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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
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  • 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
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  • 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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