Seminar Calendar
November 2023
Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
10:30am
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11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Scale invariance and rate of nuclear reactions
Subham Chowdhury,
University of Chicago,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The First Glimpse of the First Galaxies with JWST
Rohan Naidu,
NASA Hubble Fellow,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Synthesis and exploration of new topological magnetic texture in frustrated magnets
Thursday, November 2nd, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Colliders for the Future of High Energy Physics
Julia Gonski,
SLAC,
Friday, November 3rd, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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APhMS: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Probing phonon transport across vacuum and across solid-state spins
Zhujing Xu,
postdoctoral fellow,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Celestial Amplitudes in Effective Field Theories
Prahar Mitra,
University of Amsterdam,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spin-Orbit Enhanced Superconductivity in Graphene Bilayers
Yiran Zhang,
Nadj-Perge group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Heavy element nucleosynthesis & energetic neutrinos from highly magnetized outflows
Monday, November 6th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axion electrodynamics through the lens of condensed matter
Prineha Narang,
UCLA,
Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
10:00am
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10:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Poincaré generators of spinning binary in the post-Minkowskian approach
Sangmin Lee,
Seoul National University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar
Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanet Atmospheres at High-Spectral Resolution
Jake Turner,
Cornell University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Higher Information: The untold topological secrets of measures and states
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Searching for Signposts of Failed White Dwarf Supernovae
JJ Hermes,
Assistant Professor; Director of Graduate Admissions,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
New Ways to See Real-Space Topological Textures and Their Order Parameters at the Atomic Scale
Yu-Tsun Shao,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Southern California,
Thursday, November 9th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Constraints on WIMP Dark Matter Models with Astrophysical Observations
Mehrdad Phoroutan-Mehr,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CνB): Its distribution on the surface of the Earth and its manipulation on laboratory scales
Mina Arvanitaki,
Perimeter Institute,
Friday, November 10th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Generalized entropy for general subregions in quantum gravity
Antony Speranza,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Classical and Quantum Complexity of Quantum Dynamics
Dominik Wild,
Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Catalogs and populations with ground-based and space-based gravitational-wave detectors
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, November 13th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Leveraging quantum sensors to shine new light on searches for low-mass dark matter
Kelly Stifter,
SLAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Universal fluctuations in ergodic quantum dynamics, and their use for benchmarking highly entangled states
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Horizons as Eavesdroppers: Horizons Decohere Quantum Superpositions
Daine Danielson,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Identification and characterization of topological order without and with tensor networks
Norbert Schuch,
University of Vienna,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Unveiling the Atmospheres of Exoplanets: Exploring Detection, Evolution, and Habitability
Raissa Estrela,
JPL-NASA,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Aperiodic spin chains for discrete holography on hyperbolic tilings
Giuseppe di Giulio,
Institute for Theoretical Physics & Astrophysics,
University of Wurzburg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Characterizing the Life Cycle of the Interstellar Medium and Star Formation in Galaxies with Far-Infrared Spectral Lines
Jorge Pineda,
ASTHROS Balloon Principal Investigator,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Noise Spectroscopy – What Can Electronic Noise Tell Us about the Materials?
Thursday, November 16th, 2023
10:30am
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11:30am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Wielding Frequency Dependent Squeezing against Quantum Back-Action in the LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatories
Lee McCuller,
Caltech,
Friday, November 17th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Chaos in Observable Algebras of Quantum Gravity
Nima Lashkari,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
How simulating balls and springs captures the power of quantum computing
Robin Kothari,
Google,
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
Online and In-Person Event
Binary Interaction and the Explodability of Massive Stars
Rachel Patton,
Graduate Student,
Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP),
Ohio State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nonequilibrium spin dynamics in quantum magnets probed by neutrons
Dr. Chengyun Hua,
R&D Associate, Materials Science & Technology Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, November 20th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Piezoaxionic Effect: dark matter detection and new forces
Amalia Madden,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Solvable models for 2+1D quantum critical points with a non-local area law of entanglement
Monday, November 27th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Prospecting for new physics using muons
Jure Zupan,
University of Cincinnati,
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Quantum Computation with Quantum LDPC Codes in Reconfigurable Atom Arrays
Hengyun (Harry) Zhou,
Harvard and QuEra,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
SDSS-V Instrumentation Program and Survey Status
Solange Ramirez,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Future of AI in Astronomy
Cecilia Garraffo,
Astrophysicist,
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Expect the Unexpected: Novel Properties of Zeolite-Templated Porous Carbon Frameworks
Thursday, November 30th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Hair and Black Hole Information
Stephen Hsu,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Using Nuclear Reactors to Study Neutrinos
Pedro Ochoa,