Seminar Calendar
May 2016
Sunday, May 1st, 2016
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, May 2nd, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A careful comparison between collider and direct WIMP searches
Francesco D'Eramo,
UC Santa Cruz,
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Terahertz Driven Linear Acceleration and X-ray Sources
Franz X. Kartner,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany,
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. Jacqueline van Gorkom,
Columbia Univ.,
Wednesday, May 4th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar - CANCELLED
The spectral theory of multiboundary wormholes
Shaun Maguire,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
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
Anomalous Liquids: Common features of Water, Metallic glassformers, and Chalcogenide PCMs (Phase Change Materials)
Austen Angell,
Regents’ Professor ,
Chemistry and Biochemistry Department,
Arizona State University,
Thursday, May 5th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Nambu-Goldstone bosons, dark pions, and effective operators
Hitoshi Murayama,
UC Berkeley and Kavli IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,
Friday, May 6th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar - CANCELLED
Phonons and rotons in liquid helium
Alberto Nicolis,
Columbia University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Nonlinear Tides in Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars
Nevin Weinberg,
Assistant Professor ,
Physics,
MIT,
Monday, May 9th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
De Sitter Wavefunctionals and the Resummation of Time
Matthew Baumgart,
Rutgers University,
Tuesday, May 10th, 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
TBD
Dr. Sagi Ben-Ami,
CfA,
Wednesday, May 11th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Toward an Understanding of Exoplanetary Composition
Jonathan Fortney,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Control Thermal Radiation with Nanophotonic Structures
Shanhui Fan,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
Friday, May 13th, 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
Setting the Stage for the Era of Gravitational Wave Discovery
Wen-fai Fong,
Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow,
Steward Observatory, Astronomy & Astrophysics,
University of Arizona,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
The Air We (Can't) Breathe: A History of Air on Venus, Earth, and Mars
Jackie Villadsen,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy,
Caltech,
Monday, May 16th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Probing extended Higgs sector in the intensity and energy frontiers
Chien-Yi Chen,
University of Victoria and Perimeter Institute,
Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Thin-film coatings for use in future gravitational wave detectors
Peter Murray,
IGR,
University of Glasgow ,
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
Galaxy Mergers on FIRE: Mapping Star Formation
Prof. Jorge Moreno,
Cal Poly Pomona,
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Indirect Coulomb Energy with Gradient Correction
Elliott Lieb,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Origins and Implications of Turbulence in Galaxies
Blakesley Burkhart,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
A Quantum of Light for Materials Science: Merging QED and TDDFT
Angel Rubio,
Director,
Structure and Dynamics of Matter,
Max Planck Institute ,
Friday, May 20th, 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
Cosmological Tests of Gravity Come of Age
Tessa Baker,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Physics,
Univ of Oxford and Univ of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unexpected effects in periodic driving of gapless topological systems
Michael Kolodrubetz,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of California, Berkeley,
Saturday, May 21st, 2016
10:30am
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12:30pm
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Monday, May 23rd, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 24th, 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
TBD
Dr. Aomawa Shields,
UCLA,
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Greenstein Lecture: Hearing the Stars: New Insights into Stellar Interiors from Asteroseismology
Lars Bildsten,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, May 27th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chiral algebra of Argyres-Douglas theory from M5 brane
Wenbin Yan,
Harvard University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Parametrizing general linear cosmological perturbations
Macarena Lagos,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Many-body localization: a dynamical perspective
Sarang Gopalakrishnan,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Monday, May 30th, 2016
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Decay of correlations and absence of superfluidity in the disordered Tonks-Girardeau gas
Robert Seiringer,
IST Austria,