Seminar Calendar
May 2024
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Disentanglement as a strong cosmic censor
Vincent Chen,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Neugebauer Lecture)
Connecting Disks to Planetary Architectures and Compositions
Alycia Weinberger,
Staff Scientist,
Earth and Planets Laboratory,
Carnegie Institution for Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Converting CO2, water, and sunlight into liquid fuels: Towards affordable solar fuels and chemicals
Aisulu Aitbekova,
postdoctoral scholar,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
New frontiers for many-body physics: from non-equilibrium to non-Euclidean
Vedika Khemani,
Stanford University,
Friday, May 3rd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Bound on the thermalization time of d>2 CFTs
Luca Delacretaz,
University of Chicago,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Current numerical efforts on free hyperboloidal evolutions
Alex Vañó-Viñuales,
Postdoc and Invited Professor,
GRIT, CENTRA, Instituto Superior Técnico,
University of Lisbon,
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, May 6th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The role of dark matter in supermassive black hole mergers
Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez,
University of Toronto,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dark Matter Signals from the Ionosphere
Sebastian Ellis,
University of Geneva,
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
11:00am
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Searching for Parity Violation with the Galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function
Zachary Slepian,
University of Florida,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Strong Lensing of Gravitational Waves: A New Probe Cosmology and Nature of Dark Matter
Souvik Jana,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Biard Lecture)
Planet Formation Under the Microscope
Karin Oberg,
Professor of Natural Sciences,
Department of Astronomy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Complete constraints on hyperbolic surface spectra from the conformal bootstrap
Anshul Adve,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Solid-State Ionics for Energy Applications: Materials Development Through the Lens of Defect Chemistry
Thursday, May 9th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Critical Metals and the fermion sign problem
Erez Berg,
Weizmann Institute,
Friday, May 10th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Callan Rubakov Effect
Daniel Brennan,
UC San Diego,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum eigenvalue transformation from and beyond Hamiltonian simulation
Dong An,
University of Maryland, College Park,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Partial Post-Selection: Unveiling Measurement-Induced Transitions trajectory by trajectory
Alessandro Romito,
Lancaster University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Coupling & Collisions: The Dynamic Lives of Galactic Atmospheres
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, May 13th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Survey of the North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field / A systematic study of AGN torus with NuSTAR
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Heavy quark transverse momentum-dependent fragmentation
Zhiquan Sun,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Search for Kerr from Multipole Moments on the Worldline
Trevor Scheopner,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The More the Merrier - Stellar Physics in the Era of Stellar, Transient, and Gravitational Wave
Selma de Mink,
Scientific Director,
Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Almost-idempotent quantum channels and approximate C*-algebras
Alexei Kitaev,
Department Theoretical Physics & Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, May 16th, 2024
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,
MIT,
Friday, May 17th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Multipartite Edge Modes and Tensor Networks
Ronak Soni,
University of Cambridge,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Next Generation Moiré Quantum Matter
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
To infinity and beyond: the hyperboloidal framework in Black-hole perturbation theory
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Integer and Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Crystalline Rhombohedral Graphene
Long Ju,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Monday, May 20th, 2024
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Electron Beam Driven Plasmas and the Quest for Precise Control in Materials Processing
Scott G. Walton, PhD,
Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Temporal entanglement and complexity of quantum many-body dynamics
Dmitry Abanin,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A Celestial Dual for MHV Amplitudes
Walker Melton,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Special Lunch Seminar
The SDSS-V Open Fiber Call and Data Access for Caltech Scientists
Thomas Prince,
Caltech,
Zachary Vanderbosch,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Stellar Processes Around Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Centers
Re'em Sari,
Professor,
Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science,
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An Enriched Category Theory of Language
Tai-Danae Bradley,
Sandbox AQ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
From functional oxides to qubits, how electron ptychography is opening new avenues to characterize materials
James LeBeau,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
From the early Universe to colliders: Low-scale leptogenesis
Yannis Georis,
Louvain University,