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Wednesday, February 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Defocusing Energy-Critical Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Many Lives of AGN: From Super-Massive Black Holes to Host Galaxy
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Thursday, February 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum Control of Coupled Electron Spins
  • Jason Petta, Postdoctoral Scholar, Marcus Group, Department of Physics, Harvard University,
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Friday, February 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
On the Stability of Higher Dimensional Black Holes
  • Akihiro Ishibashi, University of Chicago,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Aspects of Infalling D-Brane in 2d Black Hole
  • Yuji Sugawara, University of Tokyo,
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Moore 239
Active Learning of Lnear Separators
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Neutron Physics at NIST
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Monday, February 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Holographic Construction of States, Form Factors, and the Hadron Spectrum in AdS/QCD
  • Guy F. de Teramond, SLAC & University of Costa Rica,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Modular Logic of Cell Signaling Systems
  • Wendell Lim, Professor, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Random walks in random media: recent progress and open problems.
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Tuesday, February 7
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
A Bound on the Accuracy Threshold for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing
  • Andrew Cross, Electrical Eng & Computer Sci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Some Current Statistical Consideration in the Analysis of Physics Data
  • Byron Roe, Professor, Physics, University of Michigan,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Birthdays, Curses, and Primes
  • Roger Howe, Professor, Mathematics, Yale University,
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Wednesday, February 8
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Solutions of One-Dimensional Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with Polynomial Growth of Sobolev Norms
  • Vadim Kaloshin, associate professor of mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Broken Hierarchy of Galaxy Formation
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Thursday, February 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Historical Fragments Collected for You
  • Valentine Telegdi, Visiting Associate, Caltech,
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Friday, February 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Tachyons and Smooth Solutions in the D1-D5 String
  • Simon Ross, University of Durham,
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Moore 239
Graph Decompositions, Metric Geometry, and Approximation Algorithms
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3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
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3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
At the Frontiers of the Cosmos
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Neutron Decay, CKM Unitarity, and the Bjorken Sum Rule
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Monday, February 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Relaxing to Three Dimensions
  • Lisa Randall, Harvard,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Inverse Scattering for the Wave Equation in Heterogenous Media.
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Tuesday, February 14
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Failure Thresholds for a Fault-Tolerant Two-Dimensional Lattice Architecture
  • Krysta Svore, Computer Science, Columbia University,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
HST STIS Observations of the Triple Nucleus of M31: Two Nested Disks in Keplerian Rotation around a Supermassive Black Hole
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Recent Theoretical Results in B Physics
  • Yuval Grossman, Professor, Physics, Haifa University- Technion,
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Wednesday, February 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Triple Nucleus of M31: Two Nested Disks in Keplerian Rotation around a Supermassive Black Hole
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Thursday, February 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Galactic and Extragalactic Sources of TeV Gamma Rays
  • Felix Aharonian, High Energy Astrophysics, Max-Planck Insitute, Heidelberg,
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Friday, February 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Geometric Transitions, Black Rings and Black Hole Physics
  • Iosif Bena, IAS,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Downs 107
Ratchet Effect in Nanostructured Superconductors
  • Jose L. Vicent, Professor, Departamento Fisica Materiales, Universidad Complutense,
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Moore 239
Graph Decompositions, Metric Geometry, and Approximation Algorithms (continued from 2/10/06)
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Crossing the P's and T's and Dotting the Alpha: Testing Fundamental Symmetries at Berkeley
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Tuesday, February 21
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Topic to be announced
  • Jonathan Walgate, Ph.D Research Associate, Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Searching for Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Binaries in Data from the LIGO Detectors
  • Eirini Messaritaki, Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Forward-Backward Semiclassical Dynamics: Simulation of Quantum Fluids
  • Nancy Makri, Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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Wednesday, February 22
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Formation of the Solar System
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, February 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
  • Stefan Westerhoff, Assistant Professor, Physics, Columbia University,
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Friday, February 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Non(anti)commutative Superspace and N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory
  • Katsushi Ito, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Moore 239
Lossless Coding with Coded Sided Information
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Many-Body Lattice Calculation with Effective Field Theory: Thermal Properties of Low-Density Neutron Matter
  • Ryoichi Seki, Professor, Kellogg Radiation Laboratory and Physics, Caltech and CSU-Northridge,
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Monday, February 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Direct, Indirect, and Collider Detection of Neutralino Dark Matter
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The Double Simplex
  • Chris Quigg, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
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Tuesday, February 28
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Qubit Complexity of Continuous Problems
  • Joseph Traub, Professor, Columbia University,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Dark Matter and Baryon Asymmetry
  • Csaba Balazs, Postdoc, High Energy Physics, Argonne National Laboratory,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
BBO and the Neutron-Star-Binary Subtraction Problem
  • Curt Cutler, Principal Scientist, Relativity and Gravitation Team, JPL,
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