Seminars
Fall 2010-2011
Monday, November 15th, 2010
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Simulations of the Magellanic Stream in a First Infall Scenario
Gurtina Besla,
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Disordered Nonlinear Systems: From Localization to Hyper-transport
Yevgeny Krivolapov,
Technion Institute of Technology Israel,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Energy-Dependent Composition of UHECRs and the Future of Charged Particle Astronomy
Antonio Calvez,
UCLA,
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Learning from Examples Using Quantum Annealing
Hartmut Neven,
Google,
4:15pm
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Violent Events in Extrasolar Planetary Systems: From Post-T Tauri Stars to White Dwarfs
Ben Zuckerman,
professor of astronomy, emeritus,
UCLA,
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Bose-Einstein Condensates and Synthetic Gauge Fields
Ian Spielman,
fellow,
Joint Quantum Institute,
NIST and the University of Maryland,
Friday, November 19th, 2010
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Exact Results in Black Hole Entropy Counting
Joao Gomes,
University of Paris,
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Superconductivity in the Repulsive Hubbard Model: An Symptotically Exact Weak Coupling Solution
Srinivas Raghu,
assistant professor of physics and astronomy,
Rice University,
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Information Processing with Atomic Spin Ensembles
Eugene Polzik,
professor,
Niels Bohr Institute,
Copenhagen University,
Monday, November 29th, 2010
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Mott Insulators of Ultracold Alkaline Earth Fermions: A New Class of Quantum Magnets
Michael A. Hermele,
assistant professor of theoretical condensed matter physics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:15pm
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Money
Andrew Lutomirski,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
MIT,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Dark Matter Axion Detection with Molecular Interferometry
Surjeet Rajendram,
MIT and the Johns Hopkins University,
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
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Astronomy Colloquium
Star Formation in Extreme Environments
Jessica Lu,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
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Physics Research Conference
Hubbert's Peak, The Coal Question, and Climate Change
David Rutledge,
Tomiyasu Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
11:00am
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
12:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Seeing and Controlling Topological Insulator Surface Electrons
David Hsieh,
research fellow in physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Precise Near-Infrared Radial Velocities with the TripleSpec Exoplanet Discovery Instrument (TEDI)
Philip Muirhead,
Cornell University,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Signs of a Hidden Sector from Supersymmetry(s)
Clifford Cheung,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Constructing Elliptic Curve Isogenies in Quantum Subexponential Time
Andrew Childs,
assistant professor,
Institute for Quantum Computing and Combinatorics & Optimization,
University of Waterloo,
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
1:30pm
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Monday, December 13th, 2010
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Massive Black Hole Recoil
Javiera Guedes,
graduate student in astronomy,
UC Santa Cruz,
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Subsystem and Stabilizer Codes with Spatially Local Generators
Sergey Bravyi,
postdoctoral researcher,
IBM Research,
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters Detected with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Neelima Sehgal,
Stanford University,