Seminar Calendar
January 2026
Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Analyticity of the black hole S-matrix
Anna Wolz,
UCLA,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
New Frontiers in Exoplanet Imaging and Pathways to Habitable Worlds
Jason Wang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Northwestern,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, January 9th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Constraints on Long-Range Forces in De Sitter Space
Kurt Hinterbichler,
Case Western Reserve University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Limitations of Noisy Geometrically Local Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar,
University of Maryland,
Monday, January 12th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
CMB constraints on non-minimally coupled ultralight dark matter
Subhajit Ghosh,
University of Texas, Austin,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Sensing of Gravitational Frame-Dragging and Time Dilation with a Superfluid 4He Gyrometer
Kai Ellers,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Hollow-grams: Generalized Entanglement Wedges from the Gravitational Path Integral
Sami Kaya,
UC Berkeley,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
NEO Surveyor's Survey Strategy: Robustness Studies & Trade-Offs
Garrett Levine,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
From cosmic web to molecular clouds: the multiple scales of galaxy evolution
Amelie Saintonge,
Director,
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
2D Hole Gas at GaN/AlN interface – an Unprecedented Platform to Probe the Valence Band of GaN
Huili Grace Xing,
William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering,
Cornell,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
From Kramers' legacies in Bloch electrons to a new class of strongly correlated Fe-based transition metal dichalcogenides
Thursday, January 15th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, January 16th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Hamiltonian approach to near extremal black hole physics
Per Kraus,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Computation-Protected Phases of Matter
Soonwon Choi,
MIT,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Negative energies and the breakdown of bulk lengths in JT gravity
Shreya Vardhan,
Caltech,
Monday, January 19th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talks
The sparkling end of compact binaries: mergers, Pa 30, and other animals
Ilaria Caiazzo,
Professor,
Institute of Science and Technology Austria,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A Berry phase for algebras in holography
Jeremy van der Heijden,
University of British Columbia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Core-Collapse Supernovae in 3D: New Theoretical Insights
Adam Burrows,
Professor,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Artificial oxide quantum heterostructures and twisted membranes
Honyung Lee, PhD,
Corporate Fellow and Senior Advisor,
Materials Science and Technology Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Advances in Low-Noise, High-Speed SiGe BiCMOS for LEO Satellite Communications and Optical Interconnects
Pascal Chevalier,
PhD,
Analog/RF Technology Architect and Fellow of Technical Staff, STMicroelectronics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Modified Theories of Gravity, Parity, and the Dark Sector
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
StarShot – from Metaphotonics to Spacecraft
Harry A. Atwater,
Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Caltech,
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Large extra dimensions from higher-dimensional inflation
Ignatios Antoniadis,
LPTHE - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Modified Theories of Gravity, Parity, and the Dark Sector
Tatsuya Daniel,
McGill University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Waveform Systematics Across the Gravitational-Wave Spectrum: From LIGO to LISA
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Particle-Soliton Degeneracy in 2D QCD from Spontaneously Broken Non-invertible Symmetry
Diego Garcia Sepulveda,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Seeing and Shaping Quantum Matter at the Atomic Scale
Jane Park,
PhD Candidate,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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12:50pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Galaxy Evolution in the Resolved Universe
Daniel Weisz,
Associate Professor of Astronomy; Head Graduate Advisor,
Astronomy Department,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, January 29th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Rachel Rosen,
Associate Professor of Quantum Field Theory and Gravity,
Department of Physics,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Friday, January 30th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Exploring Entropy-Positivity Bounds
Rachel Rosen,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement oscillations and many-body quantum scars
Nicholas O'Dea,
Princeton,
1:15pm
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2:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar - POSTPONED
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Null Ray: Localized gauge invariant observables and covariant quantization
Laurent Freidel,
Perimeter Institute,