PMA Calendar
October 2026
Thursday, October 1st, 2026
12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Toward a Consensus Picture of Baryon Feedback: Joint X-ray, Sunyaev-Zeldovich, and Weak Lensing Measurements
Jared Siegel,
Graduate Student,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra Geometry & Number Theory Seminar
Motivic Theta Lifting and Beilinson's Conjectures
Linli Shi,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Mathematics,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Error-corrected quantum processing with neutral atoms
Dolev Bluvstein,
CEO at Oratomic, Visiting associate in physics at Caltech,
Friday, October 2nd, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
From Closed to Ajar: Effective Actions and Symmetry Breaking in Non-Equilibrium Many-Body Systems
Riccardo Penco,
Carnegie Mellon University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Signatures of Black Hole Spin and Plasma Acceleration in Jet Polarimetry
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (1/2)
Flexible Exponent of 3-Manifolds
Shicheng Wang,
Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Peking University,
4:10pm
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5:10pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar (2/2)
Shortest Filling Geodesics on Hyperbolic Surfaces
Zhongzi Wang,
School of Mathematical Sciences,
Peking University,
Monday, October 5th, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Alternative AdS Boundary Conditions and Their Implications
Xinkang Wang,
University of Chicago,
Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Stable Homotopy Theory and Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories
Mayuko Yamashita,
Professor of Mathematical Physics,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Seminar
How invisible stellar halos bias our understanding of ultra-faint galaxies
Coral Wheeler,
Cal Poly Pomona,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Global monopoles and Goldstone EFT
Pablo Quilez,
CERN,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, October 8th, 2026
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Reshaping Metrology with Quantum Information Processing
Sisi Zhou,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, October 9th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The String Landscape, precisely
Jakob Moritz,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Gibbs sampling by classical decoding
Alexander Schmidhuber,
MIT,
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
Importance of accretion disk-driven torques on extreme mass ratio inspirals
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar
Decompositions and diagrams of symplectic surfaces in Weinstein domains
Melissa Zhang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Davis,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, October 12th, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
From Preons to Flavor: Probing Composite Quarks and Leptons
Amartya Sengupta,
University at Buffalo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
John Franklin,
Rubin Postdoctoral Fellow; KIPAC,
Stanford University,
Manami Roy,
CCAP Fellow,
Ohio State University,
Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
From Calabi–Yau Singularities to 6D Gravitational Anomaly Cancellation
Kai Xu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Calltech/IPAC Seminar
Roman Microlensing Detection Efficiency and Planet Occurrence
Christopher Lam,
IPAC,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measuring fundamental particle interactions with levitated optomechanical sensors
Yu-Han Tseng,
Yale,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A Panchromatic Picture of the Red Supergiant Liminality
Wynn Jacobson-Galan,
Postdoc,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 15th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Precise and Robust Models of Large-scale Structure for Spectroscopic Surveys via Perturbative Bias Phenomenology
Jamie Sullivan,
Postdoc/Brinson Prize Fellow,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra, Geometry & Number Theory Seminar
Modular Heights of Unitary Shimura Varieties
Ziqi Guo,
PhD Student,
Department of Mathematics,
Peking University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Statistical mechanics of classical and quantum computation
Alexander Zlokapa,
PhD Candidate,
Center for Theoretical Physics,
MIT,
Friday, October 16th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Thermal Giant Graviton Expansion
Kasia Budzik,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Higher Berry Curvature of Crystalline Insulators: From Generalized Cohomology to Magnetoelectric Coupling
Niclas Heinsdorf,
Humboldt Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Evolution and Fates of Massive Stars and Binaries: From Nuclear Burning to Explosive Outcomes
Aldana Grichener,
Prize Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, October 17th, 2026
10:30am
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11:30am
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Kavli Nanoscience Institute Special Lecture: 10 years of the KNI-Wheatley Scholarship in Nanoscience
Andrei Faraon,
William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering and Fletcher Jones Foundation Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute.,
Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, October 19th, 2026
12:00am
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10/20
12:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Jackie Caminiti,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Ultrafast Optical Excitation of Antiferromagnetic or Inertial Magnons in 2D Magnets
Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
8:15am
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12:30pm
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Seminar Series
From Light to Learning: Predicting Excited-State Dynamics at the Spectroscopic Frontier
Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
12:05pm
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1:00pm
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Observational Cosmology Seminar
Dust-shrouded Cosmology Surveys: Impact of Milky Way Extinction on Galaxy Clustering and SNIa Cosmology
Tanveer Karim,
Postdoc,
University of Toronto,
Friday, October 23rd, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quasi-periodic eruptions: new transient probes of stars near supermassive black holes
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 26th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Crystal electric-field effect in rare-earth insulating magnets and its implications for thermal transport under magnetic field