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Wednesday, February 1st, 2017
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Symmetry and Attractor
Messoud Efendiyev, ICB Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Gaia - one billion objects in 3+ dimensions
Gerry Gilmore, Cambridge,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Computational Materials Design - Concept, Implementation and Future
Charles Kuehmann, VP Materials Engineering, SpaceX and Tesla Motors,
Friday, February 3rd, 2017
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
TBA
Simeon Hellerman, IPMU, University of Tokyo,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Science of Star Trek
Michael Wong, PhD Candidate, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
Monday, February 6th, 2017
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with Supersymmetry
Bibhushan Shakya, University of Michigan,
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Daniel Weisz, UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Absolutely continuous spectrum and the spectra of periodic approximants
Yoram Last, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Gravitational Waves Observed by LIGO
Alan Weinstein, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
New Functional Materials as a Design Problem
Alex Zunger, Research Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder,
Thursday, February 9th, 2017
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Metasurfaces: From Nanoantennas Inclusions to Patterned 2D Sheets
Hossein Mosallaei, Associate Professor and Director of Metamaterials Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University,
Friday, February 10th, 2017
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Entanglement, Gravity, and Quantum Error Correction
Xi Dong, IAS,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Non-local effects in Weyl semi-metals
Yuval Baum, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Roberto Decarli, MPIA,
Wednesday, February 15th, 2017
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

A Transfer Matrix Approach to Scaled Limits of Christoffel-Darboux Kernels
Jonathan Breuer, Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Understanding extreme quasar optical variability
Matthew Graham, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lectures

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Ab Initio Electron-Phonon Calculations: Theory, Computation, and Applications
Marco Bernardi, Assistant Professor, Applied Physics and Materials Science Department, Caltech,
Friday, February 17th, 2017
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Spectral Networks, BPS Graphs, and BPS Quivers
Maxime Gabella, Institute for Advanced Study,
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Spectral cluster bounds for orthonormal functions
Julien Sabin, Département de Mathématiques, Université Paris-Sud,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Tidal Disruption Events: Theory Confronts Observation
Nick Stone, Columbia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Quantum Nanophotonics
Jelena Vuckovic, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University,
Friday, February 24th, 2017
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Emergent de Sitter Spaces from Entanglement Entropy
Claire Zukowski, Columbia University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Physics and Materials Science

Steele 125
3rd generation of Calphad databases – ongoing work at KTH, Sweden
Sedi Bigdeli, Division of Computational Thermodynamics , Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
Exotic Astrophysical Channels for Black Hole Binary Formation
Nicholas Stone, Postdoctoral Einstein Fellow, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University,
Tuesday, February 28th, 2017
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
A Story of Stellar Nurseries
Dr. Nia Imara, Harvard CfA,