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Wednesday, April 1
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Kellogg 307
Dynamics of the homeomorphism group of the Lelek fan
  • Aleksandra Kwiatkowska, Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Chemical Signatures of Planet Formation in Gas Rich Disks
  • Edwin Bergin, U. Michigan,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Mars Helicopter Scout
  • MiMi Aung, Autonomous Systems Deputy Division Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Convergence polygons for p-adic differential equati
  • Kiran Kedlaya, Stefan E. Warschawski Chair in Mathematics, Mathematics, UCSD,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The CMB and Neutrinos
  • Lyman Page, Henry De Wolf Smyth Professor of Physics; Chair, Department of Physics, Princeton University,
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Friday, April 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Generalized Global Symmetries
  • Anton Kapustin, Caltech and Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Enhancing Generalized Unitarity
  • Jacob Bourjaily, Neils Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Weak lensing calibrated scaling relations of galaxy groups and poor clusters
  • Maggie Lieu, Graduate Student, Astronomy & Space Research (ASR), University of Birmingham,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A graph TQFT for hat Heegaard Floer homology".
  • Ian Zemke, Teaching Assistant, Mathematics, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Incidences between points and lines and extremal configuration of lines in Euclidean spaces
  • Noam Solomon, Mathematics, University of Tel Aviv,
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4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
East Bridge 114
Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the bulk/boundary correspondence
  • Fernando Pastawski, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Progress on the Triangular Hilbert Transform
  • Christoph Thiele, Professor, Bonn,
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Monday, April 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Higgs Boson as the Origin of Mass and Inflation
  • Hong-Jian He, Tsinghua University,
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Tuesday, April 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
On Abrikosov lattice solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) equation
  • Li Chen, Graduate Student, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Invariant random subgroups behaving like normal subgroups
  • Omer Tamuz, Schramm Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, MIT,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Nonlinear Linear Systems Analysis Applied to Networked Dynamical Systems
  • Enrique Mallada, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Mathematics of Information, Caltech,
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Wednesday, April 8
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Technology Concepts for the Next Generation VLA
  • Sander Weinreb (Caltech) and Tony Beasley (NRAO),
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Structure and Pseudo-Randomness in Coding Theory
  • Shachar Lovett, Assistant Professor, CSE, UCSD,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Periods in Perturbative Quantum Field Theory
  • Emad Nasrollahpoursamani, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Data-driven models of stars
  • David Hogg, NYU,
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Thursday, April 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Selmer ranks of twists of hyperelliptic curves and superelliptic curves
  • Myungjun Yu, Graduate Student, Mathematics, UC Irvine,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Technology Concepts for the Next Generation VLA
  • Sander Weinreb (Caltech) and Tony Beasley (NRAO),
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Overconvergent construction of anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions
  • Chan-Ho Kim, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UC Irvine,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Testing Quantum Systems
  • Umesh Vazirani, Roger A. Strauch Professor of EECS, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley,
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Friday, April 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Heterotic strings and generalised geometry
  • Ruben Minasian, Penn State,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Deformations of superconformal theories
  • Ken Intriligator, UCSD,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Dark Matter Detections in Photons Split by a Million in Energy: Interpretations of X-ray lines and Gamma-ray Bumps
  • Kevork Abazajian, Professor, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Groups presentable by products and an ordering of Thurston geometries by maps of non-zero degree
  • Christoforos Neofytidis, Riley Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Binghamton University,
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4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
East Bridge 114
Matter Wave Interferometry in Microgravity - Towards Quantum Sensors in Space
  • Markus Krutzik, Postdoctoral Scholar in Communications Architectures and Research , JPL,
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Monday, April 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
First results from DarkSide-50
  • Maria Monzani, Stanford,
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Tuesday, April 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Nonlinear Linear Systems Analysis Applied to Networked Dynamical Systems
  • Enrique Mallada, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Mathematics of Information, Caltech,
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Wednesday, April 15
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Alternating knot with unknotting number one
  • Duncan Mccoy, PhD. Student, Mathematics, University of Glasgow,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Geometry, Topology, and Modern Classifications of Quantum Matter
  • Wentao (Winston) Fan, Undergraduate, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Active Galaxies in Cosmic X-ray Surveys: The Ecology of Distant AGNs
  • Dave Alexander,
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Thursday, April 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Pro-p Iwahori Hecke algebras are Gorenstein
  • Rachel Ollivier, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UBC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Environments of Black Holes - New Understandings from NuSTAR
  • Fiona Harrison, Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Caltech,
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Friday, April 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Yang-Mills-Einstein Theory as a Double Copy
  • Henrik Johansson, NORDITA and Uppsala University,
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12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
East Bridge 114
Unfolding the color code
  • Alex Kubica, Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
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12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
East Bridge 114
Entanglement detection by interfering quantum many-body twins
  • Rajibul Islam, Postdoctoral Fellow - Greiner Group, Rubidium Gas Microscopy, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
L-space surgeries on links
  • Yajing Liu, Graduate Student, Mathematics, UCLA,
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Saturday, April 18
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Monday, April 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The shape of new physics in (semi-)leptonic B decays
  • Rodrigo Alonso de Pablo, UC San Diego,
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Tuesday, April 21
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Near-linear constructions of exact unitary 2-designs
  • Debbie Leung, Perimeter Institute,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Coarsening of Particle Systems
  • Professor David Levermore, Mathematics Department, University of Maryland, College Park,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
G4v - An Engineering Approach to Gravitation
  • Carver Mead, Caltech,
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Wednesday, April 22
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Kellogg 307
Every analytic equivalence relation with all Borel classes is a Borel equivalence relation somewhere
  • William Chan, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Cosmology with Planck 2015
  • George Efstahiou, Cambridge,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
The 4th Generator of the Odd K-Theory of 3-Dimensional Noncommutative Tori
  • Viktor Kasatkin, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
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Thursday, April 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Interferometry in a strong light
  • Cindy Regal, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
On the non-triviality of generalised Heegner cycles modulo p
  • Ashay Burungale, Graduate Student, Mathematics, UCLA,
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Friday, April 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Integral geometry and the entropic nature of points and lengths
  • Bartek Czech, Stanford,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
The Impact of Environment on Galaxy Evolution
  • Stephanie Tonnesen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Observatories,
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2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Athenaeum
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A characterization of virtually embedded subsurfaces in 3-manifolds
  • Yi Liu, Taussky - Todd Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Unfolding the color code
  • Alex Kubica, Graduate Student - Preskill Group,
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Monday, April 27
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Kellogg 307
Turbulent relations
  • Alberto Candel, Mathematics, CSUN,
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1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Kellogg 307
Turbulent relations
  • Alberto Candel, Mathematics, Cal State Northridge,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Drinfeld-Lafforgue-Vinberg degeneration of the stack of G-bundles
  • Simon Schieder, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Precision QCD simulations for the LHC
  • Stefan Hoeche, SLAC,
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Tuesday, April 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
On Some Master Equation Models Involving Pre-Reactive Complexes
  • John R. Barker, Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The microlocal codimension-three conjecture
  • Kari Vilonen, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Northwestern University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
  • Prof. James Lloyd, Cornell,
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
  • Daniel J. Levitin,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Wednesday, April 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Turbulent Frontier in Massive Stellar Death
  • Sean Couch, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Scalar Curvature for the Noncommutative 4-Torus and its Functional Relations
  • Farzad Fathizadeh, Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,
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Thursday, April 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
"In vivo" Multiphoton Imaging of Mouse Brain
  • Chris Xu, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University,
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