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Tuesday, February 1
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
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Tidal energy in Newtonian two-body motion
  • Sohrab Shahshahani, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
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3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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Iterated Cauchy--Schwarz arguments and true complexity
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Probing Dynamics at Individual Defects with Ultrafast Electron Microscopy
  • David Flannigan, Associate Professor and L.E. Scriven Chair, DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota,
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Wednesday, February 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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A circuit-level protocol and analysis for twist-based lattice surgery
  • Christopher Chamberland, AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Uniform amenability and uniform hyperfiniteness
  • Gábor Elek, Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Approaching the solar dynamo from unusual angles: M-dwarf stars, polar views, and different dynamo mechanisms
  • Benjamin Brown, Assistant Professor, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder,
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Thursday, February 3
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data
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2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Linde Hall 255
Quantum Optimal Transport Learning Seminar
  • Juan Pablo Vigneaux, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Unveiling the Higgs's secrets to unlock new physics
  • Caterina Vernieri, SLAC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
The Ratios Conjecture over function fields
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Friday, February 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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The O(n) and S_Q Conformal Field Theories in 2 dimensions
  • Hubert Saleur, University of Southern California,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Models and Observations of High-Redshift Gravitationally Lensed Quasars
  • Minghao Yue, Graduate Student, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Mapping the Universe with Atoms and Molecules that Shine
  • Guochao Sun, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
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Monday, February 7
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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Eichler-Shimura relations
  • Si Ying Lee, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Machine learning at the atomic scale: from structural representations to chemical insight
  • Michele Ceriotti, Associate Professor, Institute of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Abelian Varieties not Isogenous to Jacobians over global fields
  • Ananth Shankar, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
A Post-pandemic Tool for Quantum Materials
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Evaporative Transmission Spectroscopy at Close-in Exoplanet and Exomoon Systems
  • Apurva Oza, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Unlocking the CMS Experiment to Catch Long-lived Particles
  • Cristian Peña, Fermilab,
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Tuesday, February 8
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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The time-like minimal surface equation in Minkowski space: low regularity solutions
  • Mihaela Ifrim, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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On projections and circles
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
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Wednesday, February 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Our experience with tensor network methods in magnetic resonance
  • Ilya Kuprov, University of Southampton,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Measurable combinatorics in hyperfinite graphs
  • Matthew Bowen, McGill University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Galaxy Evolution with Space-Based Spectroscopy: From Hubble to JWST and Beyond
  • Casey Papovich, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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  • Yaser Abu-Mostafa (PhD '83), Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,
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Thursday, February 10
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Modeling the engines of multi-messenger gravitational wave events
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Neutrino and Dark Radiation Properties from Cosmic Datasets
  • Marilena Loverde, University of Washington,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Characterising the Gaussian free field
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Combinatorial atlas for log-concave inequalities
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Entropic Repulsion of 3D Ising Interfaces
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Friday, February 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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  • Josephine Suh, KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm: MaxCut, Spin Glass, and Beyond
  • Leo Zhou, Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Binary Evolution: a Multi-messenger, Multi-band Puzzle
  • Katelyn Breivik, Flatiron Research Fellow, Gravitational Wave Astronomy, CCA, Flatiron Institute,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Waists, widths and symplectic embeddings
  • Jonathan Zhu, Mathematics Department, Princeton University,
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Monday, February 14
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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Crystalline local systems
  • Yong Suk Moon, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona,
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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Efficient, problem-tailored variational quantum algorithms
  • Sophia Economou, Professor, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Varieties of general type with doubly exponential asymptotics
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Quasi-Periodic Topological Bulk-Bulk Correspondence and the Dry Ten Martini Problem
  • Dan Borgnia, Physics: Quantum Condensed Matter, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC
  • Ian Moult, Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC, Yale University,
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Tuesday, February 15
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Structural Szemerédi-Trotter Results
  • Olivine Silier, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Precision Synthesis of Quantum Material Building Blocks
  • Thomas J. Kempa, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
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Wednesday, February 16
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Orbit equivalences of multidimensional Borel flows
  • Konstantin Slutsky, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Stress-Testing the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm
  • Priyamvada (Priya) Natarajan, Professor of Astronomy, Department of Astronomy and Physics, Yale University,
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Thursday, February 17
12:54 pm - 2:00 pm
Keeping Up With Experimentalists: Accurate predictions for multimessenger gravitational wave astrophysics
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2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Linde Hall 255
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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14 Billion years on, what can we learn about Original Imperfection?
  • Eric Cornell, JILA, University of Colorado,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
$L^p$-norm bounds for automorphic forms via spectral reciprocity
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Friday, February 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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de Sitter Microstates from a solvable generalization of the T-Tbar deformation
  • Eva Silverstein, Stanford University,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Quantum simulation of particle collisions
  • Federica Surace, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar, CMT and Preskill Group,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Cosmic rays in the context of star formation: propagation and effects
  • Kedron Silsbee, Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Eigenvalue extremal metrics and n-harmonic maps
  • Antoine Métras, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Université de Montréal,
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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杯酒谈天线上直播 (Astronomy on Tap, Chinese)
  • Miao Li, Research Professor, Department of Physics, Zhejiang University,
  • Linhao Ma, PhD Candidate, Department of Physics, Caltech,
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Monday, February 21
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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Canonical heights and the Andre-Oort conjecture
  • Ananth Shankar, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin – Madison,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
A decoupling interpretation of an old argument for Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem
  • Zane Li, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Bloomington,
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Tuesday, February 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Some comments on supersymmetric JT gravity and SYK.
  • Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Wednesday, February 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Compressive gate set tomography
  • Martin Kliesch, University of Düsseldorf,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Most(?) theories have Borel complete reducts and expansions
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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GraL: In Search of Quasar Gravitational Lenses from Gaia and Beyond
  • Alberto Krone-Martins, Lecturer, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine,
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Thursday, February 24
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Searches for New Physics at the Edge of Absolute Zero
  • Jonathan Ouellet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Cold and ultra-cold molecules for quantum science
  • John Doyle, Harvard University,
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Friday, February 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Singularities From Entropy
  • Raphael Bousso, UC Berkeley,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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High fidelity quantum science with Rydberg atom arrays
  • Adam Shaw, Graduate Student, Endres Group,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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What is (the physics of) TMF?
  • Sergei Gukov, Caltech,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Gas dynamics, inflow and star formation in centre of the Milky Way
  • Mattia Sormani, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Universität Heidelberg,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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TBA
  • Jonathan Zung, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
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Monday, February 28
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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Moduli of Fontaine-Laffaille modules and mod p local-global compatibility
  • Bao Le Hung, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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Measuring the Capabilities of Quantum Computers
  • Timothy Proctor, Sandia National Lab,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Revealing the Star Formation History of our Solar Neighborhood: Supernova-Driven Star Formation on the Surface of the Local Bubble
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Coulomb enhancements for fundamental physics
  • Ryan Plestid, University of Kentucky,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Sectorial descent for wrapped Fukaya categories and applications to mirror symmetry
  • Sheel Ganatra, Department of Mathematics, USC,
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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"Black Holes" and "Binary Stars"
  • Ron Tso, PhD Candidate, Department of Physics, Caltech,
  • Ylva Götberg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Observatories,
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