Seminar Calendar
March 2006
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Analytic Capacity, Cauchy Integrals, Menger Curvature, and Bilipschitz Maps
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Oxide Nanoarchitectures with Innate Ion Wires Yield Enhanced Nanoionic Properties
Debra Rolison,
Doctor,
Naval Research Laboratory,
Friday, March 3rd, 2006
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Automorphic Forms, Topological Strings, and Perhaps Black Holes
Andrew Neitzke,
IAS,
Monday, March 6th, 2006
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the LSST Project
J. Anthony Tyson,
UC Davis,
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Tuning LIGO to Listen to Gravitational Waves
Rana Adhikari,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
LIGO Laboratory,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Status of ZEPLIN II- A Direct Matter Search Detector Using 40kg Liquid Xenon
Hanguo Wang,
Assistant Professor of EE,
Electrical and Computing Engineering,
UCLA,
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Linking Proteins, Particles, Wires and Dots with Ferroelectric Nanolithography
Dawn Bonnell,
Professor,
The University of Pennsylvania,
Thursday, March 9th, 2006
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Mediation of Supersymmetry Breaking in String Compactifications
Peter Svrcek,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Julia S. Meyer,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
The Ohio State University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Entanglement Entropy from AdS/CFT Correspondence
Tadashi Takayanagi,
KITP, UCSB,
Monday, March 13th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings: Quantitative Analysis and Constraints
Xavier Siemens,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Center for Gravitation and Cosmology,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Search for Exotics in Baryonic B Decays
Tetiana Hryn'ova,
Graduate Student,
Physics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Extraordinary Thermal Emission from Sub-wavelength Metallo-Dielectric Photonic Crystals
Rana Biswas,
Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory,
Friday, March 17th, 2006
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Pouliot Type Duality via a-Maximization
Teruhiro Kawano,
Tokyo University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Dalitz Plot Analysis of B+ -> K+K+K-
Alexei Dvoretskii,
graduate student,
high energy physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
12:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Special Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Algebro-Geometric Toda Hierarchy Initial Value Problem for Complex-Valued Initial Data
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Special Mathematical Physics Seminar
Fitted Solvable Model for Scattering by Helmholtz Resonator
Boris Pavlov,
professor of mathematics,
University of Auckland,
Monday, March 27th, 2006
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Emergence of the Standard Model Fermions from a Background Independent Quantum Theory of Gravity
Lee Smolin,
Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Heavy Quarks in Strongly Coupled Plasma: Energy Loss via AdS/CFT
Laurence Yaffe,
professor of physics,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, March 31st, 2006
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Observables in Effective Gravity
Steven Giddings,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,