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Monday, December 2nd, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

A New Window into Common Envelope Evolution: The First Catalog of Candidate White Dwarf-Main Sequence Binaries in Open Star Clusters / Constraining Black Hole Growth History With Population Spin Measurements
Steffani Grondin, Final-year Ph.D. student, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto,
Asia Piotrowska-Karpov, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
A Quantum Description of Wave Dark Matter
Nicholas Rodd, LBNL,
Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Tidal Effects of Compact Objects From Theory to Observations
Zihan Zhou, Princeton University,
12:15pm 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

Brightening Trends of Distant Long-Period Comets
Carrie Holt, LCO,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Turning particles into probes in plasma by machine learning
Wentao Yu, senior graduate student, Physics, Emory University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

The Nature of Small Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs
Jacob Bean, Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago,
Thursday, December 5th, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Exotic hidden-heavy hadrons
Roberto Bruschini, The Ohio State University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Explaining Exotic Heavy Hadrons from QCD
Roberto Bruschini, Ohio State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Faraday's Challenge: Batteries and Wires
Peter Littlewood, University of Chicago,
Friday, December 6th, 2024
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Randomness in conformal field theories
Moshe Rozali, University of British Columbia,
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Non-reciprocal phase transitions
Peter Littlewood, University of Chicago,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
The "visible" and "invisible": stars as tracers for the Milky Way formation
Xiaowei Ou, Graduate Student, Dept. of Physics and MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
8:00pm 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

How to Build a Galaxy from Scratch
Sam Ponnada, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Monday, December 9th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

The chemical compositions of massive quiescent galaxies across cosmic time with JWST / The first sample of orbital properties for stars stripped in binaries: towards population statistics
Aliza Beverage, Final-year Ph.D. student, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley,
Alex Raroche, Ph.D. student, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The University of Toronto,
Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
12:15pm 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

Faint Quasar Candidates at z~6 in the COSMOS Field
Yu-Heng (Ian) Lin, Caltech/IPAC,
Thursday, December 12th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Charting the Gravitational-wave Universe At Light-year Wavelengths
Stephen Taylor, Vanderbilt University,
Monday, December 16th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Atmospheric Characterization of the Dusty Planetary-Mass Companion BD+60 1417B
Caprice Phillips, Final-year Ph.D. student, Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University,
7:30pm 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Chandra X-ray Telescope" and "The X-ray Sky"
Margaret Lazzarini, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, CSULA,
Peter Boorman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Wednesday, December 18th, 2024
12:15pm 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

Online Event
First Exploration of Barred Galaxies in the Young Universe out to z~4 Using JWST CEERS Data
Shardha Jogee, University of Texas at Austin,
Thursday, December 19th, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

Spin Orbit Effects in Magnetic Systems
Qian Niu, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China,