Seminars
Spring 2024-2025
Monday, March 31st, 2025
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Bosonic Mixing in Curved Spacetime
Devin Walker,
Dartmouth University,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Existence and Stability of Euclidean Wormholes with $S^1\times S^2$ Boundaries
Xiaoyi Liu,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:15pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
AGN Variability: A Cornucopia or a Phantasmagoria?
Matthew Graham,
Research Professor of Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, April 4th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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An L-function Approach to 2D CFT
Eric Perlmutter,
IPhT-Saclay, Paris,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Connecting Compact Object Dynamics with Multi-Messenger Observations in Dense Star Clusters
Monday, April 7th, 2025
3:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Deep source, noise, and glitch separation for the LISA global fit, with applications to LIGO
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Higher Order Flavor Sum Rules
Margarita Gavrilova,
Cornell University,
Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Quantizing the Area: Geometry from Conditional Probability
Marc Klinger,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
12:15pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Imaging Young Jupiters with GPI 2.0
Saavidra Perera,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
SPHEREx First Light
Jamie Bock,
Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics, Caltech; Senior Research Scientist, JPL,
California Institute of Technology; Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Probing Photonic Quantum Matter with Cats
Jonathan Simon,
Stanford University,
Friday, April 11th, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Decoherence near Black Holes: Causality, Fluctuation and Dissipation
Sam Gralla,
University of Arizona,
2:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum circuit and novel quantum state preparation from spacetime duality
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Three-Dimensional Long-Term CCSN Simulations: New Insights and Challenges
Monday, April 14th, 2025
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Gravothermal Collapse of Dark Matter Halos: Observational Insights
Haibo Yu,
UC Riverside,
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Phases with Generalized Symmetries
Alison Warman,
University of Oxford,
12:15pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
ALMA+JWST Discovers Companions at < 18 kpc Around z~3.5 Radio AGN
Wuji Wang,
Caltech/IPAC,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Fast Radio Bursts
Vikram Ravi,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
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Thursday, April 17th, 2025
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Feedback control of open quantum systems: Looking back, looking forward
Hideo Mabuchi,
Stanford University,
Friday, April 18th, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Exploring CFT Moments
David Poland,
Yale University,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Jordan-Wigner transformations on the torus
Frank Verstraete,
University of Ghent, University of Cambridge,
2:15pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Performance-Portable Numerical Relativity with AthenaK and Applications
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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A stress tensor for asymptotically flat spacetime
Hare Krishna,
University of Texas, Austin,
12:15pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
The Faint and the Furious: What are the Lowest Mass Stars that Explode as Core-Collapse Supernovae?
Kaustav Das,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Neugebauer Lecture)
GXN's Impact on JXZ
Jonas Zmuidzinas,
Merle Kingsley Professor of Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, April 24th, 2025
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons: What You Can Do
Fred Lamb,
UIUC,
Friday, April 25th, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Conformal Manifolds from Topological Gauging and Continuous SymTFTs
Ho Tat Lam,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Control, Readout, and Entanglement of Molecular Qubits
Lewis Picard,
David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar,
Endres Group,
Monday, April 28th, 2025
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Predicting the dark matter - baryon abundance ratio
Anson Hook,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Nonlinear Magneto-Optics of van der Waals magnet CrSBr
Liuyan Zhao,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Feynman-Vernon goes cosmic: path integrals for cosmological open systems
Gregory Kaplanek,
Syracuse University,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Topological Criticality and Anyon Superconductivity: Two Routes to Beyond BCS Superconductors
Ashvin Vishwanath,
Harvard,
12:15pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
TESS-Gaia Light Curve and the Radius Bias of TESS Exoplanets
Te Han,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
James Webb Space Telescope Breakthroughs in Galaxy Formation
Nadia Zakamska,
Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Ashvin Vishwanath,
Harvard University,
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Towards quantum simulating holographic duality
Julian Sonner,
University of Geneva,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Extracting the topological spins from bulk multipartite entanglement
Yarden Sheffer,
Weizmann Institute,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Remnants of Double and Quadruple Detonations in Binary White Dwarfs
Monday, May 5th, 2025
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Autonomous Model Building with Reinforcement Learning: An Application with Neutrino Flavor Symmetries
Jake Rudolph,
UC Irvine,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe
Misha Usatyuk,
KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
12:15pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Deciphering Cosmic History And Cosmic-Ray Physics with Radio Emission
Allison Matthews,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture)
The Time Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei
Christopher Kochanek,
Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar,
Ohio State University,
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Unveiling the First Galaxies & Black Holes in the Universe
Priyamvada Natarajan,
Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor in Astronomy & Physics,
Yale University,
Friday, May 9th, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Collinear Corrections to the Cachazo-Strominger Soft Theorem
Sruthi Narayanan,
Perimeter Institute,
2:15pm
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3:15pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Dynamical tides in binary neutron stars: effects of spin, tidal spin, and nonlinear hydrodynamics
Monday, May 12th, 2025
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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How the universe came to be smooth and flat
Paul Steinhardt,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Signatures of high-energy neutrinos from sources for r-process nuclei
Yongzhong Qian,
University of Minnesota,
12:15pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Tracing the Evolution of Short-Period Exoplanets: Insights from Young Stellar Clusters
Rachel Fernandes,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Explosive Life of Massive Binaries
Mathieu Renzo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,