Seminar Calendar
February 2013
Friday, February 1st, 2013
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Complementarity vs Firewalls: Are there surprising quantum gravity effects near black hole horizons?
Donald Marolf,
UC Santa Barbara,
Monday, February 4th, 2013
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Building a Better Robot: Designing Automated Control Systems for Astronomical Instruments
Reed L. Riddle,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Quantum states of matter and anti-matter in gravitational and centrifugal potentials
Valery Nesvizhevsky,
Institut Laue-Langevin,
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Challenges in searches for binary black holes and black hole-neutron star systems
Duncan Brown,
Syracuse University,
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Observing the Unobservable: Tracing Dark Matter Haloes and Galaxy Assembly
Genevieve Graves,
Princeton,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searches for new physics at CMS in hadronic final states
Maurizio Pierini,
CERN,
Friday, February 8th, 2013
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TAPIR Seminar
Cosmology 2017: Testing Gravity, Dark Energy, and Neutrinos
Eric Linder,
Co-Director,
Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Monday, February 11th, 2013
4:00pm
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
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Friday, February 15th, 2013
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High Energy Theory Seminar
2d TQFT structure of the superconformal indices with outer-automorphism twists
Jaewon Song,
UC San Diego,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Tidal Effects in Double White Dwarf Binaries
Francesca Valsecchi,
Graduate Student,
Dearborn Observatory,
Northwestern University,
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Development of ultra-low loss acoustic resonator from Superfluid Helium-4
Keith Schwab,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Observations of Star-Forming Galaxies in the Reionization Era
Richard Ellis,
Caltech,
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Metal-insulator transition in holography
Sean Hartnoll,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Shining Light on the Properties of Dark Matter: Coupling Baryon and Dark Matter Physics in Galaxy Formation Models
Fabio Governato,
Research Professor,
Astronomy Department,
University of Washington,
Monday, February 25th, 2013
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT): Latest Developments and Next Steps
Gary Sanders,
TMT/Caltech,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Criticality in Mott Insulators
Ribhu Kaul,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of Kentucky,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Fundamental Physics with Optically Levitated Objects
Asimina Arvanitaki,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
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