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Monday, October 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Dark sector visible signals in neutron star mergers
  • Gustavo Marques Tavares, University of Maryland,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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The Transient Universe: Compact Objects Near and Far
  • Brendan O'Connor, The George Washington University / University of Maryland College Park,
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Wednesday, October 5
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
A Unified Approach to M Dwarf Ages
  • Rocio Kiman, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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One ring to rule them all
  • Pratik Wagle, Graduate Student, Yunes Gravity Theory Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets
  • Bruce Macintosh, Professor of Physics, Stanford University,
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Thursday, October 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Furstenberg entropy spectrum of stationary actions
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Towards a theory of strange quantum metals
  • Senthil Todadri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Percolation on finite transitive graphs
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
TBA
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Friday, October 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity
  • Chris Akers, MIT,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity
  • Chris Akers, MIT,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Linde Hall 183
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Schlinger 101
The development and evolution of CO2 capture solvents: Learnings from theory and experiment, and application to Direct Air Capture
  • Roger Rousseau, Physical Sciences Directorate, Chemical Sciences Division, Oakridge National Laboratory,
  • Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou, Distinguished Scientist, Computational Sciences and Mathematics Division, Oakridge National Laboratory,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Variants of Lehmer's Conjecture on Ramanujan's tau-function
  • Ken Ono, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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No peaks without valleys: (what) can we learn from features in the mass distribution of merging binary black holes?
  • Lieke van Son, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Words to describe a black hole
  • Ying-Hsuan Lin, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Blowing up and down with knot traces
  • Kai Nakamura, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin,
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Monday, October 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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The COMAP Pathfinder: Early Results and Implications for High-redshift CO
  • Dongwoo Chung, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Direct detection of dark matter far from the weak scale
  • Benjamin Lehmann, UC Santa Cruz,
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Tuesday, October 11
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Linde Hall 310
A proto-inverse Szemer\'edi Trotter theorem (joint work in progress with Olivine Silier.)
  • Nets Katz, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Cosmology from the vacuum
  • Stefano Antonini, University of Maryland,
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3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Linde Hall 310
The scattering transform, a harmonic analysis perspective on neural networks
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Wednesday, October 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Topological dynamics of kaleidoscopic groups
  • Todor Tsankov, Université Lyon 1,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Mapping the Interstellar Medium
  • Mahdi Qezlou, Physics and Astronomy, UC Riverside,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
How to Form a Habitable Planet
  • Meredith Ann MacGregor, Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Chen 100
  • Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin, Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cell Research, Departments of Psychology & Neuroscience at Columbia University,
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7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
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  • Colin Camerer, Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; Director, T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
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Thursday, October 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 255
Partitioning cubic graphs into two isomorphic linear forests
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Modular forms of half-integral weight on G_2
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Friday, October 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Infrared finite scattering in QFT & quantum gravity
  • Kartik Prabhu, UC Santa Barbara,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Topological order from finite-depth circuits and measurements: from theory to quantum devices
  • Nat Tantivasadakarn, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Linde Hall 183
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Astrophysics of compact object binaries with gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts
  • Sylvia Biscoveanu, Graduate Student, LIGO Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
The Kervaire conjecture and the minimal complexity of surfaces
  • Lvzhou Chen, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University,
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Monday, October 17
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Dimer model. Introduction
  • Marianna Russkikh, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
"Inhomogeneous disordering at a photoinduced charge density wave transition"
  • Antonio Picano, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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The evolution of color gradients within galaxies and its effect on galaxy morphology
  • Tim Miller, Yale University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Gauge Invariance from On-Shell Massive Amplitudes and Tree-level Unitarity
  • Da Liu, UC Davis,
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
"Exploding Stars" and "Plato and the Fundamental Nature of Gravity"
  • Abigail Polin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Spiros Michalakis, Staff Scientist, Institute for Quantum Information & Matter, Caltech,
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Tuesday, October 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Quantum optics with organic molecules: cavity QED, optomechanics, and cooperativity
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Wednesday, October 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Moons and Rings of Exoplanets
  • Anthony Piro, Carnegie Observatories,
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Thursday, October 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Theta functions on the $n$-fold metaplectic cover of $GL(2)$ and the non-vanishing at the center of the critical strip of symmetric cube $L$-series
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Generalized Landau Paradigm
  • John McGreevy, UC San Diego,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Laser-free entanglement and squeezing with trapped ions
  • Daniel Slichter, Physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
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Friday, October 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Entanglement Bootstrap and Remote Detectability
  • John McGreevy, UC San Diego,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Linde Hall 183
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Uncovering the Galactic Black Hole Population with Gravitational Microlensing
  • Casey Lam, Graduate Student, U.C. Berkeley, Department of Astronomy,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Geography problem in 4 dimensional topology and Mahowald invariants
  • Zhouli Xu, Department of Mathematics, UCSD,
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Monday, October 24
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Duality of central charges in boundary conformal field theory and its application to SLE
  • Nam-Gyu Kang, KIAS,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Interactions and topology in a hybrid transition metal dichalcogenide
  • Haim Beidenkopf, Professor, CMP Atomic Scale Physics, Weizmann Institute,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Cosmology of Axion Rotation
  • Keisuke Harigaya, University of Chicago,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Localizations and Lenses: Looking towards Cosmology with CHIME/FRB Outriggers
  • Calvin Leung, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Intrinsic mirror symmetry - Part I
  • Mark Gross, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge,
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Tuesday, October 25
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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The dissipative Aw-Rascle system: existence theory and hard-congestion limit
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Some Recent Results On Wave Turbulence
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Ab initio approaches to nonequilibrium interactions and transport in matter
  • Prineha Narang, Howard Reiss Development Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,
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Wednesday, October 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Big Ramsey degrees and Galvin-Prikry theorems for binary free-amalgamation classes
  • Andy Zucker, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Extreme Emission Line Galaxies in the Local Universe
  • Vihang Mehta, IPAC, Caltech,
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2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Intrinsic mirror symmetry - Part II
  • Mark Gross, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions
  • Anna Ho, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University,
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Thursday, October 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Black holes and random matrices
  • Stephen Shenker, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Geometry of the $B_{dR}^+$-Grassmannian
  • Serin Hong, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
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Friday, October 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Quantum metrology with general measurements
  • Tuvia Gefen, Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill, Brandao Group,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Linde Hall 183
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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The mystery of convective boundary mixing in the cores of massive stars
  • Evan Anders, CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow, CIERA, Northwestern University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
The (2,1)-cable of the figure-eight knot is not smoothly slice
  • Sungkyung Kang, Center for Geometry & Physics, Institute of Basic Science,
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Finding Earth 2.0
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Monday, October 31
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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5D Perspectives on the QCD Axion
  • Tony Ghergetta, University of Minnesota,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Introduction to the Dimer Model, II
  • Marianna Russkikh, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Multi-wavelength Laboratories in the Epoch of Reionization
  • Sofía Rojas, Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy,
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