Seminar Calendar
November 2014
Monday, November 3rd, 2014
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Project 8: Towards a Radio-Frequency Measurement of the Neutrino Mass
Luiz de Viveiros,
UC Santa Barbara,
Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
4:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
gLISA: geosynchronous Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Massimo Tinto,
JPL/Caltech,
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Mean field dynamics of mixed fermionic states
Benjamin Schlein,
Mathematics,
University of Zufich,
4:00pm
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Thursday, November 6th, 2014
7:30am
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TAPIR Seminar - NOTE: unusual day
Large-scale structure formation with the Schrödinger method
Cora Uhlemann,
PhD student,
Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich,
Friday, November 7th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Limits of high power fiber lasers, slab fiber waveguides and fabrication and test of microstructures optical fibers
Jay Dawson,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quantum supergravity and exact holography
Joao Gomes,
University of Cambridge,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Four topics on the centers of galaxies
Scott Tremaine,
Professor,
Institute for Advanced Study,
School of Natural Sciences,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Novel Mechanism of Low-Temperature CVD Graphene Growth
David Boyd,
Staff Scientist,
Yeh Group,
Caltech,
Monday, November 10th, 2014
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High Energy Physics Seminar
GeV Gamma-Rays from the Central Milky Way and the Case for Annihilating Dark Matter
Tracy Slatyer,
MIT,
Wednesday, November 12th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Resonances in general relativity
Semyon Dyatlov,
Clay Research Fellow,
Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Probing the Origin of Supermassive Black Holes with Dwarf Galaxies
Amy Reines,
Univ of Michigan,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Harnessing Nature's Light Manipulation Strategies for Multifunctional Optical Materials
Mathias Kolle,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT,
Friday, November 14th, 2014
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TAPIR Seminar
Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption as Probes of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function
Nicholas Stone,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Astrophysics Laboratory,
Columbia University,
4:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Electron tunneling in Van der Waals heterostructures
Chandni U. ,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Eisenstein Group,
Caltech,
Monday, November 17th, 2014
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Probing physics behind neutrino masses
Kaladi Babu,
Oklahoma State University,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Dark Matter and the Theory for Baryon Number at the LHC
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
MPIK, Heidelberg & Caltech,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Asymptotics of Chebyshev Polynomials for General Subsets of the Real Line
Barry Simon,
I.B.M. Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Materials By Design: Unexpected routes to superconductivity
James Neilson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Colorado State University,
Friday, November 21st, 2014
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TAPIR Seminar
Extremes of compact object birth, from the dimmest to the super-luminous
Brian Metzger,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics ,
Columbia University,
4:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Non-Abelian phases in Fractional Quantum Hall states
Roger Mong,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
Monday, November 24th, 2014
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High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED
Flavor-Covariant Formalism for Transport Phenomena
Bhupal Dev,
University of Manchester, UK,
Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Periodic block Jacobi matrices and the XY spin chain
Milivoje Lukic,
Postdoctoral Fellow UTM,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,