Upcoming Seminars
Fall 2014-2015
Thursday, September 11th, 2014
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seminar
The Star Formation Main Sequence in the Illustris Simulation
Martin Sparre,
PhD student,
Dark Cosmology Centre,
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
Thursday, September 18th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Simple Picture of Universal Geometric Response of Fractional Quantum Hall
Gil Young Cho,
University of Illinois - Urbana,
Friday, September 19th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Monday, September 29th, 2014
4:00pm
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Friday, October 3rd, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Perturbative and nonperturbative worldsheet string theory in AdS^n x S_n x M^{10-2n}
Radu Roiban,
Penn State,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Partition functions, topology, and hydrodynamics with QFT anomalies
Piotr Sulkowski,
Univ of Warsaw,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of Sr1-xLaxCuO2 thin films grown by molecular-beam epitaxy
John Harter,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics,
Hsieh Group,
Caltech,
Monday, October 6th, 2014
4:00pm
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Friday, October 10th, 2014
10:30am
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11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quantum spectral curve of N=4 SYM
Vladimir Kazakov,
Ecole Normale Superieure d'Universite Paris,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Givental J-functions, Quantum integrable systems, AGT relation with surface operator
Satoshi Nawata,
NIKHEF,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
There's Government in Your Science
Josh Shiode,
John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow,
American Astronomical Society,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Enhancement of the hidden-order/large-moment antiferromagnetic phase boundary in the URu2−xFexSi2 and URu2−xOsxSi2 systems
Noravee Kanchanavatee,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Maple Group,
Univ of California, San Diego,
Monday, October 13th, 2014
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Parametrically Enhanced Transmission of Hidden Photons via Longitudinal Modes
Yue Zhao,
SLAC,
Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement in one-dimensional quantum systems
Yi-Chen Huang,
IQIM,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 17th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Too-big-to-fail in the Local Group: A Challenge for LCDM
Shea Garrison-Kimmel,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Cosmology,
U.C. Irvine,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Building new edge states in twisted bilayer graphene: quantum spin Hall state and electron-hole bilayers
Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi,
Graduate Student,
Physics,
MIT,
Monday, October 20th, 2014
4:00pm
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED
PandaX: A dark matter experiment at China JinPing Underground Lab
Xiangdong Ji,
University of Maryland/Shanghai Jian Tong University,
Friday, October 24th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Resurgence in quantum field theory: handling the Devil's invention
Aleksey Cherman,
University of Minnesota,
12:00pm
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12:45pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Ultrahigh-resolution quantum optical coherence tomography using ultra-broadband entangled photon pairs
Masayuki Okano,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Graduate School of Engineering,
Kyoto University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Making Supersymmetric Quivers from N=(0,2) Sigma Models
Arkady Vainshtein,
University of Minnesota,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar - NOTE: unusual time - 1:00p
Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Cluster Outskirts
Camille Avestruz,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
Yale University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Attosecond Electron Control
Mohammed Tharwat Hassan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Zewail group,
Caltech,
Monday, October 27th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Shining light on new physics with improved dijet resonance identification
Eder Izaguirre,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Friday, October 31st, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Impact of inhomogeneous blazar heating on the intergalactic medium
Astrid Lamberts,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
TBA
Torsten Karzig,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Caltech,
Monday, November 3rd, 2014
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Project 8: Towards a Radio-Frequency Measurement of the Neutrino Mass
Luiz de Viveiros,
UC Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, November 6th, 2014
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar - NOTE: unusual day
Large-scale structure formation with the Schrödinger method
Cora Uhlemann,
PhD student,
Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich,
Friday, November 7th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quantum supergravity and exact holography
Joao Gomes,
University of Cambridge,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Four topics on the centers of galaxies
Scott Tremaine,
Professor,
Institute for Advanced Study,
School of Natural Sciences,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Novel Mechanism of Low-Temperature CVD Graphene Growth
David Boyd,
Staff Scientist,
Yeh Group,
Caltech,
Monday, November 10th, 2014
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
GeV Gamma-Rays from the Central Milky Way and the Case for Annihilating Dark Matter
Tracy Slatyer,
MIT,
Friday, November 14th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption as Probes of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function
Nicholas Stone,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Astrophysics Laboratory,
Columbia University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Electron tunneling in Van der Waals heterostructures
Chandni U. ,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Eisenstein Group,
Caltech,
Monday, November 17th, 2014
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Probing physics behind neutrino masses
Kaladi Babu,
Oklahoma State University,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Information Causality, Szemeredi-Trotter, and algebraic variants of CHSH
Mohammad Bavarian,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Dark Matter and the Theory for Baryon Number at the LHC
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
MPIK, Heidelberg & Caltech,
Friday, November 21st, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Extremes of compact object birth, from the dimmest to the super-luminous
Brian Metzger,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics ,
Columbia University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Non-Abelian phases in Fractional Quantum Hall states
Roger Mong,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,