Seminar Calendar
October 2015
Friday, October 2nd, 2015
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Pulsar timing limit on gravitational waves necessitates re-think of binary supermassive black hole evolution
Vikram Ravi,
Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar,
Dept of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Monday, October 5th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Calculations in Dirac Gaugino Models: Operators, Expansions, and Effects
Jessica Goodman,
Ohio State University,
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Electromagnetic counterparts of neutron star mergers and the origin of heavy elements
Kenta Hotokezaka,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the structure of band edges of 2d periodic elliptic operators
Ilya Kachkovsky,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, October 9th, 2015
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Sweating the small stuff: simulating dwarf galaxies, ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, and their own tiny satellites
Coral Wheeler,
Graduate Student,
Dept of Physics and Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Superconductivity in Uranium and Plutonium revealed by NMR
Andrew Mounce,
Los Alamos National Labs/Sandia Labs,
Monday, October 12th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Surrogate Models of Numerical Relativity Binary Black Hole Waveforms
Jonathan Backman,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Regularity theory for fully nonlinear integro-differential equations
Tianling Jin,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Tuning the Clock: Making Sense of Stellar Rotation with Kepler
Jennifer van Saders,
Carnegie,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
In Situ Materials Science: Probing Microstructural Evolution of Metallic Materials in Real-Time
Nik Chawla,
Friday, October 16th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Tests of strong gravity with compact objects
Emanuele Berti,
Associate Professor,
Dept of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Mississippi,
Monday, October 19th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Distinguishing the new physics via the correlation of the single Higgs and double Higgs production
Hao Zhang,
UC Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Dimension reduction for rotating Bose-Einstein condensates with anisotropic confinement
Christof Sparber,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Future of Astronomy is Super(conducting): Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for UVOIR Astronomy
Ben Mazin,
UCSB,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, October 23rd, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
On the shape dependence of entanglement entropy
Dean Carmi,
Tel Aviv University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Evolution of baryons in the high-redshift universe
Hamsa Padmanabhan,
Research Scholar,
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune,
Monday, October 26th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale
Surjeet Rajendran,
UC Berkelely,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Crackle, crackle little blade: experimental investigations of mechanical up conversion in Advanced LIGO suspensions
Gabriele ,
Vajente,
LIGO,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
An Adiabatic Theorem for the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation
Gang Zhou,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Big Data Meet Big Black Holes: Quasars in the Time Domain
George Djorgovski,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Materials by Design: Heterostructures with Targeted Nanoarchitecture and Tunable Properties
David C. Johnson,
Rosaria Haugland Foundation Chair in Pure and Applied Chemistry,
University of Oregon,
Friday, October 30th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Emergent symmetries and 4D-2D relations for confining large N gauge theories
Aleksey Cherman,
Univ of Washington, Seattle,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Wave Excitation by Turbulent Stellar Convection
Daniel Lecoanet,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Special HEP Seminar
The sPHENIX Detector at RHIC
Dr. Craig Woody,
Physics Department,
Brookhaven National Lab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Optomechanics: a platform for exploring novel physics
Bassam Helou,
Graduate Student,
Yanbei Chen's Group,