Seminar Calendar
April 2007
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Find Your Partner or Expel Your Competitor: Exotic Pairing States in Fermionic Superfluids with Unbalanced Pairing Species
Kun Yang,
professor of physics,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A New Reality: B—> Pi Pi Annihilation in SCET
Chris Arnesen,
graduate student in physics,
MIT,
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Extrasolar Planetary Systems at High Resolution
Michael Liu,
assistant astronomer,
Institute for Astronomy,
University of Hawaii,
Friday, April 6th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
“Electron Interactions in Graphene in a Strong Magnetic Field”
Roderich Moessner,
Oxford University,
Saturday, April 7th, 2007
7:00pm
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4/19
12:00pm
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Monday, April 9th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Surface Plasmon Generation, Concentration, and Detection
Professor Albert Polman,
Center for Nanophotonics,
FOM-Institute AMOLF (Netherlands) and University of Utrecht,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Density Perturbations in Chain Inflation
Brock Tweedie,
graduate student in particle physics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Elliott Lipeles,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC San Diego,
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Cocycle Superrigidity for Profinite Actions of Kazhdan Groups
Adrian Ioana,
graduate student in mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Star Formation in Extreme Environments
Daniela Calzetti,
assistant astronomer,
Space Telescope Science Institute,
Friday, April 13th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Aspects of Quantum Mechanics / Gravity Duality
Mark Van Raamsdonk,
assistant professor of physics,
University of British Columbia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Studying Strongly Correlated Many-Body Physics with Optical Lattices: Controversies and Grand Challenges
Tin-Lun Ho,
professor of mathematical and physical sciences,
Ohio State University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
What Do Optical Nanocircuits, Cloaking, Squeezing Light, and Supermicroscopy Have in Common?
Nader Engheta,
professor of electrical and systems engineering,
The University of Pennsylvania,
Monday, April 16th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Renormalization of MSSM Scalar Masses: Unwelcome News from the Hidden Sector
Andrew Cohen,
department of physics,
Boston University,
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
"Magnetic" Components of Gravitational Waves and Their Effect in the LIGO-VIRGO Response Functions
Professor Leonid Grishchuk,
Cardiff University and Moscow State University,
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Large Time Fluctuations of the Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process
Alexei Borodin,
professor of mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Lyman-alpha Emission from the Intergalactic Medium
Juna Kollmeier,
postdoctoral fellow,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Coordination Solids with Exposed Metal Sites
Jeffrey Long,
professor of chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, April 20th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Metastable Quivers in String Compactifications
Bogdan Florea,
research associate,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Gaugephobic Higgs
John Terning,
associate professor of physics,
UC Davis,
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Breaking the Duality in the Return Times Theorem
Ciprian Demeter,
assistant professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Science Highlights from the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey
Patrick Côté,
senior research officer,
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics,
Friday, April 27th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Nuclear Physics of Charm
Sean Fleming,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Arizona, Tucson,