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Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Evryscope: the first full-sky gigapixel-scale telescope
Nicholas Law, Univ of North Carolina,
Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Correlations, Fluctuations, and Disorder at Chromium's Quantum Phase Transition
Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics, Caltech,
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Perturbative and nonperturbative worldsheet string theory in AdS^n x S_n x M^{10-2n}
Radu Roiban, Penn State,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Partition functions, topology, and hydrodynamics with QFT anomalies
Piotr Sulkowski, Univ of Warsaw,
4:30pm – 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of Sr1-xLaxCuO2 thin films grown by molecular-beam epitaxy
John Harter, Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics, Hsieh Group, Caltech,
Sunday, October 5th, 2014
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Okularfest

Beckman Mall
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Okularfest

Beckman Auditorium
Monday, October 6th, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114
Title TBD
Sean Hartnoll, Stanford,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Dark matter searches at ATLAS
Ning Zhou, UC Irvine,
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
How Black Holes Dine above the Eddington "Limit" without Overeating or Excessive Belching
Shane Davis, Virginia,
Thursday, October 9th, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Irreversibility, information and the second law of thermodynamics at the nanoscale
Christopher Jarzynski, Director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park ,
Friday, October 10th, 2014
10:30am – 11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Quantum spectral curve of N=4 SYM
Vladimir Kazakov, Ecole Normale Superieure d'Universite Paris,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Givental J-functions, Quantum integrable systems, AGT relation with surface operator
Satoshi Nawata, NIKHEF,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
There's Government in Your Science
Josh Shiode, John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow, American Astronomical Society,
4:30pm – 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Enhancement of the hidden-order/large-moment antiferromagnetic phase boundary in the URu2−xFexSi2 and URu2−xOsxSi2 systems
Noravee Kanchanavatee, Postdoctoral Scholar, Maple Group, Univ of California, San Diego,
Monday, October 13th, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114
Title TBD
T. Senthil, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Parametrically Enhanced Transmission of Hidden Photons via Longitudinal Modes
Yue Zhao, SLAC,
Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Entanglement in one-dimensional quantum systems
Yi-Chen Huang, IQIM, UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The First Stars and Galaxies in the Universe
John Wise, Georgia Tech,
Thursday, October 16th, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
David J. Stevenson, Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
Friday, October 17th, 2014
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
TBD
Ilarion Melnikov, Texas A&M,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Too-big-to-fail in the Local Group: A Challenge for LCDM
Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Graduate Student, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Cosmology, U.C. Irvine,
4:30pm – 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Building new edge states in twisted bilayer graphene: quantum spin Hall state and electron-hole bilayers
Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, Graduate Student, Physics, MIT,
Monday, October 20th, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114
Title TBD
Speaker TBD ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Stellar particle physics
Alexander Friedland, LANL,
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Preludes to a Theory and Phenomenology of Galactic Winds
Todd Thompson, Ohio State,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED

Lauritsen 469
PandaX: A dark matter experiment at China JinPing Underground Lab
Xiangdong Ji, University of Maryland/Shanghai Jian Tong University,
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Exploring sp2-bonded materials: From graphene liquid cells to atomic collapse
Alex Zettl, Professor of Physics, Physics, UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 24th, 2014
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Resurgence in quantum field theory: handling the Devil's invention
Aleksey Cherman, University of Minnesota,
12:00pm – 12:45pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Ultrahigh-resolution quantum optical coherence tomography using ultra-broadband entangled photon pairs
Masayuki Okano, Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Making Supersymmetric Quivers from N=(0,2) Sigma Models
Arkady Vainshtein, University of Minnesota,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar - NOTE: unusual time - 1:00p

Cahill 370
Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Cluster Outskirts
Camille Avestruz, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Yale University,
4:30pm – 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Attosecond Electron Control
Mohammed Tharwat Hassan, Postdoctoral Scholar, Zewail group, Caltech,
Monday, October 27th, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

East Bridge 114
Title TBD
Karen Michaeli, Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Shining light on new physics with improved dijet resonance identification
Eder Izaguirre, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Planet Formation through Radio Eyes
Meredith Hughes, Wesleyan,
Thursday, October 30th, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Math, Physics and Duality
Mina Aganagic, Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 31st, 2014
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Triality and AGT
Mina Aganagic, UC Berkeley,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Impact of inhomogeneous blazar heating on the intergalactic medium
Astrid Lamberts, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
4:30pm – 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
TBA
Torsten Karzig, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Condensed Matter Theory, Caltech,