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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s: Perspectives and Discussion
Fiona Harrison, Harold A. Rosen Professor of Physics; Chair, Divison of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Online Event
New Materials at High Pressure
Wendy Mao, Professor, Geological Sciences, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Pivot Hamiltonians: a tale of symmetry, entanglement, and quantum criticality
Nat Tantivasadakarn, Harvard,
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
10:00am 11:00am
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LIGO Seminar

All-sky, all-frequency(ASAF) directional search for an anisotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background (SGWB)
Deepali Agarwal,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Electrons in 2D moiré superlattices
Jie Shan, Cornell University,
Friday, December 3rd, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Non-Invertible Duality Defects
Clay Cordova, University of Chicago,
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Verification with Minimal Overhead, and Public Verification of Quantum Computation
Dominik Leichtle, Sorbonne Université,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Breaking the Standard Model (of Embryonic Development)
Hernan G. Garcia, Professor, UC Berkeley,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Exploring galactic nuclei with tidal disruption events
Brenna Mockler, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Correlated electronic quantum materials by lattice and symmetry design
Linda Ye, Stanford,
Monday, December 6th, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBD
Brett William Stone, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
A search for heavy resonances decaying to HH in final states with leptons and a bottom quark pair in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV
Brent William Stone, UCLA,
7:30pm 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

Online Event
JWST and the Search for the First Galaxies
Christina Williams, Research Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona,
Justin Spilker, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University,
Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

How do cells know their place and fish measure curl: decoding biological function from geometric patterns
Mariela Petkova, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Ultracold molecules as clocks and sensors
Kon H. Leung, Physics, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Fundamental Stellar Astrophysics in the Gaia Era: A New Understanding of Local Stellar Populations
Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Astrophysics, College of Arts & Science, Vanderbilt University,
Marina Kounkel, Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture/Von Hippel Award Talk

Trip the Light Fantastic
Harry Atwater, Professor and Chair, Applied Physics and Materials Science, Caltech,
Thursday, December 9th, 2021
1:00pm 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

Gravitational Saves from a Newly Born Hyper-Accreting Millisecond Magnetar
Friday, December 10th, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
New perspectives on chiral matter, standard model constructions, and mirror symmetry from F-theory geometry
Washington Taylor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
Extremal CFTs and Lattice Orbifolds
Christoph Keller, University of Arizona,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

Searching for the phonons of living matter
Madhav Mani, Professor, Northwestern University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Unlocking Multiphase Galactic Gas Flows
Drummond Fielding, Flatiron Research Fellow, CCA, Flatiron Institite,
7:00pm 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Online Event
A Brief History of the Fast Radio Burst Enigma
Liam Connor, Tolman Prize Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Monday, December 13th, 2021
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
MicroBooNE's Search for the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess
Kathryn Sutton, Caltech,
Friday, December 17th, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Engineering quantum matter in clean thin films
Joseph Falson, Assistant Professor of Materials Science; William H. Hurt Scholar, Engineering and Applied Science,