Seminars
December 2025
Monday, December 1st, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Hot and (Un)bothered: Unveiling the Complex Dynamical Histories of Hot Jupiters
Brandon Radzom,
graduate student; Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Non-invertible chiral symmetry and the ABJ anomaly on the lattice
Professor Lukasz Fidkowski,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Condensed Matter - Quantum Information,
University of Washington, Seattle,
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Brandon Rayhaun,
Institute for Advanced Study,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Anomalies of Defect Parameter Spaces and a Spin-Flux Duality
Brandon Rayhaun,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Properties of Quasar Host Galaxies: Star Formation Histories and Stellar Populations
Maria Stone,
INAF, Rome and FINCA, Finland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Gaussian Bosonic Dynamics in the Presence of Symmetry: Engineering, Monotones and Conservation Laws
Nick Koukoulekidis,
Duke University,
Thursday, December 4th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Astrophysical Signals of Asymmetric Dark Matter
Aidan Reilly,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, December 5th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Large N Universality of 4d N=1 SCFT and Holography
Jaewon Song,
KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
End-to-End Efficient Quantum Thermal and Ground State Preparation Made Simple
Yongtao Zhan,
Preskill group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Emergent Flat Space from Quantum Entanglement
Tianli Wang,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Stellar forensics: tracing the origin of interaction-powered supernovae and Type-Ia supernova remnants
Monday, December 8th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Sleeping Giants: Telling Case Studies of Changing-look Quasars
Laura Duffy,
graduate student, Penn State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Return of the Kaon
Yuval Grossman,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Electron Spin, Chiral Symmetry Breaking, and Life's Homochirality
Furkan Ozturk,
Assistant Professor of Geobiology and Geochemistry; William H. Hurt Scholar,
Geobiology and Geochemistry,
Caltech,
Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Studying the three-dimensional architecture of transiting planets and their outer companions in the era of Gaia
Jingwen Zhang,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Euclid space mission
M. Claudia Scarlata,
Distinguished McKnight University Professor (Director of MIfA),
Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics,
University of Minnesota,
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Decoding the sub-parsec scale environment of LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Neutron Star Mergers, Kilonovae, and Kilonova Impostors
Friday, December 12th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fast and scalable quantum simulation of fermionic systems
Nishad Maskara,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2025
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
The Early Universe in Our Backyard: Dust, Ices, Outflows and Protostellar Accretion in the Low-Metallicity Star-Forming Region NGC 346
Nolan Habel,
JPL,