Upcoming Seminars
Fall 2008-2009
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
What Is the Simplest Quantum Field Theory?
Jared Kaplan,
Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Study,
Friday, October 10th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic Superconductors
Gary Horowitz,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, October 17th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Unitarity and Holography in Gravitational Physics
Don Marolf,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
TeV Scale Physics from G2 Compactifications of M-Theory
Konstantin Bobkov,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Friday, October 24th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Eva Silverstein,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
External Fields and the Dynamics of Flavours in Holographic Duals of Large N Gauge Theories
Arnab Kundu,
graduate student in theoretical high energy physics,
USC,
Friday, October 31st, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Index for Nonrelativistic Superconformal Field Theory—from LLM to ABJM and BL
Yu Nakayama,
department of physics,
UC Berkeley,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Conformal Collider Physics
Diego Hofman,
graduate student in physics,
Princeton University,
Friday, November 7th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The BCFT Boundary State from Open String Fields
Michael Kiermaier,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Chirality and Kondo Physics in Graphene
Herb Fertig,
professor of physics,
Indiana University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Applied String Theory: Transport Properties of Holographic Defects
Matthias Wapler,
graduate student,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Friday, November 14th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Towards M2 Branes Probing Generic Toric Singularities
Diego Rodriguez-Gomez,
visiting postdoctoral research associate in physics,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Gaps in Our Understanding of High Temperature Superconductors
Eric Hudson,
professor of physics,
MIT,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Accurate and Decoherence-Protected Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Daniel Lidar,
associate professor,
Department of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering and Department of Physics,
USC,
Friday, November 21st, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Four-Dimensional Structure of String Compactifications
Gonzalo Torroba,
graduate student in high energy theory,
Rutgers University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Novel Quantum Phases in Orbital Systems with Cold Atom Optical Lattices
Congjun Wu,
assistant professor of physics,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Periodic Table for Topological Insulators and Superconductors
Alexei Kitaev,
professor of theoretical physics and computer science,
Caltech,
Friday, December 5th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Dual Superconformal Symmetry of Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills
Emery Sokatchev,
Laboratoire d'Annecy-Le-Vieux de Physique Theorique (LAPTH),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Michael Lilly,
Sandia National Laboratories,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spectral Gap in Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Mohammad Amin,
visiting scholar,
Institute for Quantum Information,
Caltech,
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holography and Dynamical Critical Phenomena
Michael Mulligan,
graduate student in physics,
Stanford University,
Friday, December 12th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Weyl Invariance and the Origins of Mass
Andrew Waldron,
professor of mathematics,
UC Davis,