Seminars
Spring 2017-2018
Monday, April 2nd, 2018
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searching for Ultralight Particles with Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
Masha Baryakhtar,
Perimeter Institute,
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Multireference Theories for Ground and Excited Electronic States Based on the Similarity Renormalization Group
Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
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Thursday, April 5th, 2018
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Physics Research Conference
19th Lauritsen Memorial Lecture: The Dawn of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics
Vicky Kalogera,
Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Northwestern University,
Friday, April 6th, 2018
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Generalized holographic entanglement of purification
Ning Bao,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Toward realizing a time-reversal-invariant topological superconductor
Arbel Haim,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
3:00pm
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Monday, April 9th, 2018
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Search for a Higgs boson produced via gluon fusion and decaying to bb̄
Caterina Vernieri,
Fermilab,
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
12:30pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Observation of the Higgs Boson in its Decay to Tau Leptons at CMS
Isobel Ojalvo,
Princeton University,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Reconfigurable single-atom array for Rydberg atom quantum simulation
Hyosub Kim,
Department of Physics,
KAIST, South Korea,
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Thursday, April 12th, 2018
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Physics Research Conference
Searching for New Particles and Forces with Polar Molecules
Nicholas R. (Nick) Hutzler,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Caltech,
Friday, April 13th, 2018
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Solid-state hybrid quantum systems
Alp Sipahigil,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Painter Group,
Monday, April 16th, 2018
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Deep Learning and the Bayesian Connection
Harrison Prosper,
Florida State University,
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Topological Quantum Computing with and without Majoranas
Daniel Litinski,
PhD Candidate,
von Oppen Group,
Freie University Berlin,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
"Mass Migration: a Galactic, not just an Earthly Phenomenon"
Hans Walter Rix,
MPIA,
Thursday, April 19th, 2018
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
A cargo-sorting DNA robot
Lulu Qian,
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering,
Caltech,
Friday, April 20th, 2018
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Physics of Hot Gas in Galaxy Clusters on Macro and Micro Scales
Irina Zhuravleva,
Phys Sci Res Assoc,
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology,
Stanford University,
Monday, April 23rd, 2018
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searching for dark matter with the XENON1T experiment
Laura Baudis,
University of Zurich,
Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Imaging All the Sky All the Time in Search of Radio Exoplanets
Gregg Hallinan,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 26th, 2018
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
20th Lauritsen Memorial Lecture: The Radioactive Glow of Freshly-Synthesized Heavy Nuclei from a Neutron Star Collision
Brian Metzger,
Associate Professor,
Department of Physics,
Columbia University,
Friday, April 27th, 2018
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Monday, April 30th, 2018
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High Energy Physics Seminar
GeV-Mass Thermal WIMPs: Not Even Slightly Dead
Rebecca Leane,
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics,
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Cold Molecular Medium around Distant Galaxies: Light up the Darkness!
Bjorn Emont,
NRAO, Charlottesville,
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Low Energy Baryogenesis and Beauty
Ann E. Nelson,
Kenneth J. Young Chair & Graduate Recruitment Coordinator, Professor of Physics,
University of Washington,
Friday, May 4th, 2018
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Categories of Line Operators in 3d N=4 Theories
Michael Geracie,
UC Davis,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum information in quantum cognition
Nicole Yunger Halpern,
Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
Monday, May 7th, 2018
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Modeling the Physical Processes Underlying Chromosomal Organization and Dynamics
Andy Spakowitz,
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Materials Science ,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Special High Energy Physics Seminar
Search for heavy new resonances decaying to heavy electroweak bosons and upgrade of the Barrel Muon Trigger of the CMS detector at the LHC
Michalis Bachtis,
UCLA,
Wednesday, May 9th, 2018
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Astronomy Colloquium
Young Gas-Giant Planets and their Brown Dwarf Cousins: From 1 Square Arcsecond to 30,000 Square Degrees
Mike Liu,
Univ of Hawaii,
Thursday, May 10th, 2018
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Symmetry, topology and electronic phases of matter
Charles Kane,
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics ,
University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, May 11th, 2018
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A positive sum rule for the c anomaly in 4D conformal field theory
Markus Luty,
UC Davis,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Bacon-Shor code with continuous measurement of non-commuting observables
Juan Atalaya,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Korotkov Group,
UC Riverside,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Accretion Disk Around Milky Way's Galactic Center Black Hole
Elena Murchikova,
Graduate Student,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018
9:30am
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
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Thursday, May 17th, 2018
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Physics Research Conference
Grad Students' Choice: The entanglement glue for spacetime
Xiaoliang Qi,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Stanford University,
Friday, May 18th, 2018
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A time-domain multiplexed measurement-based large-scale optical quantum computer
Akira Furusawa,
Professor,
Department of Applied Physics,
The University of Tokyo,
2:00pm
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Monday, May 21st, 2018
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Here be Dragons: SNO+ and the path to THEIA
Gabriel Orebi Gan,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
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Astronomy Colloquium
KELT, TESS, and Gaia: The Era of Precision Stellar Astrophysics and Exoplanetology
Scott Gaudi,
Ohio State,