Seminar Calendar
November 2025
Monday, November 3rd, 2025
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Tides, Tori, and Disintegration: Spectral and Photometric Signatures of Volcanic Exoplanets and Exomoons
Apurva V. Oza,
Research Scientist,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cavendish Tests of Millicharged Particles
Asher Berlin,
Fermilab,
7:00pm
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8:15pm
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Free mutual information and higher-point OTOCs
Jinzhao Wang,
Stanford University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Systematic Uncertainties in Transiting Exoplanets and Their Host Stars
Alison Duck,
JPL,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Sparsity in the numerical six-point bootstrap
Sebastian Harris,
DESY,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An introduction to quantum image encryption
Claire Levaillant,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems from the Outside In
Brendan Bowler,
Associate Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Juliet T. Gopinath, U Colorado Boulder
Nonlinear integrated optical chalcogenide devices
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Discovering Compounds and Designing Materials
Ram Seshadri,
Professor,
Materials Department, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UC Santa Barbara,
Thursday, November 6th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, November 7th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Entropic Order
Fedor Popov,
Stony Brook University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Testing Quantum Theory on Curved Space-Time with Atomic Clocks
Igor Pikovski,
Stevens Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The role of triple evolution in shaping Galactic binaries and transients
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, November 10th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology of dark forces: strong limits and 𝜈 effects
Erwin Tanin,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
From phason mass to the magneto-chiral instability: THz nonlinear electrodynamics of collective excitations in solids
Professor Fahad Mahmood,
Assistant Professor,
Condensed Matter Physics,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Automated Conjecturing and Discovery in Mathematics
Randy Davila,
Lecturer,
Department of Computational Applied Mathematics & Operations Research,
Rice University,
Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A Black Hole Airy Tail
Pratik Rath,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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12:50pm
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12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Potential Target Stars and Planetary Systems for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Caleb Harada,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres and protostellar mass flows with JWST
Tom Greene,
Research Professor of Astronomy; Executive Director IPAC,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fold-transversal surface code cultivation
Kaavya Sahay,
Yale,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Extreme environment materials testing: thermochemical life prediction and improved material design
Elizabeth Opila,
Department Chair, Rolls Royce Commonwealth Professor of Engineering,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Virginia,
Thursday, November 13th, 2025
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
An area law for metastable states
Chi Fang (Anthony) Chen,
Simons Postdoctoral Scholar,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The quest to improve Gravitational wave detection, parameter inference algorithms, and multi-messenger astrophysics
Barak Zackay,
Professor,
Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Friday, November 14th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Algebras and Emergence of Time: global physics from a local state
Nima Lashkari,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Error Correction in Nearly Critical Toric Codes
Zack Weinstein,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Alicea Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
From Gravitational Wave Bursts to Binary Dynamics: Unlocking the Astrophysics of Eccentric Sources
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, November 17th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Rains & Quakes in 3D Massive Stars: First Light of the AREPO-Star Project
Jing-ze Ma,
PhD Student at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Open Effective Field Theory of Inflation
Santiago Agüí-Salcedo,
University of Chicago,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
11:00am
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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
From Optimal Transport to Collective Intelligence: Lifelong and Agentic Reinforcement Learning via Task Embeddings
Eva Liu,
Ph.D. student,
Machine Intelligence and Neural Technologies,
Vanderbilt University,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Ensemble Averages of Fuzzballs
Yoav Zigdon,
Tel Aviv University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
New Views on Extreme Starbursts: Clumps in Local ULIRGs with JWST
Laura Lenkić,
Caltech/IPAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
New Views of Gas, Stellar Feedback, and the Interstellar Medium
Adam Leroy,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Failure Modes in Oxide Solid State Electrolytes: Direct Observations of the Stress Accompanying Dendrite Growth
W. Craig Carter,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, November 20th, 2025
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Local fault-tolerant error correction with simulated confinement
Ethan Lake,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Universality in the Collective Behavior of Open Quantum Systems
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, November 21st, 2025
10:30am
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11:30am
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Astronomy Special Seminar
Mapping the Diffuse Ultraviolet Universe with NASA's Aspera Mission and Advancing UV Detector Technologies
Aafaque R. Khan,
PhD. Candidate, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Maximizing the Interaction Strength
Miguel Correia,
McGill University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement Bootstrap and Conformal Field Theory
Ting-Chun (David) Lin,
University of California San Diego,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Star formation and evolution in AGN disks - general applications of planet formation across cosmic scales
Monday, November 24th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Cosmic Detectives: Discovering High-Redshift Quasars and Solving the Mystery of Their Gas Halos
Tatevik Mkrtchyan,
graduate student; Universidad Diego Portales, Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos,