PMA Calendar
May 2026
Friday, May 1st, 2026
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Imaginary Liouville theory
Gaston Giribet,
New York University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Non-Abelian Quantum Low Depth Parity Check Codes
Maine Christos,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
EDGE: Constraining dark matter with the smallest dwarf galaxies
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, May 4th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Characterizing High-Redshift Sources with Optical Emission Line Ratios
Nikko Cleri,
Eberly Postdoctoral Fellow,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Uncool soft-wall phase transitions and gravitational waves
Ameen Ismail,
University of Chicago,
Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics and Machine Learning Seminar
Numerical differential geometry and machine learning; solving geometric PDEs motivated by string theory
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Kang-Kuen Ni,
Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics,
Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Soft Algebras in AdS4 from Lightray Operators in CFT3
Ahmed Sheta,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Hidden Black Holes and the Winds that Shape Galaxies Across Cosmic Time
Andrey Vayner,
Florida Gulf Coast University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Maximum information divergence from linear and toric models
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium: Biard Lecture
The Swiftly Mission: Swift Lift in a Year
Brad Cenko,
Research Astrophysicist,
Department of Astronomy,
NASA,
Thursday, May 7th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Astronomy Special Seminar
Deflection to Flexion: Three Centuries of Gravitational Lensing
Zach Scofield,
PhD Student,
Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea),
12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Observations of Atmospheric Helium and Oxygen with SPHEREx
Ryan Wills,
Graduate student,
Astrophysical Sciences and Technology,
Rochester Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The Quantum Twisting Microscope: Visualizing Waves in Quantum Matter
Friday, May 8th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Modular flow in a large holographic code
Xi Dong,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fault-Tolerant Computation with Rotated 4D Toric Codes
Dave Aasen,
Microsoft Station Q,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Two complementary approaches to gravitational-wave data analysis
Chiara Anselmo,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
University of Milano-Bicocca (TAPIR VSR - 4/13/26-7/13/26),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, May 11th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Noble Dark Baryons and Dark Mesons Stopped in Their Tracks
Austin Batz,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Anomalies and Non-Supersymmetric String Theory
Matilda Delgado,
Harvard & MPP Munich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Distributed quantum science with neutral atom arrays
Jacob Covey,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Maximal unfriendliness of back-and-forth relations
Matthew Harrison-Trainor,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,
University of Illinois Chicago,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
JWST MIRI/MRS Observations of Primitive Asteroids
Audrey Martin,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Higher dimensional conformal fields from neural network statistics
Joydeep Naskar,
Northeastern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Dawn of Low-Frequency Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
Maura McLaughin,
Department Chair,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
West Virginia University,
Thursday, May 14th, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Linear Relativistic effects in Galaxy Clustering
Yunfei (Robin) Wen,
Graduate Student,
The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Optical cavities for bioimaging, atom interferometers, and trapping molecules
Friday, May 15th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
c=1 strings as a matrix integral
Victor Rodriguez,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Phantom codes: Entangling logical qubits without physical operations
Jin Ming Koh,
Harvard,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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Monday, May 18th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Galactic Winds Are Kinematically Coherent and Turbulence-Regulated: New Insights from Lyα and UV Metal-Line Radiative Transfer
Zhihui Li,
Assistant Research Scientist and William Miller Postdoctoral Fellow,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Open system approach to neutrinos propagating in an ultralight scalar background
Gustavo Alves,
Fermilab and Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Engineering Topological Quantum Matter in Space and Time
Shuolong Yang,
Assistant Professor,
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering,
The University of Chicago,
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum-enhanced clocks and assembled superfluids with strontium atom arrays
Alec Cao,
Adam Kaufman's group, JILA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
New Experimental Platforms for Molecular Polaritonics
Marissa Weichman,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
The Ramsey numbers: new results and new perspectives
Julian Sahasrabudhe,
Professor,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS),
University of Cambridge,
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Diffeomorphism invariant tensor networks for 3d gravity
Charlie Cummings,
University of Pennsylvania,