Loading [Contrib]/a11y/accessibility-menu.js
Caltech Home > PMA Home > Calendar
open search form
Show Options
Monday, March 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Bosonic Mixing in Curved Spacetime
  • Devin Walker, Dartmouth University,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill 370
Quasi-Periodic Eruptions: the first electromagnetic counterparts to EMRIs? / Hunting High-Redshift Blazars: Insights from X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Observations
  • Joheen Chakraborty, PhD student, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
  • Dr. Andrea Gokus, McDonnell Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Washington University in St. Louis,
iCal icon
Tuesday, April 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wavepackets that Probe Electron transfer and Quantum-Like States
  • Gregory D. Scholes, William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
iCal icon
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Online Event
Virasoro and triplet vertex algebras at positive rational central charge
  • Robert McRae, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University,
iCal icon
Wednesday, April 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Existence and Stability of Euclidean Wormholes with $S^1\times S^2$ Boundaries
  • Xiaoyi Liu, UC Santa Barbara,
iCal icon
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Xiaoyi Liu, UC Santa Barbara,
iCal icon
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
The Sizes of Dwarf Galaxies
  • Nushkia Chamba, NASA/Ames,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
AGN Variability: A Cornucopia or a Phantasmagoria?
  • Matthew Graham, Research Professor of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,
iCal icon
Thursday, April 3
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Linde Hall 187
Non-archimedean periods for log Calabi-Yau surfaces
  • Soham Karwa, Department of Mathematics, Duke University,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Quantum K Rings of Partial Flags, Coulomb Branches, and the Bethe Ansatz
  • Irit Huq-Kuruvilla, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech,
iCal icon
Friday, April 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
An L-function Approach to 2D CFT
  • Eric Perlmutter, IPhT-Saclay, Paris,
iCal icon
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Connecting Compact Object Dynamics with Multi-Messenger Observations in Dense Star Clusters
  • Claire Ye, Postdoctoral Fellow, CITA, University of Toronto,
iCal icon
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
The L^2 Alexander torsion for 3-manifolds and sutured manifold theory
  • Jianru Duan, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University,
iCal icon
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
If You Give a Black Hole a Cookie
  • Jean Somalwar, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
iCal icon
Monday, April 7
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Athenaeum
iCal icon
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Deep source, noise, and glitch separation for the LISA global fit, with applications to LIGO
iCal icon
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 359
Conversations about Math Teaching: Flipping Math 6b
  • Catherine Babecki, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Higher Order Flavor Sum Rules
  • Margarita Gavrilova, Cornell University,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill 370
"MOMOS: A Superconducting MKID High Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph Testbed for the Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets" and "Learning to Read and Write in Physics and Astronomy"
iCal icon
Tuesday, April 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Roel Tempelaar, Assistant Professor of Chemistrry, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,
iCal icon
Wednesday, April 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Quantizing the Area: Geometry from Conditional Probability
  • Marc Klinger, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
iCal icon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online Event
Simplicial complexes, stellar moves, projective amalgamation, and set theory
  • Sławomir Solecki, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
iCal icon
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Online Event
Imaging Young Jupiters with GPI 2.0
  • Saavidra Perera, UC Santa Cruz,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
SPHEREx First Light
  • Jamie Bock, Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics, Caltech; Senior Research Scientist, JPL, California Institute of Technology; Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
iCal icon
Thursday, April 10
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Linde Hall 187
Counting Maps to Hypersurfaces in Grassmannians
  • Shubham Sinha, Department of Mathematics, ICTP,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Probing Photonic Quantum Matter with Cats
  • Jonathan Simon, Stanford University,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Murmurations from functional equations
  • Alex Cowan, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
A moduli theoretic approach to heights on stacks
  • Dori Bejleri, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Interplay of Vertex and Edge Dynamics for Dense Random Graphs
  • Frank den Hollander, Department of Mathematics, Leiden University,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
iCal icon
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Random cluster models on random graphs
  • Remco van der Hofstad, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology,
iCal icon
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Large deviations for the giant in spatial random graphs
  • Joost Jorritsma, Department of Statistics, Magdalen College, University of Oxford,
iCal icon
Friday, April 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Decoherence near Black Holes: Causality, Fluctuation and Dissipation
  • Sam Gralla, University of Arizona,
iCal icon
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Quantum circuit and novel quantum state preparation from spacetime duality
  • Yizhi You, Professor, Department of Physics, Northeastern University,
iCal icon
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Three-Dimensional Long-Term CCSN Simulations: New Insights and Challenges
iCal icon
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Bordered algebras and the wrapped Fukaya category
  • Isabella Khan, Forbes College, Princeton University,
iCal icon
Monday, April 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Gravothermal Collapse of Dark Matter Halos: Observational Insights
  • Haibo Yu, UC Riverside,
iCal icon
Tuesday, April 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Mapping and controlling excited state potential energy surfaces with ultrafast Raman spectroscopies
  • Renee Frontiera, Northrop Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota,
iCal icon
Wednesday, April 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Phases with Generalized Symmetries
  • Alison Warman, University of Oxford,
iCal icon
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
ALMA+JWST Discovers Companions at < 18 kpc Around z~3.5 Radio AGN
  • Wuji Wang, Caltech/IPAC,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Fast Radio Bursts
  • Vikram Ravi, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,
  • ,
iCal icon
Thursday, April 17
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Linde Hall 187
Moduli spaces of curves with polynomial point count
  • Hannah Larson, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
iCal icon
3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Chen 100
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Feedback control of open quantum systems: Looking back, looking forward
  • Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford University,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
On p-adic L-functions for GL(N)
  • Mladen Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, Université de Lille,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Gram Matrices for Isotropic Vectors
  • Bernd Sturmfels, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
iCal icon
Friday, April 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Exploring CFT Moments
  • David Poland, Yale University,
iCal icon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Jordan-Wigner transformations on the torus
  • Frank Verstraete, University of Ghent, University of Cambridge,
iCal icon
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Performance-Portable Numerical Relativity with AthenaK and Applications
  • Hengrui Zhu, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Princeton University,
iCal icon
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Tight contact structures on Seifert fibrations
  • Hyunki Min, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
iCal icon
Monday, April 21
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 359
Conversations about Math Teaching: Giving and receiving feedback
  • Clara Seo, Chemistry Department, Caltech,
iCal icon
Wednesday, April 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
A stress tensor for asymptotically flat spacetime
  • Hare Krishna, University of Texas, Austin,
iCal icon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online Event
Graphings of Arithmetical Equivalence Relations
  • Tyler Arant, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
iCal icon
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
The Faint and the Furious: What are the Lowest Mass Stars that Explode as Core-Collapse Supernovae?
  • Kaustav Das, Caltech,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
GXN's Impact on JXZ
  • Jonas Zmuidzinas, Merle Kingsley Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
An "efficient" classical algorithm for some 3-manifold TQFT invariants
  • Colleen Delaney, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Purdue University,
iCal icon
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
iCal icon
Thursday, April 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons: What You Can Do
  • Fred Lamb, UIUC,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Uniform bounds for degrees of maps from curves to hyperbolic varieties
  • Jackson Morrow, Mathematics Department, University of North Texas,
iCal icon
Friday, April 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Conformal Manifolds from Topological Gauging and Continuous SymTFTs
  • Ho Tat Lam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
iCal icon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Control, Readout, and Entanglement of Molecular Qubits
  • Lewis Picard, David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar, Endres Group,
iCal icon
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 187
Positive scalar curvature on trivial and nontrivial circle bundles
  • Aditya Kumar, Department of Mathematics, John Hopkins University,
iCal icon
Monday, April 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Watson 104
Manipulating Topological Phases and Correlated States in HfTe₅
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Predicting the dark matter - baryon abundance ratio
  • Anson Hook, University of Maryland,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Nonlinear Magneto-Optics of van der Waals magnet CrSBr
  • Liuyan Zhao, Associate Professor of Physics, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
iCal icon
Tuesday, April 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Why don't plants get sunburn?
  • Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachussetts Institute of Technology,
iCal icon
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Linde Hall 310
Finite quotients of 3-manifold groups
  • Melanie Matchett Wood, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
iCal icon
Wednesday, April 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Feynman-Vernon goes cosmic: path integrals for cosmological open systems
  • Gregory Kaplanek, Syracuse University,
iCal icon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online Event
Continuity and strictness of measurable cocycles
  • Christian Rosendal, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland-College Park,
iCal icon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
  • Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard,
iCal icon
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Linde Hall 310
Kinematic varieties for massless particles
  • Svala Sverrisdóttir, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
James Webb Space Telescope Breakthroughs in Galaxy Formation
  • Nadia Zakamska, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,
iCal icon
Thursday, May 1
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Polarized endomorphism of log Calabi-Yau pairs
  • José Yáñez, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
iCal icon
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Root recovery for infection processes on trees and graphs
  • Louigi Addario-Berry, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
  • Ashvin Vishwanath, Harvard University,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
TBA
  • Markus Heydenreich, Institute of Mathematics, Universität Augsburg,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Enumerative invariants of derived categories
  • Reginald Anderson, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Claremont McKenna College,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde Hall 387
Smyth's conjecture and a non-deterministic Hasse principle
  • Jordan Ellenberg, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
iCal icon
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
TBA
  • Miklos Racz, Department of Statistics and Data Science & Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University,
iCal icon
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm iCal icon
Friday, May 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Julian Sonner, University of Geneva,
iCal icon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Extracting the topological spins from bulk multipartite entanglement
  • Yarden Sheffer, Weizmann Institute,
iCal icon
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Remnants of Double and Quadruple Detonations in Binary White Dwarfs
  • Logan Prust, Postdoctoral Fellow, KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
iCal icon
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Online Event
Nearly geodesic surfaces are filling
  • Xiaolong Hans Han, Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Fudan University,
iCal icon
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Inside and Out: 
The Full Picture of Galaxy Evolution
  • Evan Nuñez, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
iCal icon
Monday, May 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Jake Rudolph, UC Irvine,
iCal icon
Wednesday, May 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
  • Misha Usatyuk, KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Time Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Christopher Kochanek, Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar, Ohio State University,
iCal icon
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
iCal icon
Thursday, May 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
iCal icon
Friday, May 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Sruthi Narayanan, Perimeter Institute,
iCal icon
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Dynamical tides in binary neutron stars: effects of spin, tidal spin, and nonlinear hydrodynamics
  • Hang Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Montana State University,
iCal icon
Monday, May 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University,
iCal icon
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
"Dark Matter" and "Gravitational Waves"
  • Ana Bonaca, Staff Scientist, Carnegie Observatories,
  • Gabriele Vajente, Deputy, Head of System Science and Engineering, LIGO Laboratory, Caltech,
iCal icon
Wednesday, May 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Signatures of high-energy neutrinos from sources for r-process nuclei
  • Yongzhong Qian, University of Minnesota,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
TBD
  • Mathieu Renzo, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
iCal icon
Thursday, May 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Multimessenger Perspectives on High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
  • Kohta Murase, Pennsylvania State University,
iCal icon
Friday, May 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Daniel Green, UC San Diego,
iCal icon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
  • Ruslan Shaydulin, JPMorganChase,
iCal icon
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Modeling Black Hole Accretion with Radiation GRMHD: A Parameter Survey and Connection to Observations
  • Lizhong Zhang, Flatiron Research Fellow, CCA, Flatiron Institute,
iCal icon
Monday, May 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Yue Zhang, Carleton University,
iCal icon
Wednesday, May 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Area Fluctuations from Gravitational Phase Space
  • Temple He, Caltech,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
TBD
  • Juna Kollmeier, Staff Scientist, Carnegie Observatories,
iCal icon
Thursday, May 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
iCal icon
Friday, May 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Ning Bao, Northeastern University,
iCal icon
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
  • M. Sten Delos, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Theoretical Astrophysics Center, Carnegie Observatories,
iCal icon
Tuesday, May 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Vojtech Vlcek, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara,
iCal icon
Wednesday, May 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Victor Ivo, Princeton University,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
TBD
  • Joshua Winn, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
iCal icon
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
iCal icon
Thursday, May 29
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Christian Biello, Garching, Max Planck Institut,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
iCal icon
Friday, May 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
  • Dan Kapec, Harvard University,
iCal icon
Tuesday, June 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Timothy C Berkelbach, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
iCal icon
Wednesday, June 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online Event
Continuous Hyperfiniteness
  • Hyung Mook Kang, Mathematics Department, University of North Texas,
iCal icon
Friday, June 6
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online and In-Person Event
Title to be announced
  • Philipp Kempski, Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
iCal icon
Wednesday, June 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Revisiting Decades -Old Chemistry and Physics to Improve Modern Molecular Imaging
  • Warren S. Warren, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Duke University,
iCal icon