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Monday, April 1st, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Unlocking Neutron Stars as Sensitive Probes of Dark Matter
Tim Linden, Ohio State University,
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
12:30pm 1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar

Towards real world quantum networks
Raju Valivarthi, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona,
Friday, April 5th, 2019
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Entanglement as a connection for holographic spacetimes
Lampros Lamprou, MIT,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

"Quantum Nanophotonics with Ytterbium in Yttrium Orthovanadate"
Jon Kindem, Postdoctoral Scholar, Faraon Group,
Monday, April 8th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Primordial black holes as dark matter
Alexander Kusenko, UCLA & Kavli IPMU,
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
3:00pm 4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar - Special Event with Condensed Matter Physics

Making matter from light: Mott Insulators and Topological Fluids
Jonathan Simon, Associate Professor of Physics & The James Franck Institute, and IME Fellow, University of Chicago,
Friday, April 12th, 2019
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Evaporating Eternal Black Holes
Ahmed Ahlmeiri, IAS,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Emergent higher symmetry in topological phases of matter
Xiao-Gang Wen, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Higher Spin Theories, Swampland and W-Supergravity
Dieter Luest, MPI, Munich and Ludwig-Maximillians Univ,
Monday, April 15th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

A new semiclassical picture of vacuum decay
Matthew Johnson, York University & Perimeter Institute,
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Entropy decays for 1D quantum Gibbs samplers
Angela Capel Cuevas, ICMAT,
Friday, April 19th, 2019
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Asymptotic Symmetries and the Soft Photon Theorem in Arbitrary Dimension
Temple He, Asymptotic Symmetries and the Soft Photon Theorem in Arbitrary Dimension, UC Davis,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Probing Topological Superconductivity in a Phase-Controlled Planar Josephson Junction
Hechen Ren, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Nadj-Perge Group,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

CORRELATED WORLDLINE THEORY of QUANTUM GRAVITY
P.C.E. Stamp, Professor - Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia and Caltech,
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

The complexity of sampling from a weak quantum computer
Saeed Mehraban, MIT,
Wednesday, April 24th, 2019
1:30pm 2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Conformally soft photons and gravitons
Andrea Puhm, CPHT - Centre de Physique Theorique,
Friday, April 26th, 2019
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Supersymmetric Wilson Loops, Instantons, and Deformed W-algebras
Nathan Haouzi, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Increasing spin-photon interface efficiencies via a tunable Fabry-Perot microcavity
Daniel Riedel, Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Physics and Material Science, Faraon Group,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

The stellar local velocity distribution and its implications for dark matter
Lina Necib, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, High Energy Physics, Caltech,
Monday, April 29th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Non-Thermal Production of Bosonic Dark Matter
Raymond Co, University of Michigan,
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

New and Old Exact Dualities
Djordje Radicevic, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Room temperature photo-induced electron-hole gas-to-liquid transition in 2D materials
Alexander Kemper, Assistant Professor, Physics Department, North Carolina State University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

The NICER mission and the Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Sky
Andrea Lommen, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Haverford College,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Single Photon Detectors, Parity Measurements and Heralded Cat States in the Microwave Domain
Andreas Wallraff, Professor for Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
Monday, May 6th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

New accelerator experiments for dark sectors
Stefania Gori, UC Santa Cruz,
Friday, May 10th, 2019
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

The Weak Gravity Conjecture and Repulsive Forces
Ben Heidenreich, UMass Amherst,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Entanglement, Decoherence, & Quantum Ising Systems
P.C.E. Stamp, Professor, University of British Columbia,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Flavor Mixing of Quarks and Leptons
Harald Fritzsch, LMU Munich,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Interpreting the range of spectral properties from the tidal disruptions of stars by super-massive black holes
Nathan Roth, Space-Science Institute Fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland and NASA Goddard,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

PT-symmetry breaking in microscopic gain-loss systems
Peter Rabl, Assistant Professor, Theoretical Quantum Optics (TQO), TU Wien,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Hamiltonian simulation meets holographic duality
Toby Cubitt, University College London,
Friday, May 17th, 2019
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Sphere packing, quantum gravity and extremal functionals
Dalimil Mazac, Simons Center,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Projected least squares: a numerically cheap quantum tomography procedure with optimal error bounds
Richard Kueng, Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill and Tropp groups,
Monday, May 20th, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Neutrino Oscillation Probabilities in Matter
Peter Denton, Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Tuesday, May 21st, 2019
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Weak simulation and benchmarking of sparse quantum circuits
Daniel Stilck França, University of Copenhagen,
Friday, May 24th, 2019
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Quantum Electrodynamics of Superconducting Circuits
Hakan E. Tureci, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Assembly bias, galactic conformity, and the galaxy-halo connection
Angela Berti, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego,
Friday, May 31st, 2019
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Matter Chern-Simons Theories in a Background Magnetic Field
Indranil Halder, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Ab initio electronic T1 spin relaxation times in silicon and diamond & Computing charge transport in materials from first principles
Jinsoo Park, Graduate Student, Bernardi group, Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Jin-Jian Zhou, Postdoctoral Scholar, Bernardi group, Applied Physics and Materials Science,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Sweeping Through the Spectrum
Rhondale (Ron) Tso, Graduate Student, TAPIR, Caltech,
Friday, June 7th, 2019
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Anyonic-String/Brane Träumerei: 4d Yang-Mills Gauge Theories and Time-Reversal Symmetric 5d TQFT
Juven Wang, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Operator Algebras in Quantum Theory: A Practical Perspective
Oleg Kabernik, Graduate Student, Raussendorf Group, University of British Columbia,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Black Hole Spin Misalignments in Microquasars
Greg Salvesen, NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellow, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar

Binary Supermassive Black Holes and their Electromagnetic Counterparts
Luke Zoltan Kelley, Lindheimer Fellow, CIERA, Northwestern University,