Seminar Calendar
May 2007
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium—CANCELLED
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Edo Berger,
research fellow,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution in Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
CMS ECAL 2006 Test Beams Effort
Christopher Rogan,
graduate student in high energy physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Intersection of Paths and High-Dimensional Random Walk in Random
Noam Berger,
assistant professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dynamics of Young Star Clusters
Stephen L. W. McMillan,
professor of physics,
Drexel University,
Friday, May 4th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
5-D Black Holes and Strings with Higher Derivatives
Joshua Davis,
postgraduate researcher,
department of physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Mechanical Quantum Resonators: A Proposal to Create and Detect Single Phonons in a Bulk Mechanical Resonator
Andrew Cleland,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
Monday, May 7th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Universal Nonperturbative Effects in Two-Jet Event Shapes
Chris Lee,
postdoctoral research associate,
Institute for Nuclear Theory,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Preparing to Search for New Physics with the CMS ECAL
Marat Gataullin,
assistant scientist in high energy physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On Hyperbolic Dynamics and Properties of the Spectrum of the Fibonacci Hamiltonian
Anton Gorodetski,
postdoctoral scholar in mathematics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Lilia Anguelova,
reasearch associate in theoretical physics,
Queen Mary, University of London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
MicroRNAs: From Scale Invariance to Stem Cells
Jonathan Miller,
assistant professor,
Human Genome Sequencing Center,
Baylor College of Medicine,
Friday, May 11th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Sumit Das,
department of physics and astronomy,
University of Kentucky,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Measurements of Electron Correlation Effects in Nanotubes and Nanowires
David Cobden,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Washington,
Monday, May 14th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Low-Energy Gauge Mediation from Metastable Vacua
Yuri Shirman,
assistant professor of physics and astronomy,
UC Irvine,
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Ordered Quantum and Dot Systems for Nano-Photonics Applications
Eli Kapon,
professor of physics,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Constraining Gravitational Waves with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Elena Pierpaoli,
associate professor of physics and astronomy,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
"Electron Neutrino Appearance in MINOS"
Juan Pedro Ochoa,
graduate student in high energy physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Absolutely Continuous Spectral Measures of Analytic Quasiperiodic Operators
Svetlana Jitomirskaya,
prodessor of mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Topic to be announced.
Anneila Sargent,
Rosen Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,
and director,
Owens Valley Radio Observatory,
Friday, May 18th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Polariton Condensation in CdTe Microcavities: From Theory to Practice
Francesca Marchetti,
Dr.,
Cavendish Laboratory,
University of Cambridge,
Monday, May 21st, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
LSO/LYSO Crystals for a Future Precision Crystal Calorimeter
Ren-yuan Zhu,
member of the professional staff,
High Energy Physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmology with the SZ-Array and the South Pole Telescope—Ninth Annual Greenstein Lecture
Professor John Carlstrom,
department of astronomy and astrophysics, and department of physics,
University of Chicago,
Friday, May 25th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
L. Fernando Alday,
Utrecht University and Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law at a Quantum Critical Point
Johnpierre Paglione,
postdoctoral researcher in physics,
UC San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ISP Presentation: "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Brazil"
Thiago Goncalves,
graduate student in astronomy,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the Spectrum of a q-Sturm-Liouville Operator
Jacob Christiansen,
postdoctoral scholar in mathematics,
Caltech,