Seminar Calendar
April 2016
Friday, April 1st, 2016
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Special Seminar in Applied Physics and Materials Science
Nanophotonics for Tailoring the Flow of Thermal Radiation
Ognjen Ilic,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Dark Matter in the Cosmic Context
Katherine Mack,
DECRA Fellow,
Astro Group, School of Physics,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Revealing the Dirac fluid in graphene
Andy Lucas,
Graduate Student, Subir Sachdev's group,
Harvard University,
Monday, April 4th, 2016
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Charles Badenes,
Univ. of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Flavor Physics and CP Violation as Probes for New Physics Effects at the High-Luminosity B Factory Experiment Belle 2
Markus Rohrken,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Energy of Heavy Atoms: The Leading Correction
Heinz siedentop,
Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Mathematics,
LMU Munich,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
"Next Generation Cosmological Constraints on the Dark Sector and Gravity."
Rachel Bean,
Cornell,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Is Diamond the Best Conductor of Heat?
David Briodo,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Boston College,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 7th, 2016
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Survivor Support: How to Help Someone You Care About
Jenny Mahlum,
Health Educator ,
Counseling Center ,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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Friday, April 8th, 2016
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Many Dimensions of the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Tom Rudelius,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Using Quasars and the CMB to Probe Quantum Entanglement
Jason Gallicchio,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
Harvey Mudd College,
Monday, April 11th, 2016
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Characterizing Habitable Planets with Extreme Adaptive Optics: The Road from MagAO to the GMT
Dr. Jared Males,
Univ. of Arizona,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Search, discovery and measurements of the Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel at CMS
Joshua Bendavid,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
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Astronomy Colloquium
Inaugural Neugebauer Lecture
Marcia Rieke,
Regent's Professor of Astronomy,
Univ. of Arizona,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Piezoelectric Films for Microelectromechanical Systems
Susan Trolier-McKinstry,
Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering, Director W. M. Keck Smart Materials Integration Laboratory,
Material Research Institute,
Pennsylvania State University,
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
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Friday, April 15th, 2016
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Shape dependence of entanglement Hamiltonians and the averaged null energy condition
Thomas Faulkner,
UIUC,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Formation of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in Clusters
Laura Sales,
Assistant Professor,
Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
U.C. Riverside,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spectroscopic studies of layered iridium oxides
Alberto de la Torre,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hsieh Group,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Astronomy from the Bottom of the Earth: Telescopes at the South Pole
Abigail Crites,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics,
Caltech,
Monday, April 18th, 2016
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Deep Underground Xenon Observatory in China: the PandaX Experiment
Jianglai Liu,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Gaseous Halo of the Milky Way: A Close-up View of Galactic Inflow and Outflow
Dr. Andrew Fox,
STScI,
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
11:00am
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LIGO Seminar
On the hunt for continuous gravitational waves from unknown neutron stars in binary systems
Evan ,
Goetz,
PMA - LIGO,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Dissipative transport in the localization regime
Jeffrey Schenker,
Mathematics,
Michigan State,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
"Probing the Hierarchical Buildup and Chemical Evolution of Galaxies"
David Nidever,
LSST Tucson,
Thursday, April 21st, 2016
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Survivor Support: Help Survivors and Combat Rape Culture
Peace Over Violence ,
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
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TAPIR Seminar
Cosmology beyond the power spectrum and how to keep it simple
Marcel Schmittfull,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP),
U.C. Berkeley,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Atom waveguide QED for efficient multiphoton sources
Alejandro González-Tudela,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
Monday, April 25th, 2016
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Inflatable Dark Matter and the Diphoton Resonance: New Phenomenology with a Simple Lagrangian
Sam McDermott,
SUNY Stony Brook,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Eigenvalue Attraction and Disordered Hamiltonian Density of States
Ramis Movassagh,
IBM,
12:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Crystalline coatings for gravitational-wave test masses
Garrett Cole,
President CRYSTALLINE MIRROR SOLUTIONS LLC,
CRYSTALLINE MIRROR SOLUTIONS LLC,
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
How Can Software Promote Inquiry?
Prof. Matt Turk,
Univ. of Illinois,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
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Materials Research Lecture
Kristin Persson,
Staff Scientist ,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Friday, April 29th, 2016
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Applied Physics Seminar
Superconducting coherent caloritronics
Francesco Giazotto,
NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze,
CNR & Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy,
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Expanding the landscape of N=2 Super-conformal field theories.
Mario Martone,
University of Cincinnati,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Gravitational Lensing of the Transient Sky
Liang Dai,
NASA Einstein Fellow,
School of Natural Sciences,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spectroscopic signatures of Weyl semimetals beyond photoemission
Stefanos Kourtis,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Princeton,