Seminar Calendar
May 2015
Friday, May 1st, 2015
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
On the Statistics of Biased Tracers in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures
Zvonimir Vlah,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Physics,
Stanford University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals: long range interactions and photon molecules
James Douglas,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Quantum-Nano Photonics,
ICFO, Barcelona,
Monday, May 4th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
SESAME- A POSSIBLE SOURCE Of LIGHT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Eliezer Rabinovici,
Hebrew University,
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, May 8th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Geometric engineering, Mirror symmetry and 6d (1,0) to 4d N=2
Dan Xie,
Harvard University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Electrodynamic Effects of Inflationary Gravitons
Richard Woodard,
University of Florida,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Cosmic Neutrinos and Large-scale Structure
Marilena Loverde,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
KICP,
University of Chicago,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
DMRG Study of a Quantum Hall system
Scott Geraedts,
Graduate Student,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Caltech,
Monday, May 11th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Models with dilepton + jets final states at the LHC
Joshua Berger,
SLAC,
Tuesday, May 12th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Using the BayesWave algorithm to detect and characterize binary black hole mergers without waveform templates
Meg Millhouse,
Physics,
Montana State University,
Wednesday, May 13th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Ultra-hot and Ultra-thin Microstructures
Igor Bargatin,
Class of 1965 Term Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM),
Penn Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, May 15th, 2015
10:30am
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11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Effect of Higher Derivatives on the Schwarzschild Solution
Kelly Stelle,
Imperial College,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Entanglement entropy and phases of gauge theories
Djordje Radicevic,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Transport of Flavored Neutrinos in Astrophysical Environments
Alexey Vlasenko,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
UCSD,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
TBA
Ryan Mishmash,
DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
Monday, May 18th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Single Engineered Donor Atoms with Nuclear and Electron Spin Readout for Quantum Bits
David N. Jamieson,
Professor of Physics,
Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), School of Physics,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
How well can we test pre-inflationary physics?
Matthew Johnson,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
The Color of Kilonovae: Electromagnetic Signatures of Compact Object Mergers
Daniel Kasen,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, May 20th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Exceptional X-ray Weak Quasars and Their Implications for Accretion Flows, Broad Line Regions, and Winds
Niel Brandt,
Penn State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Materials in 2-dimension and Beyond: 10 Years After Graphene
Philip Kim,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
Friday, May 22nd, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
String-Scale SUSY Breaking: Clues for the Low – l CMB ?
Augusto Sagnotti,
CERN, Scuola Normale Superiore, INFN-Pisa,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Advances and challenges in first-principles simulations of materials at extreme conditions
Igor A. Abrikosov,
Professor,
Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM),
Linköping University, Sweden,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Physics of Radiation-Driven Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei
Daniel Proga,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
UNLV,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Engineering Quantum Matter: From Superfluids to Low-Dimensional Electrons
Johannes Pollanen,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Eisenstein Group,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Development of an ensemble-based, triggerable single photon source
Kate Ferguson,
Research School of Physics & Engineering, ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences,
Australian National University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Caltech OSA Student Chapter & the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science
X-ray Lasers: From Star Wars to the Table-Top
Joseph Nilsen,
Physicist, Fellow of the Optical Society and the American Physical Society,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Wednesday, May 27th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmological Calorimetry: The nature of the intergalactic medium and the photon underproduction crisis
Juna Kollmeier,
Carnegie,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Predicting Materials for Energy from First Principles
Giulia Galli,
Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering,
The Institute for Molecular Engineering,
University of Chicago,
Friday, May 29th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Replica-symmetry-breaking instantons in glassy systems
Sho Yaida,
Duke University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The BCJ double copy and Kerr-Schild metrics
Donal O'Connell,
University of Edinburgh,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Coding with Finite Resources
Mario Berta,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Preskill Group,
Caltech,