Seminar Calendar
November 2008
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Scale-Factor Cutoff Measure on the Multiverse
Michael Salem,
postdoctoral research associate,
Institute of Cosmology,
Tufts University,
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Towards High-Performance and Reconfigurable Optical Communication Networks
Alan Willner,
professor of electrical engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Cosmological Chiral Condensate and the Cosmological Constant
Stephon Alexander,
assistant professor of physics,
the Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Mystery of Vus from Tau Decays
Swagato Banerjee,
research associate in high energy physics,
University of Victoria; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Extensions of Discrete Classical Orthogonal Polynomials Beyond the Orthogonality
Roberto Costas,
postdoctoral scholar in mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, November 7th, 2008
8:00am
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7:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The BCFT Boundary State from Open String Fields
Michael Kiermaier,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Chirality and Kondo Physics in Graphene
Herb Fertig,
professor of physics,
Indiana University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Applied String Theory: Transport Properties of Holographic Defects
Matthias Wapler,
graduate student,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Monday, November 10th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Precision Muon Physics: New Results and Future Prospects
David Hertzog,
Univesity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
10:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational Radiation from Pulsar Glitches: Nuclear Physics with LIGO
Andrew Melatos,
lecturer in physics,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Latest Results from Borexino
Andrea Pocar,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Toda Flows
Christian Remling,
assistant professor of mathematics,
University of Oklahoma,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
A Taxonomy of Nets and Crystal Design
Michael O'Keeffe,
professor of chemistry,
Arizona State University,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Towards M2 Branes Probing Generic Toric Singularities
Diego Rodriguez-Gomez,
visiting postdoctoral research associate in physics,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Gaps in Our Understanding of High Temperature Superconductors
Eric Hudson,
professor of physics,
MIT,
Monday, November 17th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Line Emission in Cooling Flow Brightest Cluster Galaxies
Louise Edwards,
postdoctoral scholar in astrophysics,
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center ,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Dark Top
David Poland,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
Harvard University ,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Accurate and Decoherence-Protected Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Daniel Lidar,
associate professor,
Department of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering and Department of Physics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Structure of the Proton from Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions
Stephen Trentalange,
research associate in physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Spontaneously Broken Hidden Gauge Symmetries
Devin Walker,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Kooman's Theorem and Point Perturbation
Manwah Lilian Wong,
graduate student in mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Making Galaxies on Supercomputers; One Star at a Time
Tom Abel,
associate professor of physics,
Stanford University,
Friday, November 21st, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Four-Dimensional Structure of String Compactifications
Gonzalo Torroba,
graduate student in high energy theory,
Rutgers University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Novel Quantum Phases in Orbital Systems with Cold Atom Optical Lattices
Congjun Wu,
assistant professor of physics,
UC San Diego,
Monday, November 24th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Computing Reionization with the Moments of the Transfer Equation: First Results on Topology
Kristian Finlator,
graduate assistant/associate in astronomy,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Searches for Subgravitational Forces
Jay Wacker,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Understanding Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Help of Gravitational Waves
Christian Ott,
postdoctoral scholar in theoretical astrophysics including relativity,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Antineutrinos in Minos
Alex Himmel,
graduate student in physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Hyperbolic Hypergeometric Functions
Fokko van de Bult,
Bateman Instructor,
Mathematics,
Caltech,