Seminar Calendar
May 2013
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
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Friday, May 3rd, 2013
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TAPIR Seminar
Three-Dimensional Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae
Sean Couch,
Research Associate,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
Monday, May 6th, 2013
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Cooling Through Optimal Control of Quantum Evolution
Dr. Armin Rahmani,
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Astronomy Tea Talk
High redshift starburst galaxies revealed by SPT, ALMA, and gravitational lensing
Joaquin Vieira,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Oscillatory modes of quarks in baryons for 3 quark flavors - u, d, s
Peter Minkowski,
ITEP, Univ of Bern,
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
Supermassive Black Holes in Giant Elliptical Galaxies
Chung Pei Ma,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, May 10th, 2013
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Localization in N=2* and related models
Alex Buchel,
Perimeter Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Testing Gravity with Cosmology: a new Golden Age?
Pedro Ferreira,
Professor,
Astrophysics,
University of Oxford,
Monday, May 13th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Hamiltonian Theory of Fractionally Filled Chern Bands
Ganpathy Murthy,
Professor,
University of Kentucky,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrinoless double-beta decay and other searches for physics beyond the Standard Model with the Majorana experiment
Reyco Henning,
University of North Carolina,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
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Friday, May 17th, 2013
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TAPIR Seminar
Fast evaluation of asymptotic waveforms from gravitational perturbations
Scott Field,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Joint Space-Science Institute,
University of Maryland,
Monday, May 20th, 2013
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Effective Field Theories for Topological Insulators via Functional Bosonization
Shinsei Ryu,
Assistant Professor,
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champagne,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Sniffing out BSM Physics with Standard Model Standard Candles
David Curtin,
SUNY, Stonybrook,
4:15pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
'Illuminating the dark universe with quasar-induced ly-alpha emission'
Sebastiano Cantalupo,
UCO/Lick Observatory,
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
CSI-Los Angeles: The Growth of Distant Galaxies and Reionization
Ranga- Ram Chary,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Special Materials Research Seminar
Novel Materials, Computational Spectroscopy, and Multiscale Simulation in Nanoscale Photovoltaics
Marco Bernardi,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA,
Friday, May 24th, 2013
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Towards a holographic formulation of Cosmology
Gonzalo Torroba,
Stanford University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special JCAP Seminar
A Versatile Materials Platform from New Functional Epoxide Polymerizations
Nathaniel A. Lind,
Materials Research Laboratory,
University of California - Santa Barbara,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Glimpsing the Composition Distribution of Sub-Neptune-Size Exoplanets
Leslie Rogers,
Hubble Postdoctoral Scholar,
Astronomy,
Caltech,
Monday, May 27th, 2013
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topological Viscosity Response due to Torsion and the Bulk-Boundary Correspondence
Taylor Hughes,
Assistant Professor,
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champagne,
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
11:30am
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Astronomy Colloquium
Gone with the Wind? Galactic winds and star formation quenching
Christy Tremonti,
Wisconsin,
Friday, May 31st, 2013
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TAPIR Seminar
The Changing Landscape of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors
Ken Shen,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
University of California, Berkeley,