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Thursday, February 1
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
KLRW algebra from Floer theory
  • Peng Zhou, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
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3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
q-Series invariants of plumbed manifolds
  • Josef Svoboda, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
On the K-theory of Z/p^n
  • Achim Krause, Mathematisches Institut, Universitat Muenster,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Why are astrophysical plasmas always magnetized?
  • Axel Brandenburg, Nordita & KITP,
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Friday, February 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
AdS Higgs mechanism for double trace deformed CFTs
  • Andreas Karch, UT Austin,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Building quantum networks: from solid-state defects and Rydberg atoms in cavities to a new scientific frontier with hybrid quantum systems
  • Aziza Suleymanzade, Harvard,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Revealing Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation with Small-Scale Structure
  • Ethan Nadler, Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, CTAC, Carnegie Observatories / USC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Heegaard Floer symplectic cohomology and generalized Viterbo's isomorphism
  • Roman Krutowski, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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Monday, February 5
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Experimental prototype of a phase-insensitive quantum filter for sensitivity enhancement of gravitational-wave detectors.
  • Artemy Dmitriev,
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Matrix Entanglement and Beckenstein- Hawking Entropy
  • Sandip Trivedi, TIFR, Mumbai,
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Tuesday, February 6
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Adiabatic quantum computations with three-dimensional Rydberg atom graphs
  • Minhyuk Kim, Korea University,
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Wednesday, February 7
10:45 am - 11:45 am
Online and In-Person Event
The action of geometric entropy in topologically massive gravity
  • Molly Kaplan, UC Santa Barbara,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Stretched horizon, replica trick, and off-shell winding condensate, and all that
  • Indranil Halder, Harvard University,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Dust and Gas Cometary Comae (aka Cometary Activity) in a Nutshell
  • Yuna Kwon, Caltech/IPAC,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
The Euler equations with a free interface
  • Igor Kukavica, Department of Mathematics, USC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Formed Too Fast? Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn
  • Caitlin Casey, Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin,
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, February 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Uniform irreducibility of Galois action on the p-primary part of Abelian 3-folds of Picard type
  • Mladen Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, University of Lille,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Magnetic power of neutron stars
  • Andrei Beloborodov, Columbia University,
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Friday, February 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Magnetic Noise Injection Scripts and Preliminary Results for The Virgo Detector
  • Catalina Miritescu,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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The EFT of Large Spin Mesons
  • Gabriel Cuomo, Princeton & NYU,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
3- and 4-dimensional invariants of satellite knots with (1,1)-patterns
  • Holt Bodish, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon,
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Monday, February 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology and the high-redshift Universe
  • Nashwan Sabti, Johns Hopkins University,
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Tuesday, February 13
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Robust G-Invariance in G-Equivariant Networks
  • Nina Miolane, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UC Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Extensions and the Twice-punctured Sphere
  • Christopher Skinner, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Seeing the invisible: the search for low-mass axion dark matter with DMRadio
  • Chiara Salemi, SLAC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Computational catalyst design accelerated by machine learning with "Center-Environment" features: from spinel to perovskite oxides
  • Yi Liu, Professor of Materials Science, Materials Genome Institute, Shanghai University,
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Wednesday, February 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Celestial Quantum Error Correction: From Noncommutative Geometry to Celestial CFT
  • Yangrui Hu, Perimeter Institute,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
The Role of Stellar Multiplicity in M-Dwarf Systems
  • Catherine Clark, Caltech/IPAC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Galaxies in the Reionization Era: New Insight from JWST
  • Daniel Stark, Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona,
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Thursday, February 15
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Linde Hall 187
Filling Legendrians with barcodes
  • David Nadler, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
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3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Integrality of mirror maps and arithmetic homological mirror symmetry
  • Sheel Ganatra, Department of Mathematics, USC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Opportunities for Machine Learning in Physics
  • Max Welling, University of Amsterdam,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
An Euler system for the Adjoint of a modular form
  • Christopher Skinner, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
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Friday, February 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
The correspondence between rotating black holes and fundamental strings
  • Marija Tomasevic, University of Amsterdam,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Inverted oscillators for testing gravity-induced quantum entanglement
  • Youka Kaku,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Post-merger evolutions of compact binaries
  • Matt Duez,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Interpretable Expressivity Separations in Trainable Quantum Machine Learning
  • Eric Anschuetz, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Detecting large baryonic feedback around DESI photometric galaxies
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Freedman's Link Packing Question
  • Elia Portnoy, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Chasing the Solar Atmosphere using Eclipses and the Parker Solar Probe
  • Gabriel Muro, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Caltech,
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Tuesday, February 20
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Novel strategies for hardware-efficient quantum processors
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Graph learning models: theoretical understanding, limitations and mitigation
  • Yusu Wang, Halicioglu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Complex saddles and possible chaos in string scatterings
  • Takuya Yoda, Kyoto University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Molecules For Dark Matter Detection
  • Benjamin Lillard, University of Oregon,
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Wednesday, February 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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An all-orders 2d chiral algebra for 4d form factors
  • Victor Fernandez, University of Washington,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
The Most Extreme Young Stellar Accretion Outbursts
  • Adolfo Carvalho, Caltech,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Classically forbidden regions in the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene
  • Michael Hitrik, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Brown Dwarfs: Extrasolar Comparative Magnetospheric Physics
  • Melodie Kao, Heising-Simons 51 Pegasi b Fellow, Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,
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Thursday, February 22
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Towards quantitative and universal single molecule biophysics and mass photometry
  • Philipp Kukura, Moore Distinguished Scholar, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Topology and "impossible" electronic devices
  • Andrea Young,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Anticyclotomic Euler systems for Conjugate-dual Galois representations
  • Christopher Skinner, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
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Friday, February 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Post-merger evolutions of compact binaries
  • Matt Duez,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Emergence and breakdown of the membrane picture in Brownian models
  • Shreya Vardhan, Stanford University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Have we seen a demonstration of experimental quantum advantage?
  • Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Delayed Explosions of Red Supergiants Following "Failed" Supernovae
  • Andrea Antoni, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
East Bridge 114
Fault-tolerant Coding for Quantum Communication
  • Matthias Christandl, University of Copenhagen,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
On the topology and index of minimal/Bryant framed surfaces
  • Franco Vargas Pallete, Department of Mathematics, Yale University,
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Monday, February 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Quantum processors and quantum networks atom-by-atom
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Gravitational Waves from NNaturalness
  • Akshay Ghalsasi, University of Pittsburgh,
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Tuesday, February 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Dipolar quantum phases emerging in a Hubbard quantum simulator
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Leveraging ML to identify structures in knot theoretic data
  • Mark Hughes, Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Creating Clarity from Confusion: Three Lessons from Number Theory
  • Ellen Eischen, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon,
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Wednesday, February 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Holography and Regge Phases with large U(1) Charge
  • Wei Li, Boston University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
One Hundred Years After Heisenberg: Discovering the World of Simultaneous Measurements of Noncommuting Observables
  • Carlton M. Caves, University of New Mexico,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
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The Evolution of a Young Stellar Accretion Outburst from V1741 Sgr
  • Michael Kuhn, University of Hertfordshire,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
A long-time inviscid limit for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations with Navier boundary conditions
  • Jacob Bedrossian, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Quest for Coherence: Astrophysical Imaging from Interferometry to Photonics
  • Peter Tuthill, Professor, Astronomy Department, The University of Sydney,
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
"Space Settlements" and "Planetary Compositions"
  • Zach Weinersmith, Author and Cartoonist, "A City on Mars" and "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal",
  • Maria Camarca, PhD Candidate, Department of Planetary Science, Caltech,
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Thursday, February 29
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Mirror symmetry for Coulomb branches
  • Ivan Danilenko, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
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3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Enumerating stably trivial topological vector bundles with higher real K-theories
  • Morgan Opie, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Perfect t-embedding of uniformly weighted Aztec diamond
  • Marianna Russkikh, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Clocks with ultracold molecules
  • Tanya Zelevinsky, Columbia University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
GRH and finite flat group schemes over Z
  • Rene Schoof, Department of Mathematics, University of Rome,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
A Limit Law for the Maximum of Subcritical DG-model on a Hierarchical Lattice
  • Haiyu Huang, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Superdiffusion for Brownian motion with random drift
  • Ahmed Bou-Rabee, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU,
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