Seminar Calendar
October 2013
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
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Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
From building blocks to large galaxies: towards understanding the formation of the Milky Way
Anna Frebel,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanostructured 3-D Architectures: Mechanics and Physics of Deformation and Fracture in Nanomaterials for Biomimetics, Batteries, and Lightweight Structural Materials
Julia Greer,
Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
California Institute of Technology,
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanostructured 3-D Architectures: Mechanics and Physics of Deformation and Fracture in Nanomaterials for Biomimetics, Batteries, and Lightweight Structural Materials
Julia Greer,
Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, October 4th, 2013
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TAPIR Seminar
Nuclear Processes in Accretion Disks from Compact Object Mergers: an Engine for Electromagnetic Transients
Rodrigo Fernandez,
Department of Astronomy,
University of California, Berkeley,
Monday, October 7th, 2013
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Tuning the Ground State of Fe Pnictide Superconductors.
Ni Ni,
Professor,
UCLA,
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Illustris Project: Populating the Hubble Sequence in Cosmological Simulations
Paul Torrey,
(CfA) Harvard,
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Searching for Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays
Justin Ellis,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
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Friday, October 11th, 2013
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Monday, October 14th, 2013
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Hidden (Hastatic) Order in URu2Si2
Rebbeca Flint,
Professor,
Iowa State University,
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
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Materials Research Lecture
Vibrational Entropy of Materials
Brent Fultz,
Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, October 18th, 2013
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
BPS, Non-BPS and D-brane anti D-brane effective actions in type II Superstring theory with their corrections to all orders in alpha-prime
Ehsan Hatefi,
ICTP, Trieste,
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TAPIR Seminar
Can Black Hole-Neutron Star Binary Mergers Produce Gamma-Ray Bursts?
Zachariah Etienne,
Department of Astronomy,
UMD and NASA GSFC,
Monday, October 21st, 2013
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Emergent Space-time Supersymmetry in Topological Superconductors
Tarun Grover,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
From Planetesimals to Giant Planets: Chemical and Dynamical Probes of Planet Formation
Joan Najita,
NOAO,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Designing metallic glasses with tailored radiation response using reduced order mesoscale models
Michael J. Demkowicz,
John C. Chipman Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering ,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, October 25th, 2013
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Probing Induced Higher-Spin Gauge Theory
Benjamin Safdi,
Princeton University,
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TAPIR Seminar
Do Galaxy Clusters Boil?
Mike McCourt,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy Department,
U.C. Berkeley,
Monday, October 28th, 2013
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Advancements in modeling galaxy mergers: Synthetic observations and a more accurate numerical method
Chris Hayward,
ITS, Heidelberg,
Tuesday, October 29th, 2013
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Applied Physics Seminar
ENZ and MNZ Phenomena
Nader Engheta,
H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor,
University of Pennslyvania,
Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
Globular Clusters and Halo Stars: Chemodynamical tracers of galaxy assembly
Jean Brodie,
UCO Lick Observatory,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Proximity Effect Induced Topological Superconductor and Majorana Modes
Jinfeng Jia,
Professor,
Physics,
Shanghai Jia Tong University,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Extremes of Heat Conduction in Molecular Materials
David G. Cahill,
Department Head, Donald B. Willett Professor of Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ,