Seminars
Winter 2021-2022
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
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High-Energy Neutrino Astrophysics with IceCube
Ignacio Taboada,
Professor,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Thursday, January 6th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium **POSTPONED**
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Energetic Constraints on Biological Assembly and Motion
Michael Murrell,
Yale University,
Friday, January 7th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Branes, Quivers and BPS Algebras
Miroslav Rapcak,
UC Berkeley,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
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A quantum processor based on coherent transport of entangled atom arrays
Dolev Bluvstein,
Grad School of Arts and Sci,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, January 10th, 2022
9:45am
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11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Dressing and Tuning-Dressing of a spin 1/2 system
Guiseppe Bevilacqua,
DSFTA - University of Siena (Italy),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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INQNET Seminar
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Photonic resource state generation from a minimal number of quantum emitters
Bikun Li,
Physics,
Virginia Tech,
Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
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Fast Transients, High Redshift Galaxies, and the Keck Wide-Field Imager
Jeff Cooke,
Professor,
Swinburne University,
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
1:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Iterating Infrastructure from High Volts to X-Rays to Nuclear Physics: Early Caltech Science in the Archives
Peter S. Collopy,
University Archivist and Head of Archives and Special Collections,
Caltech,
Friday, January 14th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Automorphic Spectra and the Conformal Bootstrap
Sridip Pal,
Institute for Advanced Study,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
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Clifford-deformed Surface Codes
Arpit Dua,
UQM-IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Xie Chen Group,
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
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Pinpointing fast radio bursts in space and time
Jason Hessels,
Professor,
University of Amsterdam & ASTRON,
Thursday, January 20th, 2022
1:00pm
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Friday, January 21st, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
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Magnetism and Superconductivity in Crystalline Few-layer Graphene
Haoxin Zhou,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Nadj-Perge Group,
Monday, January 24th, 2022
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
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Reinforcement learning for designing quantum protocols
Alexey A. Melnikov,
Terra Quantum AG,
Valiev Institute of Physics and Technology of Russian Academy of Sciences,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
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All Gas no Brakes: Uncovering the gas physics driving galaxy evolution
Jed McKinney,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Analyticity and Unitarity for Cosmological Correlators
Victor Gorbenko,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
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Multi-messenger Studies of Relativistic Jets at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory
Anthony (Tony) Readhead,
Robinson Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, January 27th, 2022
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Prospects for observing gravitationally-lensed gravitational-wave transients with second-generation detector networks
Friday, January 28th, 2022
11:00am
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11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Floquet engineering of quantum materials on demand
Junyi Shan,
Graduate Student, Hsieh Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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D-instanton Superpotential in String Theory
Manki Kim,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Stellar feedback in galaxies: from the dense interstellar medium to circumgalactic gas
Benjamin Keller,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
MUSTANG Group, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut,
Universität Heidelberg,
Monday, January 31st, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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Astronomy Tea Talk
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Fast Radio Burst exploration with Apertif
Ines Pastor-Marazuela,
University of Amsterdam,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Turning the LHC to the Dark Side: The Standard Dark Matter Search Approach, Its Limitations, and How to Overcome Them
Matteo Cremonesi,
University of Notre Dame,
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
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A circuit-level protocol and analysis for twist-based lattice surgery
Christopher Chamberland,
AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
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Approaching the solar dynamo from unusual angles: M-dwarf stars, polar views, and different dynamo mechanisms
Benjamin Brown,
Assistant Professor,
Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
1:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Unveiling the Higgs's secrets to unlock new physics
Caterina Vernieri,
SLAC,
Friday, February 4th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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The O(n) and S_Q Conformal Field Theories in 2 dimensions
Hubert Saleur,
University of Southern California,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, February 7th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
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Evaporative Transmission Spectroscopy at Close-in Exoplanet and Exomoon Systems
Apurva Oza,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Unlocking the CMS Experiment to Catch Long-lived Particles
Cristian Peña,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
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Our experience with tensor network methods in magnetic resonance
Ilya Kuprov,
University of Southampton,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
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Galaxy Evolution with Space-Based Spectroscopy: From Hubble to JWST and Beyond
Casey Papovich,
Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy,
Texas A&M University,
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
1:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Neutrino and Dark Radiation Properties from Cosmic Datasets
Marilena Loverde,
University of Washington,
Friday, February 11th, 2022
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
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Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm: MaxCut, Spin Glass, and Beyond
Leo Zhou,
Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
2:00pm
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Monday, February 14th, 2022
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
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Efficient, problem-tailored variational quantum algorithms
Sophia Economou,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC
Ian Moult,
Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Quasi-Periodic Topological Bulk-Bulk Correspondence and the Dry Ten Martini Problem
Dan Borgnia,
Physics: Quantum Condensed Matter,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
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Stress-Testing the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm
Priyamvada (Priya) Natarajan,
Professor of Astronomy,
Department of Astronomy and Physics,
Yale University,
Thursday, February 17th, 2022
12:54pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Keeping Up With Experimentalists: Accurate predictions for multimessenger gravitational wave astrophysics
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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14 Billion years on, what can we learn about Original Imperfection?
Eric Cornell,
JILA, University of Colorado,
Friday, February 18th, 2022
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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de Sitter Microstates from a solvable generalization of the T-Tbar deformation
Eva Silverstein,
Stanford University,