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Monday, April 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Downs 107
Find Your Partner or Expel Your Competitor: Exotic Pairing States in Fermionic Superfluids with Unbalanced Pairing Species
  • Kun Yang, professor of physics, University of Florida,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
A New Reality: B—> Pi Pi Annihilation in SCET
  • Chris Arnesen, graduate student in physics, MIT,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
Two Studies of Connections between Evolution and Physiology
  • Michael P. Brenner, professor of applied mathematics and applied physics, Harvard University,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Fast Algorithms for Variational Problems Constrained by Elliptic and Evolution Equations
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Desingularizing an Interesting Five-fold
  • Professor Kapil Paranjape, Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
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Tuesday, April 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Error Correction
  • Todd Brun, associate professor of electrical engineering, USC,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The James Webb Space Telescope: How Can It Measure First Light, Reionization, and Galaxy Assembly?
  • Rogier Windhorst, professor of physics, Arizona State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Quasicrystals—Some of Nature's Most Intriguing Forms of Matter
  • Ron Lifshitz, Associate Professor of Physics, Tel Aviv University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
MiniBooNE and the SNS
  • Heather Ray, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
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Wednesday, April 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Extrasolar Planetary Systems at High Resolution
  • Michael Liu, assistant astronomer, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,
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Thursday, April 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Recent News from Mars
  • Daniel J. McCleese, chief scientist, JPL,
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Friday, April 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Zvi Bern, professor of physics, UCLA,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Downs 107
“Electron Interactions in Graphene in a Strong Magnetic Field”
  • Roderich Moessner, Oxford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Topic to be announced.
  • Carlos Yaguna, postdoctoral scholar, department of physics and astronomy, UCLA,
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Monday, April 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Density Perturbations in Chain Inflation
  • Brock Tweedie, graduate student in particle physics, UC Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Surface Plasmon Generation, Concentration, and Detection
  • Professor Albert Polman, Center for Nanophotonics, FOM-Institute AMOLF (Netherlands) and University of Utrecht,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Dynamic Depletion of Vortex Stretching and Nonlinear Stability of 3-D Incompressible Flows
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Tuesday, April 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Topic to be announced.
  • Elliott Lipeles, postdoctoral scholar in physics, UC San Diego,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Structure, Dynamics, Symmetry, and Spectrum of the Benzene Dimer
  • Philip R. Bunker, principal research officer in theory and computation, Steacie Institute of Molecular Science, National Research Council of Canada,
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Wednesday, April 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Cocycle Superrigidity for Profinite Actions of Kazhdan Groups
  • Adrian Ioana, graduate student in mathematics, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Star Formation in Extreme Environments
  • Daniela Calzetti, assistant astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute,
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Thursday, April 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Discovery Physics at the LHC
  • Maria Spiropulu, experimental particle physicist, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN),
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Friday, April 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Aspects of Quantum Mechanics / Gravity Duality
  • Mark Van Raamsdonk, assistant professor of physics, University of British Columbia,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Downs 107
Studying Strongly Correlated Many-Body Physics with Optical Lattices: Controversies and Grand Challenges
  • Tin-Lun Ho, professor of mathematical and physical sciences, Ohio State University,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Emeri Sokatchev, CERN,
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Moore 239
Linear Degree Extractors and Inapproximability
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
What Do Optical Nanocircuits, Cloaking, Squeezing Light, and Supermicroscopy Have in Common?
  • Nader Engheta, professor of electrical and systems engineering, The University of Pennsylvania,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Topic to be announced.
  • Steve Barwick, professor of physics, UC Irvine,
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Monday, April 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Renormalization of MSSM Scalar Masses: Unwelcome News from the Hidden Sector
  • Andrew Cohen, department of physics, Boston University,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Mapping of Probabilities: A Theory for the Interpretation of Uncertain Physical Measurements
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Ramifications and Braid Groups
  • Sergei Gukov, associate professor of theoretical physics and mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,
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Tuesday, April 17
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
New Windows into the z~6 IGM with High-Resolution Spectroscopy
  • George Becker, postdoctoral reasearch associate, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution in Washington,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
"Magnetic" Components of Gravitational Waves and Their Effect in the LIGO-VIRGO Response Functions
  • Professor Leonid Grishchuk, Cardiff University and Moscow State University,
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Wednesday, April 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Large Time Fluctuations of the Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process
  • Alexei Borodin, professor of mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Lyman-alpha Emission from the Intergalactic Medium
  • Juna Kollmeier, postdoctoral fellow, Carnegie Observatories,
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Thursday, April 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Mixing in the B_s System
  • I. Joseph Kroll, professor of physics, University of Pennsylvania,
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Friday, April 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Metastable Quivers in String Compactifications
  • Bogdan Florea, research associate, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
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2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Moore 239
Rethinking Biased Estimation: Improving Maximum Likelihood and the Cramèr-Rao Bound
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Topic to be announced.
  • Calvin Johnson, associate professor of physics, San Diego State University,
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Monday, April 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The Gaugephobic Higgs
  • John Terning, associate professor of physics, UC Davis,
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Tuesday, April 24
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Toward Photonic Crystal Quantum Circuit Boards and Networks
  • Durdu Guney, graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, UCSD,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • Chris Kochanek, professor of astronomy, Ohio State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Structures, Energetics, and Reaction Dynamics of Neutrals and Ions by High-Resolution Photoionization and Photoelectron Methods
  • Cheuk-Yiu Ng, professor of physical chemistry and chemical physics, UC Davis,
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Wednesday, April 25
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Breaking the Duality in the Return Times Theorem
  • Ciprian Demeter, assistant professor of mathematics, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Science Highlights from the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey
  • Patrick Côté, senior research officer, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
First Oscillation Results From MiniBooNE
  • Morgan Wascko, lecturer, high energy physics department, Imperial College London,
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Friday, April 27
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Ian Swanson, Institute for Advanced Study,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Topic to be announced.
  • Jocelyn Monroe, department of physics, MIT,
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Monday, April 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The Nuclear Physics of Charm
  • Sean Fleming, assistant professor of physics, University of Arizona, Tucson,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Can One Make Objects Invisible?
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4:15 pm - 6:15 pm
The Beilinson Conjectures for K_2 of Curves
  • Rob de Jeu, department of mathematical sciences, Durham University,
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