Seminars
Winter 2014-2015
Monday, January 5th, 2015
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Natural Inflation and Quantum Gravity
Prashant Saraswat,
University of Maryland & Johns Hopkins,
Tuesday, January 6th, 2015
1:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Extracting Progenitor Parameters of Rotating CCSNe via Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Laksh Bashin,
Undergraduate,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 8th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Towards Neutron Star Multimessenger Astronomy: A Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves from Fermi-LAT Unassociated Sources in LIGO S6 Data
Jax Sanders,
Graduate Student,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Seeking simplicity in complexity: A physicist's view of vulcanized media
Paul Goldbart,
Professor and Chair,
School of Physics,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Friday, January 9th, 2015
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum noise detection with cavity electro-mechanics
Aaron Weinstein,
Graduate Student, Schwab Group,
Applied Physics, Caltech,
Monday, January 12th, 2015
4:00pm
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
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LIGO Seminar
From h(t) to post-detection science: The gravitational-wave science workflow
Madline Wade,
Teaching Assistant,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Searching for intermediate-mass black-hole binaries and measuring the neutron-star equation of state using advanced gravitational-wave detectors
Leslie Wade,
Teaching Assistant,
Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
1:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Advanced LIGO: Adaptive Mode Matching for the Output Mode Cleaner
Antonio Perreca,
Research Associate,
Syracuse University,
4:00pm
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Thursday, January 15th, 2015
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LIGO Seminar
The Fermilab Holometer: Operation and RF correlation of twin 40m interferometers
Lee McCuller,
Graduate Student,
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Optimal Thermodynamic Control and the Riemannian Geometry of the Ising model
Gavin Crooks,
Physicist Senior Scientist,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley,
Friday, January 16th, 2015
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Close-in Planets: Warm Jupiters, Super-Earths, and Exo-Mercuries
Eugene Chiang,
Professor,
Astronomy and Earth and Planetary Science,
U.C. Berkeley,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
1:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Laying a foundation for confident transient gravitational wave observation: characterizing the Advanced LIGO instruments
Jessica McIver,
Graduate Student,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Probing Cosmic Acceleration with the Dark Energy Survey
Joshua Frieman,
Fermilab and U. Chicago,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
12:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Searches for Particle Dark Matter
Tim Tait,
Professor of Physics,
Physics,
UC Irvine,
Friday, January 23rd, 2015
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Superfluid Optomechanics
Laura DeLorenzo,
Graduate Student, Schwab Group,
Applied Physics,
Caltech,
Monday, January 26th, 2015
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Wigner functions negativity and contextuality in quantum computation
Nicolas DelFosse,
University of Sherbrooke,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2015
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Thursday, January 29th, 2015
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Physics Research Conference
Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets in the Super-Earth Era
Heather Knutson,
Assistant Professor of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Friday, January 30th, 2015
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
AdS5 solutions from M5-branes on Riemann surface and D6-brane sources
Ibrahima (Ibou) Bah,
University of Southern California,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Rise and fall of magnetic fields in relativistic astrophysics
Jonathan Zrake,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Kavli Institute for Particle Physics (KIPAC),
Stanford University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Vortex lattice anisotropy and pairing symmetry of Sr2RuO4
Morten Ring Eskildsen,
Department of Physics,
University of Notre Dame,
Monday, February 2nd, 2015
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Phase transitions in non-Abelian string nets
Julien Vidal,
Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris ,
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
4:00pm
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Thursday, February 5th, 2015
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Physics Research Conference
Interstellar: A Physicist's Adventures in Hollywood
Kip Thorne,
The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus,
Caltech,
Friday, February 6th, 2015
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
The Fluctuating Intergalactic Ionizing Background Across Cosmic Time
Frederick Davies,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
UCLA,
Monday, February 9th, 2015
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Renormalization Group Evolution of Dimension Six Operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory
Elizabeth Jenkins,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Topological quantum computation with anyons
Claire Levaillant,
UCSB,
Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
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Astronomy Colloquium
Precision Stellar Astrophysics: Asteroseismology and Large Spectroscopic Surveys
Marc Pinsonneault,
Ohio State,
Thursday, February 12th, 2015
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter at the Single Atom Level
Immanuel Bloch,
Professor of Physics,
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik,
Friday, February 13th, 2015
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TAPIR Seminar
Giant Vibrating Spheres in Space: the effects of waves in stars, planets, and supernovae
Jim Fuller,
DuBridge Fellow,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas Using Matrix Product States Generated with Superconducting Circuits(*)
Andreas Wallraff,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas using Matrix Product States generated with Superconducting Circuits
Andreas Wallraff,
Quantum Device Lab,
ETH Zurich,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Characterizing Topological Order with Matrix Product Operators
Burak Sahinoglu,
Universitat Wien,
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:45pm
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Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Seminar
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors--Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
Dr. Burton Richter,
Paul Pigott Professor Emeritus,
Physical Sciences,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
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Physics Research Conference
Advanced LIGO: A Prelude to Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy
David H. Reitze,
Senior Research Associate in LIGO and Executive Director of the LIGO Project,
Caltech,
Friday, February 20th, 2015
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TAPIR Seminar
Moving Mesh Astrophysics
Paul Duffell,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Theoretical Astrophysics Center,
U.C. Berkeley,
4:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Overview of Holographic Entanglement Entropy via Illustrations
Shaun Maguire,
Graduate Student, Preskill Group,