Seminars
January 2010
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Order from Quantum Loops and Nets
Paul Fendley,
professor of physics,
University of Virginia,
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Order of Magnitude Biology
Rob Phillips,
professor of applied physics and bioengineering,
Caltech,
Friday, January 8th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Nonlinear Waves in Granular Crystals
Mason A. Porter,
University Lecturer,
Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
Oxford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Precision Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime: Magnetically Trapped Ultracold Neutrons
Christopher O'Shaughnessy,
graduate research assistant in physics,
North Carolina State University,
Monday, January 11th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
String Theory, Dark Matter, Cosmological History, and LHC
Gordon Kane,
professor of physics,
University of Michigan,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Hybrid Quantum Information Processing with Circuit QED
David I. Schuster,
postdoctoral associate in applied physics,
Yale University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The High Energy Frontier of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory
Paul Sommers,
professor of physics,
Penn State University,
Friday, January 15th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic Superconductivity in M-Theory
Jerome Gauntlett,
Imperial College,
Monday, January 18th, 2010
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Suprime Survey: A Large Shear-selected Sample of Galaxy Clusters at z = 0.1-0.8
James Taylor,
University of Waterloo,
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Eta Carinae and Pre-Supernova Temper Tantrums of Massive Stars
Nathan Smith,
postdoctoral researcher in astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Detecting Habitable Exoplanets: The Small Star Opportunity
David Charbonneau,
professor of astronomy,
Harvard University,
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Proposals for the Detection and Production of Majorana Particles
Patrick Lee,
professor of physics,
MIT,
Monday, January 25th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Impact of Gas Accretion on the Scaling Relations
Nicolas Bouche,
postdoctoral felllow,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Probing and Controlling the Nuclear Spin Bath of Electron Spin Qubits
Hendrik Bluhm,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Facilities for Accelerator Science and Experimental Test Beams at SLAC
Mark Hogan,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Cosmic Galois Groups
Ozgur Ceyhan,
Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics,
University of Amsterdam,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Stochastic Methods for Bose Gas Dynamics
Crispin Gardiner,
professor of physics,
University of Otago,
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Status of Kepler Mission and Early Discoveries
Natalie Batalha,
professor of physics and astronomy,
San Jose State University,
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Remarkable Power of General Relativity
Gary Horowitz,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, January 29th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Yasunori Nomura,
associate professor of physics,
UC Berkeley,