Seminar Calendar
April 2010
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Metamaterial Hyperlenses and Spin-wave Resonators Fabricated by Rolled-up Nanotech
Stefan Mendach,
professor of physics,
University of Hamburg,
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Towards a Construction of Holographic Superconductors
Wen-Yu Wen,
visitor in physics,
Caltech,
Monday, April 5th, 2010
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Landau-Zener Problem in Many Body Systems: Applications to Cold Atoms, Cavity QED and Superconductivity
Victor Gurarie,
professor of physics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A Few Interesting Trees in the WIMP Forest
Tim Tait,
theoretical high energy physicist,
UC Irvine,
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Achieving Freely Falling Test Masses in LISA and LISA Pathfinder
Bill Weber,
University of Trento, Italy,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Mesoscopic Glassy Orders in a Manganite Thin Film Observed by Microwave Imaging
Keji Lai,
postdoctoral scholar in applied physics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Orthogonal Polynomials with Recursion Coefficients of Generalized Bounded Variation
Milivoje Lukic,
graduate student in PMA,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Stellar Initial Mass Function and the Early Stages of Star and Brown Dwarf Evolution
Gilles Chabrier,
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
The Crystallization of NiTi Shape Memory Thin Films
Ainissa G. Ramirez,
associate professor of mechanical engineering,
Yale University,
Friday, April 9th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gauge Threshold Corrections for Local String Models
Joseph Conlon,
University of Oxford,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Two-dimensional Electron Liquid State at Oxide Interfaces
Jochen Mannhart,
professor of physics,
University of Augsburg, Germany ,
Monday, April 12th, 2010
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Disentangling Dark Matter Dynamics
Mariangela Lisanti,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Quantum Computers Work with a Quarter of Their Bits Missing
Tom Stace,
postdoctoral research fellow,
University of Queensland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Oxide Nanoelectronics on Demand
Jeremy Levy,
professor of physics,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Composite Inelastic Dark Matter
Jay Wacker,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Best Rational Approximation of the Exponential Function on the Semiaxis and Saddle-Points for the Energy
Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein,
professor,
Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics,
Universidad de Almeria, Spain,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
White Dwarf Binaries, Mergers, and Explosions
Marten van Kerkwijk,
professor of astronomy,
University of Toronto,
Friday, April 16th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Strings at the TeV Scale
Dieter Luest,
chair for mathematical physics, LMU-München,
and director,
Max-Planck-Institute for Physics,
Monday, April 19th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Time Dependent Radiative Transfer in SNe Atmosphere and Cosmic Recombination Epoch: Effect on Spectra and Transition Probabilities in a True Multilevel Framework
Soma De,
graduate student in physics and astronomy,
University of Oklahoma,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar—cancelled
Oscillons in Scalar and Gauge Field Theories: Theory and Applications in Particle Physics and Cosmology
Marcelo Gleiser,
professor of natural philosophy and professor of physics and astronomy,
Dartmouth College,
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Cluster Expansions and the Stability of Topological Phases
Israel Klich,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
An Idiosyncratic History of Technical Developments Leading to LIGO
Stan Whitcomb,
LIGO chief scientist,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Lyapunov Exponents and Oseledets's Basis for Products of Independent Non-identically Distributed Matrices
Ilya Goldsheid,
professor of mathematics,
Queen Mary, University of London,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Novel Electro-Magnetic Phenomena: One-way-waveguides and Wireless Power Transfer
Marin Soljacic,
professor of physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Probing the Jet Collimation Region in M87 with VLBA and TeV Observations
Craig Walker,
National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoscale Materials for Solar Fuel Generation
Paul Alivisatos,
professor of chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Red but Not Dead!—Molecular Gas in Early-type Galaxies
Timothy Davis,
graduate student in astrophysics,
Oxford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Odd-parity Topological Superconductors: Theory and Application to Cu_xBi_2Se_3
Erez Berg,
postdoctoral scholar in condensed matter physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Cosmic Anomalies: A Skeptical Evaluation
Edward L. Wright,
professor of astronomy,
UCLA,
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Numerical Algorithms for Simulating Interacting Fermionic Lattice Systems
Christina Kraus,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On Convergence to SLE_6
Helen (Guo-Ying) Lei,
graduate student in mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Solution-Processed Inorganic Photovoltaics from Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Matt Law,
assistant professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium—CANCELED
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
CANCELED
Friday, April 30th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Instanton Effects in F-theory
Ralph Blumenhagen,
Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics,