Seminar Calendar
October 2007
Monday, October 1st, 2007
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Chemical Analysis of the Fornax Dwarf Galaxy
Bruno Letarte,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
From Belle to a Super B Factory
Masashi Hazumi,
associate professor of experimental high energy physics,
INPS KEK,
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Makarov's Law of the Iterated Logarithm for SLE
Nam-Gyu Kang,
Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Prospects for Detecting Primordial Gravitational Radiation via the CMB
Andrew Lange,
Goldberger Professor of Physics, Caltech, and senior research scientist,
JPL,
Friday, October 5th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Stringy Instantons, Geometric Transitions, and Dynamical SUSY Breaking
Shamit Kachru,
professor of physics,
Stanford University and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Monday, October 8th, 2007
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Back to the Future: The Lee-Wick Standard Model
Mark Wise,
McCone Professor of High Energy Physics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Interfacing Analytical and Numerical Relativity in the Modeling of Binary Black-Hole Coalescences
Alessandra Buonanno,
associate professor of physics,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Enriched Xenon Observatory for Double Beta Decay
Andrea Pocar,
postdoctoral scholar in neutrino physics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On Jacobi Matrices with Random Decaying Perturbations
Jonathan Breuer,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoc in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Megamasers, the Hubble Constant, and Dark Energy
Jim Braatz,
associate scientist,
Natoinal Radio Astronomy Observatory,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Phenomenology of (Extra)Ordinary Gauge Mediation
David Shih,
Institute for Advanced Study,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supersymmetry Breaking Vacua from M-Theory Fivebranes
Luca Mazzucato,
Tel-Aviv University,
Monday, October 15th, 2007
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Probing Cosmology with X-ray Galaxy Clusters
David Rapetti,
experimental research associate,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and KIPAC,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Classical Renormalization of Codimension-Two Brane Couplings
Claudia de Rham,
Perimeter Institute,
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
"Software and Computing for the LHC" and "EVO Current and Future Developments"
Julian Bunn,
member of the professional staff in high energy physics,
Caltech,
Dave Adamczyk,
research engineer in high energy physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Protoplanetary Disks in the Inner AU
Joshua Eisner,
Miller Fellow,
department of astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 19th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Sergio Ferrara,
professor of physics and astronomy,
UCLA, and CERN,
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Light Scalar at the LHC: Higgs or Dilaton?
Walter Goldberger,
associate professor of physics,
Yale University,
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrino Mass from Tritium Beta Decay: From Mainz to KATRIN
Bjorn Flatt,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies
Joshua Simon,
Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy,
Caltech,
Friday, October 26th, 2007
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
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Astronomy Tea Talk
New Results on the Abundances and Kinematics in the M31 Halo from 10-150 kpc
Andreas Koch,
postdoctoral scholar in physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
GenEvA: A New Framework For Event Generation
Frank Tackmann,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Topological Field Theory and Representation Theory
David Ben-Zvi,
assistant professor in geometry research,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
Robert McKeown,
professor of physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Monodromy of Higher-Order Selberg Integrals
Eric Rains,
professor of mathematics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Nonperturbative Effects in Matrix Models and Topological Strings
Marlene Weiss,
CERN and ETH, Zurich,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
APh/OSA Optics Seminar: Engineering Optical Space with Metamaterials: From Magnetics to Negative-Index and Cloaking
Vladimir Shalaev,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Clustering of Galaxies and Black Holes at z~1
Alison Coil,
postdoctoral researcher in astronomy,
University of Arizona, Tucson,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Mass Scales and Unparticle Physics at the LHC
Devin Walker,
visitor in physics,
UC Berkeley,