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Wednesday, November 1
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Online and In-Person Event
Scale invariance and rate of nuclear reactions
  • Subham Chowdhury, University of Chicago,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Online Event
Exploring the Dark Universe
  • Katrin Heitmann, ANL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The First Glimpse of the First Galaxies with JWST
  • Rohan Naidu, NASA Hubble Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Thursday, November 2
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Linde Hall 187
MMP for 3-dimensional Kahler generalized pairs
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3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Hodge theory, modular forms, counting curves on surfaces, and maybe some other stuff
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
KPZ estimates for ASEP and the Stochastic Six Vertex model
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Colliders for the Future of High Energy Physics
  • Julia Gonski, SLAC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
On mod p Langlands parameters for tame groups
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Convergence of effective resistances on generalized Sierpinski carpets
  • Shiping Cao, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Geodesics in Last-Passage Percolation under Large Deviations
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Friday, November 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Celestial Amplitudes in Effective Field Theories
  • Prahar Mitra, University of Amsterdam,
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12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Spin-Orbit Enhanced Superconductivity in Graphene Bilayers
  • Yiran Zhang, Nadj-Perge group,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Heavy element nucleosynthesis & energetic neutrinos from highly magnetized outflows
  • Mukul Bhattacharya, Eberly Research Scholar, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Splitting spheres in S^4
  • Maggie Miller, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
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Monday, November 6
8:45 am - 12:30 pm
South Mudd 365
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Annenberg 105
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Axion electrodynamics through the lens of condensed matter
  • Prineha Narang, UCLA,
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Tuesday, November 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Fast Electrons and Hard X-rays for Unraveling Atomic-Scale Dynamics in Light-Energy Conversion
  • Renske Van der Veen, Associate Professor and Department Head at Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Helmholtz Centre Berlin and the Technical University Berlin.,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
The search for supersingular curves
  • Rachel Pries, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University,
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Wednesday, November 8
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Online and In-Person Event
Poincaré generators of spinning binary in the post-Minkowskian approach
  • Sangmin Lee, Seoul National University,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanet Atmospheres at High-Spectral Resolution
  • Jake Turner, Cornell University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Higher Information: The untold topological secrets of measures and states
  • Tom Mainiero, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, St. Joseph's University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Searching for Signposts of Failed White Dwarf Supernovae
  • JJ Hermes, Assistant Professor; Director of Graduate Admissions, Boston University,
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, November 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Constraints on WIMP Dark Matter Models with Astrophysical Observations
  • Mehrdad Phoroutan-Mehr, UC Riverside,
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Special AI & Misinformation Seminar: " IQ Journalism: Predicting the quality of news stories based on explainable AI"
  • Catherine Sotirakou,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CνB): Its distribution on the surface of the Earth and its manipulation on laboratory scales
  • Mina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
A new case of BSD conjecture and deformation of line bundles
  • Ziquan Yang, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin - Madison,
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Friday, November 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Generalized entropy for general subregions in quantum gravity
  • Antony Speranza, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Classical and Quantum Complexity of Quantum Dynamics
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Catalogs and populations with ground-based and space-based gravitational-wave detectors
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Collisionless Black Hole Accretion
  • Alisa Galishnikova, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online Event
Convergence of unitary representations and spectral gaps of manifolds
  • Michael Magee, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University,
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Monday, November 13
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
High-dimensional entanglement and chip-scale quantum information processing
  • Dr Xiang Cheng,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Universal fluctuations in ergodic quantum dynamics, and their use for benchmarking highly entangled states
  • Daniel K. Mark, Department of Physics-Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Leveraging quantum sensors to shine new light on searches for low-mass dark matter
  • Kelly Stifter, SLAC,
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
"Exploring Venus" and "Exoplanets: Past, Present, & Future"
  • Anna Gülcher, Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Geology and Planetary Science, Caltech,
  • Luke Bouma, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
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Tuesday, November 14
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Introduction to Transformer Models
  • Aike Liu, Physics Department, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Continuous bubbling for the harmonic map heat flow
  • Andrew W. Lawrie, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Horizons as Eavesdroppers: Horizons Decohere Quantum Superpositions
  • Daine Danielson, University of Chicago,
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Wednesday, November 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Identification and characterization of topological order without and with tensor networks
  • Norbert Schuch, University of Vienna,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Unveiling the Atmospheres of Exoplanets: Exploring Detection, Evolution, and Habitability
  • Raissa Estrela, JPL-NASA,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Aperiodic spin chains for discrete holography on hyperbolic tilings
  • Giuseppe di Giulio, Institute for Theoretical Physics & Astrophysics, University of Wurzburg,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Characterizing the Life Cycle of the Interstellar Medium and Star Formation in Galaxies with Far-Infrared Spectral Lines
  • Jorge Pineda, ASTHROS Balloon Principal Investigator, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
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Thursday, November 16
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Online and In-Person Event
AdS_3/RMT_2 Duality
  • Gabriele Di Ubaldo, IPhT,
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2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Linde Hall 187
Mirror Symmetry for Nonabelian LG models
  • Nathan Priddis, College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Brigham Young University,
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3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Quantum K-invariants of Grassmannian via Quot scheme
  • Ming Zhang, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Wielding Frequency Dependent Squeezing against Quantum Back-Action in the LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatories
  • Lee McCuller, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Geometric Eisenstein Series and Torsion Vanishing
  • Linus Hamann, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
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Friday, November 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Chaos in Observable Algebras of Quantum Gravity
  • Nima Lashkari, Purdue University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
How simulating balls and springs captures the power of quantum computing
  • Robin Kothari, Google,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Dwarf Galaxies, Neutron Star Mergers, and Heavy Elements
  • Anya Nugent,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Binary Interaction and the Explodability of Massive Stars
  • Rachel Patton, Graduate Student, Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), Ohio State University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Watson 104
Nonequilibrium spin dynamics in quantum magnets probed by neutrons
  • Dr. Chengyun Hua, R&D Associate, Materials Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online Event
Log-Concavity of the Alexander Polynomial for Special Alternating Links
  • Elena S. Hafner, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Stellar Tantrums and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
  • Yuping Huang, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
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Monday, November 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
The Piezoaxionic Effect: dark matter detection and new forces
  • Amalia Madden, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Solvable models for 2+1D quantum critical points with a non-local area law of entanglement
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Random conformal geometry
  • Morris Ang, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
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Monday, November 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Prospecting for new physics using muons
  • Jure Zupan, University of Cincinnati,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Optical control of antiferromagnetic order
  • Suyang Xu, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvad University,
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Tuesday, November 28
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Searching singularity formation in fluids with deep learning
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2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Conjugacy classes of derangements in finite groups of Lie type
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3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
TBA
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Last Passage Percolation beyond algebraic formulas
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
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Wednesday, November 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Quantum Computation with Quantum LDPC Codes in Reconfigurable Atom Arrays
  • Hengyun (Harry) Zhou, Harvard and QuEra,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Keith Spalding 410
SDSS-V Instrumentation Program and Survey Status
  • Solange Ramirez, Carnegie Observatories,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Future of AI in Astronomy
  • Cecilia Garraffo, Astrophysicist, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University,
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Thursday, November 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Hair and Black Hole Information
  • Stephen Hsu, Michigan State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Using Nuclear Reactors to Study Neutrinos
  • Pedro Ochoa,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Local densities of hermitian lattices and Kudla—Rapoport conjectures with levels
  • Zhiyu Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Embedding in high-dimensional random geometric graphs
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
On sharp isoperimetric inequalities on the hypercube
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Phase transition in the log-gamma polymer measure
  • Evgeni Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, USC,
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