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Wednesday, March 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The mean curvature flow
  • Israel Michael Sigal, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A graph coloring problem and its algebraic and topological consequences
  • Daniel Wise, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
From ultracompact binaries and transient surveys to gravitational wave astronomy
  • Paul Groot, Radbound (Nijmegen),
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Thursday, March 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Keck 142
From Edges to Domain Walls: Quantum Materials Under Scrutiny by Nanoscale Microwave Imaging
  • Eric Yue Ma, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Can superconductivity survive at very low electron density?
  • Patrick Lee, William & Emma Rogers Professor of Physics, MIT,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
p-adic L-functions
  • Ellen Eischen, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon,
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Friday, March 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Macdonald index and chiral algebra
  • Jaewon Song, KIAS,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Understanding Turbulent Heating in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
  • Greg Howes, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
TBA
  • Xin Nie, School of Mathematics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study,
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Elusive Origins of Hot Jupiters
  • Konstantin Batygin, Assistant Professor, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
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Monday, March 6
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Tales of our Forefathers
  • Barry Simon, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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Tuesday, March 7
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Low Frequency Noises in the LIGO​
  • Rana Adhikari, Professor of Physics, LIGO, Caltech,
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2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
More Tales of our Forefathers
  • Barry Simon, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
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Wednesday, March 8
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Full Measure Reducibility and Localization for Quasi- Periodic Jacobi Operators: a Topological Criterion
  • Rui Han, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Berry Connection of the Ginzburg-Landau Vortices
  • Akos Nagy, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The stellar Eddington limit
  • Norbert Langer, Bonn,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Ordered set partitions, generalized coinvariant algebras, and the Delta Conjecture
  • Brendon Rhoades, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
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Thursday, March 9
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Self-Force: Towards Waveforms for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
  • Anna Heffernan, Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics Department, University of Florida,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Borel circle squaring
  • Andrew Marks, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
New Approaches to Dark Matter
  • Justin Khoury, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania,
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Friday, March 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Quantum Gravity: A Free Lunch
  • Joshua Erlich, College of William and Mary,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
TBA
  • Richard Canary, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
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Monday, March 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Neural networks and knot theory
  • Mark Hughes, Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Embeddings of contact manifolds
  • John Etnyre, Department of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
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Tuesday, March 14
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Annenberg 105
Pursuit of Low-dimensional Structures in High-dimensional (Visual) Data
  • Yi Ma, Professor, Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Characters and Dynamical Properties of Thompson's Group F
  • Konstantin Medynets, Mathematics Department, United States Naval Academy,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Parallel Inputs
  • Carl Miller, Cryptographic Technology Group, NIST,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Comparative systems physiology: how living organisms respond to environmental fluctuations
  • Kerwyn Casey (KC) Huang, Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Microbiology and Immunology and Biochemistry, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University,
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Wednesday, March 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
En Route to Electron/Positron Pair Plasmas
  • Eve Stenson, Dr., Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics,
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Friday, March 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Information loss from partition functions at late times
  • Ethan Dyer, Stanford University,
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Monday, March 20
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Annenberg 105
Better understanding of non-convex methods in machine learning.
  • Tengyu Ma, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, Princeton University,
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Tuesday, March 21
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Silicon tuning fork mechanical oscillator for the measurement of bond loss
  • Leonid Prokhorov, Physics, Moscow State University,
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Friday, March 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Equivariance and the cosmological constant
  • Tudor Dimofte, QMAP, UC Davis,
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11:30 am - 1:00 pm
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Mathematical Studies of Extraordinary Field Enhancement in Subwavelength Structures
  • Professor Junshan Lin, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Charge-spin mutual entanglement: A case study by exact diagonalization of the one hole doped t-J loop
  • Wayne Zheng, PhD Candidate, Tsinghua University ,
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Tuesday, March 28
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
More Light: Silicon Mirrors for LIGO Voyager
  • Christopher Wipf, LIGO, Caltech,
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Thursday, March 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Annenberg 107
General randomness amplification with non-signaling security
  • Xiaodi Wu, University of Oregon,
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Friday, March 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Abelianization in complex Chern-Simons theory
  • Andy Neitzke, University of Texas at Austin,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Rapidly rotating exoplanets, brown dwarfs and massive stars
  • Kotaro Fujisawa, Waseda University,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Why Stars Shine
  • Robyn Sanderson, NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR), Caltech,
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