Seminar Calendar
February 2009
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Superconductor Insulator Transition in Thin Films Driven by an Orbital Parallel Magnetic Field Effect
Dganit Meidan,
graduate student in condensed matter physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Confronting the White Elephant: Upsilon Physics at the Babar B-Factory
Stephen Sekula,
postdoctoral scientist in physics,
Ohio State University and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A Criterion for Purely Absolutely Continuous Measures on Homogeneous Sets
Maxim Zinchenko,
Harry Bateman Research Instructor in Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Structure and Evolution of Obscured Quasars
Nadia Zakamska,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Friday, February 6th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Target Space Duality in Curved Backgrounds
Volker Schomerus,
professor of string theory,
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Valley Hall Effect in Graphene
Ivar Martin,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Monday, February 9th, 2009
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Selected Physics Results from the Pierre Auger Southern Observatory
John Matthews,
professor of physics,
University of New Mexico,
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Simplicity of Binary Black Hole Coalescence and its Implications for Detection
Deirdre Shoemaker,
Center for Relativistic Astrophysics,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
An Index Formula in Terms of the Lifshits-Krein Spectral Shift Function
Fritz Gesztesy,
professor of mathematics,
University of Missouri,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Nature and Evolution of the Most Luminous Galaxies
Andrew Blain,
assistant professor of astronomy,
Caltech,
Friday, February 13th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A Framework for the Baryon Asymmetry, Dark Matter and the Moduli Problem
Piyush Kumar,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Steady States and Phase Transitions in the Presence of Non-Equilibrium Noise
Ehud Altman,
professor of submicron electronics,
Weizmann Institute of Sciences,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Interacting Anyonic Fermions in a Two-body Color Code Model
Hector Bombín,
postdoctoral scholar,
Universidad Complutense, Madrid,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Surface Plasmon Resonance Performance Enhancement with Applications in Nano Bio and Chemical Sensors
Lambertus Hesselink,
professor of electrical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
DM-TPC: A Novel Approach to Directional Dark Matter Detection
Gabriella Sciolla,
assistant professor of physics,
MIT,
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Galaxies Under the Cosmic Microscope: Resolving Galaxy Formation on Sub-kpc scales via Gravitational Lensing
Mark Swinbank,
Institute for Compuational Cosmology,
University of Durham,
Friday, February 20th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Operator Space of Pure Spinors and Some Applications
Yuri Aisaka,
International Fellowships Program, Sao Paolo,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Albion Lawrence,
assistant professor of physics,
Brandeis University,
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Julianne Dalcanton,
associate professor of astronomy,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The mu-problem in Non-Minimal Gauge Mediation
John Mason,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Continuous vs. Discrete Oracles
Daniel Gottesman,
faculty member,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Extreme Terahertz Sources
Roberto Morandotti,
professor,
Ultrafast Optical Processing Group,
National Institute of Scientific Research in Varennes Canada (EMT-INRS),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Progress in the LSC/Virgo Search Pipelines for Compact Binary Coalescences
Drew Keppel,
graduate student,
LIGO,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Crystal Calorimeters in the Next Decade
Ren-yuan Zhu,
member of the professional staff in high energy physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Singular Spectrum for Radial Trees
Jonathan Breuer,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Interferometric Measurements of the Size, Shape, and Behavior of Stars
Charles Townes,
professor of astrophysics,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, February 27th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Kerr/CFT Correspondence
Andrew Strominger,
professor of physics,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Proposed Experiments to Observe Non-abelian Quantum Statistics
Ady Stern,
professor of condensed matter physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,