Seminar Calendar
November 2017
Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Materials Science Research Lecture
Fundamental Processes and Materials Development in Next Generation Battery Systems
Kimberly See,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Caltech ,
Friday, November 3rd, 2017
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Theory Seminar
The Dynamical Holographic Entropy Cone and General Holography
Sean Weinberg,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Engineering topological materials in one and two dimensions
Stevan Nadj-Perge,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
TAPIR Seminar
A multi-scale portrait of the circumgalactic medium
Drummond Fielding,
Graduate Student,
UC Berkeley,
Monday, November 6th, 2017
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Physics Seminar
Developments and Prospects in Precision Timing Detectors
Artur Apresyan,
CERN,
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
LIGO Seminar
Numerical binary black hole mergers in dynamical Chern-Simons
Maria Okounkova,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Astronomy Colloquium
A New Regime of Optical Variability in AGN: the Kepler Light Curves
Krista Lynne Smith,
KIPAC, Stanford,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Materials Science Research Lecture
Electrons and Phonons in Solids
Philip Allen,
Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Stony Brook University,
Friday, November 10th, 2017
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Gravitational shockwaves on rotating black holes
Yoni BenTov,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Kitaev Group,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
TAPIR Seminar
GPU accelerated thermochemistry and radiative transfer on protoplanetary disks and exoplanet outflows
Lile Wang,
Graduate Student,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
Applied Physics Seminar
Nanophotonics in the Flatland: Controlling Light at the Nanoscale with Plasmonics and Metasurfaces
Koray Aydin,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Northwestern University,
Monday, November 13th, 2017
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Physics Seminar
Accelerating axion dark matter searches with quantum information technology
Konrad Lehnert,
JILA,
Tuesday, November 14th, 2017
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar
Non-archimedean distributions attached to twisted tensor L-functions
Baskar Balasubramanyam,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Wednesday, November 15th, 2017
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar
A multiplier functional calculus
Michael Hartz,
Department of Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Thursday, November 16th, 2017
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
Materials Science Special Lecture
Molecular Dynamics—From the First Principles of Quantum Mechanics to Computer Aided Materials Design
Anders Niklasson,
Theoretical Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
1:30pm
–
2:30pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Theory Seminar
A string-inspired SYK model and some 4d black hole phenomenology
Tarek Anous,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Applied Physics Seminar
Steering Photons: From detectors and smart windows to space propulsion and quantum forces
Jeremy Munday,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Maryland,
Friday, November 17th, 2017
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Engineering Light-Matter Interactions in Photonic Crystal Waveguides
Alex Burgers,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Kimble Group,
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Theory Seminar
Gauge Theory and Integrability (Part 2)
Mashahito Yamazaki,
IPMU, University of Tokyo,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
TAPIR Seminar
Make it, Mix it and Shake it — a recipe for cold gas in circumgalactic medium
Suoqing Ji,
Graduate Student,
UC Santa Barbara,
7:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Stargazing Lecture
Cosmic Lenses: Bending Light with Gravity
Denise Schmitz,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Monday, November 20th, 2017
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Physics Seminar
Peaks, Valleys, Deserts: Searching for the invisible at the LHC
Christopher Rogan,
University of Kansas,
Tuesday, November 21st, 2017
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
TAPIR Seminar - NOTE THE DIFFERENT DAY
Formation of eccentric black hole gravitational wave mergers
Johan Samsing,
Einstein and Spitzer-Cotsen Fellow,
Princeton University,
Monday, November 27th, 2017
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Physics Seminar
Fine-tuning, Vorticity, and Singularities
Peter Graham,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, November 29th, 2017
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Astronomy Colloquium
Astrochemistry at the dawn of star and planet formation in the ALMA Era
Paola Caselli,
MPI,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Materials Science Research Lecture
Mikhail Shapiro,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,