Seminar Calendar
January 2009
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoionics: Transport Control in Nanocrystalline Oxides by Heterogeneous Doping
Harry L. Tuller,
professor of ceramics and electronic materials,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Higher Order Spectral Shift Functions
Anna Skripka,
visiting assistant professor of mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
Friday, January 9th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chern-Simons Gauge Theories and M2 Brane CFTs
Jaemo Park,
Pohang University of Science and Technology and visiting professor in physics,
Stanford University,
Monday, January 12th, 2009
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar
Theory of Strongly Interacting Fermions
Peter Drummond,
professor of physics,
Swinburne University of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Holographic Geometry, Indeterminacy, and Noise
Craig Hogan,
Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Search for Rare Decays of B(s) to Two Muons at the Tevatron and Beyond: History and New Physics
Vyacheslav Krutelyov,
postdoctoral research fellow in physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Standard Model Higgs in the Two Photon Channel at CMS
Yousi Ma,
graduate student in high energy physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Random Normal Matrices
Nikolai Makarov,
professor of mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Topic to be announced.
Joanna Dunkley,
faculty member in astrophysics,
Oxford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Atomic Vibrations in Metal Nanostructures
Beatriz Roldan Cuenya,
professor of physics,
University of Central Florida,
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Conductivity Relaxation Patterns of Mixed Conductor Oxides Under a Chemical Potential Gradient
Han-Ill Yoo,
professor of mathematics,
department of materials science and engineering,
Seoul National University, Korea ,
Friday, January 16th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Simplifying and Extending the AdS_5xS^5 Pure Spinor Formalism
Nathan Berkovits,
Instituto de FÃsica Teórica, São Paulo, Brazil,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Measurement of Dispersive Coupling between a Nanoresonator and Cooper-Pair Box Qubit
Matt LaHaye,
postdoctoral scholar,
Center for Physics of Information,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
7:00am
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10:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Renormalization: Foundations, Status and Prospects
Guifre Vidal,
professor of physical sciences,
University of Queensland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
The Bacterial Flagellar Motor: Step, Jump, and Spin
Ned Wingreen,
Professor of Molecular Biology,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Status of SuperB—The Super Flavor Factory
David Hitlin,
professor of high energy physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Eigenvalue Statistics for Random CMV Matrices
Mihai Stoiciu,
assistant professor of mathematics,
Williams College,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Bifocals for Baryonic Physics: Toward Successful Models of High-Redshift Galaxy Formation
Brant Robertson,
Spitzer Fellow,
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,
the University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research—cancelled
Annelise E. Barron,
professor of bioengineering,
Stanford University,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
9:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Timo Weigand,
postdoctoral scholar in high-energy theory,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Vibrational Dynamics and Heat Conduction in Amorphous Solids
Vincenzo Vitelli,
postdoctoral researcher in soft condensed matter,
the University of Pennsylvania,
Monday, January 26th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
An Adaptive Optics Perspective on Star Formation around a Supermassive Black Hole
Jessica Lu,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Supersymmetry Without Prejudice
JoAnne Hewett,
professor of physics,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Operational Meaning of Min- and Max-entropy
Christian Schaffner,
postdoctoral scholar,
Centre for Mathematix and Computer Science (CWI),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Ultrafast, Nonlinear, and Quantum Nanoplasmonics
Mark I. Stockman,
professor of physics,
Georgia State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Scientific Results from the First Six Months of the FERLI/LAT Mission
Troy Porter,
research scientist in physics,
UC Santa Cruz,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On Rational Approximants for the Euler Constant
Alexander Aptekarev,
Russian Academy of Sciences,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Quasars, Feedback, and Galaxy Formation
Philip Hopkins,
research fellow,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Toroids, Helices, Networks and Beyond: Tunable Nanostructure through Charged Polymer or Charged Peptide Solution Assembly
Darrin J. Pochan,
professor of materials science,
University of Delaware,
Friday, January 30th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be Announced
Nikita Nekrasov,
professor,
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar--CANCELLED
Cancelled
Jack Harris,
assistant professor of physics,
Yale University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Photonic Cluster State Machine Gun
Daniel Lindner,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,