Seminar Calendar
February 2008
Friday, February 1st, 2008
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking in String Models
Jason Kumar,
assistant project scientist,
department of physics and astronomy,
UC Irvine,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Misty Bentz,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
After the Standard Model: Some Things We Might See at the LHC
Gustaaf Brooijmans,
assistant professor of physics,
Columbia University,
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Massive Black Holes: From Early Times to the Present
Marta Volonteri,
assistant professor of astronomy,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutron Beta-DeCay and the Value of Vud
Bradley (Brad) Plaster,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Kellogg Radiation Lab,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Lyapunov Exponents of Nonlinear Cocycles
Artur Avila,
Laboratoire de Probabilites et Modeles Aleatoires,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Connecting Galaxies, Halos, and Star Formation Rates Across Cosmic Time
Risa H. Wechsler,
assistant professor of physics,
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology,
Stanford University,
Friday, February 8th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
New N=2 S-Duality and AdS/CFT
Yuji Tachikawa,
postdoctoral fellow in natural sciences,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Monday, February 11th, 2008
4:00am
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Footprints of the Beyond in Flavor Physics
Amarjit Soni,
The Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Erik Muller,
astronomer,
Australia Telescope National Facility ,
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Estimating Billiard Complexities
Eugene Gutkin,
Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil,
and Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
An Overview of Results from the CHARA Array on Mount Wilson
Harold A. McAlister,
professor of astronomy,
Georgia State University,
Friday, February 15th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Boost-Invariant Plasma in AdS/CFT
Alex Buchel,
assistant professor of applied mathematics,
Western Ontario University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Vortex-Quark Interaction in N=4 SYM from AdS/CFT Correspondence
Soo-Jong Rey,
Seoul National University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
High-Resolution Observations of Proto-Planetary Disks in the MM Wavelength Regime
Andrea Isella,
graduate student in astronomy,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Boundary Control Approach to Spectral Inverse Problems
Sergei Avdonin,
professor of mathematics,
University of Alaska, Fairbanks,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Sweet Spot Supersymmetry
Ryuchiro Kitano,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Free Electron Lasers and E-Beam Radiation Sources
Avi Gover,
professor of engineering,
physical electronics department,
Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Life and Death of the First Stars
Alexander Heger,
associate professor, University of Minnesota,
and associate adjunct professor,
UC Santa Cruz,
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
11:00am
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3:00pm
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Entanglement and Ground State Cooling in Optomechanical Systems
David Vitali,
professor of physics,
University of Camerino, Italy,
Monday, February 25th, 2008
12:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
New Science with Large-Aperture Infrared Interferometry: First Fringes on Galactic Center Stars and the Near Future of the Keck Interferometer
Jörg-Uwe Pott,
Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Top Jets and Precision Measurements of the Top Quark Mass
Sean Fleming,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Arizona,
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Towards Fusion Energy for Space Propulsion
Setthivoine You,
department of electrical engineering,
University of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
A Periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits
Janna Levin,
professor of physics and astronomy,
Barnard College of Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Goodness-of-fit—Pitfalls and Power
Frank Porter,
professor of physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Zeros of Heine-Stieltjes Polynomials and Critical Measures
Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein,
professor of mathematics,
Universidad de Almeria,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Sensing Nanomechanical Motion with a Resonant Microwave Interferometer
Konrad Lehnert,
associate fellow, JILA, and assistant professor of physics ,
University of Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Old Disk of the Milky Way as Revealed by the SEGUE Survey
Connie Rockosi,
assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,
and assistant astronomer,
UCO/Lick Observatory,
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
11:00am
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3:00pm
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A Strong Coupling Expansion for N=4 SYM and Other Superconformal Field Theories
David Berenstein,
assistant professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
D-Branes in LG-Models and Mirror Symmetry
Dmitri Orlov,
Steklov Institute, Moscow,