Upcoming Seminars
Winter 2015-2016
Monday, January 4th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Twisted Universe: Cosmic Polarization Tests of CPT Violation
Brian Keating,
UC San Diego,
Friday, January 8th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
An Energy Barrier is Necessary for the Thermal Stability of Stabilizer Quantum Memories
Anna Komar,
Graduate Student,
Preskill Group,
Monday, January 11th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Light Dark Matter from Boltzmann Factors
Josh Ruderman,
New York University,
Friday, January 15th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Boltzmann Brains: Why They Appear, and Why They Are Bad
Sean Carroll,
Research Professor of Physics,
Physics Department,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 19th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
An EFT for Forward Scattering and Factorization Violation
Iain Stewart,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Pushing noble liquids to new limits: dark matter detection in xenon and superfluid helium
Scott Hertel,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, January 22nd, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Bridging theory and observations - Fundamental physics with cosmological surveys
Elisabeth Krause,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
KIPAC,
Stanford University/SLAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Progress toward a spin squeezed 171Yb optical atomic clock
Boris Braverman,
Graduate Student,
Vladan Vuletić Group,
MIT,
Monday, January 25th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Gravitational wave astrophysics with pulsar timing arrays
Chiara Mingarelli,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Friday, January 29th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Inferring the Galactic gravitational potential with Gaia and friends
Robyn Sanderson,
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
Columbia University,
Monday, February 1st, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, February 5th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Fluid Manifesto: Topological sigma models and dissipative hydrodynamics
Mukund Rangamani,
UC Davis,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
From GUT scale to galaxies: probing the early universe with large-scale structure
Fabian Schmidt,
Scientific Staff Member,
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Exponential Lifetime Improvement in Topological Quantum Memories
Charles Edouard Bardyn,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Monday, February 8th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Type Ia Supernovae and Heavy Metals From Dark Matter
Joseph Bramante,
Notre Dame University,
Friday, February 12th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Probing Gravity: CMB Lensing, Galaxies, and Intensity Mapping
Anthony Pullen,
McWilliams Postdoctoral Fellow,
McWilliams Center for Cosmology,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The topological sectors in gauge theories. The deSitter vacuum during inflationary and dark Energy phases.
Ariel Zhitnitsky,
University of British Columbia,
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT)
Barak Dayan,
Senior Scientist,
Quantum Optics Group,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Seminar
Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT)
Barak Dayan,
Senior Scientist, Quantum Optics Group,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Friday, February 19th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and M-Theory
Cumrun Vafa,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
EFT of large scale structure, symmetries and constraints
Mehrdad Mirbabayi,
IAS Scholar,
School of Natural Sciences,
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms
Hannah Price,
Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow,
INO-CNR BEC Center,
Università di Trento in Italy,
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Friday, February 26th, 2016
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Confronting the Standard Model with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Ryan Cooke,
Hubble Fellow,
Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics,
U.C. Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Casimir Effect, Theta Vacuum and Topological Order in QED
Charles Cao,
Graduate Student,
Physics,
Caltech,
Monday, February 29th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Directions in Bouncing Cosmologies
Anna M. Ijjas,
Princeton University,
Friday, March 4th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
AdS4 solutions of massive IIA from dyonic supergravity and their simple Chern-Simons dual
Oscar Varela,
Utah State University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
S-duality of u(1) gauge theory with theta=pi on non-orientable manifolds: Applications to topological insulators and superconductors
Max Metlitski,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Using the cosmos to search for the invisible: the hidden worlds of dark matter, black holes, and structure formation
Katelin Schutz,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
Monday, March 7th, 2016
4:00pm
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
1:30pm
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3/11
2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gravity Dual of Relative Entropy and Comments on Bulk Reconstruction
Jennifer Lin,
IAS,
Thursday, March 10th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Black hole degeneracies from brane-instantons
Sameer Murthy,
King's College ,
4:00pm
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3/12
5:00pm
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General Relativity at One Hundred: The Sixth Biennial Bacon Conference
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Friday, March 11th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Exploring the Link Between Galaxy Evolution Parameters and Pulsar Timing Array Observations
Joseph Simon,
Graduate Student,
Physics,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
Friday, March 18th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Deformation quantization from superconformal symmetry in three dimensions
Chris Beem,
IAS,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The link between fluid instabilities in a core-collapse supernova and asymmetric accretion flows in a collapsing progenitor
Kazuya Takahashi,
JSPS Fellow,
High-Energy Astrophysics Group,
Waseda University,
Friday, March 25th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Defects and Instantons in five-dimensional field theories
Hee-Cheol Kim,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Physics near Rapidly Spinning Black Holes
Samuel Gralla,
Asst Professor,
Dept of Physics,
University of Arizona,