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Sara Seager - The Hunt for Planet B

For thousands of years, inspired by the star-filled dark night sky, people have wondered what lies beyond Earth. Today, the search for signs of life is a key factor in modern-day planetary…

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D. Zeb Rocklin - Rigidity percolation in a random tensegrity via analytic graph theory

Tensegrities are mechanical structures that include cable-like elements that are strong and lightweight relative to rigid rods yet support only extensile stress. From suspension bridges to the…

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Brian C. Sawyer - Compact Penning Traps for Quantum Science with Cold Atomic Ions

Penning ion traps are useful experimental platforms for quantum simulation, mass spectrometry, precision metrology, and molecular ion spectroscopy. The GTRI Quantum Systems Division (QSD) has…

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Vladimir Rosenhaus - Feynman rules for wave turbulence

It has long been known that weakly nonlinear field theories can have a late-time stationary state that is not the thermal state, but a wave turbulent state (the Kolmogorov-Zakharov state) with a…

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Gang Cao - Opportunities created by spin-orbit interactions

Effects of spin-orbit interactions in condensed matter are an important and rapidly evolving topic. A sea change occurred with the discovery of spin-orbit interactions in graphene by Mele and Kane,…

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Ana Maria Rey - Optical lattice clocks: From Timekeepers to Spies of the Quantum Realm

Harnessing the behavior of complex systems is at the heart of quantum technologies. Precisely engineered ultracold gases are emerging as a powerful tool for this task. In this talk I will explain how…

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Mariel Borowitz - Protecting the Space Environment: Sustainability and Security

In recent years, the number of objects in space has grown rapidly, and this growth is projected to continue to accelerate over the next decade. There has also been increased military activity in…

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Steven R. White - Just Enough Entanglement: Simulating Quantum Systems without a Quantum Computer

The general solution of many-particle quantum systems is exponentially complex, requiring a quantum computer to solve. But for many of the most important properties of realistic experimental systems,…

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Daniel Floryan - Charting dynamics from data

We often find ourselves working with systems for which governing equations are unknown, or if they are known, they may be high-dimensional to the point of being difficult to analyze and prohibitively…

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Margaret Gardel - Physics of Morphogenetic Matter

My lab studies how the movement and shape of living cells is controlled by living materials constructed by protein assemblies within the cell interior. In this talk, I will describe my lab’s…

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Xiaoxing Xi - Crackdown on Academic Collaboration with China Harms American Science

Academic collaboration with China was once encouraged by the US government and universities. As tension between the two countries rises rapidly, those who did, especially scientists of Chinese…

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Carlos Pérez De Jesús - Data-driven estimation of inertial manifold dimension for chaotic Kolmogorov flow and time evolution on the manifold

Model reduction techniques have previously been applied to evolve the Navier-Stokes equations in time, however finding the minimal dimension needed to correctly capture the key dynamics is not a…

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Michael Graham, Kevin Zeng - Deep Reinforcement Learning Using Data-Driven Reduced-Order Models Discovers and Stabilizes Low Dissipation Equilibria

Part 2: Deep reinforcement learning (RL), a data-driven method capable of discovering complex control strategies for high-dimensional systems, requires substantial interactions with the target…

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Mikhail Shifman - The Beginning of the Quantum Era

Shifman reviews the growth of quantum physics from its inception in the beginning of the 20th century to its maturity 50 years later. His narrative includes dramatic stories of the quantum pioneers…

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Michael Graham, Alec Linot - Data-driven dimension reduction, dynamic modeling, and control of complex chaotic systems

PART 1Speaker Mike Graham Overview: Data-driven dimension reduction, dynamic modeling, and control of complex chaotic systemsOur overall aim is to combine ideas from dynamical systems theory and…

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Murray Daw - Collapse of the Collapse: Physicists Return to Reality

Recent developments[1] have shown that the collapse hypothesis is self-inconsistent and is no longer a viable theory. (The collapse hypothesis in quantum mechanics is that the state of a system is…

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