Seminars
Fall 2019-2020
Thursday, September 5th, 2019
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
2:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Construction and analysis of SU(3) spin liquids and resonating trimer models using Projected Entangled Pair States
Norbert Schuch,
Research Group Leader,
Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics,
Tuesday, September 24th, 2019
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Lower bounds on the non-Clifford resources for quantum computations
Michael Beverland,
Researcher,
Microsoft,
Friday, September 27th, 2019
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Automatic Tensor Network Contraction
Johnnie Gray,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Imperial College London,
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
From Protostars to Adolescence: A Tour of Young Stellar Systems
Gregory Herczeg,
KIAA / Peking University,
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, October 4th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Mixed anomalies, semi-classics and quantum distillation in QCD
Mithat Unsal,
North Carolina State University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, October 7th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searching for Long Lived Particles at the LHC with Codex-b
Michele Papucci,
LBNL & Caltech,
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA)
Josiah Schwab,
UC Santa Cruz,
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
New frontiers in exoplanet science with high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy
Dimitri Mawet,
Caltech & JPL,
Friday, October 11th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Monday, October 14th, 2019
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Primordial Non-Gaussianity as a probe of (ultra high-energy) gauge theories.
Soubhik Kumar,
University of Maryland,
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Galactic Archaeology: Galaxy Formation and Nucleosynthesis
Evan Kirby,
Assistant Professor,
Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Compact Proton Therapy: Improving Access to Advanced Cancer Treatment
James Cooley,
Director of Advanced Development,
Mevion Medical Systems,
Friday, October 18th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Extensions of Kac-Moody algebras and Calabi-Yau singularities.
Miroslav Rapčak,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Defect-Level Switching: A New Mechanism for Electronic Devices
Rafael Jaramillo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, October 21st, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Connecting early Universe with Observations: from Primordial Black Holes to Sterile Neutrinos
Volodymyr Takhistov,
UCLA,
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Hints of the Earliest Galaxies
Steven Furlanetto,
Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy,
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, October 25th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Networks of Optical Parametric Oscillators: From Ising Machines to Quantum Photonic Engineering
Alireza Marandi,
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Ignorance is Cheap: From Black Hole Entropy To Energy-Minimizing States In QFT
Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam,
UC Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Field Formation of Compact Binaries: Common Envelope, Natal Kicks, and Gravitational Waves
A. Miguel Holgado,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Monday, October 28th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
On the robustness of inflation to inhomogeneities
Raphael Flauger,
UC San Diego,
Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Near Field Cosmology with the Rapid Neutron-Capture Process
Alexander Ji,
Carnegie Observatories,
Thursday, October 31st, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, November 1st, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
John Martinis,
Research Scientist and Professor of Physics Google and UCSB,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, November 4th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Breakdown of the naive parton model in Super-Weak-Scale Collisions
Matthew Baumgart,
Arizona State University,
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox
Geoff Penington,
Graduate Student,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Origins of Type Ia Supernovae (And What Does Darwin Have To Do With It)
Hagai Perets,
Associate Professor,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
4:00pm
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Friday, November 8th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quantum Extremal Islands and the Information Paradox
Ahmed Ahlmeiri,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum-inspired classical sampling algorithms for machine learning
András Gilyen,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Topological insulators and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in relativistic quantum field theory
David Kaplan,
University of Washington,