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Wednesday, December 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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On the universal minimal flow of the homeomorphism group of a Knaster continuum
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Annenberg 104
Novel High-Performance Numerical Methods for Problems in Solids, Fluids & their Interactions: Predictions & Insights into the Underlying Physics
  • Faisal Amlani, Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate, Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience and Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s: Perspectives and Discussion
  • Fiona Harrison, Harold A. Rosen Professor of Physics; Chair, Divison of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Pivot Hamiltonians: a tale of symmetry, entanglement, and quantum criticality
  • Nat Tantivasadakarn, Harvard,
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Thursday, December 2
10:00 am - 11:00 am
All-sky, all-frequency(ASAF) directional search for an anisotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background (SGWB)
  • Deepali Agarwal,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
TBA
  • Manish Mishra, Mathematics & Statistics, American University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Electrons in 2D moiré superlattices
  • Jie Shan, Cornell University,
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Friday, December 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Verification with Minimal Overhead, and Public Verification of Quantum Computation
  • Dominik Leichtle, Sorbonne Université,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Non-Invertible Duality Defects
  • Clay Cordova, University of Chicago,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Breaking the Standard Model (of Embryonic Development)
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Sloan Annex
Laver tables and large cardinals
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Exploring galactic nuclei with tidal disruption events
  • Brenna Mockler, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Correlated electronic quantum materials by lattice and symmetry design
  • Linda Ye, Stanford,
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Monday, December 6
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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Quantum Communications and Networking at ORN
  • Dr. Nicholas Peters, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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TBD
  • Brett William Stone, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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A search for heavy resonances decaying to HH in final states with leptons and a bottom quark pair in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV
  • Brent William Stone, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
The Hilbert scheme of points on affine space
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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JWST and the Search for the First Galaxies
  • Christina Williams, Research Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona,
  • Justin Spilker, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University,
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Tuesday, December 7
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
How do cells know their place and fish measure curl: decoding biological function from geometric patterns
  • Mariela Petkova, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Wednesday, December 8
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Ultracold molecules as clocks and sensors
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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A dichotomy for σ -Baire class α functions
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Fundamental Stellar Astrophysics in the Gaia Era: A New Understanding of Local Stellar Populations
  • Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Astrophysics, College of Arts & Science, Vanderbilt University,
  • Marina Kounkel, Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University,
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Thursday, December 9
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Gravitational Saves from a Newly Born Hyper-Accreting Millisecond Magnetar
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Friday, December 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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New perspectives on chiral matter, standard model constructions, and mirror symmetry from F-theory geometry
  • Washington Taylor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Extremal CFTs and Lattice Orbifolds
  • Christoph Keller, University of Arizona,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Searching for the phonons of living matter
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Unlocking Multiphase Galactic Gas Flows
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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A Brief History of the Fast Radio Burst Enigma
  • Liam Connor, Tolman Prize Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
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Monday, December 13
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Online Event
Optimal policies for near-term quantum networks
  • Dr. Sumeet Khatri, Freie Universität Berlin,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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MicroBooNE's Search for the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess
  • Kathryn Sutton, Caltech,
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Friday, December 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Engineering quantum matter in clean thin films
  • Joseph Falson, Assistant Professor of Materials Science; William H. Hurt Scholar, Engineering and Applied Science,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Dynamics of Immunity in Zebrafish
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