Upcoming Seminars
Fall 2013-2014
Monday, September 16th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topological Order on the Surface of Three Dimensional Topological Insulators
Xie Chen,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, September 27th, 2013
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
The Evolution of Massive Stars towards their Death: Rotation, Binarity and Mergers
Selma de Mink,
Einstein Lyman Spitzer Fellow,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
Carngie Observatory / Caltech,
Friday, October 4th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Nuclear Processes in Accretion Disks from Compact Object Mergers: an Engine for Electromagnetic Transients
Rodrigo Fernandez,
Department of Astronomy,
University of California, Berkeley,
Monday, October 7th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Tuning the Ground State of Fe Pnictide Superconductors.
Ni Ni,
Professor,
UCLA,
Friday, October 11th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Monday, October 14th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Hidden (Hastatic) Order in URu2Si2
Rebbeca Flint,
Professor,
Iowa State University,
Friday, October 18th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
BPS, Non-BPS and D-brane anti D-brane effective actions in type II Superstring theory with their corrections to all orders in alpha-prime
Ehsan Hatefi,
ICTP, Trieste,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Can Black Hole-Neutron Star Binary Mergers Produce Gamma-Ray Bursts?
Zachariah Etienne,
Department of Astronomy,
UMD and NASA GSFC,
Monday, October 21st, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Emergent Space-time Supersymmetry in Topological Superconductors
Tarun Grover,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Friday, October 25th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Probing Induced Higher-Spin Gauge Theory
Benjamin Safdi,
Princeton University,
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
Do Galaxy Clusters Boil?
Mike McCourt,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy Department,
U.C. Berkeley,
Monday, October 28th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Proximity Effect Induced Topological Superconductor and Majorana Modes
Jinfeng Jia,
Professor,
Physics,
Shanghai Jia Tong University,
Friday, November 1st, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Newborn Pulsars as sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
Ke Fang,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
Friday, November 8th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
F-theory Compactifications With Multiple U(1)-Factors
Denis Klevers,
Univ of Pennsylvania,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Getting the Most Out of a Black Hole
Alexander Tchekhovskoy,
NASA Einstein Fellow ,
Nuclear Science,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Friday, November 15th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Phases of 5d Gauge Theories, Monopole Walls, and Melting Crystals
Sergey Cherkis,
Univ of Arizona,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Supernova neutrinos – flavor evolution and signals
Tina Lund,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Department of Physics,
North Carolina State University,
Monday, November 18th, 2013
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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Friday, November 22nd, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Scattering Amplitudes, Unitarity, and the Positive Grassmannian
Jacob Bourjaily,
Harvard,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
From Plasma Microphysics to Global Dynamics in Clusters of Galaxies, Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows, and the Solar Wind
Matthew Kunz,
NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow,
Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
Monday, November 25th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
How to detect symmetry protected topological order in a two dimensional ground state wavefunction
Michael Zaletel,
UC Berkeley,
Monday, December 2nd, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
TBA
Johnpierre Paglione,
Assistant Professor,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Effects of electron scattering on the topological properties of nanowires: Majorana fermions from disorder and superlattices
İnanç Adagideli,
Sabanci University,
Friday, December 6th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Collisions in AdS and the thermalization of heavy-ion collisions
Wilke van der Schee,
Utrecht University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Investigations on the gaseous environment of distant galaxies
Michele Fumagalli,
Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Observatories, Princeton University,
Monday, December 9th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Theory of Extremely Correlated Fermi Liquids
Sriram Shastry,
Professor,
UC Santa Cruz,
Friday, December 13th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
\Delta I = 1/2 Rule for Kaon Decays derived from QCD Infrared Fixed Point
Rod Crewther,
University of Adelaide,
Monday, December 16th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Preparing and preserving low entropy states in optical lattices
Stephan Langer,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of Pittsburgh,
Friday, December 20th, 2013
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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