Seminar Calendar
January 2017
Friday, January 6th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
K3 String Theory, Lattices, and Moonshine
Sarah Harrison,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Practical, Reliable Error Bars in Quantum Tomography
Philippe Faist,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Brandao Group,
Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Searching for Quantum Geometry with the Fermilab Holometer
Jonathan Richardson,
Physics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Dan Stern,
JPL,
Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Chains of atoms coupled to a nanofiber waveguide
Jean-baptiste Béguin,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
QUANTOP - Danish Center for Quantum Optics,
Niels Bohr Institute,
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
Hidden Order in the Pseudogap Region of High-Tc Superconductors
David Hsieh,
Faculty, Quantum Matter,
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM),
Caltech,
Friday, January 13th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
The Universe through X-ray Eyes
Fiona Harrison,
Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics; Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
Sunday, January 15th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A Transfer Matrix Approach to Scaled Limits of Christo ffel-Darboux Kernels
Jonathan Breuer,
Department of Mathematics,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Rosalba Perna,
Stony Brook Univ.,
Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Stability of solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation
Andrew Comech,
Department of Mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
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
Integrating High Throughput Experimentation with Theory and Computation for the Discovery of Solar Fuels Materials
John M. Gregoire,
Thrust Coordinator for Photoelectrocatalysis,
Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP),
Caltech,
Thursday, January 19th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Todd Thompson,
Ohio State Univ. ,
Friday, January 20th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Indices, Particles, Surfaces, and Monsters
Shu-Heng Shao,
Institute for Advanced Study,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
How Small Can One Shrink a Laser?
Jacob Khurgin,
Professor,
Department Of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
7:30am
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9:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Intergalactic Medium Near Reionization
Prof. George Becker,
UC Riverside,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A homological upper bound on critical probabilities for hyperbolic percolation
Nicolas Delfosse,
IQIM,
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
Architected Materials: Performance Through Deformation
Katia Bertoldi,
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences,
Harvard University,
Friday, January 27th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Local Master Equation for Small Temperatures
Evgeny Mozgunov,
Graduate Student, Kitaev Group,
Monday, January 30th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Solid-state imaging detectors for low-energy particle physics
Alvaro Chavarria,
Kavli Institute/University of Chicago,