Seminar Calendar
October 2025
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Towards an Analytic Bootstrap Framework for Thermal CFTs
Deniz Bozkurt,
DESY,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Mapping Lines and PAHs Across Cosmic Time in the Infrared Spectral-Photometry Era
Yun-Ting Cheng,
Caltech/JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Cosmic Evolution of Star Formation, Gas, and Dust in Galaxies
Nick Scoville,
Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus,
Astronomy Department,
Caltech,
Andreas Faisst,
Staff Scientist,
IPAC,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Fundamental Physics with Polyatomic Molecules and Exotic Nuclei
Friday, October 3rd, 2025
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 6th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Final Results from the Muon $g-2$ Experiment at Fermilab
James Labounty,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Bottom-up de Sitter holography
David Kolchmeyer,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Multidimensional Physics of Stars & other Astrophysical Bodies
Daniel Lecoanet,
Assistant Professor,
CIERA,
Northwestern University,
,
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Could modern CMOS ICs provide a platform for quantum sensors, computers and simulators?
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, October 10th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Horizon Edge Modes in Λ > 0 Quantum Gravity
Albert Law,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Prethermal dynamical regimes and resonant melting in quenched quantum matter
Alexey Khudorozhkov,
Boston University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Energy Operators in Particle Physics, QFT, and Gravity
Ian Moult,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, October 13th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Inhomogeneous Evolution of Uranus and Neptune
Roberto Tejada Arevalo,
Astrophysical Sciences Department,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Forces in Standard Model and Dark Sector
Bingrong Yu,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Action Gaps and Advantages in Continuous-Time Distributional Reinforcement Learning
Yash Jhaveri,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Rutgers University–Newark,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Action Gaps and Advantages in Continuous-Time Distributional Reinforcement Learning
Yash Jhaveri,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Rutgers University-Newark,
Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The soft physics of amplitudes in background fields
Sonja Klisch,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar Talk
Online Event
Determination of Physical Properties of Main Belt Asteroids Using WISE/NEOWISE Data
Kiana McFadden,
University of Arizona,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Lagrangian Dual Sections: A Topological View of Hidden Convexity
Kevin Shu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Triple Connection: Black Hole Mergers, EM Counterparts, and Galactic Black Holes
Smadar Naoz,
Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
What happened here?: Reconstructing stress history in ceramics with complex deformation pathways
Corinne Packard,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering & Materials Science,
University of Southern California,
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, October 17th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Triangulating Quantum Gravity in AdS_3
Tom Hartman,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Engineering Coupled Quantum Interfaces for Superconducting Quantum Technologies
Hung-Yu Yang,
UCLA,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Evolution of Gas Giant Planets
Roberto Tejada Arevalo,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
Monday, October 20th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Probing Ultra-heavy Particle Physics using Precision Cosmology
Soubhik Kumar,
Tufts University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Analytic Functional in the Numerical Conformal Bootstrap
Zechuan Zheng,
Perimeter Institute,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
New Tools for Debris Disk Imaging: Keck/NIRC2-Pol and GRaTer-JAX GPU Models
Briley Lewis,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Missing Link: Planet Formation from Millions to Billions of Years
Meredith Hughes,
Chair, Astronomy Department; Associate Professor of Astronomy,
Wesleyan University,
Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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From Lab to Cosmos: Three Frontiers in the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Friday, October 24th, 2025
9:30am
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10:30am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Gravitational Waves from the Fifth-Force Mergers
Xingpeng Wang,
Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Algebras for generalized entanglement wedges?
Mark Van Raamsdonk,
University of British Columbia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Digital quantum simulation and error correction frontier with atom arrays
Simon Evered,
Harvard,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Bridging Scales in Black Hole Accretion and Feedback: Relativistic Jet linking the Horizon to the Host Galaxy
Monday, October 27th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dark Radiation from the Axiverse
Christopher Dessert,
Flatiron Institute CCA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
On Theories of Neutrino Masses and Dark Matter
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
Case Western University,
Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Flat Space/Carrollian Limit of AdS/CFT
Romain Ruzziconi,
Harvard University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Discoveries of Interstellar PAHs from Cold Clouds to the Solar System
Brett McGuire,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, October 30th, 2025
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum advantage from random geometrically-two-local Hamiltonian dynamics
Yihui Queck,
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL,