Seminars
Spring 2018-2019
Monday, April 1st, 2019
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Unlocking Neutron Stars as Sensitive Probes of Dark Matter
Tim Linden,
Ohio State University,
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Evolved Planetary Systems Around White Dwarfs
Boris Gaensicke,
University of Warwick,
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Dark Matter direct detection at a crossroads
Ranny Budnik,
Senior Scientist,
Weizmann Institute,
5:15pm
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7:15pm
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Friday, April 5th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Entanglement as a connection for holographic spacetimes
Lampros Lamprou,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
"Quantum Nanophotonics with Ytterbium in Yttrium Orthovanadate"
Jon Kindem,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Faraon Group,
Monday, April 8th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Primordial black holes as dark matter
Alexander Kusenko,
UCLA & Kavli IPMU,
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar - Special Event with Condensed Matter Physics
Making matter from light: Mott Insulators and Topological Fluids
Jonathan Simon,
Associate Professor of Physics & The James Franck Institute, and IME Fellow,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Coherent Electron Dynamics in Inter-dimensional Metals: From Atomically Precise Clusters to Plasmonic Transducers
Kenneth L. Knappenberger, Jr.,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Pennsylvania State University,
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Discovery of Pulsars - A Graduate Student's Story
Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
University of Oxford,
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Grad Students' Choice: Topological order and topological excitation
Xiao-Gang Wen,
Professor of Physics,
MIT,
Friday, April 12th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Emergent higher symmetry in topological phases of matter
Xiao-Gang Wen,
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Higher Spin Theories, Swampland and W-Supergravity
Dieter Luest,
MPI, Munich and Ludwig-Maximillians Univ,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, April 15th, 2019
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A new semiclassical picture of vacuum decay
Matthew Johnson,
York University & Perimeter Institute,
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
3:00pm
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Thursday, April 18th, 2019
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Building Single Molecules – reactions, collisions, and spectroscopy of two atoms
Kang-Kuen Ni,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
Friday, April 19th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Asymptotic Symmetries and the Soft Photon Theorem in Arbitrary Dimension
Temple He,
Asymptotic Symmetries and the Soft Photon Theorem in Arbitrary Dimension,
UC Davis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Probing Topological Superconductivity in a Phase-Controlled Planar Josephson Junction
Hechen Ren,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Nadj-Perge Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
CORRELATED WORLDLINE THEORY of QUANTUM GRAVITY
P.C.E. Stamp,
Professor - Condensed Matter Theory,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of British Columbia and Caltech,
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2019
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Conformally soft photons and gravitons
Andrea Puhm,
CPHT - Centre de Physique Theorique,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Three-Dimensional Supernova Explosion Simulations
Adam Burrows,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Beyond Representation: Data to Improve the Situation of Women and Minorities in Physics and Astronomy
Rachel Ivie,
Director, Statistical Research Center (SRC),
American Institute of Physics,
Friday, April 26th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supersymmetric Wilson Loops, Instantons, and Deformed W-algebras
Nathan Haouzi,
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Increasing spin-photon interface efficiencies via a tunable Fabry-Perot microcavity
Daniel Riedel,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Physics and Material Science,
Faraon Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The stellar local velocity distribution and its implications for dark matter
Lina Necib,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, High Energy Physics,
Caltech,
Monday, April 29th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Non-Thermal Production of Bosonic Dark Matter
Raymond Co,
University of Michigan,
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Electric Excitations in Nanomaterials
Timothy Berkelbach,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University and Research Scientist Center for Computational Quantium Physics at Flatiron Institute,
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmic "Dust" (Galaxies, Stars and Actual Dust)!
Philip Hopkins,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Fracton order: from quantum hard drive to foliated manifold
Xie Chen,
Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
To the Heart of Neutrinos with CUORE and CUPID
Yuri Kolomensky,
UC Berkeley,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Room temperature photo-induced electron-hole gas-to-liquid transition in 2D materials
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The NICER mission and the Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Sky
Andrea Lommen,
Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Haverford College,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Single Photon Detectors, Parity Measurements and Heralded Cat States in the Microwave Domain
Andreas Wallraff,
Professor for Solid State Physics,
Department of Physics,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
Monday, May 6th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New accelerator experiments for dark sectors
Stefania Gori,
UC Santa Cruz,
Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dwarf Galaxies and Their Dark Matter Content
Laura Sales,
Assistant Professor,
Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Riverside,
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms
Antoine Browaeys,
CNRS Research Director,
Institut d'Optique, Paris,
Friday, May 10th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Weak Gravity Conjecture and Repulsive Forces
Ben Heidenreich,
UMass Amherst,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement, Decoherence, & Quantum Ising Systems
P.C.E. Stamp,
Professor,
University of British Columbia,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Interpreting the range of spectral properties from the tidal disruptions of stars by super-massive black holes
Nathan Roth,
Space-Science Institute Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Maryland and NASA Goddard,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
PT-symmetry breaking in microscopic gain-loss systems
Monday, May 13th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Towards Resolution of the MiniBooNE Anomaly with the MicroBooNE Experiment
Brooke Russell,
Yale University,