Seminar Calendar
April 2017
Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
4:00pm
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Friday, April 7th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Causality and Universality at Strong Coupling
Tom Hartman,
Cornell University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The quadrupole formula: a hundred years later
Beatrice Bonga,
Graduate Student,
Penn State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Enhancing atom-light interactions with "selective radiance": the recipe to exponentially improve photon storage fidelities
Ana Asenjo Garcia,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Kimble Group,
Tuesday, April 11th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Semiconductor Quantum Technologies for Communications and Computing
Dirk Englund,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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. Stephanie Tonnesen,
Carnegie Observatories,
Wednesday, April 12th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium: 2017 Neugebauer Lecture
Making the Most Accurate Possible Measurements with Telescopes
David Hogg,
NYU,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Mechanical Instability-driven Architecturing of Atomically-thin Materials – Where Shape Enables New Functions
SungWoo Nam,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Friday, April 14th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chaos in 2D CFT and Spinning Particle in AdS
Chi-Ming Chang,
QMAP, UC Davis,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoscience and nanophotonics for improved solar energy conversion
Erik Garnett,
Dr. ,
Nanoscale Solar Cells Group,
AMOLF Institute, Amsterdam,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Helping to paint a more realistic picture of the intergalactic and circumgalactic media through simulation
Devin Silva,
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fermi Arcs and Their Topological Character in the Candidate Type-II Weyl Semimetals WTe2 and MoTe2
Flavio Yair Bruno,
Ambizione Research Fellow,
University of Geneva,
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Advanced LIGO Calibration Uncertainty for Precision Astrophysics
Craig Cahillane,
LIGO,
Caltech),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Flat Photonics Using High Contrast Metastructures
Connie Chang-Hasnain,
Associate Dean for Strategic Alliances of College of Engineering and Whinnery Distinguished Chair Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Jen van Saders,
Carnegie Observatories,
Wednesday, April 19th, 2017
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
An Idiosyncratic Look at LIGO�s Detections and Prospects
Stan Whitcomb,
Caltech,
Friday, April 21st, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic lattice field theories
Ingmar Saberi,
University of Heidelberg,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Edge of darkness: The splashback radius as a physical halo boundary
Benedikt Diemer,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fault-tolerance in topological stabilizer codes and universal workarounds
Tomas Jochym O'Connor,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Monday, April 24th, 2017
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Ben Shappee,
Carnegie Observatories,
Wednesday, April 26th, 2017
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Two-spectra theorem with uncertainty
Alexei Poltoratski,
Department of Mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Universal avalanche statistics across 16 decades in length: From nanocrystals (and neurons) to earthquakes and stars
Karin Dahmen,
Professor,
Condensed Matter Physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, April 27th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
MEMS are becoming 3D and atomically precise
Andrei Shkel,
Prof.,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Irvine,
Friday, April 28th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Vortices in 4d, N=2 SQCD and their Worldsheet Theory from Supersymmetric Localization
Efrat Gerchkovitz,
Weizmann Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Observing the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation with the South Pole Telescope
Christine Moran,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Plasmonics for Chemistry: Sensing and controlling chemical reactions using plasmons
Andrea Baldi,
PhD,
Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
On-chip quantum memories for telecom photons using ensembles of erbium ions
Ioana Craiciu,
Graduate Student,
Faraon Group,