Seminar Calendar
February 2007
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Infinite Dimensional R Symmetries in M-Theory
Hermann Nicolai,
Albert Einstein Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Theory of the Phase Diagram of the Cuprates
Chandra Varma,
professor of physics,
UC Riverside,
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Constraining the Standard Model: Recent Results from D0
John Ellison,
professor of physics and astronomy,
UC Riverside,
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Wavepacket Spreading on the Fibonacci Chain
David Damanik,
associate professor of mathematics,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Fundamentals of Supernova Cosmology
Bob Kirshner,
professor of science,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Friday, February 9th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Dynamics of a Magnetic Superfluid
Dan Stamper-Kurn,
assistant professor of atomic physics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Small Time: A Chip-Scale Atomic Clock
Kitching John,
physicist,
time and frequency division,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
A Bayesian Estimation of Confusion Noise in the LISA Data
Richard Umstaetter,
postdoctoral fellow,
astrophysics and space sciences,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Electron Cloud at Fermilab and as a Limit to Particle Accelerator Performance
Robert Zwaska,
research scientist,
Fermilab,
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the Edge Behavior of the Spectral Measure for Slowly Decaying Monotone Potentials
Yoram Last,
Hebrew University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Massive black holes from early times to the present
Marta Volonteri,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Computational Design of Contraindicated Multifunctional Materials; Combining Magnetism with Additional Functionalities
Nicola Spaldin,
professor,
materials department,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, February 16th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
On the CFT/AdS Correspondence and Massive Gravitons
Ofer Aharony,
associate professor of particle physics,
Weizmann Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Anyons in a Weakly Interacting System
Marcel Franz,
associate professor,
department of physics and astronomy,
University of British Columbia,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Tohru Eguchi,
department of physics,
University of Tokyo,
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Physics Anno 2007 with the Crystal Ball in Its Fourth Incarnation
Bernard Nefkens,
professor of physics,
UCLA,
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Topic to be announced.
Erkki Ruoslahti,
professor,
Burnham Institute for Medical Research,
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Moduli Stabilization in Nongeometric Backgrounds
Katrin Becker,
professor of physics,
Texas A&M University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Emergence of Spin-Half Fermion Vortices and the Vortex Metal
Assa Auerbach,
professor of physics,
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics Special Seminar
Intrinsic Noise Properties of Atomic Point Contact Displacement Amplifiers
Konrad Lehnert,
associate fellow of JILA and assistant professor of physics,
NIST,
University of Colorado,
Monday, February 26th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Scale of Gravity and the Cosmological Constant within a Landscape
Michael Salem,
graduate student in physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Lagrangian Tori and Spectra for Non-Selfadjoint Operators
Michael Hitrik,
associate professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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