Seminars
Fall 2013-2014
Monday, September 16th, 2013
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topological Order on the Surface of Three Dimensional Topological Insulators
Xie Chen,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley,
4:15pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
"Insights into Cosmic Reionization from the Evolution of the UV Background"
George Becker,
IoA, Cambridge,
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Nested quantum walks with quantum data structures
Robin Kothari,
University of Waterloo,
Friday, September 27th, 2013
2:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
The Evolution of Massive Stars towards their Death: Rotation, Binarity and Mergers
Selma de Mink,
Einstein Lyman Spitzer Fellow,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
Carngie Observatory / Caltech,
Monday, September 30th, 2013
4:15pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Unveiling the Progenitors of Short-duration Gamma-ray Bursts
Wen-fai Fong,
cfa Harvard,
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
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Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
From building blocks to large galaxies: towards understanding the formation of the Milky Way
Anna Frebel,
MIT,
Friday, October 4th, 2013
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Nuclear Processes in Accretion Disks from Compact Object Mergers: an Engine for Electromagnetic Transients
Rodrigo Fernandez,
Department of Astronomy,
University of California, Berkeley,
Sunday, October 6th, 2013
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Monday, October 7th, 2013
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Tuning the Ground State of Fe Pnictide Superconductors.
Ni Ni,
Professor,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Illustris Project: Populating the Hubble Sequence in Cosmological Simulations
Paul Torrey,
(CfA) Harvard,
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Simulation of dynamical abelian and no-abelian lattice gauge theories with cold atoms
Benni Reznik,
Tel-Aviv University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Higgs-Motivated Search Strategies for Supersymmetry at CMS
Benjamin Hooberman,
FNAL,
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
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Friday, October 11th, 2013
11:00am
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Monday, October 14th, 2013
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Hidden (Hastatic) Order in URu2Si2
Rebbeca Flint,
Professor,
Iowa State University,
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
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Friday, October 18th, 2013
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
BPS, Non-BPS and D-brane anti D-brane effective actions in type II Superstring theory with their corrections to all orders in alpha-prime
Ehsan Hatefi,
ICTP, Trieste,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Can Black Hole-Neutron Star Binary Mergers Produce Gamma-Ray Bursts?
Zachariah Etienne,
Department of Astronomy,
UMD and NASA GSFC,
Monday, October 21st, 2013
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Emergent Space-time Supersymmetry in Topological Superconductors
Tarun Grover,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:15pm
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
From Planetesimals to Giant Planets: Chemical and Dynamical Probes of Planet Formation
Joan Najita,
NOAO,
Friday, October 25th, 2013
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Probing Induced Higher-Spin Gauge Theory
Benjamin Safdi,
Princeton University,
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TAPIR Seminar
Do Galaxy Clusters Boil?
Mike McCourt,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy Department,
U.C. Berkeley,
Monday, October 28th, 2013
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Advancements in modeling galaxy mergers: Synthetic observations and a more accurate numerical method
Chris Hayward,
ITS, Heidelberg,
Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
Globular Clusters and Halo Stars: Chemodynamical tracers of galaxy assembly
Jean Brodie,
UCO Lick Observatory,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Proximity Effect Induced Topological Superconductor and Majorana Modes
Jinfeng Jia,
Professor,
Physics,
Shanghai Jia Tong University,
Friday, November 1st, 2013
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TAPIR Seminar
Newborn Pulsars as sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
Ke Fang,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
Monday, November 4th, 2013
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Outer Architecture of M Dwarf Planetary Systems Revealed Through High-Contrast Imaging
Brendan Bowler,
GPS, Caltech,
Wednesday, November 6th, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
The microphysics of astrophysics: adventures in computational magnetohydrodynamics
Xuening Bai,
Harvard,
Thursday, November 7th, 2013
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Physics Research Conference
The Sometimes Surprising Behavior of Magnetic Spins on a Complex Surface
Barbara Jones,
IBM Almaden Research Center,
Friday, November 8th, 2013
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
F-theory Compactifications With Multiple U(1)-Factors
Denis Klevers,
Univ of Pennsylvania,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Getting the Most Out of a Black Hole
Alexander Tchekhovskoy,
NASA Einstein Fellow ,
Nuclear Science,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Exponential Improvement in Precision for Hamiltonian-Evolution Simulation
Rolando Somma,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
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Thursday, November 14th, 2013
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Physics Research Conference
International Science Diplomacy
E. William Colglazier,
Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State,
U.S. State Department,
Friday, November 15th, 2013
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Phases of 5d Gauge Theories, Monopole Walls, and Melting Crystals
Sergey Cherkis,
Univ of Arizona,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Supernova neutrinos – flavor evolution and signals
Tina Lund,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Department of Physics,
North Carolina State University,
Monday, November 18th, 2013
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Bright and dark: satellite galaxies as a test of galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter
Anna Nierenberg,
UCSB,
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Bose-Hubbard model on a graph is QMA-complete
David Gosset,
University of Waterloo,
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Bose-Hubbard model on a graph is QMA-complete
David Gosset,
University of Waterloo,
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
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Thursday, November 21st, 2013
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Physics Research Conference
Many-Body Localization: What is It and What are Its Implications?
Chetan Nayak,
Microsoft Q Station,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, November 22nd, 2013
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Scattering Amplitudes, Unitarity, and the Positive Grassmannian
Jacob Bourjaily,
Harvard,