Seminar Calendar
February 2015
Monday, February 2nd, 2015
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Phase transitions in non-Abelian string nets
Julien Vidal,
Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris ,
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, February 6th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Thermalization time bounds for Pauli stabilizer Hamiltonians
Paul Kristan Temme,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Fluctuating Intergalactic Ionizing Background Across Cosmic Time
Frederick Davies,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
UCLA,
Monday, February 9th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Renormalization Group Evolution of Dimension Six Operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory
Elizabeth Jenkins,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Topological quantum computation with anyons
Claire Levaillant,
UCSB,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nanoscale Cavity Optomechanics for Quantum Optics and Sensing: Diamond, Si and More
Paul Barclay,
Assistant Professor and Alberta Innovates Scholar,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Calgary,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational Astronomy - Prospects and Challenges a Century after Einstein
B Sathyaprakash (Sathya),
School of Physics and Astronomy,
Cardiff Universtiy,
Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spectral properties of the Fourier restriction operator and applications
Julien Sabin,
Mathematics,
U. Paris Sud Orsay,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Precision Stellar Astrophysics: Asteroseismology and Large Spectroscopic Surveys
Marc Pinsonneault,
Ohio State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Quantum photoelectrochemistry of nanoscale solar energy conversion processes
Petter Persson,
Theoretical Chemistry Division, Chemistry Department, ,
Lund University, Sweden,
Friday, February 13th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Quantum Emitters in Wide Band Gap Semiconductors
Igor Aharonovich,
School of Physics and Advanced Materials,
University of Technology, Sydney,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Giant Vibrating Spheres in Space: the effects of waves in stars, planets, and supernovae
Jim Fuller,
DuBridge Fellow,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas Using Matrix Product States Generated with Superconducting Circuits(*)
Andreas Wallraff,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas using Matrix Product States generated with Superconducting Circuits
Andreas Wallraff,
Quantum Device Lab,
ETH Zurich,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Characterizing Topological Order with Matrix Product Operators
Burak Sahinoglu,
Universitat Wien,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Mid-infrared and THz Quantum Cascade Laser Frequency Combs
Jérôme Faist,
Professor,
Institute for Quantum Electronics,
ETH Zürich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravity and the unseen sky
Sydney Chamberlin,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Blowup Dynamics in the Keller-Segel Model of Chemotaxis
Israel Michael Sigal,
Norman Stuart Robertson Chair in Applied Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, February 20th, 2015
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Moving Mesh Astrophysics
Paul Duffell,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Theoretical Astrophysics Center,
U.C. Berkeley,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Overview of Holographic Entanglement Entropy via Illustrations
Shaun Maguire,
Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
Monday, February 23rd, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
No signal yet: The elusive birefringence of the vacuum, and whether gravitational wave detectors may help.
Hartmut Grote,
AEI Hannover,
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanics
Pun Wai Tong,
PhD. Student,
Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, February 27th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Integrability and the conformal field theory of the Higgs branch
Bogdan Stefanski,
City University, London,