Seminar Calendar
May 2008
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Pedro Vieira,
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique École Normale Supérieure, Paris,
Monday, May 5th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
On the Photon Decay into Extra Dimensions
Alexander Friedland,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Secure Optical Key Generation Using an Ultra-Long Fiber Laser
Avi Zadok,
postdoctoral scholar in applied physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Prospects for LIGO Detection of Stellar-Mass Black Hole Binary Mergers in Galactic Nuclei
Vanessa Lauburg,
graduate student in astronomy,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Puzzles and Discoveries in Quarkonium Physics
Bryan Fulsom,
graduate student in physics,
University of British Columbia,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Properties of Absolutely Continuous Spectral Measures of 1D Quasiperiodic Operators
Svetlana Jitomirskaya,
professor of mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Thirty Meter Telescope Project: Opening the Next Generation of Giant Optical/Infrared Telescopes
Gary Sanders,
project manager,
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
New Findings in Materials Under Extreme Pressures
Rus Hemley,
director of the geophysical laboratory,
the Carnegie Institution of Washington,
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Non-Supersymmetric String Theory
Sav Sethi,
associate professor of physics,
University of Chicago,
4:30pm
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7:00pm
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Gravity B Experiment
Francis Everitt,
professor of physics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Anyonic Interferometry and Protected Memories in Atomic Spin Lattices
Liang Jiang,
graduate student in physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Spin Physics from the STAR Experiment at RHIC
Stephen Trentalange,
researcher in astronomy and astrophysics,
UCLA,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spectral Properties of a q-SturmLiouville Operator
Jacob Christiansen,
Harry Bateman Research Instructor in Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium: 10th Annual Greenstein Lecture
Luminosity Functions: From Quasars to Gamma-Ray Bursts
Maarten Schmidt,
Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
What Do We Know about How Polymeric Semiconductors Work?
Alberto Salleo,
assistant professor of materials science and engineering,
Stanford University,
Friday, May 16th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Breaking R-Symmetry for General Gauge Mediation
John Mason,
graduate student in physics,
UC Santa Cruz,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The G2-MSSM, from Moduli Stabilization and a De Sitter Minimum to LHC and Dark Matter Phenomenology
Gordon Kane,
professor of physics,
University of Michigan,
Monday, May 19th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Little Higgs Model with T-Parity
Maxim Perelstein,
assistant professor of theoretical physics,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Communication with Two Zero-Capacity Channels
Graeme Smith,
postdoctoral scholar,
T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM,
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Calculating the Closed String Partition Function of a Calabi-Yau A-infinity Category
Kevin Costello,
assistant professor of mathematics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Photon Analysis Techniques at CDF and Latest Results
Max Goncharov,
research scientist in physics,
Texas A&M University,
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Universality Limits for Random Matrices via Classical Complex Analysis
Doron Lubinsky,
professor of mathematics,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Coherent Optics and Hybrid Silicon—III-V Devices
Amnon Yariv,
Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and professor of electrical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Neil Cornish,
assistant professor of physics,
Montana State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanomechanical Characterization and Modeling
Gang Feng,
professor of engineering,
Brown University,
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Nori Iizuka,
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Detection Confidence in Searches for Gravitational-Wave Transients
Erik Katsavounidis,
associate professor of physics,
MIT,
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Operator Mobius Transformations of CMV Matrices and Orthogonal Rational Functions
Luis Velazquez,
professor of applied mathematics,
University of Zaragoza, Spain,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Metallicity and Star-Formation History of Galaxies
Lisa Kewley,
research fellow,
Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
The Plaquette Polaron Paradigm for Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors
William A. Goddard III,
Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics,
Caltech,
Jamil Tahir-Kheli,
senior staff scientist in chemistry,
Caltech,
Friday, May 30th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar—cancelled
Anindya Mukherjee,
postdoctoral fellow in particle, subatomic, and string theory,
University of British Columbia,