PMA Calendar
March 2026
Monday, March 2nd, 2026
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Luminous Black Hole Accretion: How Radiation and Magnetic Fields Regulate Accretion Flows/INFUSE II - science and upgrades for the second launch of the far ultraviolet integral field spectrograph
Lizhong Zhang,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Institute for Advanced Study and the Center for Computational Astrophysics,
Alex Haughton,
PhD candidate,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Light Boson Dark Matter & Nonlinear Plasma Dynamics
Junwu Huang,
Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Solvable models of quantum annealing
Nikolai Sinitsyn,
Nikolai Sinitsyn, CNLS Postdoctoral Research Associate,
CNLS,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics and Machine Learning Seminar
Machine construction and exploration of twisted connected sum G2 manifolds
Elli Heyes,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Physics,
Imperial College London,
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Neural Networks and Liouville Field Theory
Christian Ferko,
Northeastern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dwarf Galaxies at the Dawn of the Rubin Era
Josh Simon,
Staff Scientist,
Carnegie Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter/Materials Science Research Lecture
Nonlocal photogalvanic spectroscopy as a probe of complex matter: topological light meets topological materials
Thursday, March 5th, 2026
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Majorization theory for quasiprobabilities
Twesh Upadyaya,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Atomic-scale imaging of symmetry-broken electronic states in kagome superconductors
Friday, March 6th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
CFT entropy at large spin
Nathan Benjamin,
University of Southern California,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum witnesses with no classical substitutes
Chinmay Nirkhe,
University of Washington,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (1/2)
3-symmetric spaces, their moduli, and Ricci solitons
Tommy Murphy,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Cal State Fullerton,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (2/2)
New quantum invariants and knot fiberedness
Lara San Martin Suarez,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Monday, March 9th, 2026
8:30am
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1:30pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Jackie Blaum,
PhD Candidate,
UC Berkeley,
Scott Lucchini,
ITC Postdoctoral Fellow,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Detecting uHz Gravitational Waves with Binary Resonances
Josh Foster,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Tianyu Zhu,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
3D Gravity and Chaos in CFTs with Fermions
Elisa Tabor,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Linings, treeings, and the continuous automorphism problem
Stephen Jackson,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of North Texas,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Noncommutative Taylor Remainders and the BMV Conjecture
Chandan Pradhan,
Postdoc,
Department of Mathematics,
University of New Mexico,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Unraveling the origins of fast radio bursts and using them as probes of extreme plasmas
Kenzie Nimmo,
NHFP Einstein Fellow,
Northwestern,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Thursday, March 12th, 2026
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Optimal learning of quantum channels in diamond distance
Antonio Anna Mele,
Freie Universität Berlin,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Cesar Cuenca,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
The Ohio State University,
Andreas Klippel,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Mathematics,
TU Darmstadt,
Hindy Drillick,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Bilinear sums with trace functions
Philippe Michel,
Full Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology from Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, March 13th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Fortuity and hairy black holes in AdS
Sunjin Choi,
IPMU, University of Tokyo,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Rigorous bounds on dynamics and correlations in thermal and driven quantum systems and their comparison to experiment
Zohar Nussinov,
Washington University in St. Louis,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Hybridization of WaSABI-C inspirals with numerical relativity waveforms for quasi-circular, spin-aligned, asymmetric black hole binaries
Monday, March 16th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Searching for the Shortest-wavelength Aromatic Infrared Bands/Contact binaries: Tightest buddies in space
Dennis Lee,
Postdoc,
JPL,
Matthias Fabry,
Postdoc,
Villanova University,
Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Fluids and Analysis Seminar
Global Regularity for a Dyadic Model of the Navier-Stokes Equations
Sam Looi,
Postdoc,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech (California Institute of Technology),
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Advancing the Frontiers of Substellar Atmospheric Modeling
Natasha Batalha,
NASA Ames,
Thursday, March 19th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar Series
Atomic dynamics across phases
Jaeyun Moon,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar Series
Why do the refractive indexes of different materials differ so little and are also so difficult to change?
Jacob B Khurgin,
Professor and Cynology Expert,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
A New Diophantine Approximation and Degeneracy of Integral Points
Zheng Xiao,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Colorado Boulder,
Friday, March 20th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Local Control in a Sr quantum computing demonstrator
Kevin Mours,
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Asymptotically geodesic hypersurfaces and the fundamental groups of hyperbolic manifolds
Hans Han,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences (SIMIS),
Monday, March 23rd, 2026
12:00am
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A Light in the Dark: Unveiling Delayed Star Formation Histories Within Cosmic Voids
Olivia Curtis,
Postdoc,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
From Fabrication to System-Level Validation: Approaches toward High-Quality Superconducting Qubits
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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POSTPONED: Watson Lecture - Katie Bouman: Illuminating the Hidden Universe with Physics and AI
Katie Bouman,
associate professor of computing and mathematical sciences, electrical engineering and astronomy; Rosenberg Scholar; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
Friday, March 27th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Constant depth pseudoentanglement---How trivial states can have non-trivial entanglement structure
Alexandru Gheorghiu,
IBM,
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Space Exploration and Discovery: From the Deserts of Egypt to Saturn's Moon Titan