Seminar Calendar
February 2018
Friday, February 2nd, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Hecke operators for characters of Rational Conformal Field Theory
Jeffrey Harvey,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Continuous measurements and quantum trajectories in circuit QED
Arian Jadbabaie,
Graduate Student,
Hutzler Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Exact Bulk Operators and the Fate of Locality
Jared Kaplan,
Johns Hopkins University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, February 5th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Meta Material, First Direct Observation of Reverse Cherenkov Radiation, and Test of Babinet Principle
Min Chen,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Circumgalactic Matter Matters for Galaxy Evolution
Jessica Werk,
Univ of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Exciton-phonon interactions: theoretical techniques for light-induced structural changes
Friday, February 9th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantization of the low temperature action in the SYK model
Josephine Suh,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Kitaev Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Theory of EM counterparts of neutron star mergers
Kenta Hotokezaka,
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
Monday, February 12th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Leptophilic forces now and then: reconciling (g-2)_\mu and H_0 with gauged L_\mu - L_\tau
Gordon Krnjaic,
Fermilab,
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
10:30am
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11:30am
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
The Seiberg-Witten equations with multiple spinors in dimension three
Andriy Haydys,
Freiburg University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
Scalable Solid State Quantum Information Processing
Sara Mouradian,
PhD Candidate,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Early Galaxies and Cosmic Reionization: Progress & Challenges
Richard Ellis,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
2D electron-hole condensate in a van der Waals heterostructure photocell
Thursday, February 15th, 2018
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Friday, February 16th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
On singularities of super-conformal field theories
Mario Martone,
University of Texas - Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A quantum gas of polar KRb molecules in an optical lattice
Jacob Covey,
Richard Chace Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar,
Endres Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Seiberg-Witten differential via primitive forms
Dan Xie,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
CANCELLED DUE TO FLU -- TO BE RESCHEDULED
Camille Avestruz,
KICP and Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow,
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Diversity Revealed: Stellar Rotation and the Time Domain Revolution
Marc Pinsonneault,
Ohio State,
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Correlation Functions in CFTs with Weakly Broken Higher Spin Symmetry
Sasha Zhiboedov,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Machine Learning and Quantum Physics
Evert van Nieuwenburg,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Refael Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topological terms in Yang-Mills theory with time-reversal symmetry
Pavel Putrov,
Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Three Dimensional Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulations Reveal the Mysteries of Massive Stars
Yan-Fei Jiang,
KITP Fellow,
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Levitated Nanomagnets in the Quantum Regime: Theory and Applications
Oriol Romero Isart,
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information ,
Austrian Academy of Sciences,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Galaxies Aren't Great at Making Stars
Matt Orr,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR),
Caltech,
Monday, February 26th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Single-molecule catalysis: nanoparticles and polymers
Peng Chen,
Peter J. W. Debye Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry & Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A Unified Program of Argon Dark Matter Searches: DarkSide-20k and Beyond
Cristiano Galbiati,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
9:00am
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10:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Exploring Synthetic Elemental 2D Materials
Andrew Mannix,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of Chicago,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Single-molecule chemistry: from transcription regulation to solar energy conversion
Peng Chen,
Peter J. W. Debye Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
The nonequilibrium dynamics of electrons and holes in disordered molecular semiconductors
Adam Willard,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Tests of Fundamental Symmetries with Neutrons
Leah Broussard,
Oak Ridge Laboratory,
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Discovering the Highest Energy Neutrinos Using a Radio Phased Array
Abigail Vieregg,
U. Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Disorder Effects on Vibrational Transport in Energy Materials
Elif Ertekin,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Science & Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ,