Seminar Calendar
January 2016
Monday, January 4th, 2016
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Twisted Universe: Cosmic Polarization Tests of CPT Violation
Brian Keating,
UC San Diego,
Friday, January 8th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
An Energy Barrier is Necessary for the Thermal Stability of Stabilizer Quantum Memories
Anna Komar,
Graduate Student,
Preskill Group,
Monday, January 11th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Light Dark Matter from Boltzmann Factors
Josh Ruderman,
New York University,
Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Continuing the Legacy of Supernova Cosmology
Prof. Ryan Foley,
Univ. of Illinois,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Low energy probes of high energy physics
David Moore,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, January 13th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A Pfaffian formula for monomer-dimer partition functions
Elliott Lieb,
Professor of Mathematics and Physics,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Atomic Packing and Structure-Property Correlations in Amorphous Metals
Evan Ma,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
Friday, January 15th, 2016
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
Boltzmann Brains: Why They Appear, and Why They Are Bad
Sean Carroll,
Research Professor of Physics,
Physics Department,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 19th, 2016
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Improving Searches for Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO
TJ Massinger,
Physics,
Syracuse University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
An EFT for Forward Scattering and Factorization Violation
Iain Stewart,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Chris Martin,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Pushing noble liquids to new limits: dark matter detection in xenon and superfluid helium
Scott Hertel,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, January 20th, 2016
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Materials Research Lecture
Some Recent Opinions in Mechanical Behaviors of Amorphous Solids
Mo Li,
School of Materials Science and Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Friday, January 22nd, 2016
11:00am
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Bridging theory and observations - Fundamental physics with cosmological surveys
Elisabeth Krause,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
KIPAC,
Stanford University/SLAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Progress toward a spin squeezed 171Yb optical atomic clock
Boris Braverman,
Graduate Student,
Vladan Vuletić Group,
MIT,
Monday, January 25th, 2016
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Gravitational wave astrophysics with pulsar timing arrays
Chiara Mingarelli,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Monsters in the Dark: Glimpsing the High-Energy Signatures of Black Hole Formation with Multimessenger Astronomy
Alex Urban,
Physics,
U Wisconsin Milwaukee,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Alice Shapley,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Population Explosion: Understanding the Populations of Hot Jupiters, Black Holes, Earth-like Exoplanets, and (Eventually) LIGO Sources
Will Farr,
University of Birmingham,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Clocks to weigh Beyond Standard Model Physics: Muon g-2 and the Neutrino Mass Scale
Martin Fertl,
Univeristy of Washington,
Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Phase diagram of quantum spin systems with S=1 and SU(2)-invariant interactions
Daniel Ueltschi,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Warwick,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Highlights from the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS)
Tommaso Treu,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
When Twins Collide: adventures in nanocrystals
David Srolovitz,
Joseph Bordogna Professor of Engineering and Applied Science,
Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics,
University of Pennsylvania ,
Friday, January 29th, 2016
11:00am
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Inferring the Galactic gravitational potential with Gaia and friends
Robyn Sanderson,
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
Columbia University,