Seminar Calendar
February 2024
Thursday, February 1st, 2024
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Why are astrophysical plasmas always magnetized?
Axel Brandenburg,
Nordita & KITP,
Friday, February 2nd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
AdS Higgs mechanism for double trace deformed CFTs
Andreas Karch,
UT Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Building quantum networks: from solid-state defects and Rydberg atoms in cavities to a new scientific frontier with hybrid quantum systems
Aziza Suleymanzade,
Harvard,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Revealing Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation with Small-Scale Structure
Monday, February 5th, 2024
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special LIGO Seminar
Experimental prototype of a phase-insensitive quantum filter for sensitivity enhancement of gravitational-wave detectors.
Artemy Dmitriev,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Matrix Entanglement and Beckenstein- Hawking Entropy
Sandip Trivedi,
TIFR, Mumbai,
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Adiabatic quantum computations with three-dimensional Rydberg atom graphs
Minhyuk Kim,
Korea University,
Wednesday, February 7th, 2024
10:45am
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11:45am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The action of geometric entropy in topologically massive gravity
Molly Kaplan,
UC Santa Barbara,
11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Stretched horizon, replica trick, and off-shell winding condensate, and all that
Indranil Halder,
Harvard University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Dust and Gas Cometary Comae (aka Cometary Activity) in a Nutshell
Yuna Kwon,
Caltech/IPAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Formed Too Fast? Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn
Caitlin Casey,
Associate Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, February 8th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Magnetic power of neutron stars
Andrei Beloborodov,
Columbia University,
Friday, February 9th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The EFT of Large Spin Mesons
Gabriel Cuomo,
Princeton & NYU,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Magnetic Noise Injection Scripts and Preliminary Results for The Virgo Detector
Catalina Miritescu,
Monday, February 12th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology and the high-redshift Universe
Nashwan Sabti,
Johns Hopkins University,
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy of Quantum Matter
Ismail El Baggari,
Principal Investigator and Fellow,
Rowland Institute,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Robust G-Invariance in G-Equivariant Networks
Nina Miolane,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Seeing the invisible: the search for low-mass axion dark matter with DMRadio
Chiara Salemi,
SLAC,
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Celestial Quantum Error Correction: From Noncommutative Geometry to Celestial CFT
Yangrui Hu,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
The Role of Stellar Multiplicity in M-Dwarf Systems
Catherine Clark,
Caltech/IPAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Galaxies in the Reionization Era: New Insight from JWST
Daniel Stark,
Professor of Astronomy,
University of Arizona,
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Opportunities for Machine Learning in Physics
Max Welling,
University of Amsterdam,
Friday, February 16th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The correspondence between rotating black holes and fundamental strings
Marija Tomasevic,
University of Amsterdam,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Interpretable Expressivity Separations in Trainable Quantum Machine Learning
Eric Anschuetz,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Detecting large baryonic feedback around DESI photometric galaxies
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special AMO Quantum Seminar
Novel strategies for hardware-efficient quantum processors
Harry Levine,
AWS Center for Quantum Computer (Caltech),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Complex saddles and possible chaos in string scatterings
Takuya Yoda,
Kyoto University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Graph learning models: theoretical understanding, limitations and mitigation
Yusu Wang,
Halicioglu Data Science Institute,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Molecules For Dark Matter Detection
Benjamin Lillard,
University of Oregon,
Wednesday, February 21st, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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An all-orders 2d chiral algebra for 4d form factors
Victor Fernandez,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
The Most Extreme Young Stellar Accretion Outbursts
Adolfo Carvalho,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Brown Dwarfs: Extrasolar Comparative Magnetospheric Physics
Melodie Kao,
Heising-Simons 51 Pegasi b Fellow,
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar
2D or not 2D: Towards Routine Three-Dimensional Imaging of Individual Atoms Using Electron Microscopy
Colum O'Leary,
STROBE Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Los Angeles,
11:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Topology and "impossible" electronic devices
Andrea Young,
Friday, February 23rd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Emergence and breakdown of the membrane picture in Brownian models
Shreya Vardhan,
Stanford University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Have we seen a demonstration of experimental quantum advantage?
Bill Fefferman,
University of Chicago,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Delayed Explosions of Red Supergiants Following "Failed" Supernovae
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Fault-tolerant Coding for Quantum Communication
Matthias Christandl,
University of Copenhagen,