Upcoming Seminars
Winter 2008-2009
Friday, January 9th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chern-Simons Gauge Theories and M2 Brane CFTs
Jaemo Park,
Pohang University of Science and Technology and visiting professor in physics,
Stanford University,
Monday, January 12th, 2009
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar
Theory of Strongly Interacting Fermions
Peter Drummond,
professor of physics,
Swinburne University of Technology,
Friday, January 16th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Simplifying and Extending the AdS_5xS^5 Pure Spinor Formalism
Nathan Berkovits,
Instituto de Física Teórica, São Paulo, Brazil,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Measurement of Dispersive Coupling between a Nanoresonator and Cooper-Pair Box Qubit
Matt LaHaye,
postdoctoral scholar,
Center for Physics of Information,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Renormalization: Foundations, Status and Prospects
Guifre Vidal,
professor of physical sciences,
University of Queensland,
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Timo Weigand,
postdoctoral scholar in high-energy theory,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Vibrational Dynamics and Heat Conduction in Amorphous Solids
Vincenzo Vitelli,
postdoctoral researcher in soft condensed matter,
the University of Pennsylvania,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Operational Meaning of Min- and Max-entropy
Christian Schaffner,
postdoctoral scholar,
Centre for Mathematix and Computer Science (CWI),
Friday, January 30th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be Announced
Nikita Nekrasov,
professor,
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar--CANCELLED
Cancelled
Jack Harris,
assistant professor of physics,
Yale University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Photonic Cluster State Machine Gun
Daniel Lindner,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Superconductor Insulator Transition in Thin Films Driven by an Orbital Parallel Magnetic Field Effect
Dganit Meidan,
graduate student in condensed matter physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Friday, February 6th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Target Space Duality in Curved Backgrounds
Volker Schomerus,
professor of string theory,
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Valley Hall Effect in Graphene
Ivar Martin,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Friday, February 13th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A Framework for the Baryon Asymmetry, Dark Matter and the Moduli Problem
Piyush Kumar,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Steady States and Phase Transitions in the Presence of Non-Equilibrium Noise
Ehud Altman,
professor of submicron electronics,
Weizmann Institute of Sciences,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Interacting Anyonic Fermions in a Two-body Color Code Model
Hector Bombín,
postdoctoral scholar,
Universidad Complutense, Madrid,
Friday, February 20th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Operator Space of Pure Spinors and Some Applications
Yuri Aisaka,
International Fellowships Program, Sao Paolo,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Albion Lawrence,
assistant professor of physics,
Brandeis University,
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Continuous vs. Discrete Oracles
Daniel Gottesman,
faculty member,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Friday, February 27th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Kerr/CFT Correspondence
Andrew Strominger,
professor of physics,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Proposed Experiments to Observe Non-abelian Quantum Statistics
Ady Stern,
professor of condensed matter physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Cyclotron Resonance in Graphene
Erik Henriksen,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
Friday, March 6th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
BPS Wall-Crossing in Seiberg-Witten Theory via Dimensional Reduction
Andy Neitzke,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Ofer Naaman,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement in Quantum Games
Thomas Vidick,
graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, March 13th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quantum Corrections to Chern-Simons-Matter Moduli Spaces
Daniel Jafferis,
postdoctoral fellow in high energy physics,
Rutgers University,