Seminars
Fall 2014-2015
Friday, November 7th, 2014
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quantum supergravity and exact holography
Joao Gomes,
University of Cambridge,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Four topics on the centers of galaxies
Scott Tremaine,
Professor,
Institute for Advanced Study,
School of Natural Sciences,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Novel Mechanism of Low-Temperature CVD Graphene Growth
David Boyd,
Staff Scientist,
Yeh Group,
Caltech,
Monday, November 10th, 2014
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
GeV Gamma-Rays from the Central Milky Way and the Case for Annihilating Dark Matter
Tracy Slatyer,
MIT,
Wednesday, November 12th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Probing the Origin of Supermassive Black Holes with Dwarf Galaxies
Amy Reines,
Univ of Michigan,
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum dot micromaser driven by single electron tunneling
Jason Petta,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Princeton University,
Friday, November 14th, 2014
11:00am
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption as Probes of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function
Nicholas Stone,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Astrophysics Laboratory,
Columbia University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Electron tunneling in Van der Waals heterostructures
Chandni U. ,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Eisenstein Group,
Caltech,
Monday, November 17th, 2014
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Probing physics behind neutrino masses
Kaladi Babu,
Oklahoma State University,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Information Causality, Szemeredi-Trotter, and algebraic variants of CHSH
Mohammad Bavarian,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Dark Matter and the Theory for Baryon Number at the LHC
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
MPIK, Heidelberg & Caltech,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, November 20th, 2014
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Machine Learning
Seth Lloyd,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
MIT,
Friday, November 21st, 2014
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Extremes of compact object birth, from the dimmest to the super-luminous
Brian Metzger,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics ,
Columbia University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Non-Abelian phases in Fractional Quantum Hall states
Roger Mong,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
Monday, November 24th, 2014
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED
Flavor-Covariant Formalism for Transport Phenomena
Bhupal Dev,
University of Manchester, UK,
Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
4:00pm
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
4:00pm
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The onset of large-scale dynamical instability in the Solar System
Konstantin Batygin,
Caltech (GPS),
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Gravity and Entanglement
Mark Van Raamsdonk,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of British Columbia,
Friday, December 5th, 2014
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Recursion Relation for Conformal Blocks
Masahito Yamazaki,
IMPU, Univ of Tokyo,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Zen of Core Collapse: How to See A Supernova That Doesn't Happen
Elizabeth Lovegrove,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
All-fermion electrodynamics and fermion number anomaly inflow
Shauna Kravec,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
Univ. of California, San Diego,
Monday, December 8th, 2014
4:00pm
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2014
8:00pm
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2014
2:00pm
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Thursday, December 11th, 2014
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Paul Dirac - the theorist's theorist
Graham Farmelo,
Visiting By-Fellow, Churchill College, Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston ,
Friday, December 12th, 2014
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Some outstanding problems in the evolution of supernova progenitors
Samuel Jones,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria,
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Particle physics solutions to cosmological lithium problem
Maxim Pospelov,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Friday, December 19th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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