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Tuesday, April 4
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Entanglement requirements for non-local games
  • William Slofstra, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo,
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
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Wednesday, April 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Coming Revolution in Computational Astrophysics
  • Saul Teukolsky, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Thin Cremona Planes (after Tits and Deligne)
  • Koen Thas, Department of Mathematics, Ghent University,
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4:45 pm - 5:30 pm
Combinatorial characterizations of varieties
  • Koen Thas, Department of Mathematics, Ghent University,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
On a Generalized Model for B-Type Landau-Ginzburg Theories
  • Dmitry Doryn, Center for Geometry and Physics, IBS,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Breuil--Kisin modules and crystalline cohomology
  • Bryden R. Cais, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Deconstructing (and reconstructing) wall turbulence: Characterizing natural and synthetic self-sustaining processes
  • Beverley McKeon, Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics; Associate Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, Caltech,
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Friday, April 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Causality and Universality at Strong Coupling
  • Tom Hartman, Cornell University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
The quadrupole formula: a hundred years later
  • Beatrice Bonga, Graduate Student, Penn State,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Quantitative methods in hyperbolic geometry and applications to lifting curves simply
  • Priyam Patel, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Enhancing atom-light interactions with "selective radiance": the recipe to exponentially improve photon storage fidelities
  • Ana Asenjo Garcia, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Kimble Group,
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Monday, April 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wall-crossing formula for Gromov-Witten invariants
  • Chris Woodward, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
A small weak scale from a small cosmological constant
  • Ken Van Tilburg, IAS,
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Tuesday, April 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
An Introduction to the Kapustin-Witten Equations and Witten's Program
  • Siqi He, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Building Training Sets for Astronomical Data; A Bayesian Feature Transformation for Domain Adaptation
  • Pavlos Protopapas, Inst. for Applied Computational Science, Cambridge, MA,
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3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Overview of Seminar Content
  • Serin Hong, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Quantum fluctuations in hydrogen bond networks: From proton transport to enzyme catalysis
  • Thomas E. Markland, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
  • Dr. Stephanie Tonnesen, Carnegie Observatories,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Semiconductor Quantum Technologies for Communications and Computing
  • Dirk Englund, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Wednesday, April 12
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Graphs Generated by Commuting Borel Functions
  • Connor Meehan, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Making the Most Accurate Possible Measurements with Telescopes
  • David Hogg, NYU,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Pointed Gromov-Hausdorff Topology on Graphs, With Applications to Economics
  • Omer Tamuz, Departments of Economics & Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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Thursday, April 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum many-body control
  • Manuel Endres, Assistant Professor of Physics, Caltech,
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Friday, April 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Chaos in 2D CFT and Spinning Particle in AdS
  • Chi-Ming Chang, QMAP, UC Davis,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Annenberg 106
Quantum metrology gets real
  • Konrad Banaszek, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Helping to paint a more realistic picture of the intergalactic and circumgalactic media through simulation
  • Devin Silva, NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan State University,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Translation flow on holomorphic maps out of the poly-plane
  • Dmitri Gekhtman, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Endpoint bounds for the lacunary spherical maximal operator
  • Laura Cladek, Department of Mathematics, The University of British Columbia,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Fermi Arcs and Their Topological Character in the Candidate Type-II Weyl Semimetals WTe2 and MoTe2
  • Flavio Yair Bruno, Ambizione Research Fellow, University of Geneva,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Differentiating Blaschke products
  • Oleg Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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Monday, April 17
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Characterizing slopes for torus knots
  • Duncan McCoy, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Vector bundles and finite covers
  • Anand Deopurkar, Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Effective theories for point sources
  • Cliff Burgess, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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Tuesday, April 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Theory of Pseudo-differential Operators on the Noncommutative n-Torus
  • Jim Tao, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Advanced LIGO Calibration Uncertainty for Precision Astrophysics
  • Craig Cahillane, LIGO, Caltech),
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Flat Photonics Using High Contrast Metastructures
  • Connie Chang-Hasnain, Associate Dean for Strategic Alliances of College of Engineering and Whinnery Distinguished Chair Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
  • Dr. Jen van Saders, Carnegie Observatories,
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Wednesday, April 19
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Ergodic theory from a new perspective
  • Amos Nevo, Department of Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A Homology Theory for Smale Spaces
  • Ian Putnam, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
An Idiosyncratic Look at LIGO�s Detections and Prospects
  • Stan Whitcomb, Caltech,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Limit multiplicities of cohomological automorphic forms
  • Simon L. Marshall, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Can we reverse-engineer the brain?
  • Michael Roukes, Robert M. Abbey Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
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Friday, April 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Holographic lattice field theories
  • Ingmar Saberi, University of Heidelberg,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Edge of darkness: The splashback radius as a physical halo boundary
  • Benedikt Diemer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Symplectic Instanton Homology via Traceless Character Varieties: SO(3)-Bundles and Dehn Surgery
  • Henry Horton, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Fault-tolerance in topological stabilizer codes and universal workarounds
  • Tomas Jochym O'Connor, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
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Monday, April 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Derived categories of canonical covers of bielliptic and Enriques surfaces in positive characteristic
  • Katrina Honigs, Mathematics Department, University of Utah,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Nnaturalness
  • Tim Cohen, University of Oregon,
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Tuesday, April 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
  • Dr. Ben Shappee, Carnegie Observatories,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Extremes: nonlinear PDEs, random walk, Gaussian processes and random matrices
  • Ofer Zeitouni, Department of Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science,
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Wednesday, April 26
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Two-spectra theorem with uncertainty
  • Alexei Poltoratski, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
On The Interplay Between Representations and Topological Actions
  • Omer Tamuz, Economics & Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization
  • Eduardo Banados, Carnegie,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Harper, extended Harper, and sharp spectral transitions in the arithmetics of the flux
  • Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,
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Thursday, April 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Watson 104
MEMS are becoming 3D and atomically precise
  • Andrei Shkel, Prof., Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum simulations: From condensed matter to high energy models
  • Ignacio Cirac, Professor Doctor of Physics, Director of the Theory Division, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Building Science: Multiple Agendas
  • Thom Mayne, Architect and Design Director, Morphosis,
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Friday, April 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Vortices in 4d, N=2 SQCD and their Worldsheet Theory from Supersymmetric Localization
  • Efrat Gerchkovitz, Weizmann Institute,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The cap set problem
  • Allison Wang, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Observing the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation with the South Pole Telescope
  • Christine Moran, Postdoctoral Scholar, TAPIR, Caltech,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Heegaard Floer invariants and satellite knots
  • Wenzhao Chen, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Average Decay of the Fourier Transform of Measures
  • Keith Rogers, Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Plasmonics for Chemistry: Sensing and controlling chemical reactions using plasmons
  • Andrea Baldi, PhD, Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
On-chip quantum memories for telecom photons using ensembles of erbium ions
  • Ioana Craiciu, Graduate Student, Faraon Group,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Spectral theory of confining magnetic fields via symplectic geometry
  • San Vu Ngoc, Department of Mathematics, Universite de Rennes,
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