Upcoming Seminars
Fall 2026-2027
Friday, September 18th, 2026
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Self-Gravity and In-Situ Object Formation in AGN Disks
Hannalore Gerling-Dunsmore,
Graduate Student,
Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences 391 UCB,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Monday, September 21st, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Enhanced Correlations in Hawking Radiation from Near-Extremal Collapse
Per Kraus,
UCLA,
Friday, September 25th, 2026
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
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Ringdown from Eccentric Binary Black Hole Coalescences in the Extreme Mass Ratio Regime
Monday, September 28th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Relax, it's stable! Superconductivity and kinetics of electron-phonon systems at strong coupling
Noga Bashan,
Condensed Matter Physics,
Weizmann Institute,
Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Observation of pairing in a Pfaffian quantum Hall state of ultracold bosons
Perrin Segura,
Harvard,
Friday, October 2nd, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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From Closed to Ajar: Effective Actions and Symmetry Breaking in Non-Equilibrium Many-Body Systems
Riccardo Penco,
Carnegie Mellon University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Signatures of Black Hole Spin and Plasma Acceleration in Jet Polarimetry
Monday, October 5th, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Alternative AdS Boundary Conditions and Their Implications
Xinkang Wang,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Global monopoles and Goldstone EFT
Pablo Quilez,
CERN,
Thursday, October 8th, 2026
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Reshaping Metrology with Quantum Information Processing
Sisi Zhou,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Friday, October 9th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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The String Landscape, precisely
Jakob Moritz,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Gibbs sampling by classical decoding
Alexander Schmidhuber,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Importance of accretion disk-driven torques on extreme mass ratio inspirals
Monday, October 12th, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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From Preons to Flavor: Probing Composite Quarks and Leptons
Amartya Sengupta,
University at Buffalo,
Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measuring fundamental particle interactions with levitated optomechanical sensors
Yu-Han Tseng,
Yale,
Friday, October 16th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Thermal Giant Graviton Expansion
Kasia Budzik,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Higher Berry Curvature of Crystalline Insulators: From Generalized Cohomology to Magnetoelectric Coupling
Niclas Heinsdorf,
Humboldt Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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The Evolution and Fates of Massive Stars and Binaries: From Nuclear Burning to Explosive Outcomes
Aldana Grichener,
Prize Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
Monday, October 19th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Inner Horizon Saddles and a Spectral KSW Criterion
Jackie Caminiti,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Bootstrapping Hidden Symmetries
Zihan Zhou,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Ultrafast Optical Excitation of Antiferromagnetic or Inertial Magnons in 2D Magnets
Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Seminar Series
From Light to Learning: Predicting Excited-State Dynamics at the Spectroscopic Frontier
Friday, October 23rd, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Breakdown Model: from Disorder-free Glass to SPT
Biao Lian,
Princeton,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Quasi-periodic eruptions: new transient probes of stars near supermassive black holes
Monday, October 26th, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Moduli-Space Laplacians, Asymptotic Geometry, and the Emergent String Conjecture
Alex Stewart,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Crystal electric-field effect in rare-earth insulating magnets and its implications for thermal transport under magnetic field
Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Bootstrapping String Theory from (Peculiar) Symmetries
Aidan Herderschee,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Seminar Series
Information-theoretic entropy imaging of quantum matter
Friday, October 30th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Proofs of thermalization and complexity growth in many-body Hamiltonian dynamics
Saúl Pilatowsky-Cameo,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, November 2nd, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Liberation in the Heavy Limit
Gordon Rogelberg,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, November 6th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Acoustic Levitation in the van der Waals Regime
Albert Isaac Nazeeri,
Stanford,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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White Dwarf Physics Across Ten Orders of Magnitude
Dang Pham,
McCray Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and JILA,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Monday, November 9th, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Friday, November 13th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Monday, November 16th, 2026
1:30pm
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Friday, November 20th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Rocking Out to Heavy Metals: Improving Radiative Transfer Modeling of R-Process Transients
Friday, November 27th, 2026
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, November 30th, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2026
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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TBA
Innes Bigaran,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Friday, December 4th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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