Seminar Calendar
May 2021
Monday, May 3rd, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Beyond Lorentz's Lamp-post: Positivity Bounds for Cosmology
Scott Melville,
DAMTP, University of Cambridge,
Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
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
Online Event
Black Hole Mass Measurement with ALMA
Aaron Barth,
Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Controlling Zeolite Polymorphism from First Principles
Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, May 6th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Nonstandard thermal histories and the small-scale matter power spectrum
Jessie Shelton,
UIUC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, May 7th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
The cycle of matter in the magnetized interstellar medium as revealed by machine vision
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Flatspace Holography: Celestial Amplitudes and Symmetries
Monica Pate,
Harvard University,
Monday, May 10th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Cosmology at the end of the world
Brian Swingle,
Brandeis University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Don't Fear the Spiders: New Insights from Redback Millisecond Pulsars
Jay Strader,
Associate Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, May 13th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Searching for Dark Matter Interactions throughout Cosmic History
Kim Boddy,
UT Austin,
Friday, May 14th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Worldsheet correlators in AdS3
Lorenz Eberhardt,
Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from relativistic jets of Active Galactic Nuclei
Rostom Mbarek,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
The University of Chicago,
Monday, May 17th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2021
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Obstructions to Gapped Boundaries for (2+1)d TQFT
Justin Kaidi,
SCGP,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Studying the Universe with Gravitational Waves: From Neutron Stars to Tests of Gravity
Katerina Chatziioannou,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Computational Screening of Two-Dimensional Materials for Electro-Catalysis
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, May 20th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Black Holes - Nature or Nurture?: The Roles of Rotation and Accretion in Powering Cosmic Sources
Roger Blandford,
Stanford University,
Friday, May 21st, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
From AdS/CFT to soft theorems in flat space
Eliot Hijano,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
The Surprising World of Pulsars
Amruta Jaodand,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Monday, May 24th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium - Neugebauer Lecture
Online Event
Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes
Andrea Ghez,
Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Tracing Stress-driven Atomic-scale Dynamics in Metallic Glasses
Robert Maass,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Cavity acoustodynamics: insight into quantum noise in materials and opportunities for quantum computing
Oskar Painter,
Caltech,
Friday, May 28th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Cosmology from confinement
Mark van Raamsdonk,
University of British Columbia,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Quantum Weak Coin Flipping—where weakness is a virtue
Atul Singh Arora,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Vidick Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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