Seminars
April 2017
Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
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Thursday, April 6th, 2017
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Physics Research Conference
Deconstructing (and reconstructing) wall turbulence: Characterizing natural and synthetic self-sustaining processes
Beverley McKeon,
Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics; Associate Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories,
Caltech,
Friday, April 7th, 2017
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Causality and Universality at Strong Coupling
Tom Hartman,
Cornell University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The quadrupole formula: a hundred years later
Beatrice Bonga,
Graduate Student,
Penn State,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Enhancing atom-light interactions with "selective radiance": the recipe to exponentially improve photon storage fidelities
Ana Asenjo Garcia,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Kimble Group,
Monday, April 10th, 2017
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A small weak scale from a small cosmological constant
Ken Van Tilburg,
IAS,
Tuesday, April 11th, 2017
2:00pm
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CD3 Seminar
Building Training Sets for Astronomical Data; A Bayesian Feature Transformation for Domain Adaptation
Pavlos Protopapas,
Inst. for Applied Computational Science,
Cambridge, MA,
Wednesday, April 12th, 2017
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Astronomy Colloquium: 2017 Neugebauer Lecture
Making the Most Accurate Possible Measurements with Telescopes
David Hogg,
NYU,
Thursday, April 13th, 2017
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum many-body control
Manuel Endres,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Caltech,
Friday, April 14th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chaos in 2D CFT and Spinning Particle in AdS
Chi-Ming Chang,
QMAP, UC Davis,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Helping to paint a more realistic picture of the intergalactic and circumgalactic media through simulation
Devin Silva,
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fermi Arcs and Their Topological Character in the Candidate Type-II Weyl Semimetals WTe2 and MoTe2
Flavio Yair Bruno,
Ambizione Research Fellow,
University of Geneva,
Monday, April 17th, 2017
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Effective theories for point sources
Cliff Burgess,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017
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LIGO Seminar
Advanced LIGO Calibration Uncertainty for Precision Astrophysics
Craig Cahillane,
LIGO,
Caltech),
Wednesday, April 19th, 2017
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Astronomy Colloquium
An Idiosyncratic Look at LIGO�s Detections and Prospects
Stan Whitcomb,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 20th, 2017
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Can we reverse-engineer the brain?
Michael Roukes,
Robert M. Abbey Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, April 21st, 2017
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic lattice field theories
Ingmar Saberi,
University of Heidelberg,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Edge of darkness: The splashback radius as a physical halo boundary
Benedikt Diemer,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fault-tolerance in topological stabilizer codes and universal workarounds
Tomas Jochym O'Connor,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Monday, April 24th, 2017
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2017
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Thursday, April 27th, 2017
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Building Science: Multiple Agendas
Thom Mayne,
Architect and Design Director,
Morphosis,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum simulations: From condensed matter to high energy models
Ignacio Cirac,
Professor Doctor of Physics, Director of the Theory Division,
Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik,
Friday, April 28th, 2017
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Vortices in 4d, N=2 SQCD and their Worldsheet Theory from Supersymmetric Localization
Efrat Gerchkovitz,
Weizmann Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Observing the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation with the South Pole Telescope
Christine Moran,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
On-chip quantum memories for telecom photons using ensembles of erbium ions
Ioana Craiciu,
Graduate Student,
Faraon Group,