Seminar Calendar
December 2008
Monday, December 1st, 2008
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Detection of z > 2 Type IIn Supernovae in the CFHTLS Deep Fields
Jeff Cooke,
postdoctoral fellow in cosmology,
UC Irvine,
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Periodic Table for Topological Insulators and Superconductors
Alexei Kitaev,
professor of theoretical physics and computer science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Trapping Light in Optical Microcavities via Dynamic Tuning
Michelle L. Povinelli,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Physics Search in Rare Tau Decays
Sanjay Swain,
research scientist in physics,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Quantum Statistical Mechanics and Number Theory
Matilde Marcolli,
professor of mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Reconciling Observations of the Galaxy Merger Rate
Jennifer Lotz,
research fellow,
National Optical Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Novel Correlated Electron Phenomena in Filled Skutterudite Compounds
M. Brian Maple,
professor of physics,
Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences,
UC San Diego,
Friday, December 5th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Dual Superconformal Symmetry of Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills
Emery Sokatchev,
Laboratoire d'Annecy-Le-Vieux de Physique Theorique (LAPTH),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Michael Lilly,
Sandia National Laboratories,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A New High-Contrast Imaging Program at Palomar
Sasha Hinkley,
graduate student in astronomy,
Columbia University,
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spectral Gap in Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Mohammad Amin,
visiting scholar,
Institute for Quantum Information,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational Waves and Multimessenger Astrophysics
Szabolcs Marka,
assistant professor of physics,
Columbia University,
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holography and Dynamical Critical Phenomena
Michael Mulligan,
graduate student in physics,
Stanford University,
Friday, December 12th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Weyl Invariance and the Origins of Mass
Andrew Waldron,
professor of mathematics,
UC Davis,
Monday, December 15th, 2008
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Astronomy Tea Talk
TRAPHIC—Radiative Transfer for Large Hydrodynamical Simulation of Cosmic Reionization
Andreas Pawlik,
Leiden Observatory,
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Synthesis and Applications of Conducting Polymer Nanofibers
Richard B. Kaner,
professor of biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UCLA,
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Johan Richard,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
University of Durham,