Seminar Calendar
March 2015
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
R&D studies at ETH Zurich for the CMS EE upgrade
Francesca Nessi-Tedaldi,
CERN,
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Geometry and Physics Seminar
Perturbative invariants of Chern-Simons theory on Seifert manifolds
Gaetan Borot,
MPI, Bonn,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Surprising New Insights into Quasars from the WISE Satellite
Daniel Stern,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Barriers to Efficiency: Thermal-Induced Stresses and Phase Evolution in Multiphase Ceramic Coatings
Katherine T. Faber,
Simon Ramo Professor of Materials Science,
Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, March 6th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Loop Amplitudes without Loop Integrands: Constraining the NMHV Ratio Function
Matt von Hippel,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Oscillations of Nearly Extremal Black Holes
Aaron Zimmerman,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Astrophysics,
CITA,
Monday, March 9th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Cross-order relations from maximal unitarity
David ,
Kosower,
CEA, Saclay,
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
A High Frequency Space Interferometer to Extend the Reach of the GW Detector Network
Rana Adhikari,
Professor of Physics,
PMA,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Two little results in topology, motivated by quantum computation
Gorjan Alagic,
University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Reconstructing the neutron-star equation of state from gravitational-wave observations
Benjamin Lackey,
Syracuse University,
Wednesday, March 11th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dark Matter and Stellar Halos: Formation, Histories and Structure
Kathryn Johnston,
Columbia,
Friday, March 13th, 2015
11:00am
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Quantum systems with approximation-robust entanglement
Lior Eldar,
MIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Friday, March 20th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Bulk-Boundary Duality, Gauge Invariance, and Precursors
Vladimir Rosenhaus,
UC Santa Barbara,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Promise of Strong-field General Relativity with Black Hole Binaries
Deirdre Shoemaker,
Professor,
School of Physics,
Georgia Tech,
Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Integrated Quantum Light-Matter Interfaces Based on Ensembles of Rare-Earth Ions
Erhan Saglamyurek,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Calgary, Canada,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Efficient CBC parameter estimation and source classification
Carl-Johan Haster,
Department of Physics,
Birmingham,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Operationally-Motivated Uncertainty Relations for Joint Measurability and the Error-Disturbance Tradeoff
Volker Schotz,
ETH,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Hearing what gravitational wave standard sirens have to say
Chris Messenger,
University of Glasgow,
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special LIGO Seminar
Measurements of mechanical losses in black coating and bonding of silicon at low temperatures.
Leonid Prokhorov,
Physics,
Moscow State University,
Friday, March 27th, 2015
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12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Finally Free: Unlocking Dark Matter Physics out of Galactic Substructures
Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies,
JPL / Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Constraining Holographic Entanglement Entropy
Ning Bao,
DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics ,
Monday, March 30th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Gapped and gapless phases of frustration-free spin-1/2 chains
David Gosset,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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1:30pm
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LIGO Seminar
Optical losses and the optical power requirements in the traditional and the intracavity readout topologies of laser gravitational-wave detectors
F. YA. Khalili,
Physics,
Moscow State University,
1:30pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Single mode cavity to avoid parametric instability in laser gravitational wave detector
Sergey Vyachanin,
Physics,
Moscow State University,