Seminar Calendar
May 2019
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
8:00am
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5/15
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmic "Dust" (Galaxies, Stars and Actual Dust)!
Philip Hopkins,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Properties of Metallic Liquids at High Temperature and Their Relation to Glass Formation
Kenneth Kelton,
Professor of Physics and the Arthur Holly Compton Professor in Arts & Sciences,
Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri),
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
To the Heart of Neutrinos with CUORE and CUPID
Yuri Kolomensky,
UC Berkeley,
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
Room temperature photo-induced electron-hole gas-to-liquid transition in 2D materials
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The NICER mission and the Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Sky
Andrea Lommen,
Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Haverford College,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Single Photon Detectors, Parity Measurements and Heralded Cat States in the Microwave Domain
Andreas Wallraff,
Professor for Solid State Physics,
Department of Physics,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
Monday, May 6th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New accelerator experiments for dark sectors
Stefania Gori,
UC Santa Cruz,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dwarf Galaxies and Their Dark Matter Content
Laura Sales,
Assistant Professor,
Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, May 10th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Weak Gravity Conjecture and Repulsive Forces
Ben Heidenreich,
UMass Amherst,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement, Decoherence, & Quantum Ising Systems
P.C.E. Stamp,
Professor,
University of British Columbia,
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
Interpreting the range of spectral properties from the tidal disruptions of stars by super-massive black holes
Nathan Roth,
Space-Science Institute Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Maryland and NASA Goddard,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
PT-symmetry breaking in microscopic gain-loss systems
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
A Star is Born
Mike Grudic,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR),
Caltech,
Monday, May 13th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Towards Resolution of the MiniBooNE Anomaly with the MicroBooNE Experiment
Brooke Russell,
Yale University,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Hamiltonian simulation meets holographic duality
Toby Cubitt,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Revealing the chemistry in quantum chemistry: from diatomics to proton coupled electron transfer in enzymes
Gerald Knizia,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
The Pennsylvania State University,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
In (Data-Driven) Pursuit of Galactic Archaeology
Melissa Ness,
Assistant Professor,
Astronomy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, May 17th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Sphere packing, quantum gravity and extremal functionals
Dalimil Mazac,
Simons Center,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Projected least squares: a numerically cheap quantum tomography procedure with optimal error bounds
Richard Kueng,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill and Tropp groups,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, May 20th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrino Oscillation Probabilities in Matter
Peter Denton,
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Tuesday, May 21st, 2019
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Weak simulation and benchmarking of sparse quantum circuits
Daniel Stilck França,
University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network for Time Series Data Augmentation in Astronomy
Pavlos Protopapas,
Scientific Program Director and Lectur,
Institute for Applied Computational Science,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Exoplanets and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Ignas Snellen,
Professor of Observational Astrophysics,
Leiden University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
The Materials Science of Sustainable Cements
Claire E White,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Princeton University,
Friday, May 24th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Electrodynamics of Superconducting Circuits
Hakan E. Tureci,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Assembly bias, galactic conformity, and the galaxy-halo connection
Angela Berti,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
University of California, San Diego,
Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Simulations of Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Sources
Andrew MacFadyen,
Associate Professor,
Department of Physics,
New York University,
Friday, May 31st, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Matter Chern-Simons Theories in a Background Magnetic Field
Indranil Halder,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Ab initio electronic T1 spin relaxation times in silicon and diamond & Computing charge transport in materials from first principles
Jinsoo Park,
Graduate Student, Bernardi group,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Jin-Jian Zhou,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Bernardi group,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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