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Wednesday, January 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
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Thursday, January 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The conformal bootstrap: magnets, boiling water, and quantum gravity
  • David Simmons-Duffin, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Arithmetic Gan--Gross--Prasad conjecture and arithmetic theta lifts
  • Hang Xu, Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona,
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Friday, January 5
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Mean-motion resonances with eccentric planets: when analytical arguments guide and complement numerical simulations
  • Virginie Faramaz, JPL,
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Monday, January 8
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Building 15, Room 131
TBA
  • Clinton Conley, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Evidence for ttH production at ATLAS
  • Peter Onyisi, UT Austin,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
The p-curvature conjecture and monodromy around simple closed loops
  • Ananth Shankar, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
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Tuesday, January 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Subgroup non-separability that arises from hyperbolic 3-manifold groups
  • Hongbin Sun, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University,
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Wednesday, January 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
A Bird's Eye View of Extrasolar Planets
  • Erik Petigura, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 131
Fourier Optimization and Prime Gaps
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Thursday, January 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Building 15, Room 122
Complex Chern-Simons invariants of 3-manifolds and abelianization
  • Dan Freed, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Signatures of a 3D quantum liquid crystal
  • David Hsieh, Assistant Professor of Physics, Caltech,
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Friday, January 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Three applications of topology to physics
  • Dan Freed, UT Austin,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
From many modes to many bodies
  • David Schuster, Physics Department and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
From Many Modes to Many Bodies
  • David Schuster, Assistant Professor, Physics, University of Chicago,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity
  • Daniel Harlow, MIT,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Symplectic and exotic 4-manifolds via positive factorizations
  • R. Inanc Baykur, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts,
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Downs 103
The (Euclidean) Fractal Uncertainty Principle and its proof
  • Ruixiang Zhang, Mathematics Department, Institute for Advanced Study,
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5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Downs 103
Describing Blaschke products by their critical points
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Tuesday, January 16
8:40 am - 12:30 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 105
Section problems for surface bundles
  • Lei Chen, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
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Wednesday, January 17
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Building 15, Room 105
A refined Cantor-Bendixson rank for presented Polish spaces
  • Vibeke Quorning, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen,
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Building 15, Room 131
Differentiability and rectifiability on metric planes
  • Guy C. David, Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Fundamental Neutron Physics at the ILL
  • Peter Geltenbort, Institut Laue-Langevin,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Welcome to the multi-messenger era: a report on the first binary neutron star merger detection
  • Jennifer Barnes, Columbia,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, January 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Unification from Scattering Amplitudes
  • Clifford Cheung, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
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Friday, January 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Emergent dimensions from large N confinement
  • Aleksey Cherman, University of Washington,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Improving gravitational-wave detector sensitivity with cryogenic test mass cooling
  • Johannes Eichholz, Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics, Adhikari Group,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Probing the Structure of Active Galactic Nuclei Using Light Echoes
  • Anna Pancoast, NASA Einstein Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Homomorphisms of pure mapping class groups to the integers
  • Nicholas Vlamis, Mathematics Department, University of Michigan,
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Monday, January 22
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Building 15, Room 131
Measure reducibility of countable Borel equivalence relations (after Conley and Miller)
  • Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Quantum sensing in a new single-molecule regime
  • Peter Maurer, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University Department of Physics, Department of Physics, Stanford University,
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Tuesday, January 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Two challenges for DNA nanotechnology: building interfaces with silicon and cells
  • Paul W. K. Rothemund, Research Professor, Bioengineering, CMS, & CNS, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Probing strong-field gravity: Black holes and mergers in general relativity and beyond
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Wednesday, January 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Comets and the outer fringes of the solar system
  • Scott Tremaine, Princeton,
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Thursday, January 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Tracing the dynamics of interfacial electronic excited states from femtoseconds to seconds
  • Sarah B. King, Dr., Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Fuzzy dark matter and the small-scale structure problem
  • Scott Tremaine, Richard Black Professor, School of Natural Sciences - Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
L-groups and Covering Groups
  • Martin Weissman, Mathematics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz,
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Friday, January 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Higgs branches and chiral algebras of 4d N=2 theories -- a progress report
  • Leonardo Rastelli, SUNY Stony Brook,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Bulk Entanglement Gravity
  • Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics, Caltech,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
6D SCFTs and Group Theory
  • Tom Rudelius, Institute for Advanced Study,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Merging black holes in non-spherical nuclear star clusters
  • Cristobal Petrovich, Postdoctoral Fellow and Gruber Foundation Fellow, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA),
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Hilbert Structure on the universal Teichmuller space and its Weil-Petersson curvature operator
  • Zeno Huang, Department of Mathematics, CUNY CSI,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
TBA
  • Semyon Dyatlov, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
TBA
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
When Galaxies Collide: Snapshots of the Universe's Largest Battles
  • Anne Medling, Hubble Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
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Monday, January 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Lepton Universality Violation in B-Meson Decays and Inclusive vs Exclusive |Vcb|
  • Ben Grinstein, UC San Diego,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
K3 categories, cubic 4-folds, and the Beauville-Voisin conjecture
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Tuesday, January 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Stability in the homology of Torelli groups
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Listening to binary stars through cosmic history: astrophysics with GW
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Wednesday, January 31
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Building 15, Room 105
Measure reducibility of countable Borel equivalence relations (after Conley and Miller)
  • Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Building 15, Room 131
Oscillation of Holder continuous functions
  • Artur Nicolau, Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Quantifying virtual properties of 3-manifold groups
  • Michelle Chu, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Forging binary black holes in dense star clusters
  • Carl Rodriguez, MIT,
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Thursday, February 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
From Moonshine to Black Holes, Number Theory in Physics
  • Jeffrey Harvey, Professor, Physics Department, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Weak subconvexity without a Ramanujan hypothesis
  • Jesse Thorner, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University ,
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Friday, February 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Hecke operators for characters of Rational Conformal Field Theory
  • Jeffrey Harvey, University of Chicago,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Continuous measurements and quantum trajectories in circuit QED
  • Arian Jadbabaie, Graduate Student, Hutzler Group,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Exact Bulk Operators and the Fate of Locality
  • Jared Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
From Cosmic Dust to Planetesimals: Models vs. Observations
  • Paola Pinilla, NASA Hubble Fellow, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Existence of closed geodesics through a regular point on translation surfaces
  • Weixu Su, School of Mathematical Science, Fudan University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 131
Constancy of generalized Hodge-Tate weights of a p-adic local system
  • Koji Shimizu, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
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Monday, February 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
From Negative Index Metamaterials to Topological Light Sources
  • Boubacar Kante, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
The small quantum group in type A and the diagonal coinvariants
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Proteins in nanoporous hydrogels: adsorption, diffusion, and folding
  • Lydia Kisley, Beckman-Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Meta Material, First Direct Observation of Reverse Cherenkov Radiation, and Test of Babinet Principle
  • Min Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Tuesday, February 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Building 15, Room 131
Vertex algebras and three dimensional gauge theories
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Thoughts on the Potential of Quantum Computing for Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Problems
  • Martin Savage, University of Washington,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Electronic-Structural Barrier to Higher Photoconversion Efficiency in Semiconductors
  • Scott Cushing, DOE EERE Postdoctoral Fellow , Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Taking a scientific approach to teaching science and engineering
  • Carl Wieman, Department of Physics, Stanford University,
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Wednesday, February 7
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 105
Measure reducibility of countable Borel equivalence relations (after Conley and Miller), III
  • Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Circumgalactic Matter Matters for Galaxy Evolution
  • Jessica Werk, Univ of Washington,
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Thursday, February 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The life of vortex knots and links and the conservation of helicity
  • William Irvine, Associate Professor, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Analytic Number Theory in Function Fields and Twin Primes in the Large Finite-Field Limit
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Friday, February 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Higher Spin de Sitter Hilbert Space
  • Frederik Denef, Columbia University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Quantization of the low temperature action in the SYK model
  • Josephine Suh, Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Kitaev Group,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Theory of EM counterparts of neutron star mergers
  • Kenta Hotokezaka, Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Strongly automorphic mappings
  • Alastair Fletcher, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Northern Illinois University,
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Downs 103
Factorising X^n
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5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Downs 103
A Epiperimetric approach to singular points in the Alt-Caffarelli functional
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Monday, February 12
8:30 am - 12:30 pm
South Mudd 365
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Building 15, Room 131
Measure reducibility of countable Borel equivalence relations (after Conley and Miller), IV
  • Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Hypertoric varieties and perverse sheaves
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Leptophilic forces now and then: reconciling (g-2)_\mu and H_0 with gauged L_\mu - L_\tau
  • Gordon Krnjaic, Fermilab,
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Tuesday, February 13
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The Seiberg-Witten equations with multiple spinors in dimension three
  • Andriy Haydys, Freiburg University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 314
Spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for partial de-randomization (1st of 2 parts)
  • Richard Kueng, CMI Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,
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Wednesday, February 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Early Galaxies and Cosmic Reionization: Progress & Challenges
  • Richard Ellis, University College London,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, February 15
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Vorticies from low-mass planet formation
  • James Owen, NASA Hubble Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Neutrinos - small particles, big science
  • Anne Schukraft, Fermilab,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Special values of L-functions
  • Ameya Pitale, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma,
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Friday, February 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
On singularities of super-conformal field theories
  • Mario Martone, University of Texas - Austin,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Annenberg 105
A quantum gas of polar KRb molecules in an optical lattice
  • Jacob Covey, Richard Chace Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar, Endres Group,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Seiberg-Witten differential via primitive forms
  • Dan Xie, Harvard University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
CANCELLED DUE TO FLU -- TO BE RESCHEDULED
  • Camille Avestruz, KICP and Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
On Renormalized Volume
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Tuesday, February 20
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Moore B270
Quantum supremacy: checking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer
  • John Martinis, Google,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 314
Spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for partial de-randomization (2nd of 2 parts)
  • Richard Kueng, CMI Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 122
Special cycles on simple Shimura varieties
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Wednesday, February 21
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Geometric Recursion
  • Jorgen Andersen, Aarhus University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Diversity Revealed: Stellar Rotation and the Time Domain Revolution
  • Marc Pinsonneault, Ohio State,
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Thursday, February 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
A toy quantum black hole
  • Alexei Kitaev, Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Theta and the big Hecke action
  • Sean Howe, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
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Friday, February 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Correlation Functions in CFTs with Weakly Broken Higher Spin Symmetry
  • Sasha Zhiboedov, Harvard University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Machine Learning and Quantum Physics
  • Evert van Nieuwenburg, Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topological terms in Yang-Mills theory with time-reversal symmetry
  • Pavel Putrov, Institute for Advanced Study,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Three Dimensional Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulations Reveal the Mysteries of Massive Stars
  • Yan-Fei Jiang, KITP Fellow, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Levitated Nanomagnets in the Quantum Regime: Theory and Applications
  • Oriol Romero Isart, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information , Austrian Academy of Sciences,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
A Characterization of Braid Axes
  • Ken Baker, Department of Mathematics, University of Miami ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
TBA
  • Casey Jao, Department of Mathematics, UC, Berkeley,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Helicoidal Method
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Galaxies Aren't Great at Making Stars
  • Matt Orr, PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR), Caltech,
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Monday, February 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Single-molecule catalysis: nanoparticles and polymers
  • Peng Chen, Peter J. W. Debye Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
A Unified Program of Argon Dark Matter Searches: DarkSide-20k and Beyond
  • Cristiano Galbiati, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Semisimplificat​ion of tensor categories
  • Pavel Etingof, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
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Tuesday, February 27
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Crellin 151
Single-molecule chemistry: from transcription regulation to solar energy conversion
  • Peng Chen, Peter J. W. Debye Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Tests of Fundamental Symmetries with Neutrons
  • Leah Broussard, Oak Ridge Laboratory,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The nonequilibrium dynamics of electrons and holes in disordered molecular semiconductors
  • Adam Willard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Wednesday, February 28
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Building 15, Room 105
Proximal Actions, Strong amenability, and the Infinite Conjugacy Class Property
  • Joshua Frisch, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Building 15, Room 131
Connectivity of the Julia set for Newton's maps: A unified approach
  • Xavier Jarque, Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de Barcelona,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Discovering the Highest Energy Neutrinos Using a Radio Phased Array
  • Abigail Vieregg, U. Chicago,
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Thursday, March 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
TBA
  • Daniel Harlow, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Towards a p-adic Deligne– Lusztig theory
  • Charlotte Chan, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
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Friday, March 2
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Splittability and Noether's Theorem in Quantum Field Theory
  • Daniel Harlow, MIT,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Scrambling in quantum spin chains
  • Brian Swingle, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Unoriented Cobordism Maps on Link Floer Homology
  • Haofei Fan, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Spin-coherent dot—cavity electronics
  • Michael Ferguson, ETH Zurich,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 122
Singular moduli for real quadratic fields
  • Jan Vonk, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Kerckhoff 119
"Making the Most of Limited Signals"
  • William (Bill) Bialek, Professor, Physics, Princeton,
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Monday, March 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Localized Chern Characters for 2-periodic complexes
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Interaction of a quantum field with a rotating heat bath
  • Alejandro Jenkins, University of Costa Rica,
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Tuesday, March 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Writing and Publishing Your Applied Physics Paper
  • Eric Mills, PhD, Journal Manager, "Applied Physics Letters," American Institute of Physics,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Peeking beyond the Standard Model: Muon g-2, Neutrino Mass Scale, and Free Neutron Decay
  • Martin Fertl, University of Washington,
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Wednesday, March 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Milky Way Laboratory
  • Cara Battersby, Univ of Connecticut,
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Thursday, March 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
NICER View: Astrophysics and Exploration from the International Space Station
  • Zaven Arzoumanian, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Fully maximal and minimal supersingular abelian varieties
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Friday, March 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Carbon Materials and Single Crystal Metals
  • Ruoff Rodney, Director, Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST),
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
How Low can the Energy Density Go?
  • Aron Wall, Stanford University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Streams collision as a precursor of double tidal disruption events
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Gluing constructions for Higgs bundles over a complex connected sum
  • Georgios Kydonakis, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Downs 103
Variation-norm estimates for a Stein-Wainger type oscillatory integral
  • Joris Roos, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
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5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Downs 103
The Weak Pinsker Property
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Tuesday, March 13
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Measuring the Muon Beam Distribution for the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab
  • Tammy Walton, Fermilab,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
On the edge: Geometry, model selection, and quantum compressed sensing
  • Travis Scholten, Center for Quantum Information and Control - University of New Mexico & Center for Computing Research - Sandia National Laboratories,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Probing and Imaging Elementary Molecular Events and Conical Intersections by X -Ray Pulses and Quantum Light
  • Shaul Mukamel, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine,
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Wednesday, March 14
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Hybridized metasurfaces: A new twist in flat optics
  • Cheng-Wei Qiu, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Surprisingly Complex Lives of Massive Galaxies
  • Rachel Shuchter Bezanson , Univ of Pittsburgh,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, March 15
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Quasars with periodic variability as sub-parsec Supermassive Black Hole Binary candidates
  • Charisi Maria, Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy, TAPIR, Caltech,
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Friday, March 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Old stringy tales revisited
  • Xi Yin, Harvard University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Isotopically Enhanced Triple-Dot Qubits in SiGe
  • Thaddeus Ladd, senior research scientist, HRL Laboratories, LLC,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
On relative entropy in CFT
  • Feng Xu, UC Riverside,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Shining Light into the Cosmic Dark Ages
  • Anastasia Fialkov, ITC Fellow, Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Shake genus and slice genus
  • Lisa Piccirillo, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
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Monday, March 19
8:40 am - 12:30 pm
Avery Library
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Searches for New Physics at the Edge of Absolute Zero
  • Jonathan Oullet, MIT,
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Tuesday, March 20
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
An almost-linear time decoding algorithm
  • Naomi Nickerson, PsiQuantum,
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Wednesday, March 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Stellar Forensics with the Most Powerful Explosions in the Universe
  • Maryam Modjaz, NYU,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
DEAP-3600 dark matter search and a bright future for liquid argon detectors
  • Marcin Kuzniak, Carleton University,
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Friday, March 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Filling cavities to prevent decay: bosonic quantum error correction
  • Victor Albert, Lee A. DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
The learnability of stabiliser states and DNF formulae
  • Andrea Rocchetto, University of Oxford/UCL,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Truth About Black Holes
  • Leo Stein, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR), Caltech,
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Monday, March 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness
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Tuesday, March 27
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Building 15, Room 131
Un-definability of mad families relative to a class of Borel ideals
  • Asger Törnquist, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Searching High and Low for WIMP Dark Matter
  • Masayuki Wada, Princeton University,
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