Seminar Calendar
February 2023
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Illuminating the Nature of Cosmic Acceleration
Yun Wang,
IPAC,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Probing Galaxy Physics with ISM Emission Lines
Shengqi Yang,
CTAC Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Observatories,
Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
"Programmable adiabatic demagnetization: preparing low energy states by simulated cooling"
Professor Mark Rudner,
University of Washington,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Detectorology
Murat Kologlu,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Axion Dark Matter and Quantum Measurement: ABRACADABRA to DMRadio
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Lindley Winslow,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, February 3rd, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Nonperturbative scattering amplitudes from dispersive iterations of unitarity
Alexander Zhiboedov,
CERN,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum error correction and computation with two-qubit measurements
Arpit Dua,
UQM-IQIM Postdoctoral scholar,
Xie Chen Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, February 6th, 2023
4:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar
Steering electrons with light fields: from ultrafast electronics to quantum sensing
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Magnetic White Dwarfs: The Galactic X-ray Sky in the SRG/eROSITA Era
Tony Rodriguez,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Explorations in Hilbert Space
Markus Luty,
UC Davis,
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
The Formation of Galaxies And Supermassive Black Holes. Early Eesults from JWST
Tommaso Treu,
Department of Astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Role of AGN-Driven Winds in their Host Galaxies' Evolution
Dalya Baron,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Observatories,
Thursday, February 9th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
Guy Gur-Ari,
Google Research,
Friday, February 10th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Crossing Symmetry in Matter Chern Simons theories at finite N and k
Shiraz Minwalla,
TaTa Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Collisions in Galactic Nuclei: Stars, Binaries, and Black Holes
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Thirtysomething black holes
Lieke van Son,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axion wind detection with the homogeneous precession domain of superfluid helium-3
Christina Gao,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum simulators: from the Fermi Hubbard model to quantum assisted NMR inference
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Lower bounding the description complexity of quantum states
Chinmay Nirkhe,
IBM Quantum,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar
Online Event
Prospects for Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Measurements from Current and Future Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments
Srinivasan Raghunathan,
NCSA, U. Illinois,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Theories of Planet Formation
Eve Lee,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
McGill University,
Thursday, February 16th, 2023
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Ehrenfest's theorem beyond the Ehrenfest time: non-singular classical limit for general open systems
Jess Riedel,
NTT Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Understanding Mechanisms for Creating Complex Materials with Built-In Cross-Coupled Responses
Nicole Benedek,
Cornell University,
Friday, February 17th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
VOAs and RG flows in 4D N=2 Theories
Jacques Distler,
University of Texas, Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measuring Arbitrary Physical Properties in Analog Quantum Simulation
Minh Tran,
MIT/IBM,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar
Moiré Materials and their New Degrees of Freedom
Yuan Cao,
PhD,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fast erasure decoder for a class of quantum LDPC codes
Nicolas Delfosse,
Microsoft Quantum,
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
12:15pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Molecular Gas And Star Formation Properties of Galaxies in Transition
Dalya Baron,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Star and Cluster Formation in Nearby Galaxies
Janice Lee,
Chief Scientist,
NSF's NOIR Lab,
Gemini Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Nanoconfined fluids in low-dimensional solid state systems: recent advances & perspective
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Transport in 2D Superconductors and Semiconductors
Jeanie Lau,
The Ohio State University,
Friday, February 24th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Coupled minimal models revisited
Conor Behan,
Oxford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum computing over the rainbow: from scalable qumodes to scalable Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill qubits
Olivier Pfister,
University of Virginia,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
On the modeling of black hole ringdown: quasi-normal modes and graybody factors
Naritaka Oshita,
Special Postdoctoral Researcher,
Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS),
RIKEN,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, February 27th, 2023
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Astronomy Tea Talk
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Connecting the disk dispersal phase to magnetic morphology-driven stellar spin-down
Kristina Monsch,
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
SMEFT, loops and all that
Michael Trott,
Neils Bohr Institute and Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation: What, why, how, when?
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Spin waves meet superconductivity
Nicholas R. Poniatowski,
Harvard University,