Seminar Calendar
February 2016
Monday, February 1st, 2016
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
1:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Inference on gravitational waves from coalescences of stellar-mass compact objects and intermediate-mass black holes: an outlook of the current and future state of CBC parameter estimation
Carl-Johan Haster,
Physics,
Birmingham,
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. Matt Turk,
NCSA/Univ. of Illinoia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Polar Molecules
Nick Hutzler,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Rational approximation of functions with logarithmic singularities
Alexander Pushnitski,
King's College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, February 5th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Fluid Manifesto: Topological sigma models and dissipative hydrodynamics
Mukund Rangamani,
UC Davis,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
From GUT scale to galaxies: probing the early universe with large-scale structure
Fabian Schmidt,
Scientific Staff Member,
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Exponential Lifetime Improvement in Topological Quantum Memories
Charles Edouard Bardyn,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Monday, February 8th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Type Ia Supernovae and Heavy Metals From Dark Matter
Joseph Bramante,
Notre Dame University,
Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Probing the universe on a table top experiment
Atta Almasi,
Physics,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
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
Probing Small Planets at Several AU with Microlensing
Dr. Jennifer Yee,
Harvard-CfA,
Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Orbits and Atmospheres of Directly Imaged Exoplanets
Quinn Konopacky,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Resonant-Phonon Harvesting
Massoud Kaviany,
Heat Transfer Physics Laboratory,
University of Michigan,
Thursday, February 11th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Frequency Divide-and-Conquer Approach to Creating Ultrabroadband Frequency Combs in the Infrared
Konstantin Vodopyanov,
21st Century Scholar Chair & Professor of Optics & Photonics, and Physics,
College of Optics,
University of Central Florida,
Friday, February 12th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Probing Gravity: CMB Lensing, Galaxies, and Intensity Mapping
Anthony Pullen,
McWilliams Postdoctoral Fellow,
McWilliams Center for Cosmology,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Optimizing Electromagnetic Follow-up of LIGO-Virgo Events
Hsin-Yu Chen,
Physics,
University of Chicago,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The topological sectors in gauge theories. The deSitter vacuum during inflationary and dark Energy phases.
Ariel Zhitnitsky,
University of British Columbia,
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
AGN Host Galaxies, Fueling, and Feedback to z ~ 2
Prof. Alison Coil,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Unmasking the Neutrino: The Standard Model and Beyond
Diana Parno,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT)
Barak Dayan,
Senior Scientist,
Quantum Optics Group,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Seminar
Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT)
Barak Dayan,
Senior Scientist, Quantum Optics Group,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Effective Dynamics in Quantum Theory
Juerg Froehlich,
Professor,
Physics,
ETH Zurich and IAS Princeton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, February 18th, 2016
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Simon White,
MPA,
Friday, February 19th, 2016
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and M-Theory
Cumrun Vafa,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
EFT of large scale structure, symmetries and constraints
Mehrdad Mirbabayi,
IAS Scholar,
School of Natural Sciences,
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms
Hannah Price,
Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow,
INO-CNR BEC Center,
Università di Trento in Italy,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
An Archaeological Road Trip with the Keck Telescope
Evan Kirby,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
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Prof. Guineveve Kauffman,
MPA,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
LUX and LZ: Dark Matter Searches and Beyond
Carmen Carmona-Benitez,
UC Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A family of monotone quantum relative entropies
Julien Sabin,
Mathematics,
University Paris Orsay,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Stochastic quantum integrable systems
Ivan Corwin,
Associate Professor, IHP Poincare Chair Packard Fellow ,
Mathematics,
Columbia,
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Friday, February 26th, 2016
9:00am
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4:30pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Confronting the Standard Model with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Ryan Cooke,
Hubble Fellow,
Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics,
U.C. Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Casimir Effect, Theta Vacuum and Topological Order in QED
Charles Cao,
Graduate Student,
Physics,
Caltech,
Monday, February 29th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Directions in Bouncing Cosmologies
Anna M. Ijjas,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Regularity and blow up in models of fluid mechanics
Alexander Kiselev,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Rice University,