Seminar Calendar
October 2008
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
What Is the Simplest Quantum Field Theory?
Jared Kaplan,
Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Study,
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
4:15pm
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6:15pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Formality Theorems for Hochschild Complexes
Vasiliy Dolgushev,
assistant professor of mathematics,
UC Riverside,
Friday, October 10th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic Superconductors
Gary Horowitz,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Quark Masses: An Environmental Impact Statement
Alejandro Jenkins,
research associate,
Center for Theoretical Physics,
MIT,
Monday, October 13th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Electroweak Corrections Using Effective Field Theory: Applications to the LHC
Randall Kelley,
graduate student,
Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences,
UC San Diego,
Friday, October 17th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Unitarity and Holography in Gravitational Physics
Don Marolf,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
TeV Scale Physics from G2 Compactifications of M-Theory
Konstantin Bobkov,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Monday, October 20th, 2008
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Boundary Behavior of Cauchy Transforms
Alexei Poltoratski,
professor of mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Seeking the Light of New Physics
Yuri Gershtein,
assistant professor of physics,
Rutgers University,
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Radar Reflection from Naturally Occurring Metal 50 Miles Up in the Sky
Paul Bellan,
professor of applied physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Truth the Top Quark Is Hiding
Andrew G. Ivanov,
research physicist,
UC Davis and Fermilab,
Friday, October 24th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Eva Silverstein,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
External Fields and the Dynamics of Flavours in Holographic Duals of Large N Gauge Theories
Arnab Kundu,
graduate student in theoretical high energy physics,
USC,
Monday, October 27th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Identifying Top Jets at the LHC
Keith Rehermann,
graduate student in physics,
the Johns Hopkins University,
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Single molecule probing of dynamic conformation, molecular interactions and dynamic localizations in-vitro
Shimon Weiss,
professor,
department of chemistry and biochemistry,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Exploring Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics with LIGO
Yanbei Chen,
assistant professor of physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Powers of Large Random Unitary Matrices and Toeplitz Determinants
Maurice Duits,
Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics,
Caltech,
Friday, October 31st, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Index for Nonrelativistic Superconformal Field Theory—from LLM to ABJM and BL
Yu Nakayama,
department of physics,
UC Berkeley,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Conformal Collider Physics
Diego Hofman,
graduate student in physics,
Princeton University,