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Wednesday, February 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Symmetry and Attractor
  • Messoud Efendiyev, ICB Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Gaia - one billion objects in 3+ dimensions
  • Gerry Gilmore, Cambridge,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, February 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
How many free actions does a C*-algebra have?
  • Eusebio Gardella, Mathematisches Institut , Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter
  • David Pines, Distinguished Research Professor, Santa Fe Institute and UC Davis,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Renormalization and Universality/Regular or Stochastic Dichotomy
  • Mikhail Lyubich, Mathematics Department, Institute for Math Sciences at Stony Brook ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Non-emptiness of Newton strata
  • Sug Woo Shin, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
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Friday, February 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
TBA
  • Simeon Hellerman, IPMU, University of Tokyo,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
A, D, and E in Exceptional Phenomena
  • William Ballinger, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Title to be Announced
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Projective Structures with holonomy in (Quasi-)Hitchin representations
  • Qiongling Li, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 213
ClearPath Indoor Robotic Guide for the Visually Challenged
  • Edward Katz, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Loyola Marymount University,
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Science of Star Trek
  • Michael Wong, PhD Candidate, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
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Monday, February 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Advances towards MLC/Area and Hausdorff dimension of Julia sets
  • Mikhail Lyubich, Mathematics Department, Institute for Math Sciences at Stony Brook ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with Supersymmetry
  • Bibhushan Shakya, University of Michigan,
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Tuesday, February 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy with Catalysts, Conductive Polymers, and Optical Microresonators
  • Randall H. Goldsmith, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
  • Prof. Daniel Weisz, UC Berkeley,
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Wednesday, February 8
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Absolutely continuous spectrum and the spectra of periodic approximants
  • Yoram Last, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Scalar curvature in the conformal geometry of Connes-Landi deformation
  • Yang Liu, Mathematics, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Gravitational Waves Observed by LIGO
  • Alan Weinstein, Caltech,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
A polytopal generalization of Sperner's lemma
  • Francis Su, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College,
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Thursday, February 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Zeros of polynomials in a finite grid
  • Anurag Bishnoi, Department of Mathematics, Ghent University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum Supremacy
  • Scott Aaronson, David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Oscillator representation interpretation of Tate's thesis
  • Alexander Yom Din, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Metasurfaces: From Nanoantennas Inclusions to Patterned 2D Sheets
  • Hossein Mosallaei, Associate Professor and Director of Metamaterials Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University,
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Friday, February 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Entanglement, Gravity, and Quantum Error Correction
  • Xi Dong, IAS,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Symplectic fillings of lens spaces as Lefschetz fibrations
  • Burak Özbağci, Department of Mathematics, Koç University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Analyzing Gaze Behavior in Feature Films
  • Katherine Breeden, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Non-local effects in Weyl semi-metals
  • Yuval Baum, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
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Sunday, February 12
8:45 am -
Monday 5:00 pm
35th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
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Monday, February 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Finiteness of Cohomology of Local Systems on Rigid Analytic Spaces
  • Ruochuan Liu, Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Peking University,
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Tuesday, February 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The translation flow on holomorphic maps out of the poly-plane
  • Dmitri Gekhtman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Recovery maps in quantum thermodynamics
  • Alvaro Martin Alhambra, University College, London,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
  • Dr. Roberto Decarli, MPIA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The dynamics of classifying geometric structures
  • William Goldman, Mathematics Department, University of Maryland,
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Wednesday, February 15
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Some Limitations and Possibilities Toward Data-driven Optimization
  • Yaron Singer, Professor, Computer Science, Harvard University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
A Transfer Matrix Approach to Scaled Limits of Christoffel-Darboux Kernels
  • Jonathan Breuer, Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
p-adic AdS/CFT
  • Sarthak Parikh, Department of Physics, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Understanding extreme quasar optical variability
  • Matthew Graham, Caltech,
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Thursday, February 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Solving Integral Trinomial Equations
  • Mark Shusterman, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Particle Physics Beyond Colliders
  • Arsimina Arvanitaki, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Aristarchus Chair in Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Institute,
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Friday, February 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Spectral Networks, BPS Graphs, and BPS Quivers
  • Maxime Gabella, Institute for Advanced Study,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
The AGN disk channel for LIGO black hole mergers
  • Barry McKernan, CUNY and AMNH,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Determining the finite subgraphs of the curve graph
  • Ian Biringer, Department of Mathematics, Boston College ,
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Tuesday, February 21
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Connes' embedding conjecture and ergodic theory
  • Peter Burton, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Cellular optogenetics: precision tools to probe how signaling pathways control cell fate
  • Jared Toettcher, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Topological quantum computation with gapped boundaries and boundary defects
  • Iris Cong, Undergraduate Student, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Rectifiability of harmonic measure
  • Alexander Volberg, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University,
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Wednesday, February 22
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Spectral cluster bounds for orthonormal functions
  • Julien Sabin, Département de Mathématiques, Université Paris-Sud,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Tidal Disruption Events: Theory Confronts Observation
  • Nick Stone, Columbia,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Optimization Challenges in Deep Learning
  • Professor Benjamin Recht, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Origins of Structure in Galaxies and Beyond: Turbulence, Gravity, & Feedback
  • Philip Hopkins, Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
On some algebraic constructions of extremal lattices
  • Lenny Fukshansky, Department of Mathematics, Claremont McKenna College,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, February 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The quasiparticle of the quantum Hall fluids
  • Dam Son, Professor of Physics, University of Chicago,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Kreisel compactness and hyperdegrees
  • Vassilis Gregoriades, Department of Mathematics ''Giuseppe Peano'', University of Turin,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Distinguished positive regular representations
  • Fiona Murnaghan, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
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Friday, February 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Emergent de Sitter Spaces from Entanglement Entropy
  • Claire Zukowski, Columbia University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Exotic Astrophysical Channels for Black Hole Binary Formation
  • Nicholas Stone, Postdoctoral Einstein Fellow, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Pin(2)-equivariant Floer homology and homology cobordism
  • Matthew Stoffegren, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
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Monday, February 27
9:15 am - 4:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Frontiers in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
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Tuesday, February 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Cubical Route to Understanding Groups
  • Daniel Wise, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
A Story of Stellar Nurseries
  • Dr. Nia Imara, Harvard CfA,
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