Seminars
Spring 2013-2014
Monday, March 31st, 2014
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Probing quantum many-body systems at the single-particle level
Manuel Endres,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Thirty Meter Telescope: The Next Generation of Ground Based Optical/Infra Red Observatory
Warren Skidmore,
TMT,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
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Friday, April 4th, 2014
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Galaxy evolution and gas flows: from massive clusters to isolated dwarfs
Andrew Wetzel,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
Caltech,
Monday, April 7th, 2014
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Broken SU(4) Symmetry and The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
Inti Sodemann,
University of Texas at Austin,
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The specific Star Formation Rate Plateau and the Star Formation Histories of Galaxies between z~8 and z~4
Valentino Gonzalez,
UC Riverside,
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
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Thursday, April 10th, 2014
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Physics Research Conference
Emergent Phenomena at Oxide Interfaces
Harold Hwang,
Professor of Applied Physics, Departments of Applied Physics and Photon Science,
Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,
Friday, April 11th, 2014
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High Energy Theory Seminar
3d N=4 Gauge Theories, Hilbert series and Hall-Littlewood Polynomials
Noppadol Mekareeya,
CERN,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Combining Probes of Large-Scale Structure in the Precision Cosmology Era
Elisabeth Krause,
Post-doctoral Researcher,
Physics and Astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania,
Monday, April 14th, 2014
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Self-organized topological state with Majorana fermions
Marcel Franz,
Professor,
University of British Columbia,
4:15pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The distribution of metals in the z~2.5 circumgalactic medium
Neil Crighton,
Swinburne,
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
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Astronomy Colloquium
Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolutionury
Sun Kwok,
Univ of Hong Kong,
Thursday, April 17th, 2014
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Friday, April 18th, 2014
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Minimal representations as a generalisation of holomorphy for supergravity F-terms
Guillaume Bossard,
Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT,
Monday, April 21st, 2014
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Influence of Symmetry on Quantum Hall States in Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene
Ben Feldman,
Postdoc,
Princeton University,
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Star Formation and the Cold Interstellar Medium in Nearby Galaxies
Karin Sandstrom,
Arizona,
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
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Astronomy Colloquium
Y Dwarfs and the Field Substellar Mass Function
Davy Kirkpatrick,
IPAC/Clatech,
Thursday, April 24th, 2014
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Physics Research Conference
Cosmic clues for dark matter
Kathryn Zurek,
Associate Professor of Physics,
University of Michigan,
Friday, April 25th, 2014
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Update after AMS: implications on Dark Matter, local pulsar and supernova remnant sources
Ilias Cholis,
Research Associate,
Astrophysics,
FNAL,
Monday, April 28th, 2014
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Phase transitions and Majorana bound states in engineered topological superconductors
Aaron Finck,
Postdoc,
UIUC,
4:15pm
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
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Thursday, May 1st, 2014
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Measurement of attosecond electron tunnel ionization times
Hadas Soifer,
Weizmann Institute,
Friday, May 2nd, 2014
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
New Exact Results in Calabi-Yau, D-branes, and Orientifoulds
Sungjay Lee,
University of Chicago,
1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
T-duality and scattering of stringy states
Jnan Maharana,
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Cosmic Dawn - Physics of the First Luminous Objects
Ken Chen,
IAU-Gruber Fellow,
Astronomy and Astrophysics,
U.C. Santa Cruz,
Monday, May 5th, 2014
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Symmetry protection beyond band theory: models of bosonic symmetry-protected phases in 3D
Fiona Burnell,
Assistant Professor,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The cosmological constant problem in scalar gravity and a naturally light dilaton
Prateek Agrawal,
Fermilab,
4:15pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Highly magnetic neutron stars: bewildering astrophysical laboratories and cosmological tools
Rosalba Perna,
Stony Brook,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2014
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Thursday, May 8th, 2014
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Physics Research Conference
Controlling superconductivity with light
Alessandra Lanzara,
Professor of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, May 9th, 2014
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Unitarity and crossing symmetry in the S Matrix of large N Chern Simons theory with fundamental matter
Shiraz Minwalla,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Formation and Evolution of Star Clusters
Michael Fall,
Astronomer w/tenure,
Space Telescope Science Institute,
Monday, May 12th, 2014
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Manipulating single electrons in silicon for quantum computing
Michael Lilly,
Scientist,
The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT),
Sandia National Laboratories,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Techniques for difficult LHC signatures
Matthew Buckley,
Rutgers University,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Black holes, star products and entanglement
Monica Guica,
University of Pennsylvania,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
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Thursday, May 15th, 2014
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture
32nd Annual Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture
Avi Wigderson,
Professor,
School of Mathematics,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Explorations in the Physics and Mathematics of Moonshine
Shamit Kachru,
Professor of Physics,
Stanford University,
Friday, May 16th, 2014
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TAPIR Seminar
I-Love-Q
Nico Yunes,
Assistant Professor,
Physics Department,
Montana State University,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unconventional magnetism in dissipative atomic systems
Tony Lee,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular nad Optical Physics (ITAMP),
Harvard University,