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Monday, March 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
On the Drinfeld moduli problem
  • Michael Rapoport, Mathematics, University of Bonn,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Motives of noncommutative tori
  • Yunyi Shen, Mathematics, Florida State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Solving Einstein's Equation Numerically on Manifolds with Arbitrary Spatial Topologies
  • Lee Lindblom, Caltech,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The unobscured light from dust-obscured galaxies
  • Caitlin Casey, UC Irvine,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Finding Needles in Exponential Haystacks
  • Joel Spencer, Computer Science and Mathematics, New York University,
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Tuesday, March 4
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Lauritsen 469
Back to the roots of string theory
  • Rutger Boels, Hamburg University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Theory of Single-Molecule Fluorescence and Force Spectroscopy
  • Dr. Attila Szabo, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Isolated Brown Dwarfs at the Exoplanet Mass Boundary
  • Dr. Jacqueline Faherty, DTM - Carnegie Institution,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Surprising New Insights into Quasars from the WISE Satellite
  • Daniel Stern, JPL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Thirty Meter Telescope: How California, Canada, China, India and Japan are Working Together to Build a Next Generation Extremely Large Telescope
  • Gary Sanders, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Towards the theory of local Shimura varieties
  • Michael Rapoport, Mathematics, University of Bonn,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Surprising New Insights into Quasars from the WISE Satellite
  • Daniel Stern, JPL,
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Wednesday, March 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
TBA
  • William Yessen, Mathematics, Rice University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Effective dimension in symbolic dynamics
  • Linda Westrick, Mathematics, U. C. Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Dwarf Galaxies: The Nexus of Dark Matter and Chemical Evolution
  • Evan Kirby, UC Irvine,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Non-Commutative Geometry, Non-Associative Geometry and the Standard Model of Particle Physics
  • Shane Farnsworth, Perimeter Institute,
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Thursday, March 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Graph spectra and diophantine equations
  • Gunther Cornelissen, Mathematics, Univ. of Utrecht,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Touch the Dark Matter
  • Harry Nelson, Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
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Friday, March 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
TBA
  • Kazuya Yonekura, Institute for Advanced Study,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Conformal bootstrap: the status of the 3d Ising project
  • Slava Rychkov, CERN,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Magnetized binary neutron star merger simulations on K
  • Kenta Kiuchi, Research Assistant Professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Reducible Surgeries and Heegaard Flor Homology
  • Nicolas Zufelt, UT Austin,
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Saturday, March 8
9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
  • Matt Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology,
  • Elena Fuchs, University of California, Berkeley,
  • Christopher Skinner, Princeton University,
  • Mamjul Bhargava , Princeton University,
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Monday, March 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Twisted group algebras and strict deformation quantisation
  • Branimir Cacic, Mathematics, Texas A&M,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Combining Riesz bases
  • Shahaf Nitzan, Mathematics, Kent State,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Eavesdropping on the Dark Sound of the Universe
  • Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Caltech & JPL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
From Quantum Electronics to Light-Matter Interaction with Van der Waal Heterostructures
  • Arindam Ghosh, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Weighing the Giants: Accurate Weak Lensing Mass Measurements for Cosmological Cluster Surveys
  • Anja von der Linden, Stanford,
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Tuesday, March 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Gravitational waves and electromagnetic counter parts of binary neutron star mergers
  • Masaru Shibata, University of Kyoto,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Statistical and Computational Tradeoffs in High Dimensional Learning
  • Quentin Berthet, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Seeing the Invisible: Bioorthogonal Chemical Imaging for Biomedicine
  • Wei Min, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
  • Prof. Peter Garnavich, Notre Dame Univ.,
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Wednesday, March 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Kakeya and restriction conjectures
  • Mark Lewko, Mathematics, UCLA & IAS Princeton,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Radio Emission in Galaxy Clusters: Insights from Cosmological Simulations
  • Sam Skillman, Stanford/KIPAC,
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Thursday, March 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
p-adic L-functions and BSD
  • Chris Skinner, Mathematics, Princeton,
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Friday, March 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Reducing Supersymmetry of Two-dimensional Sigma Models Down to N=(0,2)
  • Arkady Vainshtein, Univ of Minnesota,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
TBD
  • Eliezer Rabinovici, CERN & The Hebrew University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Quantitative predictions for galaxy formation
  • Andrew Benson, George Ellery Hale Distinguished Scholar, Theoretical Astrophysics, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Hyperbolic cone metrics on 3-manifolds with boundary
  • Tian Yang, Mathematics, Stanford University,
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Monday, March 17
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
A metric in the space of spectral triples
  • Gunther Cornelissen, Mathematics, University of Utrecht,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Rational Curves and Rational Points over Global Function Fields
  • Jason Starr, Mathematics, Stony Brook University,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Detection of B-mode Polarization at Degree Scales with BICEP2
  • Jeffrey Filippini, Caltech,
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Tuesday, March 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The complete one loop RGE of the SM EFT, and its implications for BSM phenomenology
  • Michael Trott, CERN,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
  • Dr. Ji-hoon Kim, Caltech,
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Wednesday, March 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Measuring the Cosmic Distance Scale with SDSS-III
  • Daniel Eisenstein, Biard Lecturer, Harvard,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, March 20
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Watson 104
Mike Kelzenberg of Escape Dynamics
  • Mike Kelzenberg, Escape Dynamics,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
BICEP2: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales
  • Jamie Bock, Professor of Physics, Caltech and Senior Research Scientist, JPL,
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Friday, March 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
TBA
  • Yu Nakayama, Caltech & Kavli IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,
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Monday, March 24
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Atmospheric characterization of the hot Jupiter exoplanet Kepler-13Ab: Hot and shiny
  • Avi Shporer, Caltech,
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Tuesday, March 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Powerful Atomic and Molecular Galactic Winds and Their Cosmological Implications
  • Prof. Sylvain Veilleux, Univ. of Maryland,
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Wednesday, March 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Fast Radio Bursts on the Horizon
  • Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Caltech,
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Thursday, March 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
An anticyclotomic main conjecture and Heegner points
  • Christopher Skinner, Mathematics, Princeton University,
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Friday, March 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The hexagon function bootstrap
  • Lance Dixon, SLAC,
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Monday, March 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Probing quantum many-body systems at the single-particle level
  • Manuel Endres, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Exploring dark sectors with low-energy experiments
  • Bertrand Echenard, Caltech,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Thirty Meter Telescope: The Next Generation of Ground Based Optical/Infra Red Observatory
  • Warren Skidmore, TMT,
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