Seminar Calendar
October 2012
Monday, October 1st, 2012
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Reddest Quasars: A Transitional Phase in Quasar/Galaxy Co-Evolution
Eilat Glikman,
Yale,
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological order with tensor networks on infinite cylinders: an explicit wavefunction for fractionalized quasi-particle excitations
Guifre Vidal,
Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Future of the Sloan Digital Sky Survery
Michael Blanton,
Prof.,
New York University,
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Have We Converged on an Understanding of the Dense Matter Equation of State?
James Lattimer,
SUNY/Caltech Kingsley Visitor,
Friday, October 5th, 2012
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Velocity and feedback enhance 21-cm signal from first stars at z ~ 20
Anastasia Fialkov,
Tel Aviv University,
Monday, October 8th, 2012
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Constraints on protoplanetary disk turbulence from radiative transfer models
Daniel Szomoru,
Leiden,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
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Astronomy Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Empirical Laws of Galactic Rotation
Stacy McGaugh,
University of Maryland,
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
12:00pm
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Friday, October 12th, 2012
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gromov-Witten invariants from the S^2 partition function
Vijay Kumar,
KITP,
UC Santa Barbara,
2:00pm
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Monday, October 15th, 2012
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The structural evolution of galaxies between z=0 and z=2.5
Daniel Szomoru,
Leiden,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A classical leash for a quantum tiger: Key distribution with minimal assumptions
Ben Reichardt,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be Announced
Sara Ellison,
Prof.,
University of Victoria,
Sara Ellison,
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
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Friday, October 19th, 2012
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be Announced
Chris Beem,
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics,
SUNY Stony Brook,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
An Experiment to Demonstrate an alpha-omega Dynamo in the Accretion Disk leading to Galaxy and MBH formation
Stirling Colgate,
Los Alamos National Lab,
Saturday, October 20th, 2012
5:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 22nd, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special High Energy Physics Seminar
Geometry as Graviton Bose-Einstein Condensate
Georgi Dvali,
CERN,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Galaxy quenching and the remarkable stability of the velocity dispersion function since z~1.5
Rachel Bezanson,
Yale,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
10:30am
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Quantum recursions and hyperideal polyhedra
Roland van der Veen,
TBA,
Berkeley,
12:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Efficient distributed quantum computing
Steve Brierley,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of Bristol,
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gauge Theory angle on Integrability
Samson Shastavili,
Trinity College Dublin,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
F Theory vs Type IIB Orientifolds: Some global aspects
Raffaele Savelli,
MPI Munich,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, October 29th, 2012
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Astronomy Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be Announced
Gaspar Bakos,
Prof.,
Princeton Univ.,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Optimal Mass Configurations for Lensing High-Redshift Galaxies (and how to find them in the SDSS!)
Kenneth Wong,
Arizona,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological stabilizer codes with a power law energy barrier via welding
Kamil Michnicki,
Graduate student,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Some Like it Hot: What Observations Can Tell Us About Solar Coronal Heating
Joan Schmelz,
University of Memphis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Torsion-bar Antenna for Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection
Ayaka Shoda,
University of Tokyo,
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
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Astronomy Colloquium
Planetary System Architectures from Kepler
Daniel Fabrycky,
University of Chicago,