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Monday, January 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The Twisted Universe: Cosmic Polarization Tests of CPT Violation
  • Brian Keating, UC San Diego,
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Tuesday, January 5
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Anchoring games for parallel repetition
  • Henry Yuen, MIT,
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Wednesday, January 6
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
TBA
  • Sergei Gukov, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Caltech,
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Thursday, January 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Magnetic Toys in the Sky
  • Yuri Levin, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Monash University,
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Friday, January 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Drama from strings
  • Matthew Dodelson, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
An Energy Barrier is Necessary for the Thermal Stability of Stabilizer Quantum Memories
  • Anna Komar, Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
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Monday, January 11
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Annenberg 213
Data-Driven Computational Approach to Understand Cancer Progression and Drug Resistance
  • Peng Jiang, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Light Dark Matter from Boltzmann Factors
  • Josh Ruderman, New York University,
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Tuesday, January 12
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Recap and overview
  • Xinwen Zhu, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
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3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
The countable admissible ordinal equivalence relation, III
  • William Chan, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Low energy probes of high energy physics
  • David Moore, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Continuing the Legacy of Supernova Cosmology
  • Prof. Ryan Foley, Univ. of Illinois,
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4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
  • Jalex Stark,
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Wednesday, January 13
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
A Pfaffian formula for monomer-dimer partition functions
  • Elliott Lieb, Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Mathematics, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The shortest-period planets
  • Joshua Winn, MIT,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Building the First Spaceport in Low Earth Orbit
  • John Blincow, Gateway Foundation,
  • Dr. Thomas R. Spilker, Retired (JPL),
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Thursday, January 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Bounding 2-torsion in class groups
  • Jacob Tsimerman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Jacob Tsimerman, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
What does a typical dynamical system look like?
  • Omer Tamuz, Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
On the set of L-space surgeries for links
  • Eugene Gorsky, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UC Davis,
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Friday, January 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
TBA
  • Daniel Jafferis, Harvard University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Boltzmann Brains: Why They Appear, and Why They Are Bad
  • Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics, Physics Department, Caltech,
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Tuesday, January 19
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
The Standard Conjectures
  • Daniel Siebel, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Improving Searches for Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO
  • TJ Massinger, Physics, Syracuse University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
An EFT for Forward Scattering and Factorization Violation
  • Iain Stewart, MIT,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
  • Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Quantum encryption and obfuscation
  • Gorjan Alagic, University of Copenhagen,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Pushing noble liquids to new limits: dark matter detection in xenon and superfluid helium
  • Scott Hertel, UC Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
  • Prof. Chris Martin, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Hard Open Problems in Euclidean Geometry
  • Larry Guth, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, MIT,
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Wednesday, January 20
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Monotone Transport
  • Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Stellar Astrophysics: 100 Years after Russell
  • Jason Kalirai, STScI, Maryland,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, January 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity, and Quantum Information
  • Stefan Leichenauer, UC Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
An affine deformation of the quantum cohomology ring of flag manifolds and the periodic Toda lattice
  • Leonardo Mihalcea, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Virginia Tech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
TBA
  • Preston Wake, Assistant adjunct Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
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Friday, January 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
"Singlet Catalyzed Electroweak Phase Transition"
  • Peter Winslow, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Conformal blocks from AdS
  • Per Kraus, UCLA,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Bridging theory and observations - Fundamental physics with cosmological surveys
  • Elisabeth Krause, Postdoctoral Scholar, KIPAC, Stanford University/SLAC,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
TBA
  • Ian Zemke, Research Assistant, Mathematics, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
"HIdden Sector Shining the Light: Gamma-Ray Excess and Diphoton Excess"
  • Jiang-Hao Yu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Progress toward a spin squeezed 171Yb optical atomic clock
  • Boris Braverman, Graduate Student, Vladan Vuletić Group, MIT,
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Monday, January 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Gravitational wave astrophysics with pulsar timing arrays
  • Chiara Mingarelli, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Motivic vector bundles on P^n
  • Aravid Asok, Associate Professor, Mathematics, USC,
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Ehrenfeuct-Fraisse Games
  • Jalex Stark, Student, Caltech,
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Tuesday, January 26
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
The motivic Galois group of Abelian varieties of potential CM type
  • Majid Hadian, Scott Russell Johnson Research Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Mathemaatics, Caltech,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Monsters in the Dark: Glimpsing the High-Energy Signatures of Black Hole Formation with Multimessenger Astronomy
  • Alex Urban, Physics, U Wisconsin Milwaukee,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
NO SEMINAR One Entangled Evening Event
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
  • Prof. Alice Shapley, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
A world from a sheet of paper
  • Tadashi Tokieda, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow, Cambridge/Stanford,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Population Explosion: Understanding the Populations of Hot Jupiters, Black Holes, Earth-like Exoplanets, and (Eventually) LIGO Sources
  • Will Farr, University of Birmingham,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Clocks to weigh Beyond Standard Model Physics: Muon g-2 and the Neutrino Mass Scale
  • Martin Fertl, Univeristy of Washington,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Wednesday, January 27
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Ramo Auditorium
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Phase diagram of quantum spin systems with S=1 and SU(2)-invariant interactions
  • Daniel Ueltschi, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Warwick,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Highlights from the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS)
  • Tommaso Treu, UCLA,
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Thursday, January 28
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Kahler Constant Scalar Curvature Metrics and Resolutions of Singularities
  • Claudio Arezzo, Research Scientist, ICTP,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Average of p-torsion in class groups of number fields
  • Lillian Pierce, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Duke University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
What can we learn from modifying gravity ?
  • Claudia de Rham, Assistant Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Noncontractibility of order complexes of coset posets and common divisors of binomial coefficients
  • John Shareshian, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Washington University,
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Friday, January 29
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Annenberg 213
On Holo-Hilbert Spectral Analysis and Some Applications
  • Professor Norden E. Huang, Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis, National Central University,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
TBA
  • Clay Cordova, IAS,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Inferring the Galactic gravitational potential with Gaia and friends
  • Robyn Sanderson, NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Convex Optimization Approaches to Protein Structural Calculation from NMR
  • Yuehaw Khoo, Physics and Applied Math, Princeton University,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The decategorification of Ozsvath-Szabo's bordered theory for HFK
  • Andy Manion, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
"Two-step electroweak baryogenesis"
  • Grigory Ovanesyan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carleson operators along curves and surfaces
  • Lillian Pierce, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Duke University,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Exact formulas for random growth off a flat interface
  • Daniel Remenik, Assistant Professor, Mathematics Engineering, University of Chile,
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