flow
Kai Xu,
Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Brandon Rayhaun,
Institute for Advanced Study,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Anomalies of Defect Parameter Spaces and a Spin-Flux Duality
Brandon Rayhaun,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Hyper-u-amenability and hyperfiniteness of treeable equivalence relations
Andrea Vaccaro,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Properties of Quasar Host Galaxies: Star Formation Histories and Stellar Populations
Maria Stone,
INAF, Rome and FINCA, Finland,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Parallel Sampling via Autospeculation
Thuy-Duong (June) Vuong,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
UC Berkeley/UC San Diego,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Gaussian Bosonic Dynamics in the Presence of Symmetry: Engineering, Monotones and Conservation Laws
Nick Koukoulekidis,
Duke University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Special Probability Seminar
Infinite-dimensional diffusions from random matrix dynamics
Theo Assiotis,
Associate Professor,
School of Mathematics,
University of Edinburgh,
Thursday, December 4th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Astrophysical Signals of Asymmetric Dark Matter
Aidan Reilly,
Stanford University,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
The phantom tautological ring for the moduli of Shtukas
Zhiwei Yun,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Convergent points for random power series on the unit circle
Marcus Michelen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Extremal quantum cohomology and Gamma structure for standard flips
Mark Shoemaker,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Colorado State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Asymptotics of the Resistance of the Critical Series-Parallel Graph via Parabolic PDE Theory
Peter Morfe,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Localization and support in D(G)
Claus Sorensen,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Exact dimensionality of harmonic measures for random walks on lamplighter groups
Peter Kosenko,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
Friday, December 5th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Large N Universality of 4d N=1 SCFT and Holography
Jaewon Song,
KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
End-to-End Efficient Quantum Thermal and Ground State Preparation Made Simple
Yongtao Zhan,
Preskill group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Emergent Flat Space from Quantum Entanglement
Tianli Wang,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Stellar forensics: tracing the origin of interaction-powered supernovae and Type-Ia supernova remnants
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Painlevé VI: the search for canonical representations
Aaron Landesman,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, December 8th, 2025
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Global well-posedness of the stochastic Abelian-Higgs equations in two dimensions.
Bjoern Bringmann,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Sleeping Giants: Telling Case Studies of Changing-look Quasars
Laura Duffy,
graduate student, Penn State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Return of the Kaon
Yuval Grossman,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Mathematics Teaching Seminar
Jedi Tsang,
CTLO Program Manager,
Center for Teaching, Learning, & Outreach,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Electron Spin, Chiral Symmetry Breaking, and Life's Homochirality
Furkan Ozturk,
Assistant Professor of Geobiology and Geochemistry; William H. Hurt Scholar,
Geobiology and Geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Flow matching for (generalized) Schrödinger bridges and dynamical optimal transport
Stephen Zhang,
PhD Student,
School of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Melbourne,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Mean-Field Actor-Critic Flow: A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Mean-Field Game
Haosheng Zhou,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Statistics & Applied Probability,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Heat, wave, and Schrödinger dynamics of Gibbs measures
Bjoern Bringmann,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Studying the three-dimensional architecture of transiting planets and their outer companions in the era of Gaia
Jingwen Zhang,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Euclid space mission
M. Claudia Scarlata,
Distinguished McKnight University Professor (Director of MIfA),
Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics,
University of Minnesota,
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Decoding the sub-parsec scale environment of LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Neutron Star Mergers, Kilonovae, and Kilonova Impostors
Friday, December 12th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fast and scalable quantum simulation of fermionic systems
Nishad Maskara,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Non-vanishing for cubic Hecke $L$-functions
Alexander Dunn,
Assistant Professor,
School of Mathematics,
Georgia Tech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Late-time tails for nonlinear waves in four dimensions
Shi-Zhuo Looi,
Olga Taussky and John Todd Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,