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          Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
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High Energy Theory Seminar
                
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              Towards an Analytic Bootstrap Framework for Thermal CFTs
            
            
              
  
    Deniz Bozkurt,
  
  
  
  
    
    DESY,
  
                
              
    
      12:15pm
    
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      1:00pm
    
  
  
    
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Mapping Lines and PAHs Across Cosmic Time in the Infrared Spectral-Photometry Era
            
            
              
  
    Yun-Ting Cheng,
  
  
  
  
    
    Caltech/JPL,
  
                
              
    
      4:00pm
    
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Cosmic Evolution of Star Formation, Gas, and Dust in Galaxies
            
            
              
  
    Nick Scoville,
  
  
    Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus,
  
  
    Astronomy Department,
  
  
    
    Caltech,
  
                
                  
  
    Andreas Faisst,
  
  
    Staff Scientist,
  
  
    IPAC,
  
  
    
    Caltech,
  
                
              
          Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
      4:00pm
    
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Physics Colloquium
                
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              Fundamental Physics with Polyatomic Molecules and Exotic Nuclei
            
            
              
          Monday, October 6th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
      4:00pm
    
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High Energy Physics Seminar
                
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              Final Results from the Muon $g-2$ Experiment at Fermilab
            
            
              
  
    James Labounty,
  
  
  
  
    
    University of Washington,
  
                
              
          Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
      11:00am
    
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              Bottom-up de Sitter holography
            
            
              
  
    David Kolchmeyer,
  
  
  
  
    
    Institute for Advanced Study,
  
                
              
    
      4:00pm
    
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Multidimensional Physics of Stars & other Astrophysical Bodies
            
            
              
  
    Daniel Lecoanet,
  
  
    Assistant Professor,
  
  
    CIERA,
  
  
    
    Northwestern University,
  
                
                  
  
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          Thursday, October 9th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
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          Friday, October 10th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
      11:00am
    
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High Energy Theory Seminar
                
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              Horizon Edge Modes in Λ > 0 Quantum Gravity
            
            
              
  
    Albert Law,
  
  
  
  
    
    Stanford University,
  
                
              
    
      1:00pm
    
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      1:00pm
    
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      2:00pm
    
  
  
    
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High Energy Theory Seminar
                
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              Energy Operators in Particle Physics, QFT, and Gravity
            
            
              
  
    Ian Moult,
  
  
  
  
    
    Yale University,
  
                
              
          Monday, October 13th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
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High Energy Physics Seminar
                
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              Quantum Forces in Standard Model and Dark Sector
            
            
              
  
    Bingrong Yu,
  
  
  
  
    
    Cornell University,
  
                
              
          Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
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              The soft physics of amplitudes in background fields
            
            
              
  
    Sonja Klisch,
  
  
    Perimeter Institute,
  
  
  
                
              
    
      12:15pm
    
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      1:00pm
    
  
  
    
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar Talk
                
                  Online Event
                
              
            
            
              Determination of Physical Properties of Main Belt Asteroids Using WISE/NEOWISE Data
            
            
              
  
    Kiana McFadden,
  
  
  
  
    
    University of Arizona,
  
                
              
    
      4:00pm
    
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Triple Connection: Black Hole Mergers, EM Counterparts, and Galactic Black Holes
            
            
              
  
    Smadar Naoz,
  
  
    Professor,
  
  
    Department of Physics & Astronomy,
  
  
    
    UCLA,
  
                
              
          Thursday, October 16th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
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          Friday, October 17th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
      11:00am
    
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              Triangulating Quantum Gravity in AdS_3
            
            
              
  
    Tom Hartman,
  
  
  
  
    
    Cornell University,
  
                
              
    
      12:00pm
    
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          Monday, October 20th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
      4:00pm
    
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High Energy Physics Seminar
                
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              Probing Ultra-heavy Particle Physics using Precision Cosmology
            
            
              
  
    Soubhik Kumar,
  
  
  
  
    
    Tufts University,
  
                
              
          Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
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              The Analytic Functional in the Numerical Conformal Bootstrap
            
            
              
  
    Zechuan Zheng,
  
  
  
  
    
    Perimeter Institute,
  
                
              
    
      12:15pm
    
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      1:00pm
    
  
  
    
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
New Tools for Debris Disk Imaging: Keck/NIRC2-Pol and GRaTer-JAX GPU Models
            
            
              
  
    Briley Lewis,
  
  
  
  
    
    UC Santa Barbara,
  
                
              
    
      4:00pm
    
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Missing Link: Planet Formation from Millions to Billions of Years
            
            
              
  
    Meredith Hughes,
  
  
    Chair, Astronomy Department; Associate Professor of Astronomy,
  
  
  
    
    Wesleyan University,
  
                
              
    
      7:30pm
    
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      8:30pm
    
  
  
    
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Watson Lecture - Molecules, Mysteries, and the Matter of Existence, with Nick Hutzler
  
    Nick Hutzler,
  
  
    assistant professor of physics,
  
  
  
                
              - Public Event
          Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
      4:00pm
    
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Physics Colloquium
                
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              From Lab to Cosmos: Three Frontiers in the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
            
            
              
          Friday, October 24th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
      9:30am
    
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High Energy Physics Seminar
                
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              Gravitational Waves from the Fifth-Force Mergers
            
            
              
  
    Xingpeng Wang,
  
  
  
  
    
    Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo,
  
                
              
    
      11:00am
    
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              Algebras for generalized entanglement wedges?
            
            
              
  
    Mark Van Raamsdonk,
  
  
  
  
    
    University of British Columbia,
  
                
              
          Monday, October 27th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
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              Dark Radiation from the Axiverse
            
            
              
  
    Christopher Dessert,
  
  
  
  
    
    Flatiron Institute CCA,
  
                
              
          Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
      4:00pm
    
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High Energy Physics Seminar
                
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              On Theories of Neutrino Masses and Dark Matter
            
            
              
  
    Pavel Fileviez Perez,
  
  
  
  
    
    Case Western University,
  
                
              
          Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
      11:00am
    
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              Flat Space/Carrollian Limit of AdS/CFT
            
            
              
  
    Romain Ruzziconi,
  
  
  
    Harvard University,
  
  
                
              
    
      12:15pm
    
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      4:00pm
    
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Discoveries of Interstellar PAHs from Cold Clouds to the Solar System
            
            
              
  
    Brett McGuire,
  
  
    Associate Professor,
  
  
    Department of Chemistry,
  
  
    
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
  
                
              
          Thursday, October 30th, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
      4:00pm
    
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Physics Colloquium
                
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              Hunting the Unexpected: Anomaly Detection and Real-Time Triggers at the Large Hadron Collider
            
            
              
  
    Jennifer Ngadiuba,
  
  
  
  
    
    Fermilab,
  
                
              
          Friday, October 31st, 2025
        
      
    
      
        
    
      11:00am
    
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              Continuous Non-Invertible Symmetries
            
            
              
  
    Diego Delmastro,
  
  
  
  
    
    UCLA,
  
                
               
        