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Friday, April 5th, 2013
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Near-Field Cosmology: Big Science From Small Galaxies
Mike Boylan-Kolchin, Center for Galaxy Evolution Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine,
Monday, April 8th, 2013
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Atomically Thin Photodetectors: The Ideal Semi-Metal vs. The Insurmountable Insulator
Nathaniel Gabor, MIT,
Friday, April 12th, 2013
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Black hole scattering from monodromy
Alejandra Castro, Harvard University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Uncovering Properties of Cosmic Dark Matter through Indirect Detection
Sheldon Campbell, Postdoctoral Fellow, CCAPP (Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics), Ohio State University,
Monday, April 15th, 2013
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Prospects and Challenges of Neutral Atom Quantum Simulation
David Weld, Assistant Professor, UCSB,
Friday, April 19th, 2013
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

to be announced
Sung-Sik Lee, McMaster University,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

to be announced
Zohar Komargodski, Weizmann Institute,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Non-Thermal Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetized Astrophysical Flows
Lorenzo Sironi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Friday, April 26th, 2013
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

to be announced
John McGreevy, UC San Diego,
Monday, April 29th, 2013
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Spin-Orbit Tuned Ground States in Single-Crystal Iridates
Gang Cao, Professor, University of Kentucky,
Friday, May 3rd, 2013
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

CMB from CFT
Sandip Trivedi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Three-Dimensional Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae
Sean Couch, Research Associate, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago,
Monday, May 6th, 2013
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Cooling Through Optimal Control of Quantum Evolution
Dr. Armin Rahmani,
Friday, May 10th, 2013
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Localization in N=2* and related models
Alex Buchel, Perimeter Institute,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Testing Gravity with Cosmology: a new Golden Age?
Pedro Ferreira, Professor, Astrophysics, University of Oxford,
Monday, May 13th, 2013
11:00am 12:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Hamiltonian Theory of Fractionally Filled Chern Bands
Ganpathy Murthy, Professor, University of Kentucky,
Friday, May 17th, 2013
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

to be announced
Clay Cordova, Harvard University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Fast evaluation of asymptotic waveforms from gravitational perturbations
Scott Field, Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland,
Monday, May 20th, 2013
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Effective Field Theories for Topological Insulators via Functional Bosonization
Shinsei Ryu, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champagne,
Friday, May 24th, 2013
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Towards a holographic formulation of Cosmology
Gonzalo Torroba, Stanford University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Glimpsing the Composition Distribution of Sub-Neptune-Size Exoplanets
Leslie Rogers, Hubble Postdoctoral Scholar, Astronomy, Caltech,
Monday, May 27th, 2013
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Topological Viscosity Response due to Torsion and the Bulk-Boundary Correspondence
Taylor Hughes, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champagne,
Friday, May 31st, 2013
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

to be announced
Joseph Polchinski, KITP/UCSB,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

The Changing Landscape of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors
Ken Shen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley,
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

TBA
Sriram Shastry, Professor, UC Santa Cruz,
Friday, June 7th, 2013
11:00am 12:00pm
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2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Dark matter halo substructure and its role in gamma-ray dark matter searches
Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Conde, Postdoc, KIPAC/SLAC, Stanford University,
Monday, June 10th, 2013
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Statistical Topological Insulators
Dr. Anton Akhmerov, Harvard,