Seminars
Winter 2023-2024
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
High-threshold and low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum memory
Ted Yoder,
IBM,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Black Holes and Revelations: Unseen Companions in Stellar Binaries
Kareem El-Badry,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, January 4th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Ultracold polar molecules: an emerging tool for quantum science
Dave DeMille,
Friday, January 5th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A new proposal for holographic Renyi entropy
Pratik Rath,
UC Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Numerical studies of high velocity outflows using an expanding mesh
Monday, January 8th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Learning New Physics from Data – a Symmetrized Approach
Inbar Savoray,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, January 9th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Life at a Multi-TeV Muon Collider
Richard Ruiz,
IFJ, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Machine Learning and Microelectronics for 'New' New Physics Searches at the Energy Frontier
Julia Gonski,
SLAC,
Wednesday, January 10th, 2024
10:40am
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11:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Minimax Surfaces and Covariant Holographic Entropy
Brianna Grado-White,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Measurements of Higgs Boson Properties with the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
Abhisek Datta,
UCLA,
Thursday, January 11th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: From Particle Colliders to Neutron Star Mergers
Jorge Noronha,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Friday, January 12th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
How Bootstrap and Monte Carlo became friends
Minjae Cho,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum criticality under imperfect teleportation
Sara Murciano,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum-inspired incoherent imaging and optomechanical sensing
Mankei Tsang,
Quantum Measurement Group,
National University of Singapore,
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition: Collider-Gravitational Wave Complementarity
Michael Ramsey-Musolf,
UMass Amherst,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Extended-Path Intensity Correlation (EPIC)
Ken Van Tilburg,
NYU,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Linear-in-temperature conductance in electron hydrodynamics
Leonid S. Levitov,
Professor of Physics,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
10:40am
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11:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Low entanglement states in black holes and many-body systems
Zixia Wei,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Ultrafast photoexcitation and propagation of coherent magnons
Changmin Lee,
Professor,
Hanyang University (Korea),
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
The Nearest Black Holes Are Quiet (But White Dwarfs Are Not)
Antonio Rodriguez,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Uncovering the Nature of Dark Matter with Stellar Streams in the Milky Way
Ana Bonaca,
Staff Scientist,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Boosted Higgs production and smart trackers of the future
Jennet Dickinson,
Fermilab,
Thursday, January 18th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Moiré Materials
Allan H. MacDonald,
University of Texas at Austin,
Friday, January 19th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The g-function and Defect Changing Operators from Wavefunction Overlap on a Fuzzy Sphere
Yijian Zou,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Magic Angles and Fractional Chern Insulators in Twisted Homobilayer TMDs
Allan MacDonald,
Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Physics,
University of Texas at Austin,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Coating Thermal Noise - Reaching New Limits in Precision Laser Stabilisation
Namisha Chabbra,
- Internal Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Probing dark matter with cosmic voids
Elena Pinetti,
Fermilab & KICP,
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar- CANCELLED
Online and In-Person Event
Nelson-Barr solutions to the strong CP problem
Clara Murgui,
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona / IFAE,
Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
10:40am
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11:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Near-Extremal Black Hole Entropies from Replica Matrices
Sergio Hernandez-Cuenca,
MIT,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Measuring the Cosmic Expansion Rate at High Redshift with DESI Lyman-𝛼 Forests
Andrei Cuceu,
Research Fellow,
CCAPP,
The Ohio State University,
Thursday, January 25th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Biard Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Error correction of a logical quantum bit beyond the break-even point
Michel Devoret,
Yale,
Friday, January 26th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
BPS states in the large N limit
Chi-Ming Chang,
Tsinghua University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Fuzzy sphere regularization of 3D CFTs
Yin-Chen He,
Perimeter Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Nature vs. Nurture: How internal and external processes shape galactic interiors
Francisco Mercado,
NSF MPS Ascend Fellow,
Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics,
Pomona College,
Monday, January 29th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED
Online and In-Person Event
Detecting Dark Matter Substructures on Small Scales with Fast Radio Bursts
Huangyu Xiao,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
A soluble model of a Nonequilibrium Steady State and its lessons
Professor Anton Kapustin,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Consistent actions for massive particles interacting with electromagnetism and gravity
Lukas Lindwasser,
UCLA,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
A New Look on Asteroid Detection in the Zwicky Transient Facility
Belén Yu Irureta-Goyena,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Exploring the Near-Sun Environment with Parker Solar Probe
Brian E. Wood,
Research Physicist,
Space Science Division,
Naval Research Laboratory,
Thursday, February 1st, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Why are astrophysical plasmas always magnetized?
Axel Brandenburg,
Nordita & KITP,
Friday, February 2nd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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AdS Higgs mechanism for double trace deformed CFTs
Andreas Karch,
UT Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Building quantum networks: from solid-state defects and Rydberg atoms in cavities to a new scientific frontier with hybrid quantum systems
Aziza Suleymanzade,
Harvard,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Revealing Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation with Small-Scale Structure
Monday, February 5th, 2024
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special LIGO Seminar
Experimental prototype of a phase-insensitive quantum filter for sensitivity enhancement of gravitational-wave detectors.
Artemy Dmitriev,
- Internal Event
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Matrix Entanglement and Beckenstein- Hawking Entropy
Sandip Trivedi,
TIFR, Mumbai,
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Adiabatic quantum computations with three-dimensional Rydberg atom graphs
Minhyuk Kim,
Korea University,
Wednesday, February 7th, 2024
10:45am
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11:45am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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The action of geometric entropy in topologically massive gravity
Molly Kaplan,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Stretched horizon, replica trick, and off-shell winding condensate, and all that
Indranil Halder,
Harvard University,