Upcoming Seminars
Spring 2013-2014
Monday, March 31st, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Probing quantum many-body systems at the single-particle level
Manuel Endres,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics,
Friday, April 4th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Galaxy evolution and gas flows: from massive clusters to isolated dwarfs
Andrew Wetzel,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
Caltech,
Monday, April 7th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Broken SU(4) Symmetry and The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
Inti Sodemann,
University of Texas at Austin,
Friday, April 11th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
3d N=4 Gauge Theories, Hilbert series and Hall-Littlewood Polynomials
Noppadol Mekareeya,
CERN,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Combining Probes of Large-Scale Structure in the Precision Cosmology Era
Elisabeth Krause,
Post-doctoral Researcher,
Physics and Astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania,
Monday, April 14th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Self-organized topological state with Majorana fermions
Marcel Franz,
Professor,
University of British Columbia,
Friday, April 18th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Minimal representations as a generalisation of holomorphy for supergravity F-terms
Guillaume Bossard,
Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT,
Monday, April 21st, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Influence of Symmetry on Quantum Hall States in Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene
Ben Feldman,
Postdoc,
Princeton University,
Friday, April 25th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Update after AMS: implications on Dark Matter, local pulsar and supernova remnant sources
Ilias Cholis,
Research Associate,
Astrophysics,
FNAL,
Monday, April 28th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Phase transitions and Majorana bound states in engineered topological superconductors
Aaron Finck,
Postdoc,
UIUC,
Thursday, May 1st, 2014
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Measurement of attosecond electron tunnel ionization times
Hadas Soifer,
Weizmann Institute,
Friday, May 2nd, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
New Exact Results in Calabi-Yau, D-branes, and Orientifoulds
Sungjay Lee,
University of Chicago,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
T-duality and scattering of stringy states
Jnan Maharana,
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Cosmic Dawn - Physics of the First Luminous Objects
Ken Chen,
IAU-Gruber Fellow,
Astronomy and Astrophysics,
U.C. Santa Cruz,
Monday, May 5th, 2014
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Symmetry protection beyond band theory: models of bosonic symmetry-protected phases in 3D
Fiona Burnell,
Assistant Professor,
University of Minnesota,
Friday, May 9th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Unitarity and crossing symmetry in the S Matrix of large N Chern Simons theory with fundamental matter
Shiraz Minwalla,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Formation and Evolution of Star Clusters
Michael Fall,
Astronomer w/tenure,
Space Telescope Science Institute,
Monday, May 12th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Manipulating single electrons in silicon for quantum computing
Michael Lilly,
Scientist,
The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT),
Sandia National Laboratories,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Black holes, star products and entanglement
Monica Guica,
University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, May 16th, 2014
9:00am
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5/17
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TAPIR Seminar
I-Love-Q
Nico Yunes,
Assistant Professor,
Physics Department,
Montana State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unconventional magnetism in dissipative atomic systems
Tony Lee,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular nad Optical Physics (ITAMP),
Harvard University,
Friday, May 23rd, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Bootstrapping Conformal Field Theories
David Simmons-Duffin,
Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
New Diagnostics of MHD Turbulence in the Multiphase ISM
Blakesley Burkhart,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy,
UW-Madison,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Transfer-matrix treatment of surface disorder in topological insulator
Kun Woo Kim,
Graduate Student,
Condensed Matter Theory - Refael Group,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 27th, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Rapid Mixing of Quantum Local Dissipative Systems
Angelo Lucia,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
Friday, May 30th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measuring the pseudo-spin space of hydrogenated graphene
Thomas Szkopek,
Associate Professor ,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
McGill University,
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Friday, June 6th, 2014
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Exact solutions of 2d supersymmetric gauge theories
Abhijit Gadde,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quasiparticle Coherence, Collective Modes, and Competing Order in Cuprate Superconductors
James Hinton,
Graduate Student,
Condensed Matter Physics And Materials Science,
University of CA - Berkeley/ LBNL,
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
NOTE TIME CHANGE Quantum-proof extractors via operator space theory
Omar Fawzi,
ETH, Zurich,
Friday, June 13th, 2014
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
TBD
Torsten Karzig,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Caltech,