Seminar Calendar
October 2024
Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axion interactions with Domain and Bubble Walls
Isabel Garcia Garcia,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Carrollian Partition Functions and the Flat Limit of AdS
Richard Myers,
UCLA,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
When Data Is Not Enough: Illustrating Astrophysics for the Public
Robert Hurt,
Caltech/IPAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Stars Disrupted, Destroyed and Coalesced
Iair Arcavi,
Professor,
School of Physics and Astronomy,
Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Hybrid Materials via Vapor Phase Infiltration: Designing Physicochemical Structure to Alter Chemical, Thermophysical, & Photoelectronic Properties
Mark Losego,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Massive Redshift Surveys and First Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
David Schlegel,
LBL,
Friday, October 4th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dynamical Edge Modes and Entanglement in Gauge Theory
Adam Ball,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Simulations of Hadron Dynamics in the Schwinger Model using 112 Qubits
Roland Farrell,
Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, October 7th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
3D Interstellar Medium structure challenges the Serkowski "law" & Hybrid Foreground Removal for CHIME 21 cm Cosmology
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Weyl fermion on a finite lattice
Srimoyee Sen,
Iowa State University,
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Strings near the conformal boundary of AdS3.
Vit Sriprachyakul,
ETH Zurich,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Anthropology of Merging Stars - Tracing the Evolution And Impact of Stellar Mergers with Time-Domain Surveys
Viraj Karambelkar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Evolution, Influence, and Ultimate Fate of Massive Stars
Maria Drout,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Non-trivial topology in the centrosymmetric square net Eu-based compounds
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Atomic quantum processors and the error-correction frontier
Dolev Bluvstein,
Harvard University,
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Friday, October 11th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Yang-Mills-Liouville Theory
Tomasz Taylor,
Northeastern University and University of Warsaw,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Exploring scientific frontiers in quantum error correction with reconfigurable atom arrays
Dolev Bluvstein,
Harvard University,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
How strong warps and strong magnetic fields upend the standard accretion disk paradigm
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 14th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A fast-cadenced search for gamma-ray burst orphan afterglows with the Deeper, Wider, Faster programme & A multimessenger, multiband view of compact binaries
James Freeburn,
PhD student,
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing,
Swinburne University of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Pulsed, Polarized and Sliced – Fundamental Ingredients in Neutron Precision Physics
Floria Piegsa,
Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics,
University of Bern,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
A multimodal approach to uncovering magnetic symmetries: the case of EuIn2As2
Veronika Sunko,
University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Pseudorandom unitaries, t-designs, and the incompressibility of random circuits
Tony Metger,
Graduate Student,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
2d theory for asymptotic dynamics of 4d (self-dual) Einstein gravity
Wei Bu,
Northeastern University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
DESI Y1 BAO Analysis: Reconstruction of Large-Scale Structures Using Optimal Transport Theory
Farnik Nikakhtar,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Large-Scale Structure Cosmology: Opportunities in the Systematics-Limited Regime
Elisabeth Krause,
Associate Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
A categorical approach to Lyapunov stability
Joseph Moeller,
Mechanical & Civil Engineering Department, AMBER Lab,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Bioinspired surfaces – from micropatterning and machine learning to sustainable robotics
Eduard Arzt,
Visiting Distinguished Faculty,
Material Science and Engineering,
UC San Diego, Senior Professor for New Materials at Saarland University,
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Chemical design of quantum systems
Danna Freedman,
MIT,
Friday, October 18th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Hierarchy from duality
Kristan Jensen,
University of Victoria,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Stability and loop models from decohering non-Abelian topological order
Pablo Sala,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Binary neutron star mergers in massive scalar-tensor theory
Monday, October 21st, 2024
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Seeing into the immediate post-merger environment of a neutron star collision
Aaron Tohuvavohu,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Astrometric Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter
Sarunas Verner,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Proving Quantum Thermalization of Translation-Invariant Systems at High Temperature.
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
3d gravity as a random ensemble
Liza Rozenberg,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
The Origins of Close-in Brown Dwarfs from the Stellar Obliquity Distribution
Steven Giacalone,
Caltech,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Operator Origin of Anomalous dimensions in de Sitter Space
Yiwen Huang,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An entropic view of machine learning
Akhil Premkumar,
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Materials Research to Enable Scalable Decarbonization Technologies
Yet-Ming Chiang,
Kyocera Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 24th, 2024
4:00pm
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