Seminar Calendar
March 2017
Wednesday, March 1st, 2017
12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The mean curvature flow
Israel Michael Sigal,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
From ultracompact binaries and transient surveys to gravitational wave astronomy
Paul Groot,
Radbound (Nijmegen),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Chemically Functionalized Two-Dimensional Nanoelectronic Heterostructures
Mark Hersam,
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
From Edges to Domain Walls: Quantum Materials Under Scrutiny by Nanoscale Microwave Imaging
Eric Yue Ma,
Department of Applied Physics,
Stanford University,
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
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
Understanding Turbulent Heating in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
Greg Howes,
Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Iowa,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
The Elusive Origins of Hot Jupiters
Konstantin Batygin,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Full Measure Reducibility and Localization for Quasi- Periodic Jacobi Operators: a Topological Criterion
Rui Han,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Rich Optics from a Seemingly Simple System: Nanoparticle Arrays
Teri Odom,
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Associate Director of the International Institute of Nanotechnology (IIN),
Northwestern University,
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Self-Force: Towards Waveforms for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
Anna Heffernan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Physics Department,
University of Florida,
Friday, March 10th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quantum Gravity: A Free Lunch
Joshua Erlich,
College of William and Mary,
Wednesday, March 15th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
En Route to Electron/Positron Pair Plasmas
Eve Stenson,
Dr.,
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics,
Friday, March 17th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Information loss from partition functions at late times
Ethan Dyer,
Stanford University,
Monday, March 20th, 2017
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy: From Bulk Films to Atomically Thin Layers
Zak Al Balushi,
Resnick Prize Postdoctoral Fellow,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Caltech,
Tuesday, March 21st, 2017
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Silicon tuning fork mechanical oscillator for the measurement of bond loss
Leonid Prokhorov,
Physics,
Moscow State University,
Friday, March 24th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Equivariance and the cosmological constant
Tudor Dimofte,
QMAP, UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Charge-spin mutual entanglement: A case study by exact diagonalization of the one hole doped t-J loop
Wayne Zheng,
PhD Candidate,
Tsinghua University ,
Tuesday, March 28th, 2017
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Friday, March 31st, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Abelianization in complex Chern-Simons theory
Andy Neitzke,
University of Texas at Austin,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Rapidly rotating exoplanets, brown dwarfs and massive stars
Kotaro Fujisawa,
Waseda University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Why Stars Shine
Robyn Sanderson,
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR),
Caltech,