Seminars
November 2013
Friday, November 1st, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Newborn Pulsars as sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
Ke Fang,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
Monday, November 4th, 2013
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Outer Architecture of M Dwarf Planetary Systems Revealed Through High-Contrast Imaging
Brendan Bowler,
GPS, Caltech,
Wednesday, November 6th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The microphysics of astrophysics: adventures in computational magnetohydrodynamics
Xuening Bai,
Harvard,
Thursday, November 7th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Sometimes Surprising Behavior of Magnetic Spins on a Complex Surface
Barbara Jones,
IBM Almaden Research Center,
Friday, November 8th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
F-theory Compactifications With Multiple U(1)-Factors
Denis Klevers,
Univ of Pennsylvania,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Getting the Most Out of a Black Hole
Alexander Tchekhovskoy,
NASA Einstein Fellow ,
Nuclear Science,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Exponential Improvement in Precision for Hamiltonian-Evolution Simulation
Rolando Somma,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, November 14th, 2013
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
International Science Diplomacy
E. William Colglazier,
Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State,
U.S. State Department,
Friday, November 15th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Phases of 5d Gauge Theories, Monopole Walls, and Melting Crystals
Sergey Cherkis,
Univ of Arizona,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Supernova neutrinos – flavor evolution and signals
Tina Lund,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Department of Physics,
North Carolina State University,
Monday, November 18th, 2013
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Bright and dark: satellite galaxies as a test of galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter
Anna Nierenberg,
UCSB,
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Bose-Hubbard model on a graph is QMA-complete
David Gosset,
University of Waterloo,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Bose-Hubbard model on a graph is QMA-complete
David Gosset,
University of Waterloo,
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
4:00pm
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Thursday, November 21st, 2013
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Many-Body Localization: What is It and What are Its Implications?
Chetan Nayak,
Microsoft Q Station,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, November 22nd, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Scattering Amplitudes, Unitarity, and the Positive Grassmannian
Jacob Bourjaily,
Harvard,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
From Plasma Microphysics to Global Dynamics in Clusters of Galaxies, Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows, and the Solar Wind
Matthew Kunz,
NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow,
Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
Monday, November 25th, 2013
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
How to detect symmetry protected topological order in a two dimensional ground state wavefunction
Michael Zaletel,
UC Berkeley,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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