Seminars
Fall 2015-2016
Tuesday, September 8th, 2015
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Friday, September 25th, 2015
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Twisted quantum spectral curve of AdS5/CFT4
Vladimir Kazakov,
l'Ecole Normale Supérieure et d'Université Paris,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Strongly interacting photons in a synthetic magnetic field
Pedram Roushan,
Quantum Electronics Engineer,
Google Inc., Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
"But Wait! There's more: A Wealth of Science from Millisecond Pulsars"
Scott Ransom,
NRAO,
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Atom interferometers measuring the fine structure constant and probing the dark sector
Holger Müller,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 2nd, 2015
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Pulsar timing limit on gravitational waves necessitates re-think of binary supermassive black hole evolution
Vikram Ravi,
Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar,
Dept of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Monday, October 5th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Calculations in Dirac Gaugino Models: Operators, Expansions, and Effects
Jessica Goodman,
Ohio State University,
Thursday, October 8th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Winding Road to Topological Insulators
Eugene Mele,
Professor of Physics,
University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, October 9th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quantum Hydrodynamics from Large-N Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
Peter Koroteev,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Sweating the small stuff: simulating dwarf galaxies, ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, and their own tiny satellites
Coral Wheeler,
Graduate Student,
Dept of Physics and Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Superconductivity in Uranium and Plutonium revealed by NMR
Andrew Mounce,
Los Alamos National Labs/Sandia Labs,
Tuesday, October 13th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Surrogate Models of Numerical Relativity Binary Black Hole Waveforms
Jonathan Backman,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Tuning the Clock: Making Sense of Stellar Rotation with Kepler
Jennifer van Saders,
Carnegie,
Thursday, October 15th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The powerful magnetic fields of red giant stars
Jim Fuller,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the TAPIR Group,
Caltech,
Friday, October 16th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Tests of strong gravity with compact objects
Emanuele Berti,
Associate Professor,
Dept of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Mississippi,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
New Cryogenic Targets for Nuclear Physics
David Kendellen,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
TUNL,
Duke University,
Monday, October 19th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Distinguishing the new physics via the correlation of the single Higgs and double Higgs production
Hao Zhang,
UC Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Future of Astronomy is Super(conducting): Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for UVOIR Astronomy
Ben Mazin,
UCSB,
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference - TeachWeek Keynote Lecture
Confessions of a Converted Lecturer
Eric Mazur,
Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics,
Harvard University,
Friday, October 23rd, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
On the shape dependence of entanglement entropy
Dean Carmi,
Tel Aviv University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Evolution of baryons in the high-redshift universe
Hamsa Padmanabhan,
Research Scholar,
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune,
Monday, October 26th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale
Surjeet Rajendran,
UC Berkelely,
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Crackle, crackle little blade: experimental investigations of mechanical up conversion in Advanced LIGO suspensions
Gabriele ,
Vajente,
LIGO,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Big Data Meet Big Black Holes: Quasars in the Time Domain
George Djorgovski,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 29th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Experiments Big and Small
Savas Dimopoulos,
The Hamamoto Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences,
Stanford University,
Friday, October 30th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Emergent symmetries and 4D-2D relations for confining large N gauge theories
Aleksey Cherman,
Univ of Washington, Seattle,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Wave Excitation by Turbulent Stellar Convection
Daniel Lecoanet,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Optomechanics: a platform for exploring novel physics
Bassam Helou,
Graduate Student,
Yanbei Chen's Group,
Monday, November 2nd, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction in HEP complex event topologies
Chris Rogan,
CERN,
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Observing the Evolution of Solids in Protoplanetary Disks
Sean Andrews,
CfZ Harvard,
Thursday, November 5th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Surprises in (strong/non linear) gravity
Luis Lehner,
Perimeter Institute,
Friday, November 6th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quiver gauge theories, TQFT and integrable lattice models
Junya Yagi,
Univ of Warsaw,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
How gas accretion and galactic outflows affect galaxies and their haloes
Freeke van de Voort,
Joint TAC-ASIAA Fellow,
Dept of Astronomy,
UC Berkeley / ASIAA,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Toward physical realizations of information-theory models for small-scale thermodynamics
Nicole Yunger Halpern,
Graduate Student,
Preskill Group,
Monday, November 9th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
LHCb results on tetra- and penta-quark candidates
Tomasz Skwarnicki,
Syracuse University,
Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Low Energy Muon Production For Future Muon experiments
Yu Bao,
UC Riverside,
Wednesday, November 11th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The asteroseismic revolution of red giant stars: from stellar interiors to the structure of the Milky Way
Dennis Stello,
Univ. Sydney,
Thursday, November 12th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
SPECIAL DIVISION SEMINAR -- See the Sound: In Search of the Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Waves
Mansi Kasliwal,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Friday, November 13th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Which quantum field theories have emergent gravity?
Shamit Kachru,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Compact object mergers with spinning neutron stars
Will East,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Dept of Physics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
The quenched-induced geometric Hall response
Justin Wilson,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Monday, November 16th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Prospects of direct search for dark photons and dark Higgs in p+A collisions at Fermilab E-1067/SeaQuest experiment
Ming Liu,
LANL,
Tuesday, November 17th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A Measurement of the Ar(n,p)Cl cross section below 50 MeV
Nick Walsh,
UC Davis,
Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Evolution of the ISM in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies
Jin Koda,
Stonybrook,
Thursday, November 19th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Einstein's Equations From Entanglement
Brian Swingle,
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Friday, November 20th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
What is Temperature of a Pure State?
Jared Kaplan,
Johns Hopkins University,