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Monday, October 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Dark Fires in the Sky: Model-Independent Dark Matter Detection via Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars
  • Nirmal Raj, Notre Dame University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Topology of moduli spaces of tropical curves
  • Sam Payne, Mathematics Department, Yale University,
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Tuesday, October 3
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
The impact of detector characterization on gravitational wave searches
  • Derek Thomas Davis, Syracuse,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 105
CANCELLED - Stability in the homology of configuration spaces
  • Jenny Wilson, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 131
Hyperfiniteness of boundary actions of cubulated hyperbolic groups
  • Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Tropical motivic integration
  • Sam Payne, Mathematics Department, Yale University,
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Wednesday, October 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
AS4: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
  • Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
CANCELLED - Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces
  • Alex Wright, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University ,
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5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Lauritsen 469
Moonshine, Automorphy, and String Theory
  • Natalie Paquette, Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
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Thursday, October 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Can quantum mechanics be valid on large scales?
  • Renato Renner, Professor for Theoretical Physics and head of the research group for Quantum Information Theory, ETH Zurich,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Profiling Cells Inside and Out Using Nanostructured Materials
  • Shana Kelley, Distinguished Professor , Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
p-adic L-functions for nearly finite slope Hilbert modular forms and the Exceptional Zero Conjecture
  • Mladen Dimitrov, Mathematics Department, Université Lille 1,
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Friday, October 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Uncovering flavor of N=2 SCFTs through geometry
  • Matteo Lotito, University of Cincinnati,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Thermodynamics at the nano scale: The work cost of information processing
  • Philippe Faist, Postdoctoral Scholar, Brandao Group,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
The Origin of Scales and Scaling Laws in Star Formation
  • David Guszejnov, Graduate Student, TAPIR Group, Caltech,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Complex curves through a contact lens
  • Kyle Hayden, Department of Mathemaatics, Boston College,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
A Polynomial Roth theorem on the Real Line
  • Polona Durcik, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
TBA
  • Laura Cladek, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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Monday, October 9
8:40 am - 12:30 pm
South Mudd 365
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Empirical determination of Dark Matter velocity distribution
  • Lina Necib, Caltech,
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Wednesday, October 11
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Building 15, Room 131
Dimension-free estimates for discrete spherical maximal functions
  • Ben Krause, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Planets Close-in and Far-out
  • Eve J. Lee, Caltech,
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Thursday, October 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) First Light
  • Matt Dobbs, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2), Astrophysics & Cosmology in the Department of Physics, McGill University,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Etale and crystalline companions: some applications of the Langlands correspondence
  • Kiran Kedlaya, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego,
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Friday, October 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Applications of the Average Null Energy Condition
  • Clay Cordova, Institute for Advanced Study,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Universal Hamiltonians for Exponentially Long Simulation
  • Thom Bohdanowicz, Graduate Student, Brandao Group,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Geometric Constructions
  • Luke Juusola, Caltech,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Moving Mesh Astrophysics
  • Paul Duffell, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Projective Anosov representations and convex cocompact actions
  • Andrew Zimmer, Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary,
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Monday, October 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Parallel transport and the p-adic Simpson correspondence
  • Daxin Xu, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Non-Gaussian Enhancements of Galactic Halo Correlators due to Isocurvaton Mediated Inflaton Interactions
  • Alexander Ridgway, Caltech,
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Tuesday, October 17
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
The Geometry of the Quantum Set
  • Koon Tong Goh, National University of Singapore,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 131
Higher walks and stronger homology theories
  • Jeffrey Bergfalk, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
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Wednesday, October 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Food patterns and obesity prevalence across countries: A machine learning application
  • Jocelyn Dunstan, University of Chile, Santiago,
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Building 15, Room 131
TBA
  • Zaher Hani, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Insights into dark matter from the stellar halos of galaxies
  • Robyn Ellyn Sanderson, Caltech,
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Thursday, October 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science
  • Mikhail Lukin, Professor of Physics, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
multiple zeta-half values, double shuffle equation, and connection with cusp forms
  • Ming Da, Department of Mathematics, Duke University,
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Friday, October 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The Markov property of the CFT vacuum and the entropic proof of the a-theorem
  • Eduardo Teste Lino, Centro Atomico Bariloche,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Exactly Solvable Model for Two Dimensional Topological Superconductor
  • Zitao Wang, Graduate Student, Xie Chen Group,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Searching for Biases in Observations of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies Using Simulations
  • Andrew Graus, Graduate Student, UC Irvine,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Concordance invariants from truncated Heegaard Floer homology
  • Linh Truong, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Eigenvalue Asymptotics for Dirichlet-to-Neumann Operator
  • Victor Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
TBA
  • Konstantin Tikhomirov, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Cosmic Fireworks
  • Mansi Kasliwal, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
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Monday, October 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Dark Matter and the LZ Experiment
  • Carter Hall, University of Maryland,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Categorification at prime roots of unity
  • You Qi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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Tuesday, October 24
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Comparing SSS17a with GW170817
  • Michael Coughlin, Caltech,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Entanglement transformation and the structure of matrix space
  • Yinan Li, University of Technology Sydney,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Simple 3-designs constructed from finite classic groups and Preparata codes
  • Hao Shen, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 131
A recursion theoretic property of analytic equivalence relations
  • Howard Becker, Visiting Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Diophantine equations, L-functions, and Shimura varieties
  • Yifeng Liu, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
"Models of phenotypic plasticity and its role in the transition to metastasis"
  • Herbert Levine, Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering, Co-Director, Center of Theoretical Biological Physics, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 314
Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing and Isolation Lemma (1st of 2 parts)
  • Rohit Gurjar, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
GW170817: Gravitational Waves from the Merger of Two Neutron Stars
  • Jess McIver, Caltech,
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Wednesday, October 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Debris Disks as Probes of Planetary System Evolution
  • Meredith MacGregor, Harvard,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
p-adic Mellin amplitudes
  • Sarthak Parikh, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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Thursday, October 26
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
Searching for dark matter annihilation in nearby galaxy groups
  • Siddarth Mishra-Sharma, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Black holes, quantum information, and the foundations of physics
  • Steve Giddings, Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
The Hasse-Weil zeta functions of orthogonal Shimura varieties
  • Yihang Zhu, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University ,
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Friday, October 27
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Complexity in holography and QFT
  • Shira Chapman, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Shining Light On Quantum Magnetism
  • Nicholas Laurita, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Erdős-Szekeres convex polygon problem
  • Gideon Leeper, Caltech,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
The history of inter- and circumgalactic gas since reionization
  • Phoebe Upton-Sanderbeck, Graduate Student, University of Washington,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Causal Inference in the Presence of Latent Nodes
  • Negar Kiyavash, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Volume conjectures for Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro invariants
  • Tian Yang, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
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Monday, October 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 15, Room 104
Monodromic complexes, Koszul duality, and tilting characters of reductive
  • Shotaro Makisumi, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Unlocking the potential of CMS data: boosted Higgs, low-mass dijet resonances, and data scouting
  • Javier Duarte, Fermilab,
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Tuesday, October 31
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Building 15, Room 131
Strong conceptual completeness for L_{\omega_1\omega}
  • Ronnie Chen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Efficient classical simulation of noisy quantum circuit
  • Xun Gao, Tsinghua University,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Olive Walk
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Constructing pseudorandom matrices with polynomial convolutions
  • Adam Marcus, Mathematics Department, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 314
Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing and Isolation Lemma (2nd of 2 parts)
  • Rohit Gurjar, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
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