Seminars
Spring 2012-2013
Monday, April 1st, 2013
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Jet Charge and Track-Based Observables for the LHC
Wouter Waalewijn,
UC San Diego,
4:15pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Interstellar Medium of Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization
Joseph Munoz,
UCLA,
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
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Thursday, April 4th, 2013
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Physics Research Conference
Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: A New Window on Matter, Spacetime and the Universe
Harvey Newman,
Caltech,
Friday, April 5th, 2013
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Near-Field Cosmology: Big Science From Small Galaxies
Mike Boylan-Kolchin,
Center for Galaxy Evolution Fellow,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
Monday, April 8th, 2013
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Atomically Thin Photodetectors: The Ideal Semi-Metal vs. The Insurmountable Insulator
Nathaniel Gabor,
MIT,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Latest Higgs results from ATLAS: the beginning of a long road
Rustem Ospanov,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:15pm
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Sequential decoding of general quantum communication channels
Mark Wilde,
Louisiana State University,
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
Redshift Space Distortions of the Galaxy Distribution
Alex Szalay,
John Hopkins University,
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
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Physics Research Conference
The Ubiquitous SQUID: Then and Now
John Clarke,
Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, April 12th, 2013
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Black hole scattering from monodromy
Alejandra Castro,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Uncovering Properties of Cosmic Dark Matter through Indirect Detection
Sheldon Campbell,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
CCAPP (Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics),
Ohio State University,
Monday, April 15th, 2013
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Prospects and Challenges of Neutral Atom Quantum Simulation
David Weld,
Assistant Professor,
UCSB,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Evidence for and Obstructions to Partially Massless Gravity
Kurt Hinterbichler,
Perimeter Institute,
4:15pm
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Equilibrium value method for optimization problems and its applications in quantum computation
Xiaodi Wu,
University of Michigan,
8:00pm
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
An Astronomical Time Machine: Light Echoes from Historic Supernovae and Stellar Eruptions
Armin Rest,
STScI,
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
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Physics Research Conference
New Observations about Quantum Field Theory
Zohar Komargodski,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
Friday, April 19th, 2013
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TAPIR Seminar
Non-Thermal Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetized Astrophysical Flows
Lorenzo Sironi,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Continuous-variable quantum cryptography: Current status and future directions
Christian Weedbrook,
University of Toronto,
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Murchison Widefield Array: the low frequency Precursor for the Square Kilometre Array
Steven Tingay,
Curtin Institute, Western Australia ,
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Unveiling the High Energy X-ray Sky with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
Fiona Harrison,
Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
Friday, April 26th, 2013
11:00am
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Monday, April 29th, 2013
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Spin-Orbit Tuned Ground States in Single-Crystal Iridates
Gang Cao,
Professor,
University of Kentucky,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Thinking Fast, Building Big: Opportunities for Neutrino Physics Using Fast Timing and Large Area Photodetectors
Matthew Wetstein,
University of Chicago,
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Building one-time memories from isolated qubits
Yi-Kai Liu,
Applied and Computational Mathematics Division,
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
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Friday, May 3rd, 2013
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Three-Dimensional Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae
Sean Couch,
Research Associate,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
Monday, May 6th, 2013
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Cooling Through Optimal Control of Quantum Evolution
Dr. Armin Rahmani,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
High redshift starburst galaxies revealed by SPT, ALMA, and gravitational lensing
Joaquin Vieira,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum sparse-graph codes for future quantum computers
Leonid Pryadko,
Associate Professor,
University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Oscillatory modes of quarks in baryons for 3 quark flavors - u, d, s
Peter Minkowski,
ITEP, Univ of Bern,
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
Supermassive Black Holes in Giant Elliptical Galaxies
Chung Pei Ma,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
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Friday, May 10th, 2013
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Localization in N=2* and related models
Alex Buchel,
Perimeter Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Testing Gravity with Cosmology: a new Golden Age?
Pedro Ferreira,
Professor,
Astrophysics,
University of Oxford,
Monday, May 13th, 2013
11:00am
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Hamiltonian Theory of Fractionally Filled Chern Bands
Ganpathy Murthy,
Professor,
University of Kentucky,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrinoless double-beta decay and other searches for physics beyond the Standard Model with the Majorana experiment
Reyco Henning,
University of North Carolina,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Is there life beyond Quantum Mechanics?
Anton Kapustin,
Professor,
Physics,
California Institute of Technology,