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April 2023

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April 2023

Monday, April 3rd, 2023

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event

LISA's role in multi-band and multi-messenger astronomy for stellar-origin source

Katie Breivik, Flatiron Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Spinning black hole binary dynamics: perturbation theories, nonperturbative probe limits, and hidden symmetries

Justin Vines, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114

Quantum science with alkaline-earth atoms: from simulating orbital physics to spin-squeezed optical clocks

Nelson Darkwah Oppong, Department of Physics, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder,

Wednesday, April 5th, 2023

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Illuminating the Origins of the Universe's Fastest Transients

Wen-fai Fong, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University,

Thursday, April 6th, 2023

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

Quantum Materials by Design

Andrea Damascelli, University of British Columbia,

Friday, April 7th, 2023

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Mass shift in lattice Hamiltonian approach to Schwinger model

Silviu Pufu, Princeton University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Visible Light Photonics for Atomic and Quantum Applications

Dan Blumenthal, Distinguished Professor, ECE, UC Santa Barbara,

Monday, April 10th, 2023

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Putting Generalized Symmetries to Work for Particle Physics

Seth Koren, University of Chicago,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series: Leroy (Lee) Hood, BS '60, PhD '68

Beckman Auditorium

Catalyzing a Shift in Healthcare from Disease-Care to Wellness and Prevention Care

Public Event

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Astronomy on Tap

Launching and Landing Spacecraft on Mars

Shannon Statham, Group Supervisor, Environmental Test Lab, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Rob Manning, Chief Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Public Event

Wednesday, April 12th, 2023

10:30am – 11:30am

Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

Online Event

Quantum Tanner codes

Anthony Leverrier, Inria,

12:15pm – 1:00pm

IPAC Astronomy Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)

Illuminating the Dark Ages: Luminous Quasars and Their Massive Host Galaxies in the Reionization Epoch

Fabian Walter, MPIA Heidelberg,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Response of Weyl fermions - topological protection, fragility and cooperation

Haim Beidenkopf, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science,

Thursday, April 13th, 2023

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

Oscillating Stars in Bloom: Asteroseismology and Wave Transport Phenomena

Richard Townsend, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Friday, April 14th, 2023

11:00am – 11:45am

Conversations on the Quantum World: Building a Quantum Computer

Public Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Thermalization and Chaos from Energy Eigenstates in QFT

Liam Fitzpatrick, Boston University,

12:00pm – 5:30pm

Dreamers in STEM

Avery Library

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Superconductivity in materials with flat bands: Insights from the quantum geometry

Valerio Peri, Moore Postdoctoral Scholar,

1:15pm – 2:30pm

An Introduction to Allyship: Supporting Undocumented Students

Avery Library

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Testing General Relativity with black hole X-ray data

Cosimo Bambi, Xie Xide Junior Chair Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Fudan University,

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

The Quest for Cosmic Dawn: First Results from the James Webb Space Telescope

Richard Ellis, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London,

Public Event

Monday, April 17th, 2023

11:00am – 1:00pm

Caltech Connect suicide prevention training for staff and postdocs

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event

Tracing AGN Feedback on the Star-Forming ISM in NGC 7469 with JWST

Thomas Lai, Caltech/IPAC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Going Underground or Listening to the Sky?

Anupam Ray, UC Berkeley & University of Minnesota,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114

Topological skyrmion phases of matter

Ashley Cook, Physics of Quantum Materials, Max Planck Institute,

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Caltech Connect suicide prevention training for students

Online Event

Wednesday, April 19th, 2023

12:15pm – 1:00pm

IPAC Astronomy Seminar

Online Event

Particle Acceleration in Galaxy Outflows

Marco Ajello, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114

Typicality for Stratified Measures

Juan Pablo Vigneaux, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Constraining the Cosmic Baryon Cycle with ALMA

Fabian Walter, Senior Staff Scientist, MPIA Heidelberg,

Thursday, April 20th, 2023

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory

Clay Cordova, University of Chicago,

Friday, April 21st, 2023

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Non-Invertible Chiral Symmetry

Clay Cordova, University of Chicago,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Laser spectroscopy of molecular vibrations

Kon Leung, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar, Endres Group,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Worldtube excision method for intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals: scalar-field model in 3+1 dimensions

Nikolas Wittek, Graduate Student, Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute),

Monday, April 24th, 2023

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event

Prospects for Detecting Gaps in Globular Cluster Stellar Streams in M31 and Other External Galaxies with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Christian Aganze, UC San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Dark Photons with Multiple Leptons

Matheus Hostert, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114

Field theory and non-perturbative effects in Lindbladian dynamics

Alex Kamenev, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota,

Wednesday, April 26th, 2023

12:00am – 4/27 12:00am

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Exploring and Controlling Superconducting States with 2D Quantum Structures

Vlad Pribiag, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota,

11:00am – 12:00pm

Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit

Michael Newman, Google Quantum AI,

Kevin Satzinger, Google Quantum AI,

12:15pm – 1:00pm

IPAC Astronomy Seminar

Online Event

General Coordinates Network (GCN): NASA's Next Generation Time-Domain and Multimessenger Astronomy Alert System

Leo Singer, NASA/GSFC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Big Stars and Their Little Friends

Morgan MacLeod, Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Astrophysics, CFA / Harvard,

Thursday, April 27th, 2023

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

The Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess

Daniel Hooper, University of Chicago,

Friday, April 28th, 2023

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Some comments on modular invariance in higher dimensions

Edgar Shaghoulian, UC Santa Cruz,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Getting Better Sleep workshop for grads and undergrads

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LIGO Seminar

Internal Event

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

New approaches to analyze optical transients

Tatsuya Matsumoto, Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrophysics Lab, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114

Unique features in quantum oscillations of Kagome metal CsV3Sb5

Prof. Lu Li, University of Michigan,