Seminar Calendar
January 2021
Wednesday, January 6th, 2021
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Cosmic Rays in Multiphase Gas
Ellen Zweibel,
W. L. Kraushaar Professor of Astronomy and Physics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Is Densification During Sintering Diffusion Limited? Insights from Ultrahigh Temperature in situ Nanomechanical Testing and Sintering
Shen J. Dillon,
Associate Professor,
Material Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, January 7th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Enabling novel light phenomena at the subwavelength scale
Marin Soljačić,
MIT,
Monday, January 11th, 2021
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap
Online Event
"The Cosmic Gold Rush" and "The Secret to Building the Biggest Galaxies: Cannibalism"
Rachel Bezanson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Pittsburgh,
Wednesday, January 13th, 2021
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Ensemble averages of torus orbifolds
Nathan Benjamin,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
What Can Ancient Materials Teach Us About Designing Sustainable Materials Today?
Admir Masic,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Archaeological Materials,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, January 14th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Choreographing Quantum Spin Dynamics with Light
Monika Schleier-Smith,
Stanford University,
Friday, January 15th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
New non-perturbative effects in the gravitational path integral
Jordan Cotler,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Towards realistic post-merger simulations of binary neutron stars with SphericalNR
Vassilios Mewes,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Computational Astrophysics,
Oak Ridge National Lab,
Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
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Mergers, magnetars and multi-messengers
Stephen Smartt,
Professor,
Queens University Belfast,
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Neutrino Geoscience: measuring the Earth's neutrino flux and constraining its composition
Hiroko Watanabe,
Tohoku University,
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy
Rob Myers,
Perimeter Institute,
Monday, January 25th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Generalizing the Double-Copy: Masses and Higher-Derivatives
Callum Jones,
UCLA,
Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
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Reverberation mapping black hole accretion flows
Erin Kara,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
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Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Salva Salmani-Rezaie,
Materials Department,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Thursday, January 28th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Predicting the universe today from looking at the past with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Suzanne Staggs,
Princeton University,
Friday, January 29th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Pole-skipping in holographic theories
David Vegh,
Queen Mary University of London,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Using Metrological Bounds in Quantum Error Correction
Aleksander Kubica,
AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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9:00pm
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