Seminars
Fall 2016-2017
Tuesday, September 6th, 2016
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Electromagnetic Follow-up Pipeline Using Shapelet Analysis for Automatic Transient Detection
Kendall Ackley,
Physics,
University of Florida,
Monday, September 12th, 2016
4:00pm
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2016
1:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Maximizing the sensitivity of LIGO and the electromagnetic followup of its events
Michael Coughlin,
Physics,
Harvard University,
Friday, September 23rd, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Revealing the nature of dark matter with Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxies
Mei-Yu Wang,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Texas A&M University,
Wednesday, September 28th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Heavy Element Enrichment in Early Circumgalactic and Intergalactic Environmnents
Robert Simcoe,
MIT-Kavli,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, September 29th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A quantum gas of polar KRb molecules in an optical lattice
Jacob Covey,
Graduate Student, Jun Ye's Group,
JILA/ University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The LISA Pathfinder mission: first results and implications for an orbiting gravitational wave observatory
William Joseph Weber,
Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Trento,
and TIFPA/INFN, Italy,
Friday, September 30th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Studying IR Dynamics with Conformal Truncation
Matthew Walters,
Boston University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Unraveling the history of the Milky Way
Yuan-Sen Ting,
Graduate Student,
Harvard University,
Monday, October 3rd, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, October 6th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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SPECIAL TAPIR Seminar
Evolution of Supernova Remnants near the Galactic Center
Almog Yalinewich,
Researcher,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Crystals, Quantum Computing and Quantum Cognition
Matthew P.A. Fisher,
KITP/UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, October 7th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
From Hexagons to Heptagons: Bootstrapping Seven-Point Amplitudes in Planar N=4 super-Yang Mills Theory
Andrew McLeod,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Complete Reionization Constraints from Planck 2015 Polarization
Chen He Heinrich,
KICP Graduate Student,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
An Odd-Parity Hidden Order in a Perovskite Iridate Revealed Using Nonlinear Optics
Liyuan Zhao,
Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics,
Hsieh Group,
Monday, October 10th, 2016
4:00pm
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
AGN Triggering in Galaxy Mergers as Traced by Dual AGN and Offset AGN
Julie Comerford,
Colorado,
Thursday, October 13th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
New Topological Phases of Matter: Platform for emergent Dirac, Majorana and Weyl fermions
Zahid Hasan,
Professor of Physics,
Princeton University,
Friday, October 14th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quasilocal free energy in GR: Positivity and monotonicity
Wolfgang Wieland,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Relativistic effects on LSS: power spectrum and bispectrum
Enea Di Dio,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
INAF-OATS (Trieste Observatory),
Monday, October 17th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
How bright is the proton? A precise determination of the photon PDF.
Aneesh Manohar,
UCSD,
Tuesday, October 18th, 2016
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Prospects for Gravitational Wave Searches for Core-Collapse Supernovae within the Local Universe
Jasmine Gill,
Department of Physics,
ERAU,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2016
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The MUSCLES Treasury Survey: An X-ray to IR Spectral Survey of Low-Mass Exoplanet Host Stars
Kevin France,
U. Colorado,
Thursday, October 20th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Broadening the Searchlight: New Ideas in Dark Matter Detection
Kathryn Zurek,
LBNL,
Friday, October 21st, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Destructive Birth of Massive Stars and Massive Star Clusters
Anna Rosen,
Graduate Student,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
2D to 1D Oxide interfaces: superconductivity, magnetism and ballistic transport effects
Alon Ron,
Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hsieh Group,
Monday, October 24th, 2016
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Cosmology & Effective Field Theories: Higgs Evolution in Inflation and Large Scale Structure
Kathyrn Zurek,
LBNL,
Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Observing coating Brownian noise in silicon optics at the zero-expansion point
Johannes Eichholz,
LIGO,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Seminar of the Walter Burke Institute of Theoretical Physics and the Einstein Papers Project
Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes
Lars Brink,
Professor Emeritus, Chalmers University of Technology; Former Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics,
Wednesday, October 26th, 2016
4:00pm
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Physics and Biology of Morphogenesis
Boris Shraiman,
Susan F. Gurley Professor of Theoretical Physics and Biology, Permanent Member of KITP,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, October 28th, 2016
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Simulating Galactic Winds on Supercomputers Using "Cholla"
Evan Schneider,
Graduate Student,
University of Arizona,
Monday, October 31st, 2016
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Partially Acoustic Dark Matter, Interacting Dark Radiation, and Large Scale Structure
Yuhsin Tsai,
University of Michigan,
Tuesday, November 1st, 2016
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Cool and Luminous Transients from Merging Binary Stars
Ondrej Pejcha,
Princeton,
Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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CD3 Seminar
Deep Learning: the promise and the pitfalls
Ashish Mahabal,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Light from Darkness? Searching for Dark Matter in the Sky
Tracy Slatyer,
Jerrold R. Zacharias Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics,
MIT,
Friday, November 4th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
3d N = 2 theories on circle bundles and the Bethe equations
Brian Willett,
KITP/UCSB,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Exact solutions of N = (0 , 2) Landau - Ginzburg models
Pavel Putrov,
IAS,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Constraining Dark Physics with Simulations
Oliver Elbert,
Graduate Student,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Rare-earth ions in crystals for integrating quantum resources
John Bartholomew,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Faraon Group,
Monday, November 7th, 2016
4:00pm
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
4:00pm
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Thursday, November 10th, 2016
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Electronic Nematicity in the Iron-Pnictide Superconductors
Abhay Pasupathy,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Columbia University,
Friday, November 11th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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