Seminar Calendar
May 2009
Friday, May 1st, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Spiky Strings and Spin Chains
Nick Dorey,
professor of theoretical physics,
University of Cambridge,
Monday, May 4th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
"An Optical Gas Microscope for Quantum Simulation"
Simon Foelling,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Hidden Fermionic Dark Matter in Neutrino Detectors
Jennifer Kile,
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Multi Prover Interactive Proofs with Communicating Provers
Avinatan Hassidim,
postdoctoral associate,
Center for Theoretical Physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Semiconductor Nanowires for Electronics and Sensors
Ted Kamins,
principal scientist,
Quantum Science Research Group,
Hewlett-Packard Labs,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Recent Developments in Heavy Flavor Meson Spectrscopy
Alexander Rakitin,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Stratified Analyticity of the Lyapunov Exponent and the Global Theory of One-Frequency Schrodinger Operators
Artur Avila,
Centre Nationale de Recherche,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Ptolemy's Cosmology, the First Scientific Cosmology
Noel Swerdlow,
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, May 8th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Nuclear Force from String Theory
Koji Hashimoto,
senior research scientist,
RIKEN,
Monday, May 11th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Models for X-Ray Binaries: Galactic and Extragalactic Populations
Tassos Fragos,
graduate student,
Northwestern Universtiy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Vortex Loops and the Superfluid Phase Transition
Gary A. Williams,
professor of physics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Physics, QCD Radiation and MadGraph/MadEvent at the LHC
Johan Alwall,
postdoctoral scholar,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Fluid Approaches to Optics and Imaging
Jason Fleischer,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Prospects for Gravitational Wave Detection with Forthcoming Pulsar Timing Arrays
Alberto Sesana,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
the Pennsylvania State University,
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Asymptotics of OPRL for a Weight with a Jump: (Lack of) Universality and Clock Behavior
Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein,
professor of mathematics,
Universidad de Almeria, Spain,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Is the Universe Homogeneous and Isotropic?
Marc Kamionkowski,
Robinson Professor of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Thermoelectric Materials by Design
Jihui Yang, Ph.D.,
staff research scientist,
Materials and Processes Laboratory,
R&D Center, GM,
Friday, May 15th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
To be announced.
Martin Schnabl,
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,
Monday, May 18th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Colette Salyk,
graduate student,
Geology and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Non-Evanescent Physics of Evanescent Waves: Polaritonic Effects from Nanotube Transistors to NEMS
Slava V. Rotkin,
professor of physics,
Lehigh University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Spontaneous R-parity Violation In Supersymmetry
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Matthew Elliott,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
University of Southern Indiana,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The CERN Axion Solar Telescope
Michael Pivovaroff,
physicist,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the Infinite Gap Case
Jacob S. Christiansen,
research fellow in mathematical sciences,
University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Massive Galaxy and Black Hole Formation Back to within 1 Billion Years after the Big Bang
Dominik A. Riechers,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Rapid Scale Dependent CFT Thermalization from Gravity
Shiraz Minwalla,
Tata Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar & GALCIT Colloquium
The Many Faces of 'Discreteness': From Acoustic Crystals and Layered Optical Media to Multi-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates and Beyond
Panayotis Kevrekidis,
associate professor of mathematics,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
6:15pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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
Recent Advances in InP-Based Photonic Integrated Circuits
Larry Coldren,
professor of optoelectronics and photonics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Planck: History, Status, and Prospects
Krzysztof Gorski,
JPL,
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Statistics of Quasiperiodic Eigenvalues
Svetlana Jitomirskaya,
professor of mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Stable Non-supersymmetric Throats in String Theory
Dusan Simic,
graduate student in physics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
IR Divergences of Gauge-Theory Amplitudes and Resummation for LHC
Matthias Neubert,
University of Mainz,