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Wednesday, March 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Analytic Capacity, Cauchy Integrals, Menger Curvature, and Bilipschitz Maps
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Comets Present and Future: Infrared Survey of Comets and White Dwarfs
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Thursday, March 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Novel Hadrons
  • Chris Quigg, Theoretical Physics Department, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
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Friday, March 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Automorphic Forms, Topological Strings, and Perhaps Black Holes
  • Andrew Neitzke, IAS,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Quantum Simulation of Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Atoms
  • Luming Duan, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan,
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Monday, March 6
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Lauritsen 269
Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the LSST Project
  • J. Anthony Tyson, UC Davis,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
CANCELLED
  • Evan A. Evans, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Cloaking: Science Fiction or Reality?
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Tuesday, March 7
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Clues to the Formation of the Most Massive Galaxies in the Universe
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New Insights from Dynamics Calculations Using Ab Initio Potential Energy Surfaces That Are Permutationally Invariant: Photodissociation in H2CO and Internal Isomerization in CH5+
  • Joel M. Bowman, Department Chair, and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Theoretical Chemistry, Chemistry, Emory University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Status of ZEPLIN II- A Direct Matter Search Detector Using 40kg Liquid Xenon
  • Hanguo Wang, Assistant Professor of EE, Electrical and Computing Engineering, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Tuning LIGO to Listen to Gravitational Waves
  • Rana Adhikari, Postdoctoral Scholar, LIGO Laboratory, Caltech,
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Wednesday, March 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Extended Metal-Poor Stellar Halo of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
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Thursday, March 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Physical Methods for Modeling Biological Systems
  • Eric Mjolsness, Associate Professor, Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine,
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Friday, March 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Mediation of Supersymmetry Breaking in String Compactifications
  • Peter Svrcek, Stanford University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Downs 107
  • Julia S. Meyer, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Entanglement Entropy from AdS/CFT Correspondence
  • Tadashi Takayanagi, KITP, UCSB,
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Moore 239
Set Systems with Restricted Intersections
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
The Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background
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Monday, March 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
  • Sam Waldman, Stanford University,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Domain Relaxation in Polymer Langmuir Layers
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Tuesday, March 14
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced
  • Yosuke Imamura, Tokyo University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Search for Exotics in Baryonic B Decays
  • Tetiana Hryn'ova, Graduate Student, Physics, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings: Quantitative Analysis and Constraints
  • Xavier Siemens, Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
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Wednesday, March 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
8th Annual Greenstein Lecture
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Friday, March 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Effective Field Theories of Black Holes
  • Ira Rothstein, Carnegie Mellon,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Standard Model Tests of the Weak Interaction Using the Beta-Decay of Laser-Cooled Potassium
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Tuesday, March 21
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Pouliot Type Duality via a-Maximization
  • Teruhiro Kawano, Tokyo University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Local Hamiltonians and Arthur-Merlin Games
  • Sergey Bravyi, IBM, Watson Research Center,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Dalitz Plot Analysis of B+ -> K+K+K-
  • Alexei Dvoretskii, graduate student, high energy physics, Caltech,
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Wednesday, March 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
New Results from WMAP
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Thursday, March 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dynamical Systems and Pure Point Diffraction for Quasicrystals
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
The Algebro-Geometric Toda Hierarchy Initial Value Problem for Complex-Valued Initial Data
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3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Fitted Solvable Model for Scattering by Helmholtz Resonator
  • Boris Pavlov, professor of mathematics, University of Auckland,
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Monday, March 27
8:45 am -
Friday 5:00 pm
Ramo Auditorium
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8:45 am -
Friday 5:00 pm
Ramo Auditorium
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Emergence of the Standard Model Fermions from a Background Independent Quantum Theory of Gravity
  • Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Heavy Quarks in Strongly Coupled Plasma: Energy Loss via AdS/CFT
  • Laurence Yaffe, professor of physics, University of Washington,
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Tuesday, March 28
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Hamiltonian Oracles
  • Carlos Mochon, Postdoctoral Scholar, Perimeter Institute,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
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Wednesday, March 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Galaxy Formation and the Formation of the Galaxy
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Thursday, March 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Neutrino Physics: Recent Results and Prospects
  • Joshua Klein, assistant professor of physics, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Research Group, high energy physics lab, University of Texas,
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Friday, March 31
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Observables in Effective Gravity
  • Steven Giddings, professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Electric Dipole Moments and Particle Physics: Accessing TeV-scales at Low Energies
  • Maxim Pospelov, associate professor of physics, University of Victoria, British Columbia,
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