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Monday, February 3rd, 2025
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
2 um fiber lasers and amplifiers for cryogenic silicon gravitational wave detectors
Georgia Bolingbroke,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Semiclassical Amplitudes and Black Holes
Donal O'Connell, Edinburgh University,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Fast Radio Bursts" and "Building Europa Clipper"
Stella Ocker, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Matthew Stumbo, System Integration and Test Engineer, NASA JPL,
Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
6:00pm – 7:30pm
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Cozy Conversations re: Uncertainties for Graduate Students - Dinner with RSVP!

Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Phase space of JT gravity with positive cosmological constant
Elba Alonso-Monsalve, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Geometric Approach to Quantum Theory
Albert Schwarz, UC Davis & Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Probing Supermassive Black Holes and Quasars with the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project
Catherine (Kate) Grier, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Using soft chemistry in oxide heterostructures: from superconducting nickelates to membrane nanomechanics
Harold Hwang, Professor, Applied Physics, Stanford,
Thursday, February 6th, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Rooted in Relaxation: Terrarium Building (Students)

Center for Student Services, Lobby
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Entanglement Randomness
James Analytis, UC Berkeley,
Friday, February 7th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Pinning Defects, Fusion and Factorization
Yifan Wang, New York University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Frustrated Quantum Devices: understanding how correlations, complex order and boundary states manifest in novel material functionalities
James Analytis, UC Berkeley,
Monday, February 10th, 2025
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Quantifying LIGO's response to environmental disturbances in O4 and beyond
Adrian Helmling-Cornell,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370
Constraints on Remnant Planetary Systems as a Function of Main-Sequence Mass with HST/COS
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Dark showers from sneaky dark matter
Christiane Scherb, UC Berkeley/LBNL,
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Characterizing the Space of UV-Complete Amplitudes
Justin Berman, University of Michigan,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Getting Things Done - Lunch with RSVP

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Census of Black Hole Accretion Structure and Mass
Yasaman Homayouni, Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Revisiting the Core Accretion Paradigm for Giant Planet Formation: Analytic Framework for the Late Infall Stage and the Distribution of Planetary Masses
Fred Adams, Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Strain induced magnetism and superconductivity in Heusler membranes
Jason Kawasaki, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin,
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
The DNA of Particle Scattering
Lance Dixon, SLAC,
Friday, February 14th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Antipodal (Self-)Duality in Planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
Lance Dixon, SLAC,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Extreme confinement with hyperbolic cavities - a new platform for quantum light-matter interactions
Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Bar-Ilan University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Mapping the Dark Matter Distribution of Galaxies with Stellar Streams
Jacob Nibauer, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Powerful Jets from Supermassive Black Holes
Martijn Oei, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Will we ever detect high frequency gravitational waves?
Raffaele Tito d'Agnolo, Institut de Physique Théorique,
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Nanophotonics Seminar - Day 1

Gates Annex B122
Deep Jariwala, Associate Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,
Vivian Ferry, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota,
Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Moments and saddles of heavy CFT correlators
Gordon Rogelberg, Yale University,
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Finding Black Holes with Microlensing: Current and Future Prospects
Casey Lam, Carnegie Observatories,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Inclusive Scattering Matrix
Albert Schwarz, UC Davis & Caltech,
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Nanophotonics Seminar - Day 2

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Lisa Poulikakos, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego,
Albert Polman, Professor, Group Leader, Photonic Materials, AMOLF,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Multi-Scale Circumgalactic Medium
Peng Oh, Professor, University of California Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Hidden Order in Amorphous Materials: from gravitational wave detectors to topological materials
Frances Hellman, Professor, Physics, UC Berkeley,
Thursday, February 20th, 2025
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Entangling Ultracold Molecules
Kang-Kuen Ni, Harvard University,
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Friday, February 21st, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
Gravity and a universal cutoff for field theory
Simon Caron-Huot, McGill University,
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Precision tests of gravity on the table-top
Gautam Venugopalan, Stanford University,
Monday, February 24th, 2025
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Chia-Hsien Shen, National Taiwan University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
New Structures in Renormalization Group from Fundamental Principles
Chia-Hsien Shen, National Taiwan University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Nonequilibrium dynamics and control of flatband graphene
Jin Chenhao, Assistant Professor, Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"The Sun's Life and Death" and "Seeing the Invisible"
Antonio Rodriguez, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Mandy Chen, Brinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech and Carnegie Observatories,
Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Supersymmetric Soft Theorems
Adam Tropper, Harvard University,
12:15pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar

IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Panchromatic Observations of Extreme Red Supergiant Explosions
Wynn Jacobson-Galán, Caltech,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
L-Functionals and Infrared Problem in Quantum Electrodynamics
Albert Schwarz, UC Davis & Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Tales of Dust-Enshrouded Eruptions: Solving Missing Links from Planets to Supermassive Black Holes
Kishalay De, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Electrical networks and Lagrangian Grassmannians
Terrence George, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Direct Integration of 2D Materials for Next Generation Electronic Devices
Zak Al Balushi, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley,
Thursday, February 27th, 2025
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Cultural Mental Health & Crafting

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Causality and Positivity Constraints on Theory Space
Leonardo Rastelli, Stony Brook University,
Friday, February 28th, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Where is tree-level string theory?
Leonardo Rastelli, Stony Brook University,