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Monday, February 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
SUSY Rilles: A Speculation on Superstring Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background
  • S. James Gates, Jr., Brown University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Derived traces for Soergel categories
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Tuesday, February 4
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Cosmography and Black Hole Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves
  • Will Farr, Professor, Stoneybrook,
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Wednesday, February 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Reliability, Equity, and Reproducibility in Modern Machine Learning
  • Yaniv Romano, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Statistics, Stanford University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Central limit theorem on conjugacy class measure of the symmetric group
  • Yuhui Jin, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Weak containment of subgroups
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 314
Fault-tolerant quantum error correction in bosonic systems
  • Kyungjoo Noh, Graduate Student, Yale University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Detecting the Shadow of the Black Hole in M87
  • Feryal Ozel, Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona,
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Thursday, February 6
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Linde Hall 255
Invariance Theory
  • Bowen Yang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Christy Lecture: Cosmic alchemy in the era of gravitational wave astronomy
  • Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz,
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Friday, February 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
OPE inversion and light cone bootstrap in generic dimensions
  • Carlos Cardona, Bohr Institute,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Conformal field theories are magical
  • Christopher White, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Maryland Condensed Matter Theory Center,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Watson 104
Transformative Meta-Optical Systems
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Surface bundles, monodromy, and arithmetic groups
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4:00 pm - 4:50 pm
Local smoothing for the wave equation in $2+1$ dimensions
  • Ruixiang Zhang, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
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5:00 pm - 5:50 pm
Counting rational points close to a hypersurface
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Monday, February 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Annenberg 105
The Blessings of Multiple Causes
  • Yixin Wang, Statistics, Columbia University,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Annenberg 105
The Blessings of Multiple Causes
  • Yixin Wang, Statistics, Columbia University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Structured neutron waves
  • Dmitry Pushin, University of Waterloo,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
DG center and cocenter of a monoidal category
  • Matt Hogancamp, Mathematics Department, Northeastern University,
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Tuesday, February 11
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Classical Coding Approaches to Quantum Applications
  • Narayanan Rengaswamy, Graduate Student, Duke University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Ultrafast Dynamics and Interactions of Molecular Vibrational Polaritons
  • Wei Xiong, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego,
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Wednesday, February 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Do ImageNet Classifiers Generalize to ImageNet?
  • Ludwig Schmidt, Computer Science, UC Berkeley,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Non-Archimedean tsi Polish groups, and obstructions to Borel reducibility
  • Shaun Allison, Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 314
Efficient Learning of Quantum Noise
  • Steve Flammia, Professor, University of Sydney,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Spitzer and the High Redshift Universe: Approaching Cosmic Dawn
  • Richard Ellis, Professor of Astrophysics, University College London,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
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Thursday, February 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Topological Phase Transitions in Random Geometric Complexes
  • Omer Bobrowski, Electrical Engineering, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells
  • Ibrahim Cissé, MIT,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Convolution morphisms and Kottwitz conjecture
  • Naoki Imai, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Linde Hall 255
Invariance Theory
  • Bowen Yang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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5:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Linde Hall 310
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Friday, February 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Entanglement islands and the information paradox
  • Raghu Mahajan, IAS,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Keck 142
Creating Quantum Topological Materials with 3D Microwave Photons
  • Clai Owens, Research Scientist, Painter Group,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
On measuring the delay time distribution of binary neutron stars
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Decomposing sutured Instanton Floer homology
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 255
Asymptotic problems in spectral shape optimization
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Pale Blue Dot: Perspectives on Our Planet
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Wednesday, February 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
A comparison between model categories for concurrency
  • Josh Lieber, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Passing Hilbert's Final Test
  • Jack H. Lutz, Iowa State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Quantifying quantum speedups: improved classical simulation from tighter magic monotones
  • Earl Campbell, EPSRC Research Fellow, University of Sheffield,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Super-Eddington Accretion
  • Ramesh Narayan, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University,
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Thursday, February 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
On the modularity of elliptic curves over imaginary quadratic fields
  • Patrick Allen, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Physical Dynamics of Ice Crystal Growth
  • Ken Libbrecht, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Linde Hall 255
Clifford Modules
  • Angus Gruen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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Friday, February 21
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Submillimeter galaxies as tracers of protoclusters and constraints on galaxy formation models
  • Chris Hayward, Associate Research Scientist, CCA, Flatiron Institute,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
TBA
  • Michael Willis, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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4:30 pm - 5:20 pm
Linde Hall 310
Discrete Maximal functions over curved subvarieties
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5:30 pm - 6:20 pm
Linde Hall 310
A bilinear proof of decoupling for the moment curve
  • Zane Li, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington,
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Monday, February 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Deep Probabilistic Graphical Modeling
  • Adji Bousso Dieng, Statistics, Columbia University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
The tamely ramified Fundamental Local Equivalence
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Arrovian Aggregation of Convex Preferences (joint with F. Brandt)
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Recent progress in cosmological collider physics
  • Zhong-Zhi Xianyu, Harvard University,
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Tuesday, February 25
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Weighing the quantum vacuum: the Archimedes experiment
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 121
Quantum East model: localization, non-thermal eigenstates and slow dynamics
  • Nicola Pancotti, Graduate Student, Max Planck,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Machine Learning meets First Principles towards a Periodic Table of Materials and Reactions
  • Jose Mendoza-Cortes, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Scientific Computing, Material Sciences & Engineering Program; High Performance Materials Institute and Condensed Matter Theory at the National High Magnetic Field Lab, Florida State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Low frequency gravitational waves
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Wednesday, February 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Radio Emission from Stellar Systems
  • Harish Vedantham, Staff Scientist, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON),
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Teaching Demonstration -- Variables in Java
  • Katherine Breeden, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Machine Learning Meets Societal Values
  • Steven Wu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota--Twin Cities,
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Thursday, February 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
CANCELLED - The Biard Lecture: The Three-Legged Stool
  • Eric Cornell, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Linde Hall 255
Spinors and the Spin Complex
  • Todd Norton, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Bounded Euler systems for Rankin-Selberg products of modular forms
  • Antonio Lei, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Laval University,
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
"Cosmos: Possible Worlds" Advanced Screening
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Friday, February 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Maximal Super Yang-Mills and their holographic duals
  • Joseph Minahan, Uppsala University,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Data science methods to reduce inequality and improve healthcare
  • Emma Pierson, Computer Science, Stanford University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Lightning Round - APS style talks
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Universes as Big data: Superstrings, Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Machine-Learning
  • Yang Hui-He, City, University of London,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
3D mapping of the dusty, magnetized ISM with starlight polarization
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 255
Wandering domains in and out
  • Núria Fagella, Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de Barcelona,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Teaching Demonstration -- On writing functions and passing parameters by reference
  • Kendra Walther, University of Southern California,
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
De los Atomos a los Agujeros Negros
  • Javier García, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Caltech,
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