Seminar Calendar
April 2014
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Singularities and why we love them: universal behaviors in geometric heat flows
Dan Knopf,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Univ. of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lectures
Heat under the microscope: Uncovering the microscopic processes that govern thermal transport
Austin Minnich,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, April 4th, 2014
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Galaxy evolution and gas flows: from massive clusters to isolated dwarfs
Andrew Wetzel,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
Caltech,
Monday, April 7th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Broken SU(4) Symmetry and The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
Inti Sodemann,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The specific Star Formation Rate Plateau and the Star Formation Histories of Galaxies between z~8 and z~4
Valentino Gonzalez,
UC Riverside,
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
An inverse spectral problem for Hankel operators
Alexander Pushnitski,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
King's College London,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Conformal Bootstrap Near the Lightcone, and Universality of Long-Distance AdS Physics
Liam Fitzpatrick,
Stanford University,
Friday, April 11th, 2014
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
3d N=4 Gauge Theories, Hilbert series and Hall-Littlewood Polynomials
Noppadol Mekareeya,
CERN,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Combining Probes of Large-Scale Structure in the Precision Cosmology Era
Elisabeth Krause,
Post-doctoral Researcher,
Physics and Astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania,
Monday, April 14th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Self-organized topological state with Majorana fermions
Marcel Franz,
Professor,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron
Nick Hutzler,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The distribution of metals in the z~2.5 circumgalactic medium
Neil Crighton,
Swinburne,
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
4:00pm
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Function approximation on unstructured data
Hrushikesh Mhaskar,
Visiting Associate,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolutionury
Sun Kwok,
Univ of Hong Kong,
Friday, April 18th, 2014
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Minimal representations as a generalisation of holomorphy for supergravity F-terms
Guillaume Bossard,
Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT,
Monday, April 21st, 2014
12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The mean-field limit of Bosons in the Heisenberg picture
Antti Knowles,
Mathematics,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Influence of Symmetry on Quantum Hall States in Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene
Ben Feldman,
Postdoc,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Star Formation and the Cold Interstellar Medium in Nearby Galaxies
Karin Sandstrom,
Arizona,
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
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Astronomy Colloquium
Y Dwarfs and the Field Substellar Mass Function
Davy Kirkpatrick,
IPAC/Clatech,
Friday, April 25th, 2014
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TAPIR Seminar
Update after AMS: implications on Dark Matter, local pulsar and supernova remnant sources
Ilias Cholis,
Research Associate,
Astrophysics,
FNAL,
Monday, April 28th, 2014
12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
"Green kernels for Schrödinger equations"
Ari Laptev,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Phase transitions and Majorana bound states in engineered topological superconductors
Aaron Finck,
Postdoc,
UIUC,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Strongly-Interacting Supersymmetry: Theoretical Motivations and Phenomenology
Lauren Pearce,
UCLA,
4:15pm
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
The orbits of the Earth and Planets and Their Relation to the Celestial Reference Frame
Bill Folkner,
JPL,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
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Materials Research Lecture
In situ metrologies for characterization of advanced batteries
Jason Graetz,
HRL Laboratories, LLC,