Seminars
Fall 2021-2022
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The Debris Disk Paradigm and its Challenges
Mark Wyatt,
Professor of Astronomy,
Institute of Astronomy,
University of Cambridge,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Quantum Matter: Why it Matters
Online Event
Xie Chen,
Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Creating and measuring the elusive Majorana fermion
Vidya Madhavan,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Friday, November 12th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Fun with SUSY defects
Fei Yan,
Rutgers University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Quantum error correction meets continuous symmetries: fundamental trade-offs and case studies
Sisi Zhou,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, November 15th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Searching for New Physics at Future Muon Colliders
Cari Cesarotti,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar with Dr. R. Lee Penn
Online Event
Technical Talk and Personal Story with Dr. R. Lee Penn
- Internal Event
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Concentration for Trotter error
Anthony (Chi-Fang) Chen,
Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Towards a Better Understanding of Low-mass Galaxies Beyond the Local Group
Shany Danieli,
NASA Hubble Fellow,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton University,
Thursday, November 18th, 2021
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Electrically charged skyrmions and superconductivity
Michael Zaletel,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, November 19th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
w(1+infinty) and the Symmetries of Nature
Andrew Strominger,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Coherent light-matter interfaces with highly-excited thermal atoms
Ran Finkelstein,
Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar,
Endres Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, November 22nd, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Online Event
Observation of KPZ superdiffusion in a Heisenberg quantum magnet
Johannes Zeiher,
Dr.,
Physics,
Max Planck Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
New backgrounds and new ideas for sub-GeV dark matter direct detection
Peizhi Du,
Stony Brook University,
Monday, November 29th, 2021
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Quantum Transducers and Quantum Data Centers
Liang Jiang,
Professor,
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s: Perspectives and Discussion
Fiona Harrison,
Harold A. Rosen Professor of Physics; Chair, Divison of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Pivot Hamiltonians: a tale of symmetry, entanglement, and quantum criticality
Nat Tantivasadakarn,
Harvard,
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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LIGO Seminar
All-sky, all-frequency(ASAF) directional search for an anisotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background (SGWB)
Deepali Agarwal,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Electrons in 2D moiré superlattices
Jie Shan,
Cornell University,
Friday, December 3rd, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Non-Invertible Duality Defects
Clay Cordova,
University of Chicago,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Verification with Minimal Overhead, and Public Verification of Quantum Computation
Dominik Leichtle,
Sorbonne Université,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Correlated electronic quantum materials by lattice and symmetry design
Linda Ye,
Stanford,
Monday, December 6th, 2021
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Quantum Communications and Networking at ORN
Dr. Nicholas Peters,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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A search for heavy resonances decaying to HH in final states with leptons and a bottom quark pair in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV
Brent William Stone,
UCLA,
Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
How do cells know their place and fish measure curl: decoding biological function from geometric patterns
Mariela Petkova,
Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Fundamental Stellar Astrophysics in the Gaia Era: A New Understanding of Local Stellar Populations
Keivan Stassun,
Stevenson Professor of Astrophysics,
College of Arts & Science,
Vanderbilt University,
Marina Kounkel,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Vanderbilt University,
Thursday, December 9th, 2021
1:00pm
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Friday, December 10th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
New perspectives on chiral matter, standard model constructions, and mirror symmetry from F-theory geometry
Washington Taylor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Extremal CFTs and Lattice Orbifolds
Christoph Keller,
University of Arizona,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Monday, December 13th, 2021
11:30am
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12:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Optimal policies for near-term quantum networks
Dr. Sumeet Khatri,
Freie Universität Berlin,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
MicroBooNE's Search for the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess
Kathryn Sutton,
Caltech,
Friday, December 17th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Engineering quantum matter in clean thin films
Joseph Falson,
Assistant Professor of Materials Science; William H. Hurt Scholar,
Engineering and Applied Science,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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