Seminars
Spring 2021-2022
Monday, March 28th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
The Role of Astronomers in Addressing Climate Change
Travis Rector,
University of Alaska Anchorage,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Precision Calculation of Inflation Correlators at One Loop
Yiming Zhong,
KICP, University of Chicago,
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Demographics of Stars and Exoplanets in the Era of TESS and Gaia
Daniel Huber,
Assistant Astronomer/Professor,
Institute for Astronomy,
University of Hawaii at Manoa,
Friday, April 1st, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A mathematical definition of the abelian group Q(X) := quantum cellular automata / finite depth quantum circuits and ancilla residing on a space X.
Michael Freedman,
USCB/Microsoft,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A mathematical definition of the abelian group Q(X) := quantum cellular automata / finite depth quantum circuits and ancilla residing on a space X
Michael Freedman,
USCB/Microsoft,
12:00pm
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Persistent Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking at High Temperatures
Eliezer Rabinovici,
CERN, HU of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Intermediate mass black holes everywhere?
James Paynter,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Precision Strong-Field Gravity Tests with the Double Pulsar
Ingrid Stairs,
Professor,
Division of Physics and Astronomy,
University of British Columbia,
Thursday, April 7th, 2022
4:00pm
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Friday, April 8th, 2022
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The S-matrix bootstrap in two and four dimensions: primal and dual problem
Martin Kruczenski,
Purdue University,
Monday, April 11th, 2022
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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The axion-photon coupling and grand unified theories
Mario Reig,
Oxford University,
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
What to Know About GWs for Those in the Know
Rana Adhikari,
Professor of Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, April 14th, 2022
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - CANCELED
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Many-body theory in the Quantum Information era
Matthew P.A. Fisher,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, April 15th, 2022
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Semiclassical 3D gravity as an average of large-c CFT
Scott Collier,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Deterministic Generation of 2D Photonic Cluster States by a Single Quantum Emitter
Vinicius Ferreira,
Graduate Student, Painter Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, April 18th, 2022
9:30am
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10:30am
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Thulium Doped Garnets for Quantum Repeaters and Optical Quantum Memory
Jake Davidson,
QuTech, Delft University of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Surprising and Dark Implications of a Supersymmetric Gravity Sector
Clifford Burgess,
Perimeter Institute and McMaster University,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Shaping Extrasolar Systems with Giant Planets
Laetitia Rodet,
Cornell University,
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Planets, Patterns, and the Origin of Life
Lauren Weiss,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
University of Notre Dame,
Friday, April 22nd, 2022
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Interacting boundary gravitons
Ruben Monten,
UCLA,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Binary evolution, gravitational-wave mergers and explosive transients in multiple-populations gas-enriched globular-clusters
Monday, April 25th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Gas Flows in Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Noon with Integral Field Spectroscopy
Andrey Vayner,
Johns Hopkins University,
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Fifty-Five Years of Discoveries at the Galactic Center in the Infrared with Gerry Neugebauer and Many Others
Eric Becklin,
Professor Emeritus UCLA Physics and Astronomy/SOFIA Science Advisor, USRA,
Thursday, April 28th, 2022
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Broken Symmetry Clues for Fundamental Physics
Matthew Reece,
Harvard University,
Friday, April 29th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
On the quantum information content of a Hawking pair
Herman Verlinde,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Majorana modes in iron-based superconducting vortex
Lingyuan Kong,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
Nadj-Perge Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Higgs, Coulomb, and Hall-Littlewood
Kihong Lee,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Dark matter core formation, ultra-diffuse galaxies, and MOND
Jonathan Freundlich,
Staff Researcher,
Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg,
Université de Strasbourg,
Monday, May 2nd, 2022
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Was There an Electroweak Phase Transition
Michael Ramsey-Musolf,
T.D. Lee Institute/Shanghai Jiao Tong U., U Mass Amherst, Caltech,
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The IllustrisTNG Project
Lars Hernquist,
Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics,
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard University,
Thursday, May 5th, 2022
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Playing with quantum toys: Atomic Newton's cradles and Archimedes' screws
Benjamin Lev,
Stanford University,
Friday, May 6th, 2022
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Multi-way cuts from reflected entropy in random tensor networks
Tom Faulkner,
UIUC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum computation in a hybrid array of molecules and Rydberg atoms
Chi Zhang,
David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hutzler Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, May 9th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantinuum and TKET
Mark Jackson,
Senior Quantum Evangelist,
Quantinuum,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Enhancing Entanglement Percolation
Yanxuan (Charlotte) Shao,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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An experimental overview of effective field theory exploration at the LHC
Saptaparna Bhattacharya,
Northwestern University,
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Astrophysical Lessons from LIGO-Virgo's Black Holes
Maya Fishbach,
NASA Einstein Fellow,
CIERA,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, May 12th, 2022
1:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - CANCELED
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Towards a theory of strange quantum metals
Senthil Todadri,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 13th, 2022
11:00am
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12:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Encoded Silicon Qubits: A High-Performance & Scalable Platform for Quantum Computing
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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