Seminars
Winter 2024-2025
Monday, January 6th, 2025
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Overcoming challenges of quantum interference at LHC with neural simulation-based inference and a full implementation in ATLAS
Aishik Ghosh,
LBNL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 8th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar - POSTPONED
Online and In-Person Event
Well-Posed Boundary Conditions for Semi-Classical Euclidean Gravity
Xiaoyi Liu,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
James Webb Space Telescope Breakthroughs in Galaxy Formation
Nadia Zakamska,
Professor,
Johns Hopkins University,
Thursday, January 9th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
From Collisions to Discoveries with Machine Learning at the Energy Frontier
Javier Duarte,
UCSD,
Friday, January 10th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar - POSTPONED
Online and In-Person Event
Null Raychauduri and Damour equations : Canonical Structure, Dressing Time and Quantisation
Laurent Freidel,
Perimeter Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Connecting Compact Object Dynamics with Multi-Messenger Observations in Dense Star Clusters
Monday, January 13th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELED
Online and In-Person Event
How the Universe became flat and smooth
Paul Steinardt,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, January 14th, 2025
4:00pm
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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New Modes for Vector Bosons in the Static Patch
Adel Rahman,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
CANCELLED
Nick Scoville,
Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus,
Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Quantum Computing for Plasma Physics: Challenges and Opportunities
Nuno Loureiro,
MIT,
Friday, January 17th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
New Phases in SYM
Prahar Mitra,
University of Amsterdam,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Magnetic Control of Chiral Phonons and Deep-Strong Light-Matter Coupling
Andrey Baydin,
Rice University,
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Hilbert space of de Sitter JT gravity
Jesse Held,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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A New Era in Quantum Optics: From Topological Photonics to Correlated Materials
Mohammad Hafezi,
UMD,
Friday, January 24th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Local Consequences of Asymptotic Symmetries
Gautam Satishchandran,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Topological superconductivity and high-magnetic-field superconductivity in UTe2
Sylvia Klare Lewin,
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Monday, January 27th, 2025
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Time-delayed gamma-ray signatures of heavy axions from core-collapse supernovae
Joshua Benabou,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Asymptotic Higher Spin Symmetries in Yang-Mills Theory
Nicolas Cresto,
Perimeter Institute,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Characterizing the Atmospheres of Gas Giants around M-dwarf Stars with JWST
Jessica Libby-Roberts,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Dim Future of Exoplanet Imaging
Michael Bottom,
Associate Professor of Astronomy,
Institute for Astronomy,
University of Hawaii,
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Cascade of new even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states
Mansour Shayegan,
Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
From Collisions to Discoveries with Machine Learning at the Energy Frontier
Javier Duarte,
UCSD,
Friday, January 31st, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Conformal boundary conditions and cosmic horizons
Batoul Banihashemi,
UC Santa Cruz,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Many-body Interactions between Matter Waves Mediated by a High Finesse Cavity
Chengyi Luo,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
Faraon Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Better early than never: A new test for superluminal gravitational wave polarizations
Kristen Schumacher,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Monday, February 3rd, 2025
3:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
2 um fiber lasers and amplifiers for cryogenic silicon gravitational wave detectors
Georgia Bolingbroke,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Semiclassical Amplitudes and Black Holes
Donal O'Connell,
Edinburgh University,
Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Phase space of JT gravity with positive cosmological constant
Elba Alonso-Monsalve,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Geometric Approach to Quantum Theory
Albert Schwarz,
UC Davis & Caltech,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
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,
Thursday, February 6th, 2025
4:00pm
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Friday, February 7th, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Pinning Defects, Fusion and Factorization
Yifan Wang,
New York University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Frustrated Quantum Devices: understanding how correlations, complex order and boundary states manifest in novel material functionalities
James Analytis,
UC Berkeley,
Monday, February 10th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Quantifying LIGO's response to environmental disturbances in O4 and beyond
Adrian Helmling-Cornell,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Dark showers from sneaky dark matter
Christiane Scherb,
UC Berkeley/LBNL,
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Characterizing the Space of UV-Complete Amplitudes
Justin Berman,
University of Michigan,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Census of Black Hole Accretion Structure and Mass
Yasaman Homayouni,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
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,
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
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Friday, February 14th, 2025
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Antipodal (Self-)Duality in Planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
Lance Dixon,
SLAC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Extreme confinement with hyperbolic cavities - a new platform for quantum light-matter interactions
Hanan Herzig Sheinfux,
Bar-Ilan University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Mapping the Dark Matter Distribution of Galaxies with Stellar Streams
Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Will we ever detect high frequency gravitational waves?
Raffaele Tito d'Agnolo,
Institut de Physique Théorique,
Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Moments and saddles of heavy CFT correlators
Gordon Rogelberg,
Yale University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Finding Black Holes with Microlensing: Current and Future Prospects
Casey Lam,
Carnegie Observatories,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Inclusive Scattering Matrix
Albert Schwarz,
UC Davis & Caltech,