Seminar Calendar
March 2007
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Pavel Kovtun,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Monday, March 5th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Causality in Effective Field Theories
Alejandro Jenkins,
research associate at the Center for Theoretical Physics,
MIT,
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gaussianity of LISA's Confusion Background from Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals
Etienne Racine,
postdoctoral scholar in theoretical astrophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED
ILC Tracker
Timothy K. Nelson,
research scientist,
Linear Collider Detector,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Phase Transitions in Quantum-Spin Systems at Positive Temperatures
Marek Biskup,
associate professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
What Can We Learn from Galaxy Clustering?
David H. Weinberg,
professor of astronomy,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Topic to be announced.
Nie Shuming,
professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, hematology, and oncology,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Friday, March 9th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Reconstructing 1/2 BPS Geometries from N = 4 SYM
Samuel Vazquez,
department of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Renormalizable Non-metric Gravity?
Kirill Krasnov,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Fundamentals and Application of Slow and Fast Light
Professor Robert Boyd,
The Institute of Optics,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Diversity in Young Neutron Stars: The High Magnetic Field Puzzle
Victoria Kaspi,
associate professor,
department of physics,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Orbital Ordering in Perovskites
John B. Goodenough,
professor of mechanical engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Friday, March 16th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Extremal Black Holes Entropy and Topological Strings
Kirill Saraikin,
department of physics,
Harvard University,
Monday, March 19th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Fundamental Constants in Physics and Their Time Dependence
Harald Fritzsch,
Universität München,
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Matter—Antimatter Oscillations at Three Trillion Hertz
Ivan Furic,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Ground Based Gamma Ray Astronomy: Status and Perspectives
Felix Aharonian,
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics,
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Higher Spins, Lichnerowicz Algebras, and Superparticles
Andrew Waldron,
associate professor of mathematics,
UC Davis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
The Low-Temperature Phases of Polarized Fermionic Superfluids
Daniel Sheehy,
postdoctoral research associate,
department of physics and astronomy,
Iowa State University, Ames,
Monday, March 26th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optical Interactions of Photonic Crystal Fibers
Alexander Gaeta,
professor of applied and engineering physics,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
B Meson Decays to Three-Body Charmless Hadronic Final States
Alexei Y. Garmash,
associate research physicist,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spectral Asymptotics on Heisenberg Manifolds
Mahta Khosravi,
postdoctoral member,
school of mathematics,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
New Insights into Star Formation in Galaxies from Spitzer
Robert Kennicutt,
junior professor and astronomer,
Cambridge University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Defining Nascent Bone by the Molecular Nanomechanics of Mineralized Collagen Fibrils
Markus J. Buehler,
principal investigator,
atomistic mechanics modeling laboratory,
MIT,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Reheating of the Universe after Infation with f(phi)R Gravity: Spontaneous Decay of Inflatons to Bosons, Fermions, and Gauge Bosons
Eiichiro Komatsu,
assistant professor of astronomy,
University of Texas at Austin,
Friday, March 30th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories and Supergroup Sigma Models
Hubert Saleur,
professor of theoretical statistical mechanics,
USC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Cold Bosonic Atoms in Magnetically Frustrated Lattices
Dagim Tilahun,
graduate student in physics,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Prospects for Diffractive and Forward Physics at the LHC
Monika Grothe,
assistant scientist in high energy physics,
University of Wisconsin, Turin,