Upcoming Seminars
January 2026
Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Analyticity of the black hole S-matrix
Anna Wolz,
UCLA,
Friday, January 9th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Constraints on Long-Range Forces in De Sitter Space
Kurt Hinterbichler,
Case Western Reserve University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Limitations of Noisy Geometrically Local Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar,
University of Maryland,
Monday, January 12th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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CMB constraints on non-minimally coupled ultralight dark matter
Subhajit Ghosh,
University of Texas, Austin,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Sensing of Gravitational Frame-Dragging and Time Dilation with a Superfluid 4He Gyrometer
Kai Ellers,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Hollow-grams: Generalized Entanglement Wedges from the Gravitational Path Integral
Sami Kaya,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
From Kramers' legacies in Bloch electrons to a new class of strongly correlated Fe-based transition metal dichalcogenides
Friday, January 16th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Hamiltonian approach to near extremal black hole physics
Per Kraus,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Computation-Protected Phases of Matter
Soonwon Choi,
MIT,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Negative energies and the breakdown of bulk lengths in JT gravity
Shreya Vardhan,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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TBA
Jeremy van der Heijden,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Artificial oxide quantum heterostructures and twisted membranes
Honyung Lee, PhD,
Corporate Fellow and Senior Advisor,
Materials Science and Technology Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
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Modified Theories of Gravity, Parity, and the Dark Sector
Friday, January 23rd, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Large extra dimensions from higher-dimensional inflation
Ignatios Antoniadis,
LPTHE - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Modified Theories of Gravity, Parity, and the Dark Sector
Tatsuya Daniel,
McGill University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Waveform Systematics Across the Gravitational-Wave Spectrum: From LIGO to LISA
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Diego Garcia Sepulveda,
Harvard University,
Friday, January 30th, 2026
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2:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Quantum Null Ray: Localized gauge invariant observables and covariant quantization
Laurent Freidel,
Perimeter Institute,