Seminars
Spring 2015-2016
Monday, March 28th, 2016
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Decoherence as a way to measure extremely soft collisions with low-mass dark matter
Jess Reidel,
Perimeter Institute,
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
1:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Reverse Engineering Supernovae
Dan Milisavljevic,
Center for Asirophysics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Hidden sectors: a window on the dark universe
Bertrand Echenard,
Caltech,
Wednesday, March 30th, 2016
4:00pm
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Thursday, March 31st, 2016
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Physics Research Conference
Optical Tweezers: Gene Regulation, Studied One Molecule at a Time
Steven Block,
S.W. Ascherman Professor of the Sciences,
Stanford University,
Friday, April 1st, 2016
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Dark Matter in the Cosmic Context
Katherine Mack,
DECRA Fellow,
Astro Group, School of Physics,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Revealing the Dirac fluid in graphene
Andy Lucas,
Graduate Student, Subir Sachdev's group,
Harvard University,
Monday, April 4th, 2016
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Flavor Physics and CP Violation as Probes for New Physics Effects at the High-Luminosity B Factory Experiment Belle 2
Markus Rohrken,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
"Next Generation Cosmological Constraints on the Dark Sector and Gravity."
Rachel Bean,
Cornell,
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
1:00pm
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CD3 Seminar
Off Campus
Data Science: Machine Learning, Statistics, and Beyond
Padhraic Smyth,
Director, UCI Data Science Initiative,
Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Biard Lecture: Basic Components of Solid-State Quantum Computing Hardware
Charles M. Marcus,
Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor,
Center for Quantum Devices,
The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
Friday, April 8th, 2016
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Many Dimensions of the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Tom Rudelius,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Using Quasars and the CMB to Probe Quantum Entanglement
Jason Gallicchio,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
Harvey Mudd College,
Monday, April 11th, 2016
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Search, discovery and measurements of the Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel at CMS
Joshua Bendavid,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Inaugural Neugebauer Lecture
Marcia Rieke,
Regent's Professor of Astronomy,
Univ. of Arizona,
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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CD3 Seminar
A new model of stars
David Hogg,
Professor of Physics and Data Science at New York University,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Internal Structure of the Moon from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission
Maria Zuber,
E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Vice President for Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, April 15th, 2016
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Shape dependence of entanglement Hamiltonians and the averaged null energy condition
Thomas Faulkner,
UIUC,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Formation of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in Clusters
Laura Sales,
Assistant Professor,
Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
U.C. Riverside,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spectroscopic studies of layered iridium oxides
Alberto de la Torre,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hsieh Group,
Monday, April 18th, 2016
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Deep Underground Xenon Observatory in China: the PandaX Experiment
Jianglai Liu,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
11:00am
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LIGO Seminar
On the hunt for continuous gravitational waves from unknown neutron stars in binary systems
Evan ,
Goetz,
PMA - LIGO,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
"Probing the Hierarchical Buildup and Chemical Evolution of Galaxies"
David Nidever,
LSST Tucson,
Thursday, April 21st, 2016
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Antineutrino reactor monitoring and applications to nuclear non-proliferation safeguards
Patrick Huber,
Associate Professor of Physics, Center for Neutrino Physics,
Virginia Tech,
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Cosmology beyond the power spectrum and how to keep it simple
Marcel Schmittfull,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP),
U.C. Berkeley,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Atom waveguide QED for efficient multiphoton sources
Alejandro González-Tudela,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
Monday, April 25th, 2016
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Inflatable Dark Matter and the Diphoton Resonance: New Phenomenology with a Simple Lagrangian
Sam McDermott,
SUNY Stony Brook,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
1:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Crystalline coatings for gravitational-wave test masses
Garrett Cole,
President CRYSTALLINE MIRROR SOLUTIONS LLC,
CRYSTALLINE MIRROR SOLUTIONS LLC,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
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Thursday, April 28th, 2016
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Physics Research Conference
String Theory and the CMB
Liam McAllister,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Cornell University,
Friday, April 29th, 2016
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Expanding the landscape of N=2 Super-conformal field theories.
Mario Martone,
University of Cincinnati,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Gravitational Lensing of the Transient Sky
Liang Dai,
NASA Einstein Fellow,
School of Natural Sciences,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spectroscopic signatures of Weyl semimetals beyond photoemission
Stefanos Kourtis,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Princeton,
Monday, May 2nd, 2016
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A careful comparison between collider and direct WIMP searches
Francesco D'Eramo,
UC Santa Cruz,
Wednesday, May 4th, 2016
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Thursday, May 5th, 2016
11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Nambu-Goldstone bosons, dark pions, and effective operators
Hitoshi Murayama,
UC Berkeley and Kavli IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
When a Symmetry Breaks
Hitoshi Murayama,
Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley and Director, Institute for the Physics and Math of the Universe (IPMU), Tokyo,
Friday, May 6th, 2016
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar - CANCELLED
Phonons and rotons in liquid helium
Alberto Nicolis,
Columbia University,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Nonlinear Tides in Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars
Nevin Weinberg,
Assistant Professor ,
Physics,
MIT,
Monday, May 9th, 2016
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
De Sitter Wavefunctionals and the Resummation of Time
Matthew Baumgart,
Rutgers University,
Wednesday, May 11th, 2016
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Astronomy Colloquium
Toward an Understanding of Exoplanetary Composition
Jonathan Fortney,
UC Santa Cruz,
Thursday, May 12th, 2016
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Physics Research Conference
Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers
Ana Maria Rey,
Fellow of JILA, NIST and Assistant Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics, University of Colorado,
JILA,
Friday, May 13th, 2016
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