Seminars
February 2022
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
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A circuit-level protocol and analysis for twist-based lattice surgery
Christopher Chamberland,
AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
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Approaching the solar dynamo from unusual angles: M-dwarf stars, polar views, and different dynamo mechanisms
Benjamin Brown,
Assistant Professor,
Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Unveiling the Higgs's secrets to unlock new physics
Caterina Vernieri,
SLAC,
Friday, February 4th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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The O(n) and S_Q Conformal Field Theories in 2 dimensions
Hubert Saleur,
University of Southern California,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, February 7th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
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Evaporative Transmission Spectroscopy at Close-in Exoplanet and Exomoon Systems
Apurva Oza,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Unlocking the CMS Experiment to Catch Long-lived Particles
Cristian Peña,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
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Our experience with tensor network methods in magnetic resonance
Ilya Kuprov,
University of Southampton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
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Galaxy Evolution with Space-Based Spectroscopy: From Hubble to JWST and Beyond
Casey Papovich,
Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy,
Texas A&M University,
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
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Physics Colloquium
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Neutrino and Dark Radiation Properties from Cosmic Datasets
Marilena Loverde,
University of Washington,
Friday, February 11th, 2022
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
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Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm: MaxCut, Spin Glass, and Beyond
Leo Zhou,
Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
2:00pm
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Monday, February 14th, 2022
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
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Efficient, problem-tailored variational quantum algorithms
Sophia Economou,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC
Ian Moult,
Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Quasi-Periodic Topological Bulk-Bulk Correspondence and the Dry Ten Martini Problem
Dan Borgnia,
Physics: Quantum Condensed Matter,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
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Stress-Testing the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm
Priyamvada (Priya) Natarajan,
Professor of Astronomy,
Department of Astronomy and Physics,
Yale University,
Thursday, February 17th, 2022
12:54pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Keeping Up With Experimentalists: Accurate predictions for multimessenger gravitational wave astrophysics
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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14 Billion years on, what can we learn about Original Imperfection?
Eric Cornell,
JILA, University of Colorado,
Friday, February 18th, 2022
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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de Sitter Microstates from a solvable generalization of the T-Tbar deformation
Eva Silverstein,
Stanford University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
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Quantum simulation of particle collisions
Federica Surace,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMT and Preskill Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Some comments on supersymmetric JT gravity and SYK.
Juan Maldacena,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
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Compressive gate set tomography
Martin Kliesch,
University of Düsseldorf,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
GraL: In Search of Quasar Gravitational Lenses from Gaia and Beyond
Alberto Krone-Martins,
Lecturer,
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Irvine,
Thursday, February 24th, 2022
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Searches for New Physics at the Edge of Absolute Zero
Jonathan Ouellet,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Cold and ultra-cold molecules for quantum science
John Doyle,
Harvard University,
Friday, February 25th, 2022
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Singularities From Entropy
Raphael Bousso,
UC Berkeley,
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
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High fidelity quantum science with Rydberg atom arrays
Adam Shaw,
Graduate Student, Endres Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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What is (the physics of) TMF?
Sergei Gukov,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Gas dynamics, inflow and star formation in centre of the Milky Way
Mattia Sormani,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,
Universität Heidelberg,
Monday, February 28th, 2022
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
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Measuring the Capabilities of Quantum Computers
Timothy Proctor,
Sandia National Lab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
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Revealing the Star Formation History of our Solar Neighborhood: Supernova-Driven Star Formation on the Surface of the Local Bubble
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Coulomb enhancements for fundamental physics
Ryan Plestid,
University of Kentucky,