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Monday, April 3
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
A One-Dimensional Analysis of Real and Complex Turbulence and the Maxwell Set for the Stochastic Burgers Equation
  • Aubrey Truman, professor of mathematics, University of Wales Swansea,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
What Spectra Can Non-Selfadjoint Sturm-Liouville Operators Have?
  • Rostyslav Hryniv, Institute for Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lviv, Ukraine,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Stochastic Gravitational Waves from the End of Inflation
  • Eugene Lim, Yale University,
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Tuesday, April 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Hardy Inequalities for Simply Connected Planar Domains
  • Alexander Sobolev, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Birmingham,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The Complex Moment Problem and Direct and Inverse Spectral Problems for the Block Jacobi Type Bounded Normal Matrices
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
One-and-a-Half Quantum de Finetti Theorems
  • Matthias Christandl, postdoctoral researcher and college research fellow, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge Centre for Quantum Computation,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Small Displacements, Intriguing Fluctuations: Statistical Mechanics of the Actin Cytoskeleton
  • Phillip Geissler, assistant professor of chemistry, UC Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Hunting Correlation Patterns in the CMB Anisotropy
  • Tarun Souradeep, assistant professor, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Equidistribution, Groups, and Primes
  • Peter Sarnak, professor of mathematics, Princeton University,
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Wednesday, April 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Circumstellar Disks and their Clues for Planet Formation
  • Dr. Alycia Weinberger, department of terrestrial magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Equidistribution, Groups, and Primes
  • Peter Sarnak, professor of mathematics, Princeton University,
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Thursday, April 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Single Spin Detection by Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy
  • Dan Rugar, IBM Almaden Research Center,
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Friday, April 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Periodic Schur Process and Cylindric Partitions
  • Alexei Borodin, Caltech,
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Moore 239
Global Methods for High-Dimensional Datasets
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Break-Out from the Hot CNO Cycles, the Trigger of X-ray Bursts
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Equidistribution, Groups, and Primes
  • Peter Sarnak, professor of mathematics, Princeton University,
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Monday, April 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Baryon Number Violation and a Hidden Higgs
  • Professor David Kaplan, department of physics and astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
On the Distribution of Eigenvalues in Large Random Matrices
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Tuesday, April 11
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Studying the BCX-BEC Crossover Regime with a Fermi Gas of ^{40}K Atoms
  • Cindy Regal, postdoctoral researcher, JILA, University of Colorado,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Supernova Dust Under a Microscope
  • Dr. Larry Nittler, department of terrestrial magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
DO Results for B_s Mixing
  • Braden Abbott, assistant professor, department of physics and astronomy, University of Oklahoma,
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Wednesday, April 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Ultraprecise Photometry from Space: From Stellar Cores to Exoplanetary Atmospheres
  • Jaymie Mark Matthews, associate professor of astronomy, University of British Columbia,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 13
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Firestone 308
Observation of High-Temperature Superfluidity in a Gas of Fermionic Atoms
  • Martin Zwierlein, graduate student in physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
So, What's Going on Over at LIGO?
  • Stan Whitcomb, LIGO detector group leader, department of physics, Caltech,
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Friday, April 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Albrecht Klemm, associate professor, department of physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Downs 107
Topic to be announced.
  • Leonid Butov, professor of physics, UC San Diego,
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Moore 239
Global Methods for High-Dimensional Datasets
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
On the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy
  • André de Gouvêa, assistant professor of physics, Northwestern University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Quantum Information and Condensed Matter Physics with Cold Polar Molecules
  • Peter Zoller, professor of theoretical physics, University of Innsbruck,
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Monday, April 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Modifications of the Properties of a Light Higgs Boson
  • Mark Wise, John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics, Caltech,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Analysis and Design of Nucleic Acid Devices
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Tuesday, April 18
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Applications of the Jones Polynomial to Quantum Computation and Complexity Theory
  • Jon Yard, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Institute for Quantum Information, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
The Indian Neutrino Observatory
  • Brajesh Choudhary, senior scientist, physics department, Fermilab,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Squeezed States in Gravitational-Wave Interferometers
  • Nergis Mavalvala, professor of physics, MIT,
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Wednesday, April 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Gravitational-Wave Detection with Interferometers
  • Nergis Mavalvala, professor of physics, MIT,
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Thursday, April 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Electronics and Optoelectronics with Single Carbon Nanotubes
  • Phaedon Avouris, IBM Fellow and manager of nanometer scale science and technology, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,
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Friday, April 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Kirill Krasnov, advanced fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Searching for WIMPs with CDMS and MKIDs
  • Sunil Golwala, assistant professor of physics, Caltech,
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Monday, April 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Neutrino Astrophysics at the South Pole: AMANDA and IceCube
  • Professor Albrecht Karle, department of physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Physics and the Life of a Virus
  • Robijn Bruinsma, professor of physics and astronomy, UCLA,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Marking Time in Neural Systems
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Tuesday, April 25
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Two Results on the Consistency of Local Density Matrices
  • Yi-Kai Liu, graduate student in computer science, UC San Diego,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Dwarf Galaxies, Stellar Halos, and Satellite Systems in a LCDM Universe
  • Kathryn Johnston, assistant professor of astronomy, Wesleyan University,
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Wednesday, April 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Approximation of Spectra of Schrodinger Operators
  • Anders Hansen, department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics, University of Cambridge,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Radio Galaxy Feedback and the Cooling Cores of Galaxy Clusters
  • Chris Reynolds, associate professor of astronomy, University of Maryland,
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Thursday, April 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum Foam and Melting Crystal
  • Cumrun Vafa, professor of science, Harvard University,
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Friday, April 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Eric D'Hoker, professor of physics and astronomy, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Precision Electron Scattering at JLab: Recent Achievements and Future Plans
  • Dr. Anthony Thomas, chief scientist and theory group leader, Jefferson Laboratory,
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