Seminar Calendar
October 2010
Friday, October 1st, 2010
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Black Hole/Qubit Correspondence
William Rubens,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
Imperial College,
Monday, October 4th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Formation of Retrograde Planetary Orbits
Matthew Payne,
postdoctoral fellow in astronomy,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Hall Transitions in Trapped Cold Atom Systems
Kun Yang,
professor of physics,
Florida State University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Spectrum of Fractional Quantum Hall States and Quantum Spin Chains
Ronny Thomale,
postdoctoral scholar,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nanophotonics: The Art of Managing Photons at the Nanoscale
Mark Brongersma,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
JWST: Not Just a High Redshift Machine!
Marcia Rieke,
professor of astronomy,
University of Arizona,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Ground State Alternative for Schrodinger Operators
Kyril Tintarev,
professor of mathematics,
Uppsala University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
CRTS: An Open Optical Transient Survey
Andrew Drake,
computational scientist,
Caltech,
Friday, October 8th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gauge Tree Amplitudes in the Pure Spinor Formalism
Oliver Schlotterer,
Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Silicon and Oxygen Abundances in Planet-host stars
Erik Brugamyer,
UTexas,
Monday, October 11th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes: Towards An Unabridged Understanding of Their Coevolution
Ji-hoon Kim,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Quenches in Bulk and Impurity Systems
Stefan Kehrein,
professor of theoretical physics,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen ,
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar—postponed
Wade Fisher,
assistant professor of high energy physics,
Michigan State University,
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Spectrum of Skew-Shift Schrodinger Operators Contains Intervals
Helge Krueger,
Simons Foundation Fellow,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Diverse Energy Sources for Supernovae
Lars Bildsten,
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Micromechanical Testing of MEMS Structures
Warren C. Oliver,
president of Nanomechanics, Inc.,
and adjunct professor,
University of Tennessee ,
Friday, October 15th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chiral Operators on the One Instanton Moduli Space
Noppadol Mekareeya,
Imperial College,
Monday, October 18th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Dynamics of NGC 205 and M32, Andromeda's Tidally Distorted Satellites
Kristen Howley,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Walter Hofstetter,
Goethe University, Frankfurt,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Secondary Photons and Neutrinos from Distant Blazars and the Intergalactic Magnetic Fields
Warren Essey,
UCLA,
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Micro- and Nano-structured Semiconductor Devices on Amorphous Substrates for Low-cost Energy Conversion, Sensing and Displays
M. Saif Islam,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational Waves from First Order Phase Transitions
Chiara Caprini,
Institut de Physique Théorique,
CEA,
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
The Growth of Dead Galaxies in Clusters over Most of Cosmic Time
Greg Rudnick,
assistant professor of physics and astronomy,
University of Kansas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A Possible Explanation for Puzzling Properties of X-ray Bursts
M. Coleman Miller,
University of Maryland,
Friday, October 22nd, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Singular Monopoles and Gauge Theories with Impurity Walls
Sergey Cherkis,
Trinity College, Dublin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Point Contact Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: Andreev Reflection, Multiband Superconductivity, and Magnetism
Laura H. Greene,
professor of physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Monday, October 25th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topological Transitions in Dissipative Quantum Transport
Mark Rudner,
postdoctoral scholar in condensed matter theory,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
KATRIN and Project 8
Benjamin Monreal,
assistant professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Small Gaps, Localization, and the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm
David Gossett,
graduate student in quantum information science,
MIT,
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Exoplanets and Planet Formation in the Kepler Era
Jack Lissauer,
NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A Lensing Map . . . A Redshift Survey
Margaret Geller,
HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Disk Formation in Protoplanetary Systems: Magnetic Braking and Non-ideal MHD
Ruben Krasnopolsky,
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Friday, October 29th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
S duality, Superconformal Index and 2d Topological Field Theory
Abhijit Gadde,
graduate student in physics,
SUNY Stony Brook,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optomechanics
Oskar Painter,
associate professor of applied physics,
Caltech,