Seminars
Fall 2012-2013
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
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Astronomy Tea Talk
99% Invisible: Uncovering the dusty galaxies which lie beneath the confusion noise floor
Marco Viero,
Caltech,
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Dynamic Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in 2D Bose mixtures and bond order solids of dipolar fermions
Ludwig Mathey,
Professor,
Institute for Laser Physics,
University of Hamburg, Germany,
Monday, September 10th, 2012
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Next Generation Tests of Substellar Evolution
Trent Dupuy,
Hubble Fellow,
CfA/SAO,
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Hypatia Catalog - Stellar Abundances in the Solar Neighborhood'
Natalie Hinkel,
NExSci,
Friday, September 14th, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Tropical Geometry of Monopoles and Quantum Field Theories in Five Dimensions
Sergey Cherkis,
University of Arizona,
Monday, September 17th, 2012
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Friday, September 21st, 2012
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Instantons on R^3 x S^1 and a semi-classical realization of IR renormalons
Philip Argyres,
Univ of Cincinnati,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
An A* test of GR
Jeandrew Brink,
Researcher,
National Institute of Theoretical Physics,
Stellenbosch University ,
Monday, September 24th, 2012
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
How to Find the Rare Sources All New Surveys Promise: Machine-learning Enabled Classification and Discovery
Adam Miller,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, September 28th, 2012
11:00am
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Monday, October 1st, 2012
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Reddest Quasars: A Transitional Phase in Quasar/Galaxy Co-Evolution
Eilat Glikman,
Yale,
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological order with tensor networks on infinite cylinders: an explicit wavefunction for fractionalized quasi-particle excitations
Guifre Vidal,
Perimeter Institute,
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Have We Converged on an Understanding of the Dense Matter Equation of State?
James Lattimer,
SUNY/Caltech Kingsley Visitor,
Thursday, October 4th, 2012
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Physics Research Conference
Electronic nematic phases in high temperature superconductors
Ian Fisher,
Stanford University,
Friday, October 5th, 2012
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Velocity and feedback enhance 21-cm signal from first stars at z ~ 20
Anastasia Fialkov,
Tel Aviv University,
Monday, October 8th, 2012
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Constraints on protoplanetary disk turbulence from radiative transfer models
Daniel Szomoru,
Leiden,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
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Thursday, October 11th, 2012
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Physics Research Conference
A Converted Skeptic: Climate Change and its Human Origins
Richard Muller,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 12th, 2012
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gromov-Witten invariants from the S^2 partition function
Vijay Kumar,
KITP,
UC Santa Barbara,
2:00pm
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Monday, October 15th, 2012
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The structural evolution of galaxies between z=0 and z=2.5
Daniel Szomoru,
Leiden,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A classical leash for a quantum tiger: Key distribution with minimal assumptions
Ben Reichardt,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
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Thursday, October 18th, 2012
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Friday, October 19th, 2012
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be Announced
Chris Beem,
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics,
SUNY Stony Brook,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
An Experiment to Demonstrate an alpha-omega Dynamo in the Accretion Disk leading to Galaxy and MBH formation
Stirling Colgate,
Los Alamos National Lab,
Monday, October 22nd, 2012
11:00am
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Special High Energy Physics Seminar
Geometry as Graviton Bose-Einstein Condensate
Georgi Dvali,
CERN,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Efficient distributed quantum computing
Steve Brierley,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of Bristol,
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
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Physics Research Conference
Topological Insulators: Opportunities, Materials and Challenges
Kang L. Wang,
UCLA,
Friday, October 26th, 2012
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gauge Theory angle on Integrability
Samson Shastavili,
Trinity College Dublin,
1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
F Theory vs Type IIB Orientifolds: Some global aspects
Raffaele Savelli,
MPI Munich,
2:00pm
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Monday, October 29th, 2012
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological stabilizer codes with a power law energy barrier via welding
Kamil Michnicki,
Graduate student,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
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Astronomy Colloquium
Planetary System Architectures from Kepler
Daniel Fabrycky,
University of Chicago,
Thursday, November 1st, 2012
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
New Views of the Physics of Solar Flares (and Subcosmic Rays)
Hugh Hudson,
University of Glasgow,
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supersymmetry on Curved Spaces and Holography
Claudius Klare,
Milan-Bicocca,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Nucleosynthetic Signatures of Supernova Neutrinos
Luke Roberts,
Lee Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
Caltech,
Monday, November 5th, 2012
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
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Thursday, November 8th, 2012
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Physics Research Conference
Probing Stellar Physics through Asteroseismology
Conny Aerts,
University of Leuven, Belgium,
Friday, November 9th, 2012
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Disordered AdS/CFT, Localization and Random Matrix Theory
Omid Saremi,
UC Berkeley,
Monday, November 12th, 2012
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
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Thursday, November 15th, 2012
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Physics Research Conference
The Quest for Naturalness at the LHC
Raman Sundrum,
University of Maryland,