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Tuesday, March 1
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Time-correlated errors in quantum computation
  • Hector Bombin, Perimeter Institute,
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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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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Non-commutative biology: single cell in situ analysis by sequential FISH
  • Long Cai, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Regularity and blow up in ideal fluid
  • Alex Kiselev, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Rice University,
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Wednesday, March 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Stars In Motion: Impact in Star Formation, Compact Objects, and Galactic Centers
  • Jessica Lu, U. Hawaii,
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Thursday, March 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arithmetic Statistics of Elliptic Curves
  • Nathan Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UC Irvine,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Imaging Relativistic Fermions in Atomically-Engineered Graphene Potentials
  • Michael Crommie, UC Berkeley,
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Friday, March 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
AdS4 solutions of massive IIA from dyonic supergravity and their simple Chern-Simons dual
  • Oscar Varela, Utah State University,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Watson 104
Optomechanical, vibrational and thermal properties of graphene nanoresonators
  • Cornelia Schwarz, Institut Néel, CNRS,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
S-duality of u(1) gauge theory with theta=pi on non-orientable manifolds: Applications to topological insulators and superconductors
  • Max Metlitski, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Using the cosmos to search for the invisible: the hidden worlds of dark matter, black holes, and structure formation
  • Katelin Schutz, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
TBA
  • Kristen Hendricks, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
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Monday, March 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Higher Pentagram Maps via Cluster Mutations and Networks on Surfaces
  • Michael Gekhtman, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
New results from the LHC at 13 TeV
  • Frank Golf, UC Santa Barbara,
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Tuesday, March 8
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Quantum Limits in Interferometers.
  • Belinda , Pang, Tapir, Caltech,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Describing finite groups by short first-order sentences
  • Andre Nies, Professor, Computer Science, University of Auckland,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
A linear time algorithm for quantum 2-SAT
  • Sevag Gharibian, Virginia Commonwealth University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
MULTI-MESSENGER MONSTERS!!!
  • Sarah Burke Spolaor, National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Atomic-Layer Semiconducting Crystals for Emerging 2D Devices and Nanosystems
  • Philip Feng, Assistant Professor, Case School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
First Results from Advanced LIGO
  • Prof. Alan Weinstein, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Towards homological mirror symmetry for hypersurfaces in toric varieties
  • Denis Auroux, Professor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
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Wednesday, March 9
1:30 pm -
Friday 2:30 pm
Lauritsen 469
Gravity Dual of Relative Entropy and Comments on Bulk Reconstruction
  • Jennifer Lin, IAS,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Eta Invariant and Analytic Torsion
  • Xianzhe Dai, Professor, Mathematics, UCSB,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Combinatorics of shallow water waves
  • Lauren Williams, Associate Professor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Thinking Big (and Small) : Frontier Science in the Era of Wide Field Lensing Surveys
  • Alexie Leauthaud, Kavli IPMU, Tokyo,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, March 10
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Data-driven, Interactive Scientific Articles in a Collaborative Environment with Authorea
  • Alberto Pepe, Co-founder of Authorea,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Black hole degeneracies from brane-instantons
  • Sameer Murthy, King's College ,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
TBA
  • Nicolas Templier, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Cornell,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Motives, Periods, and Special Values of Zeta-Functions
  • Stephen Lichtenbaum, Professor, Mathematics, Brown University,
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4:00 pm -
Saturday 5:00 pm
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
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Friday, March 11
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Exploring the Link Between Galaxy Evolution Parameters and Pulsar Timing Array Observations
  • Joseph Simon, Graduate Student, Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
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Tuesday, March 15
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
TBA
  • Leo Brunswic, University of Avignon,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Thinking Big (and Small): Frontier Science in the Era of Wide Lensing Surveys
  • Prof. Alexie Leauthaud, IPMU,
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Wednesday, March 16
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Feynman Periods: Numbers and Geometry
  • Dmitry Doryn, IBS, Center for Geometry and Physics,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Missing Pages of Cosmic History
  • Anastasia Fialkov, Harvard/CfA,
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Thursday, March 17
9:00 am -
Sunday 5:00 pm
Workshop on Surface Group Representations
  • Various Speakers ,
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10:00 am - 11:00 am
Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Interactive Modelling of Search Intent for Exploratory Search
  • Antti Kangasrääsiö, Aalto University, Finland,
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Friday, March 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Deformation quantization from superconformal symmetry in three dimensions
  • Chris Beem, IAS,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
The link between fluid instabilities in a core-collapse supernova and asymmetric accretion flows in a collapsing progenitor
  • Kazuya Takahashi, JSPS Fellow, High-Energy Astrophysics Group, Waseda University,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
What Causes the Northern Lights? A Tour of Aurorae on Different Planets
  • Sebastian Pineda, Graduate Student, Caltech,
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Monday, March 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Off Campus
Compact quotients of pseudo-Riemannian hyperbolic spaces
  • Nicolas Tholozan, Professor, Mathematics, University of Luxembourg,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Off Campus
The Homfly skein and elliptic Hall algebras
  • Peter Samuelson, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Iowa,
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Tuesday, March 22
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Searching for continuous gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1
  • Badri Krishnan, Physics, AEI,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Measuring the Mass Function of Dark Matter Subhalos with ALMA Observations of Graviationally Lensing Surveys
  • Dr. Yashar Hezaveh, Stanford,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Strains And Simulations: Inferring Properties of Gravitational Wave Sources Without Models
  • James Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology,
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Thursday, March 24
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Quantum Speed Meter Based on Dissipative Coupling
  • Sergey Vyatchanin, Moscow State Univeristy,
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Friday, March 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Defects and Instantons in five-dimensional field theories
  • Hee-Cheol Kim, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Physics near Rapidly Spinning Black Holes
  • Samuel Gralla, Asst Professor, Dept of Physics, University of Arizona,
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Saturday, March 26
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Monday, March 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Decoherence as a way to measure extremely soft collisions with low-mass dark matter
  • Jess Reidel, Perimeter Institute,
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Tuesday, March 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Panel: Creating an Organization Where Both Men and Women can Thrive
  • Susan Murphy, Author and Management Consultant,
  • Beverley McKeon, GALCIT Associate Director, Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,
  • Robert Papppalardo, EUROPA Project Scientist, JPL,
  • Serina Diniega, Scientist/System Engineer, JPL,
  • Cinzia Zuffada, Moderator of the Panel and Associate Chief Scientist , JPL,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Crellin 151
A Priori Gas Phase Kinetics and the Foundations of Chemical Modeling
  • Dr. Stephen Klippenstein, Argonne National Laboratory,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Reverse Engineering Supernovae
  • Dan Milisavljevic, Center for Asirophysics, Harvard University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Where are the branches in a many-body wavefunction?
  • Jess Riedel, Perimeter Institute,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Hidden sectors: a window on the dark universe
  • Bertrand Echenard, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
"Thinking Big (and Small): Frontier Science in an Era of Wide Field Lensing Surveys"
  • Prof. Alexie Leauthaud, IPMU,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 1 of 2)
  • Hu Fu, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
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Wednesday, March 30
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
Combinatorics of F_1
  • Koen Thas, Professor, Mathematics, Ghent University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Galaxy Death and the Role of "Red Geysers"
  • Kevin Bundy, Kavli IPMU, Tokyo,
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4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
F_1-Schemes, zeta functions and automorphisms
  • Koen Thas, Professor, Mathematics, Ghent University,
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Thursday, March 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Optical Tweezers: Gene Regulation, Studied One Molecule at a Time
  • Steven Block, S.W. Ascherman Professor of the Sciences, Stanford University,
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