PMA Calendar
June 2026
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026
3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Polyak Steps Sizes in GD Find Flat Minima
Boris Hanin,
Associate Professor,
Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026
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
Clouds and Vapor to Microphysics and Migration: The Power of Refractory Elements in Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
Joshua Lothringer,
STSci,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium: Neugebauer Lecture
Revolutions Great in Small in Astrophysics: Building on the Legacy of Gerry Neugbauer
Chas Beichman,
Executive Director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute,
Caltech,
Thursday, June 4th, 2026
12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Shear-Only Quadratic Estimators for CMB Lensing Reconstruction
Nicolas Ferree,
Graduate Student,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
The decoding problem: Computational complexity and practical solutions
Aleksander Kubica,
Yale,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, June 5th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Thermohaline mixing in oceans and stars, and 3D simulations in extreme regimes
Tuesday, June 9th, 2026
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics and Machine Learning
Symmetries and Topology in Neural Network Field Theory
Vishnu Jejjala,
Professor,
School of Physics,
University of the Witwatersrand,
Wednesday, June 10th, 2026
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Carbonaceous Nanodust Produced by WR140 Endures in its Extreme Stellar Environment
Emma Lieb,
University of Denver,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Obstructions to Singularity Formation for Inhomogeneous Kinetic Equations
Will Golding,
Dickson Instructor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
Thursday, June 11th, 2026
12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Leveraging multi-wavelength observations and MHD simulations to constrain merger dynamics and explore non-thermal processes in galaxy clusters
Emily Silich,
Graduate Student,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Uniform lower bounds for moments of Hecke eigenvalues
Wenzhi Luo,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Ohio State University,
Sunday, June 14th, 2026
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, June 15th, 2026
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2026
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum advantages for syndrome-aware noisy logical observable estimation
Kento Tsubouchi,
University of Tokyo,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, June 18th, 2026
12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
A Multi-Wavelength Study of Cluster Cosmology and Astrophysics
Harshda Saxena,
Graduate Student,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Driven-Dissipative Entanglement of Distant Giant Atoms
Aziza Almanakly,
NYU,
Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Brandon Radzom,
Indiana University,
Alex Rodriguez,
University of Michigan,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Information Geometry & Physics Seminar
When Heat Misleads: Toeplitz Operators, Weyl Symbols, and an Endpoint Counterexample
Sam Looi,
Olga Taussky and John Todd Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Thursday, June 25th, 2026
12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Tracing Gas and Feedback in Massive Halos with the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
Yun-Hsin Hsu,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica,
Friday, June 26th, 2026
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, June 29th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The free neutron lifetime experiment 𝜏SPECT
Martin Fertl,
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz,