Seminar Calendar
April 2008
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Physical Underpinnings of Privacy
Jean Christian Boileau,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
University of Toronto,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Matrix Convexity and "One Line" Proofs of Some Celebrated Quantum Inequalities
Edward Effros,
professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Eddington Limit in Cosmic Rays: An Explanation for the Observed Faintness of Starbursting Galaxies
Aristotle Socrates,
postdoctoral researcher astrophysical sciences,
Princeton University,
Friday, April 4th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
T-Folds and Generalized NS-NS Fluxes
Daniel Robbins,
postdoctoral fellow in natural sciences,
the University of Texas at Austin,
Monday, April 7th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Chip-scale Atomic Magnetometers and Applications
John Kitching,
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Peaks and Valleys: Searching for Low-Mass Hidden Sectors at the LHC and in Cosmology
Kathryn Zurek,
research associate in physics,
University of Wisconsin at Madison,
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Out-of-Equilibrium Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Ulrich Schollwock,
professor of physics,
Technical University of Aachen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Bosons, Dibosons
Andrew Askew,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Florida State University,
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Lubinsky Universality and Clock Spacing for Ergodic Orthogonal Polynomials
Barry Simon,
IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
First Results from CARMA
John Carpenter,
senior research associate in astronomy, Caltech, and director,
Owens Valley Radio Observatory,
Monday, April 14th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Radius-Luminosity Relationship: New Results from Reverberation Mapping and HST Imaging
Misty Betz,
postdoctoral researcher in astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Warped/Composite Physics at the TeV Scale
Raman Sundrum,
professor,
department of physics and astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Algebraic Quantum Circuits
Wim van Dam,
assistant professor of computer science and physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Recent New Results from CDMS
Sunil Golwala,
assistant professor of physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spin Glasses and Stein's Method
Sourav Chatterjee,
assistant professor of statistics,
UC Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium—CANCELED
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
CANCELED
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Characterizing the ISM of High z Star-forming Galaxies with GRB Afterglow Spectroscopy
Jason Prochaska,
associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics,
UC Santa Cruz,
Friday, April 18th, 2008
11:00am
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1:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
The Formalism of Twisted Loop Groups in Gromov-Witten Theory
Alexander Givental,
professor of mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
Monday, April 21st, 2008
11:00am
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1:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Alexander Givental,
professor of mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
'First Light' from New 21-cm Probes of the Dark Ages and Reionization
Judd Bowman,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Fragility of Higgs Boson Predictions for the LHC
James Wells,
theoretical physicist,
CERN,
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searching for Gravitational Waves from Spinning Neutron Stars with LIGO
Joseph Betzwieser,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On Open Scattering Channels for Manifolds with Ends
Rainer Hempel,
professor of computational mathematics,
TU Braunschweig,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Numerical Relativity and a New Frontier: Connecting the Seen with the Unseen
Luis Lehner,
associate professor of physics,
Louisiana State University,
Friday, April 25th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Self-Dual Gravity
Kirill Krasnov,
advanced fellow in applied mathematics and mathematical physics,
the University of Nottingham,
Monday, April 28th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Progress and Prospects at the W. M. Keck Observatory
Taft Armandroff,
director,
W. M. Keck Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Status of CMS Experiment at the LHC
Marat Gataullin,
assistant scientist,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Speed-Up via Quantum Sampling
Pawel Wocjan,
assistant professor in computer science,
University of Central Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Bayesian Statistics from Subjective Quantum Probabilities to Objective Data Analysis
Luc Demortier,
associate professor of experimental high energy physics,
the Rockerfeller University,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Tunneling and Return to Equilibrium for Kramers-Fokker-Planck Type Operators
Michael Hitrik,
associate professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Search for Earth-sized Planets around Other Stars
Gibor Basri,
professor of astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Finding the Atomic Structure of Surfaces and Nanowires via Global Optimization Methods
Cristian Ciobanu,
assistant professor of engineering,
Colorado School of Mines,