Seminars
Winter 2011-2012
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
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Astronomy Colloquium
What the #*!$ is dark matter? One astrophysicist's perspective
Annika Peter,
UC Irvine,
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Restless Universe (Palomar Transient Factory)
S. R. Kulkarni,
Principal Investigator, Palomar Transient Factory, Director, Caltech Optical Observatories,
Caltech,
Friday, January 6th, 2012
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
3-Manifolds, 3d SCFT's, and 3d Indices
Tudor Dimofte,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Monday, January 9th, 2012
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
10:30am
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
New theory of difference hypergeometric and Whittaker functions
Ivan Cherednik,
Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
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Physics Research Conference
The Multiverse of String Theory, The Measure Problem, And The Cosmological Constant
Raphael Bousso,
Professor, Theoretical Physics,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, January 13th, 2012
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
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Astronomy Colloquium
Emission Mechanism of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Andrei Beloborodov,
Columbia University,
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Networks of Trapped Atomic Ions
Chris Monroe,
Bice Zorn Professor of Physics,
University of Maryland,
Friday, January 20th, 2012
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Assessing the impact of disorder on the ν=5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect
Michael J. Manfra,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Purdue University,
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Probing reionization and large-scale structure with the South Pole Telescope
Christian Reichardt,
Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Dynamics of mobile impurities in 1D condensates
Alex Kamenev,
Professor ,
Department of Physics,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Constraints on dark matter models from a Fermi-LAT search for cosmic-ray electrons from the Sun
Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
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Astronomy Colloquium
Galaxies Viewed as Collections of Individual Stars
Julianne Dalcanton,
University of Washington,
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Building Synthetic Materials from Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Magnetism in an Optical Lattice
Jonathan Simon,
Dr.,
Physics Department,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Evidence for Dibosons with Decays to Heavy Quarks: A Validation of Low Mass Higgs Searches at D0
Joe Haley,
Northeastern University,
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
1:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Integrability and the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence
Bogdan Stefanski,
City U. London,
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
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Physics Research Conference
The Gravitational Waves and the Search: Into the Future
Rana Adhikari,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
LIGO,
Caltech,
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Consistent truncation of d=11 supergravity on AdS_4 x S^7
Krzysztof Pilch,
USC,
1:15pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Detecting Majorana fermions at the topological superconductor surface
Suk Bum Chung,
Dr.,
Condensed Matter Group ,
Stanford University,
Monday, February 6th, 2012
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Magnetotransport and Coulomb Drag in Graphene Bilayers
Emanuel Tutuc,
Asssistant Professor ,
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
10:30am
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
On Khovanov homology and the Fukaya categories of Hilbert schemes
Mohammed Abouzaid,
MIT,
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Understanding RVB states with PEPS
David Perez-Garcia,
Associate Professor,
Mathematical Analysis,
Complutense University of Madrid,
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Pairing of critical Fermi-surface states
Max Metlitski,
Dr.,
Kavli Institute for Theorethical Physics ,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
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Physics Research Conference
Black Holes Get Loud. And Bright.
Janna Levin,
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
Barnard College,
Columbia University,
Friday, February 10th, 2012
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High Energy Theory Seminar
OPE of Wilson-'t Hooft loop operators
Natalia Saulina,
Perimeter Institute,
Monday, February 13th, 2012
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Unforgeable noise-tolerant quantum tokens
Fernando Pastawski,
Max-Planck Institute,
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
1:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Instanton calculus in quiver gauge theories
Vasliy Pestun,
Institute for Advanced Study,
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Thursday, February 16th, 2012
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Physics Research Conference
Bose-metals of frustrated spins and bosons and towards non-Fermi-liquids of electrons
Lesik Motrunich,
Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Condensed Matter Physics,
Caltech,
Friday, February 17th, 2012
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A refinement of entanglement entropy and the number of degrees of freedom
Hong Liu,
MIT,
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The complexity of the Local Separable Hamiltonian Problem lem
André Chailloux,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
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Astronomy Colloquium
Inflows, outflows, and the physics of galaxy formation
Claude-André Faucher-Giguère,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
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Physics Research Conference
This Is Your Brain On Music
Daniel Levitin,
Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Music,
McGill University,
Friday, February 24th, 2012
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A Natural Language for AdS/CFT correlators
Balt van Rees,
SUNY Stony Brook,
Monday, February 27th, 2012
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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
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Physics Research Conference
STABILITY AND COMPLEXITY IN MODEL BANKING SYSTEMS
Robert May,
Lord May of Oxford,
Fellow of Merton College,
The University of Oxford,
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
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