Upcoming Seminars
Spring 2016-2017
Friday, April 7th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Causality and Universality at Strong Coupling
Tom Hartman,
Cornell University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The quadrupole formula: a hundred years later
Beatrice Bonga,
Graduate Student,
Penn State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Enhancing atom-light interactions with "selective radiance": the recipe to exponentially improve photon storage fidelities
Ana Asenjo Garcia,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Kimble Group,
Monday, April 10th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A small weak scale from a small cosmological constant
Ken Van Tilburg,
IAS,
Friday, April 14th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chaos in 2D CFT and Spinning Particle in AdS
Chi-Ming Chang,
QMAP, UC Davis,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Helping to paint a more realistic picture of the intergalactic and circumgalactic media through simulation
Devin Silva,
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fermi Arcs and Their Topological Character in the Candidate Type-II Weyl Semimetals WTe2 and MoTe2
Flavio Yair Bruno,
Ambizione Research Fellow,
University of Geneva,
Monday, April 17th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Effective theories for point sources
Cliff Burgess,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Friday, April 21st, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic lattice field theories
Ingmar Saberi,
University of Heidelberg,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Edge of darkness: The splashback radius as a physical halo boundary
Benedikt Diemer,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fault-tolerance in topological stabilizer codes and universal workarounds
Tomas Jochym O'Connor,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Monday, April 24th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, April 28th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Vortices in 4d, N=2 SQCD and their Worldsheet Theory from Supersymmetric Localization
Efrat Gerchkovitz,
Weizmann Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Observing the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation with the South Pole Telescope
Christine Moran,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
On-chip quantum memories for telecom photons using ensembles of erbium ions
Ioana Craiciu,
Graduate Student,
Faraon Group,
Monday, May 1st, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The EW phase transition improved and unrealized
Patrick Meade,
Stony Brook University,
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
How to break the electroweak symmetry naturally
Jing Shu,
Institute of Theoretical Physics,
The Chinese Academy of Science ,
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Friday, May 5th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Integrability of refined Chern-Simons theory
Shamil Shakirov,
Harvard University,
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Entanglement branes in a two-dimensional string theory
Gabriel Wong,
University of Virginia,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Importance of being Eccentric
Ann-Marie Madigan,
Assistant Professor of Astrophysics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrino physics with liquid xenon detectors
Michelle Dolinski,
Drexel University,
Friday, May 12th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Feedback and its Role in Shaping (dwarf) Galaxies
Ferah Munshi,
VIDA Postdoctoral Fellow,
Vanderbilt University,
Monday, May 15th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Non-WIMP dark matter and the structure of galaxies
Katelin Schutz,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, May 19th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Applications of light-cone cuts in holography
Gary Horowitz,
UC Santa Barbara,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special Geometry & Physics Seminar
Mirror Symmetry for HOMFLYPT Knot Homology
Alexei Oblomkov,
University of Massachusetts,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Pulsar Accretion: This Time, It's Magnetized
Kyle Parfrey,
Einstein Fellow,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL),
Monday, May 22nd, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Confronting CPT and Equivalence Principle with Cold Trapped Antihydrogen
Makoto C. Fujiwara,
TRIUMF,
Friday, May 26th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
New Indices in Four-Dimensional N=2 Theories
Thomas Dumitrescu,
Harvard University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Complexity in Holographic Theories and QFT
Robert Myers,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Interpreting Dwarf Galaxies
Alyson Brooks,
Assistant Professor,
Astronomy Department,
Rutgers University,
Thursday, June 1st, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Coulomb blockade in one-dimensional fractional topological superconductors
Roman Lutchyn,
Station Q,
Microsoft Research, Santa Barbara,
Friday, June 2nd, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Emergent spacetime and Quantum Entanglement in Matrix theory
Vatche Sahakian,
Harvey Mudd College,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Spin-precessing compact binaries and their Gravitational Waves
Katerina Chatziioannou,
CITA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Probing A Gravitational Cat State: Theoretical Problems And Experimental Prospects
Maaneli Derakhshani,
Researcher,
Utrecht University,
Friday, June 9th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Dualities in 2+1 dimensions and quantum Hall physics
Andreas Karch,
University of Washington,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Searching for dark matter with atomic clocks in space
Tigran Kalaydzhyan,
Postdoc,
JPL,