Upcoming Seminars
Fall 2010-2011
Friday, October 1st, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Black Hole/Qubit Correspondence
William Rubens,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
Imperial College,
Monday, October 4th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Hall Transitions in Trapped Cold Atom Systems
Kun Yang,
professor of physics,
Florida State University,
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Spectrum of Fractional Quantum Hall States and Quantum Spin Chains
Ronny Thomale,
postdoctoral scholar,
Princeton University,
Friday, October 8th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gauge Tree Amplitudes in the Pure Spinor Formalism
Oliver Schlotterer,
Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich,
Monday, October 11th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Quenches in Bulk and Impurity Systems
Stefan Kehrein,
professor of theoretical physics,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen ,
Friday, October 15th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chiral Operators on the One Instanton Moduli Space
Noppadol Mekareeya,
Imperial College,
Monday, October 18th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Walter Hofstetter,
Goethe University, Frankfurt,
Friday, October 22nd, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Singular Monopoles and Gauge Theories with Impurity Walls
Sergey Cherkis,
Trinity College, Dublin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Point Contact Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: Andreev Reflection, Multiband Superconductivity, and Magnetism
Laura H. Greene,
professor of physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Monday, October 25th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topological Transitions in Dissipative Quantum Transport
Mark Rudner,
postdoctoral scholar in condensed matter theory,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Small Gaps, Localization, and the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm
David Gossett,
graduate student in quantum information science,
MIT,
Friday, October 29th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
S duality, Superconformal Index and 2d Topological Field Theory
Abhijit Gadde,
graduate student in physics,
SUNY Stony Brook,
Monday, November 1st, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
The Band Structure, Electron-electron Interaction and Transport in Bilayer Graphene
Jun Zhu,
professor of physics,
the Pennsylvania State University,
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spin Systemsas Toy Models for Emergent Gravity
Fotini Markopoulou,
professor of quantum gravity,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Friday, November 5th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Wall-crossing of D4-D2-D0 and Flop of the Conifold
Takahiro Nishinaka,
Osaka University,
Monday, November 8th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Universal Dynamics in Thermally Isolated Systems
Anatoli Polkovnikov,
assistant professor of condensed matter physics,
Boston University,
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Limits on Estimating a Waveform
Carlton Caves,
professor of physics,
University of New Mexico,
Friday, November 12th, 2010
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantized Pumping and Phase Diagram Topology of Interacting Bosons
Ehud Altman,
senior scientist in condensed matter physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Monday, November 15th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Disordered Nonlinear Systems: From Localization to Hyper-transport
Yevgeny Krivolapov,
Technion Institute of Technology Israel,
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Learning from Examples Using Quantum Annealing
Hartmut Neven,
Google,
Friday, November 19th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Exact Results in Black Hole Entropy Counting
Joao Gomes,
University of Paris,
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Superconductivity in the Repulsive Hubbard Model: An Symptotically Exact Weak Coupling Solution
Srinivas Raghu,
assistant professor of physics and astronomy,
Rice University,
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Information Processing with Atomic Spin Ensembles
Eugene Polzik,
professor,
Niels Bohr Institute,
Copenhagen University,
Monday, November 29th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Mott Insulators of Ultracold Alkaline Earth Fermions: A New Class of Quantum Magnets
Michael A. Hermele,
assistant professor of theoretical condensed matter physics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Money
Andrew Lutomirski,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
MIT,
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Seeing and Controlling Topological Insulator Surface Electrons
David Hsieh,
research fellow in physics,
MIT,
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Constructing Elliptic Curve Isogenies in Quantum Subexponential Time
Andrew Childs,
assistant professor,
Institute for Quantum Computing and Combinatorics & Optimization,
University of Waterloo,
Friday, December 10th, 2010
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Subsystem and Stabilizer Codes with Spatially Local Generators
Sergey Bravyi,
postdoctoral researcher,
IBM Research,