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Monday, January 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Overcoming challenges of quantum interference at LHC with neural simulation-based inference and a full implementation in ATLAS
  • Aishik Ghosh, LBNL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Breaking symmetries by shining light through transparent solids
  • Anshul Kogar, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA,
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Wednesday, January 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Well-Posed Boundary Conditions for Semi-Classical Euclidean Gravity
  • Xiaoyi Liu, UC Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
James Webb Space Telescope Breakthroughs in Galaxy Formation
  • Nadia Zakamska, Professor, Johns Hopkins University,
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Thursday, January 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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From Collisions to Discoveries with Machine Learning at the Energy Frontier
  • Javier Duarte, UCSD,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Diophantine problems arising from tetrahedra
  • Chris Lyons, Department of Mathematics, Cal State Fullerton,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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  • Yacine Aoun, Department of Mathematics, University of Geneva,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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  • Christian Serio, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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  • Hindy Drillick, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,
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Friday, January 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Null Raychauduri and Damour equations : Canonical Structure, Dressing Time and Quantisation
  • Laurent Freidel, Perimeter Institute,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Connecting Compact Object Dynamics with Multi-Messenger Observations in Dense Star Clusters
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Monday, January 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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How the Universe became flat and smooth
  • Paul Steinardt, Princeton University,
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Tuesday, January 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Area-Minimizing Currents Mod An Integer
  • Camillo De Lellis, School of Mathematics, IAS,
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Wednesday, January 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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New Modes for Vector Bosons in the Static Patch
  • Adel Rahman, Stanford University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Topological groups with tractable minimal dynamics
  • Andy Zucker, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Besicovitch's 21 Problem and Linear Programming
  • Camillo De Lellis, School of Mathematics, IAS,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
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  • Nick Scoville, Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,
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Thursday, January 16
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Symplectic Aspects of Hyperplane Arrangements
  • Siyang Liu, Department of Mathematics, USC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Quantum Computing for Plasma Physics: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Nuno Loureiro, MIT,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
The arithmetic of power series and applications to irrationality
  • Yunqing Tang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Segre classes and Lorentzian/covolume polynomials
  • Paolo Aluffi, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University,
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Friday, January 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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New Phases in SYM
  • Prahar Mitra, University of Amsterdam,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Magnetic Control of Chiral Phonons and Deep-Strong Light-Matter Coupling
  • Andrey Baydin, Rice University,
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Beckman Mall
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Algebraic structure of knot Floer homology
  • David Popović, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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Wednesday, January 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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The Hilbert space of de Sitter JT gravity
  • Jesse Held, UC Santa Barbara,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Pi-1-1 maximal almost disjoint families and Laver measurability
  • Asger Törnquist, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
The Origins of Planetary Atmospheres
  • Klaus Pontoppidan, JPL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
How Dark is Space?
  • Tod Lauer, Astronomer, NOIRLab,
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Thursday, January 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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A New Era in Quantum Optics: From Topological Photonics to Correlated Materials
  • Mohammad Hafezi, UMD,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Modularity of special cycles in orthogonal and unitary Shimura varieties
  • Salim Tayou, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College,
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Friday, January 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Local Consequences of Asymptotic Symmetries
  • Gautam Satishchandran, Princeton University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Topological superconductivity and high-magnetic-field superconductivity in UTe2
  • Sylvia Klare Lewin, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
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1:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Ramo Auditorium
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Weyl Law for the 1-cycles
  • Bruno Staffa, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Faster than Light Speed? The Physics of the Warp Drive
  • Elias Most, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
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Monday, January 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Time-delayed gamma-ray signatures of heavy axions from core-collapse supernovae
  • Joshua Benabou, UC Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Cahill 370
An independent search for small long-period planets in Kepler data / Detecting and Characterizing Intermediate-period Companions to Stars with Space-based Photometry / Early On-Sky Results from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Commissioning Campaign
  • Oryna Ivashtenko, PhD student, Weizmann Institute of Science,
  • Shishir Dholakia, PhD student, University of Southern Queensland,
  • Guillem Megias i Homar, PhD student, Stanford University,
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Wednesday, January 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Asymptotic Higher Spin Symmetries in Yang-Mills Theory
  • Nicolas Cresto, Perimeter Institute,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Bowen's Problem 32 and the conjugacy problem for systems with specification
  • Bo Peng, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Characterizing the Atmospheres of Gas Giants around M-dwarf Stars with JWST
  • Jessica Libby-Roberts, Pennsylvania State University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Stability of the catenoid for the hyperbolic vanishing mean curvature equation in 4 spatial dimensions
  • Ning Tang, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Dim Future of Exoplanet Imaging
  • Michael Bottom, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, January 30
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room)
Cascade of new even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states
  • Mansour Shayegan, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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From Collisions to Discoveries with Machine Learning at the Energy Frontier
  • Javier Duarte, UCSD,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Generic positivity of the Beilinson-Bloch height of Gross-Schoen and Ceresa cycles
  • Ziyang Gao, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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Friday, January 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Conformal boundary conditions and cosmic horizons
  • Batoul Banihashemi, UC Santa Cruz,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Many-body Interactions between Matter Waves Mediated by a High Finesse Cavity
  • Chengyi Luo, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar, Faraon Group,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Better early than never: A new test for superluminal gravitational wave polarizations
  • Kristen Schumacher, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online Event
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Manifolds with Ricci lower bounds in the spectral sense
  • Kai Xu, Department of Mathematics, Duke University,
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Monday, February 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 359
Conversation about Math Teaching
  • Chris Towse, Math Department, Scripps College,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
2 um fiber lasers and amplifiers for cryogenic silicon gravitational wave detectors
  • Georgia Bolingbroke,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Semiclassical Amplitudes and Black Holes
  • Donal O'Connell, Edinburgh University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Exotic aspherical 4-manifolds
  • Danny Ruberman, Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Irreducible 4-manifolds can admit exotic diffeomorphisms
  • Hokuto Konno, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo,
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
"Fast Radio Bursts" and "Building Europa Clipper"
  • Stella Ocker, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Matthew Stumbo, System Integration and Test Engineer, NASA JPL,
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Wednesday, February 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Phase space of JT gravity with positive cosmological constant
  • Elba Alonso-Monsalve, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Sigma Scattered Linear Orderings
  • William Chan, Institute for Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of Technology,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Geometric Approach to Quantum Theory
  • Albert Schwarz, UC Davis & Caltech,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Extremal black hole formation as a critical phenomenon
  • Ryan Unger, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Probing Supermassive Black Holes and Quasars with the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project
  • Catherine (Kate) Grier, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
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Thursday, February 6
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Doubly Periodic Aztec Diamond Dimer Model: Gaussian Free Field and Discrete Gaussians
  • Matthew Nicoletti, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Entanglement Randomness
  • James Analytis, UC Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Poisson boundary of hyperbolic groups without moment conditions
  • Kunal Chawla, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Bethe Ansatz for PushASEP on the ring
  • Axel Saenz Rodriguez, Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University,
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Friday, February 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Pinning Defects, Fusion and Factorization
  • Yifan Wang, New York University,
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Frustrated Quantum Devices: understanding how correlations, complex order and boundary states manifest in novel material functionalities
  • James Analytis, UC Berkeley,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Annular links and categorified invariants
  • Fraser Binns, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
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Monday, February 10
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Quantifying LIGO's response to environmental disturbances in O4 and beyond
  • Adrian Helmling-Cornell,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Dark showers from sneaky dark matter
  • Christiane Scherb, UC Berkeley/LBNL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill 370
Constraints on Remnant Planetary Systems as a Function of Main-Sequence Mass with HST/COS
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Tuesday, February 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Probing the Frontiers of Interstellar Chemistry Through Cold and Controlled Ion Experiments
  • Heather Lewandowski, Professor of Physics, Fellow of JILA, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder,
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Wednesday, February 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Characterizing the Space of UV-Complete Amplitudes
  • Justin Berman, University of Michigan,
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Athenaeum
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Σ12 -completeness results in Borel combinatorics via gadget reductions
  • Alex Kastner, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Census of Black Hole Accretion Structure and Mass
  • Yasaman Homayouni, Pennsylvania State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Revisiting the Core Accretion Paradigm for Giant Planet Formation: Analytic Framework for the Late Infall Stage and the Distribution of Planetary Masses
  • Fred Adams, Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics, University of Michigan,
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Thursday, February 13
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Linde Hall 187
Cycles on the moduli space of abelian varieties
  • Dragos Oprea, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
The DNA of Particle Scattering
  • Lance Dixon, SLAC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Tori with discrete group actions in arithmetic
  • Peter Xu, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
CY3 Wall-Crossing using Virtual Classes
  • Felix Thimm, Department of Mathematics, The University of British Columbia,
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Friday, February 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Antipodal (Self-)Duality in Planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
  • Lance Dixon, SLAC,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Extreme confinement with hyperbolic cavities - a new platform for quantum light-matter interactions
  • Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Bar-Ilan University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Mapping the Dark Matter Distribution of Galaxies with Stellar Streams
  • Jacob Nibauer, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Embedded Minimal Tori in the Three Sphere
  • Xingzhe Li, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Powerful Jets from Supermassive Black Holes
  • Martijn Oei, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
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Tuesday, February 18
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Raffaele Tito d'Agnolo, Institut de Physique Théorique,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Bridging the pressure gap in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Synergies arising from Experimental and Theoretical Kinetics
  • Alex Wodtke, Director and Professor of University of Göttingen, Dynamics and Surfaces, Max Planck Institute,
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Wednesday, February 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Moments and saddles of heavy CFT correlators
  • Gordon Rogelberg, Yale University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Locally checkable labeling problems in the Borel hierarchy
  • Felix Weilacher, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Inclusive Scattering Matrix
  • Albert Schwarz, UC Davis & Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Multi-Scale Circumgalactic Medium
  • Peng Oh, Professor, University of California Santa Barbara,
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Thursday, February 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Entangling Ultracold Molecules
  • Kang-Kuen Ni, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Monodromy results for abelian surfaces and K3 surfaces with bad reduction
  • Tejasi Bhatnager, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin - Madison,
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Friday, February 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Gravity and a universal cutoff for field theory
  • Simon Caron-Huot, McGill University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Precision tests of gravity on the table-top
  • Gautam Venugopalan, Stanford University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Knot Detection Results in RP^3
  • Hongjian Yang, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
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Monday, February 24
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Nonequilibrium dynamics and control of flatband graphene
  • Professor Jin Chenhao, Chenhao Jin Assistant Professor, Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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TBA
  • Chia-Hsien Shen, National Taiwan University,
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
"The Sun's Life and Death" and "Seeing the Invisible"
  • Antonio Rodriguez, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Mandy Chen, Brinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech and Carnegie Observatories,
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Tuesday, February 25
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
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Wednesday, February 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Adam Tropper, Harvard University,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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L-Functionals and Infrared Problem in Quantum Electrodynamics
  • Albert Schwarz, UC Davis & Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Tales of Dust-Enshrouded Eruptions: Solving Missing Links from Planets to Supermassive Black Holes
  • Kishalay De, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Columbia University,
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, February 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
  • Leonardo Rastelli, Stony Brook University,
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Friday, February 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Leonardo Rastelli, Stony Brook University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Title to be announced
  • Gabriel Piovano, Postdoctoral Fellow, Physique théorique et Mathématique, Université Libre de Bruxelles,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Dabney Hall, Lounge
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Tuesday, March 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Rohit Bhargava, Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, College of Engineering and Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
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Wednesday, March 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Towards a complete classification of holographic entropy inequalities, and beyond...
  • Joydeep Naskar, Northeastern University,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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TBA
  • Ayngaran Thavanesan, University of Cambridge,
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Thursday, March 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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What's Done Cannot Be Undone: Non-Invertible Symmetries
  • Shu-Heng Shao, MIT,
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Friday, March 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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TBA
  • Shu-Heng Shao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Title to be announced
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Tuesday, March 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Shane Ardo, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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TBA
  • Xing Fan, Northwester University & Harvard University,
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Wednesday, March 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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TBA
  • Carolina Figueiredo, Princeton University,
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Thursday, March 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Centaur Science: Particle Physics meets Machine Learning
  • Jesse Thaler, MIT,
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Friday, March 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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  • Anastasia Volovich, Brown University,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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  • Jesse Thaler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Monday, March 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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  • Roxanne Springer, Duke University,
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Tuesday, March 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Theoretical Approaches to Photoinduced Charge Transfer in the Condensed Phase
  • Xiang Sun, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China,
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Friday, March 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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TBA
  • Yue-Zhou Li, Princeton University,
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Wednesday, March 26
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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