Upcoming Seminars
Winter 2017-2018
Friday, January 5th, 2018
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Mean-motion resonances with eccentric planets: when analytical arguments guide and complement numerical simulations
Virginie Faramaz,
JPL,
Thursday, January 11th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Friday, January 12th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
From many modes to many bodies
David Schuster,
Physics Department and James Franck Institute,
University of Chicago,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity
Daniel Harlow,
MIT,
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Quantum Spacetime Group Seminar
Possibilities for Probabilities and Reasoning about Boltzmann Brains
Don Page,
University of Alberta,
Friday, January 19th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Emergent dimensions from large N confinement
Aleksey Cherman,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Improving gravitational-wave detector sensitivity with cryogenic test mass cooling
Johannes Eichholz,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics,
Adhikari Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Probing the Structure of Active Galactic Nuclei Using Light Echoes
Anna Pancoast,
NASA Einstein Fellow,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Friday, January 26th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Higgs branches and chiral algebras of 4d N=2 theories -- a progress report
Leonardo Rastelli,
SUNY Stony Brook,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Bulk Entanglement Gravity
Sean Carroll,
Research Professor of Physics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Merging black holes in non-spherical nuclear star clusters
Cristobal Petrovich,
Postdoctoral Fellow and Gruber Foundation Fellow,
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA),
Monday, January 29th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Lepton Universality Violation in B-Meson Decays and Inclusive vs Exclusive |Vcb|
Ben Grinstein,
UC San Diego,
Friday, February 2nd, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Hecke operators for characters of Rational Conformal Field Theory
Jeffrey Harvey,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Continuous measurements and quantum trajectories in circuit QED
Arian Jadbabaie,
Graduate Student,
Hutzler Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Exact Bulk Operators and the Fate of Locality
Jared Kaplan,
Johns Hopkins University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Friday, February 9th, 2018
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantization of the low temperature action in the SYK model
Josephine Suh,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Kitaev Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Theory of EM counterparts of neutron star mergers
Kenta Hotokezaka,
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
Thursday, February 15th, 2018
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Friday, February 16th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
On singularities of super-conformal field theories
Mario Martone,
University of Texas - Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A quantum gas of polar KRb molecules in an optical lattice
Jacob Covey,
Richard Chace Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar,
Endres Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Seiberg-Witten differential via primitive forms
Dan Xie,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
CANCELLED DUE TO FLU -- TO BE RESCHEDULED
Camille Avestruz,
KICP and Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow,
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,
University of Chicago,
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Correlation Functions in CFTs with Weakly Broken Higher Spin Symmetry
Sasha Zhiboedov,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Machine Learning and Quantum Physics
Evert van Nieuwenburg,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Refael Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topological terms in Yang-Mills theory with time-reversal symmetry
Pavel Putrov,
Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Three Dimensional Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulations Reveal the Mysteries of Massive Stars
Yan-Fei Jiang,
KITP Fellow,
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Levitated Nanomagnets in the Quantum Regime: Theory and Applications
Oriol Romero Isart,
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information ,
Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Friday, March 2nd, 2018
10:30am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Splittability and Noether's Theorem in Quantum Field Theory
Daniel Harlow,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Scrambling in quantum spin chains
Brian Swingle,
Assistant Professor,
University of Maryland,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spin-coherent dot—cavity electronics
Michael Ferguson,
ETH Zurich,
Monday, March 5th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Interaction of a quantum field with a rotating heat bath
Alejandro Jenkins,
University of Costa Rica,
Friday, March 9th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Hybridized metasurfaces: A new twist in flat optics
Cheng-Wei Qiu,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
National University of Singapore, Singapore,
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Quasars with periodic variability as sub-parsec Supermassive Black Hole Binary candidates
Friday, March 16th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Isotopically Enhanced Triple-Dot Qubits in SiGe
Thaddeus Ladd,
senior research scientist,
HRL Laboratories, LLC,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Shining Light into the Cosmic Dark Ages
Anastasia Fialkov,
ITC Fellow,
Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Friday, March 23rd, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Filling cavities to prevent decay: bosonic quantum error correction
Victor Albert,
Lee A. DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics,