Seminars
May 2015
Friday, May 1st, 2015
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
On the Statistics of Biased Tracers in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures
Zvonimir Vlah,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Physics,
Stanford University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals: long range interactions and photon molecules
James Douglas,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Quantum-Nano Photonics,
ICFO, Barcelona,
Monday, May 4th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
SESAME- A POSSIBLE SOURCE Of LIGHT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Eliezer Rabinovici,
Hebrew University,
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, May 7th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Information Processing and Metrology Using Few Electron Spins in Solids
Amir Yacoby,
Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics,
Harvard University,
Friday, May 8th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Geometric engineering, Mirror symmetry and 6d (1,0) to 4d N=2
Dan Xie,
Harvard University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Electrodynamic Effects of Inflationary Gravitons
Richard Woodard,
University of Florida,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Cosmic Neutrinos and Large-scale Structure
Marilena Loverde,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
KICP,
University of Chicago,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
DMRG Study of a Quantum Hall system
Scott Geraedts,
Graduate Student,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Caltech,
Monday, May 11th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Models with dilepton + jets final states at the LHC
Joshua Berger,
SLAC,
Tuesday, May 12th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Using the BayesWave algorithm to detect and characterize binary black hole mergers without waveform templates
Meg Millhouse,
Physics,
Montana State University,
Wednesday, May 13th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, May 14th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Neutrinos are Everywhere
Joseph D. Lykken,
Theoretical Physicist, Deputy Director and Chief Research Officer, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
Friday, May 15th, 2015
10:30am
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11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Effect of Higher Derivatives on the Schwarzschild Solution
Kelly Stelle,
Imperial College,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Entanglement entropy and phases of gauge theories
Djordje Radicevic,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Transport of Flavored Neutrinos in Astrophysical Environments
Alexey Vlasenko,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
UCSD,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
TBA
Ryan Mishmash,
DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
Monday, May 18th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
How well can we test pre-inflationary physics?
Matthew Johnson,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Wednesday, May 20th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Exceptional X-ray Weak Quasars and Their Implications for Accretion Flows, Broad Line Regions, and Winds
Niel Brandt,
Penn State,
Thursday, May 21st, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Galaxy in a new light: Gamma-ray astronomy with Cherenkov telescopes
Werner Hofmann,
Director and Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics,
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Heidelberg, Germany,
Friday, May 22nd, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
String-Scale SUSY Breaking: Clues for the Low – l CMB ?
Augusto Sagnotti,
CERN, Scuola Normale Superiore, INFN-Pisa,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Physics of Radiation-Driven Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei
Daniel Proga,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
UNLV,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:45pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Engineering Quantum Matter: From Superfluids to Low-Dimensional Electrons
Johannes Pollanen,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Eisenstein Group,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmological Calorimetry: The nature of the intergalactic medium and the photon underproduction crisis
Juna Kollmeier,
Carnegie,
Thursday, May 28th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Biard Lecture: Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?
Alan Guth,
Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics and MacVicar Faculty Fellow,
MIT,
Friday, May 29th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Replica-symmetry-breaking instantons in glassy systems
Sho Yaida,
Duke University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The BCJ double copy and Kerr-Schild metrics
Donal O'Connell,
University of Edinburgh,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Coding with Finite Resources
Mario Berta,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Preskill Group,
Caltech,