Seminar Calendar
May 2025
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Ashvin Vishwanath,
Harvard University,
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Towards quantum simulating holographic duality
Julian Sonner,
University of Geneva,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Extracting the topological spins from bulk multipartite entanglement
Yarden Sheffer,
Weizmann Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Remnants of Double and Quadruple Detonations in Binary White Dwarfs
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, May 5th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Autonomous Model Building with Reinforcement Learning: An Application with Neutrino Flavor Symmetries
Jake Rudolph,
UC Irvine,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Dynamic Control of Radiative Thermal Transport: Fundamentals and Applications
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe
Misha Usatyuk,
KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Deciphering Cosmic History And Cosmic-Ray Physics with Radio Emission
Allison Matthews,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture)
The Time Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei
Christopher Kochanek,
Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Diffusionless Transformations in Ceramics: Can Brittle Materials Survive Martensitic Transitions?
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Unveiling the First Galaxies & Black Holes in the Universe
Priyamvada Natarajan,
Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor in Astronomy & Physics,
Yale University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, May 9th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Collinear Corrections to the Cachazo-Strominger Soft Theorem
Sruthi Narayanan,
Perimeter Institute,
2:15pm
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3:15pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dynamical tides in binary neutron stars: effects of spin, tidal spin, and nonlinear hydrodynamics
Monday, May 12th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Dr. Devontae Baxter,
NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics and UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC San Diego,
Minjie Lei,
PhD student,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
How the universe came to be smooth and flat
Paul Steinhardt,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Signatures of high-energy neutrinos from sources for r-process nuclei
Yongzhong Qian,
University of Minnesota,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Tracing the Evolution of Short-Period Exoplanets: Insights from Young Stellar Clusters
Rachel Fernandes,
Pennsylvania State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
A mysterious appearance of quantum probability in projective geometry
Jonathan Beardsley,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Explosive Life of Massive Binaries
Mathieu Renzo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, May 15th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Multimessenger Perspectives on High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
Kohta Murase,
Pennsylvania State University,
Friday, May 16th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Soft Metric Fluctuations in Cosmology
Daniel Green,
UC San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor
Ruslan Shaydulin,
JPMorganChase,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Modeling Black Hole Accretion with Radiation GRMHD: A Parameter Survey and Connection to Observations
Monday, May 19th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Galactic Population of Quiet Black Holes
Dr. Casey Lam,
Carnegie/Harrison Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Neutrino Self-interaction: Motivations and Future Probes
Yue Zhang,
Carleton University,
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
A Glimpse into AI + Science at Google DeepMind: RL for Fusion & AlphaGeometry2
Yuri Chervonyi,
Google DeepMind,
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Area Fluctuations from Gravitational Phase Space
Temple He,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Small Galaxies, Big Impact: Compact Lyman-alpha Emitters as Drivers of the Early Universe's Transformation
Keunho Kim,
Caltech/IPAC,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum lightning from non-Abelian group actions
John Bostanci,
Yuen Group,
Columbia University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Reformulations of Furstenberg's x2x3 conjecture
Jane Panangaden,
Mathematics Field Group,
Pitzer College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Biard Lecture)
Spectra Ex Machina: Spectroscopic Surveys for the Modern Mid-Century
Juna Kollmeier,
Staff Scientist,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
4:00pm
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Friday, May 23rd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A connection between non-invertible symmetries and quantum error correction
Ning Bao,
Northeastern University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Influence of the dark first structures
M. Sten Delos,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Theoretical Astrophysics Center,
Carnegie Observatories,
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Magnetomechanical detection of high-frequency gravitational waves
Giacomo Marocco,
LBNL, Berkeley,
Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Physical Instabilities and the phase of the Euclidean Path integral
Victor Ivo,
Princeton University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Online Event
The Efficiency of Galaxy Formation And Feedback: Observations And Physics of Turbulent Multiphase Gas
Pierre Guillard,
IAP, Paris,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Detector operators in quantum gravity
Murat Kologlu,
Yale University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Quantum Black Hole Entropy from a Localization Integral
Matthew Heydeman,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Joshua Winn,
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Exploiting automatic image processing and in-situ transmission electron microscopy to understand the stability of supported nanoparticles
Erich Stach,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering; Director of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter; Scientific Director of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology,
University of Pennsylvania,