Upcoming Seminars
Winter 2014-2015
Monday, January 5th, 2015
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Natural Inflation and Quantum Gravity
Prashant Saraswat,
University of Maryland & Johns Hopkins,
Friday, January 9th, 2015
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum noise detection with cavity electro-mechanics
Aaron Weinstein,
Graduate Student, Schwab Group,
Applied Physics, Caltech,
Monday, January 12th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, January 15th, 2015
12:00pm
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Friday, January 16th, 2015
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Close-in Planets: Warm Jupiters, Super-Earths, and Exo-Mercuries
Eugene Chiang,
Professor,
Astronomy and Earth and Planetary Science,
U.C. Berkeley,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, January 23rd, 2015
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Superfluid Optomechanics
Laura DeLorenzo,
Graduate Student, Schwab Group,
Applied Physics,
Caltech,
Monday, January 26th, 2015
4:00pm
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Wigner functions negativity and contextuality in quantum computation
Nicolas DelFosse,
University of Sherbrooke,
Friday, January 30th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
AdS5 solutions from M5-branes on Riemann surface and D6-brane sources
Ibrahima (Ibou) Bah,
University of Southern California,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Rise and fall of magnetic fields in relativistic astrophysics
Jonathan Zrake,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Kavli Institute for Particle Physics (KIPAC),
Stanford University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Vortex lattice anisotropy and pairing symmetry of Sr2RuO4
Morten Ring Eskildsen,
Department of Physics,
University of Notre Dame,
Monday, February 2nd, 2015
4:00pm
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Phase transitions in non-Abelian string nets
Julien Vidal,
Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris ,
Friday, February 6th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Fluctuating Intergalactic Ionizing Background Across Cosmic Time
Frederick Davies,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
UCLA,
Monday, February 9th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Renormalization Group Evolution of Dimension Six Operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory
Elizabeth Jenkins,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Topological quantum computation with anyons
Claire Levaillant,
UCSB,
Friday, February 13th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Giant Vibrating Spheres in Space: the effects of waves in stars, planets, and supernovae
Jim Fuller,
DuBridge Fellow,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas Using Matrix Product States Generated with Superconducting Circuits(*)
Andreas Wallraff,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas using Matrix Product States generated with Superconducting Circuits
Andreas Wallraff,
Quantum Device Lab,
ETH Zurich,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Characterizing Topological Order with Matrix Product Operators
Burak Sahinoglu,
Universitat Wien,
Friday, February 20th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Moving Mesh Astrophysics
Paul Duffell,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Theoretical Astrophysics Center,
U.C. Berkeley,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Overview of Holographic Entanglement Entropy via Illustrations
Shaun Maguire,
Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
Monday, February 23rd, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
9:00am
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Friday, February 27th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Integrability and the conformal field theory of the Higgs branch
Bogdan Stefanski,
City University, London,
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
R&D studies at ETH Zurich for the CMS EE upgrade
Francesca Nessi-Tedaldi,
CERN,
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Geometry and Physics Seminar
Perturbative invariants of Chern-Simons theory on Seifert manifolds
Gaetan Borot,
MPI, Bonn,
Friday, March 6th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Loop Amplitudes without Loop Integrands: Constraining the NMHV Ratio Function
Matt von Hippel,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Oscillations of Nearly Extremal Black Holes
Aaron Zimmerman,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Astrophysics,
CITA,
Monday, March 9th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Cross-order relations from maximal unitarity
David ,
Kosower,
CEA, Saclay,
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Two little results in topology, motivated by quantum computation
Gorjan Alagic,
University of Copenhagen,
Friday, March 13th, 2015
11:00am
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Quantum systems with approximation-robust entanglement
Lior Eldar,
MIT,
Friday, March 20th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Bulk-Boundary Duality, Gauge Invariance, and Precursors
Vladimir Rosenhaus,
UC Santa Barbara,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Promise of Strong-field General Relativity with Black Hole Binaries
Deirdre Shoemaker,
Professor,
School of Physics,
Georgia Tech,
Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Operationally-Motivated Uncertainty Relations for Joint Measurability and the Error-Disturbance Tradeoff
Volker Schotz,
ETH,