Seminar Calendar
January 2018
Friday, January 5th, 2018
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Mean-motion resonances with eccentric planets: when analytical arguments guide and complement numerical simulations
Virginie Faramaz,
JPL,
Monday, January 8th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Advancement of Transmission Electron Microscopy and its Application in Materials Research
Xiaoping Pan,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; Physics and Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
Friday, January 12th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
From many modes to many bodies
David Schuster,
Physics Department and James Franck Institute,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity
Daniel Harlow,
MIT,
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Welcome to the multi-messenger era: a report on the first binary neutron star merger detection
Jennifer Barnes,
Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Fundamental Neutron Physics at the ILL
Peter Geltenbort,
Institut Laue-Langevin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Halide Perovskites: Poor man's high performance semiconductors
Mercouri Kanatzidis,
Professor,
Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
Friday, January 19th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Emergent dimensions from large N confinement
Aleksey Cherman,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Improving gravitational-wave detector sensitivity with cryogenic test mass cooling
Johannes Eichholz,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics,
Adhikari Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Probing the Structure of Active Galactic Nuclei Using Light Echoes
Anna Pancoast,
NASA Einstein Fellow,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Two challenges for DNA nanotechnology: building interfaces with silicon and cells
Paul W. K. Rothemund,
Research Professor,
Bioengineering, CMS, & CNS,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Probing strong-field gravity: Black holes and mergers in general relativity and beyond
Leo Stein,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Bridging the enormous span of length scales in lithium-ion batteries
Will Chueh,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Materials Science & Engineering ,
Stanford University ,
Friday, January 26th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Higgs branches and chiral algebras of 4d N=2 theories -- a progress report
Leonardo Rastelli,
SUNY Stony Brook,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Bulk Entanglement Gravity
Sean Carroll,
Research Professor of Physics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Merging black holes in non-spherical nuclear star clusters
Cristobal Petrovich,
Postdoctoral Fellow and Gruber Foundation Fellow,
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA),
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
When Galaxies Collide: Snapshots of the Universe's Largest Battles
Anne Medling,
Hubble Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Monday, January 29th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Lepton Universality Violation in B-Meson Decays and Inclusive vs Exclusive |Vcb|
Ben Grinstein,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Listening to binary stars through cosmic history: astrophysics with GW
Astrid Lamberts,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
4:00pm
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