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Wednesday, January 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo
  • Robert Wiringa, senior physicist, Argonne National Laboratory,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Higher Order Spectral Shift Functions
  • Anna Skripka, visiting assistant professor of mathematics, Texas A&M University,
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Thursday, January 8
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
(1) Nuclear Electromagnetic Currents in Chiral EFT; (2) Parity-Violating Observables in A=3 and 4 Systems
  • Rocco Schiavilla, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Searching for Dark Matter with Bubble Chambers
  • Andrew Sonnenschein, Fermilab,
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Friday, January 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Chern-Simons Gauge Theories and M2 Brane CFTs
  • Jaemo Park, Pohang University of Science and Technology and visiting professor in physics, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Results on Finite Density Phase Transition and Nucleon Structure
  • Keh-Fei Liu, professor of physics, University of Kentucky,
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Monday, January 12
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Jorgensen 156
Theory of Strongly Interacting Fermions
  • Peter Drummond, professor of physics, Swinburne University of Technology,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Holographic Geometry, Indeterminacy, and Noise
  • Craig Hogan, Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Search for Rare Decays of B(s) to Two Muons at the Tevatron and Beyond: History and New Physics
  • Vyacheslav Krutelyov, postdoctoral research fellow in physics, UC Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Analysis of the Performance of an Electrical Current Procedure for Disrupting Fibrous Capsule Tissue Formation Around Biomaterial Implants
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Mechanogenetics of Cell Shape Change in the Drosophila Embryo
  • Eric Wieschaus, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde 106
Topic to be announced.
  • Demerese Salter, graduate student, Leiden Observatory,
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Tuesday, January 13
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Long-Wavelength Observations of High-Redshift Galaxies
  • Andrew Baker, assistant professor of astrophysics, Rutgers University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Standard Model Higgs in the Two Photon Channel at CMS
  • Yousi Ma, graduate student in high energy physics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Isotope Analysis: It is All Done with Smoke and Mirrors
  • Richard N. Zare, Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Moore 239
Dynamical System Identification: A Convex Optimization Perspective
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
  • Andrei Okounkov, professor of mathematics, Princeton University,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
  • Andrei Okounkov, professor of mathematics, Princeton University,
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Wednesday, January 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Random Normal Matrices
  • Nikolai Makarov, professor of mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Topic to be announced.
  • Joanna Dunkley, faculty member in astrophysics, Oxford University,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
  • Andrei Okounkov, professor of mathematics, Princeton University,
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Thursday, January 15
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Minimal Electroweak Scale Cosmology at the LHC
  • Michael Ramsey-Musolf, professor of physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Interface Mediated Transport in Micro/Nanoscale Flows
  • Sandra Troian, professor of applied physics, aeronautics, and mechanical engineering, Caltech,
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Friday, January 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Simplifying and Extending the AdS_5xS^5 Pure Spinor Formalism
  • Nathan Berkovits, Instituto de Física Teórica, São Paulo, Brazil,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Downs 107
Measurement of Dispersive Coupling between a Nanoresonator and Cooper-Pair Box Qubit
  • Matt LaHaye, postdoctoral scholar, Center for Physics of Information, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Supersymmetric Electroweak Baryogenesis and Electric Dipole Moments
  • Yingchuan Li, research associate in physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
East Bridge 114
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Tuesday, January 20
10:00 am -
Thursday 4:30 pm
East Bridge 114
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Entanglement Renormalization: Foundations, Status and Prospects
  • Guifre Vidal, professor of physical sciences, University of Queensland,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Galaxy Evolution from Galaxy Clustering
  • Zheng Zheng, Institute for Advanced Study,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
The Bacterial Flagellar Motor: Step, Jump, and Spin
  • Ned Wingreen, Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Moore 239
Dynamical System Identification: An Operator Theoretic Approach
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Status of SuperB—The Super Flavor Factory
  • David Hitlin, professor of high energy physics, Caltech,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
  • Andrei Okounkov, professor of mathematics, Princeton University,
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Wednesday, January 21
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Eigenvalue Statistics for Random CMV Matrices
  • Mihai Stoiciu, assistant professor of mathematics, Williams College,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Bifocals for Baryonic Physics: Toward Successful Models of High-Redshift Galaxy Formation
  • Brant Robertson, Spitzer Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, the University of Chicago,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
  • Andrei Okounkov, professor of mathematics, Princeton University,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, January 22
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
New Results from the MiniBooNE Detector
  • Gerry Garvey, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
What Makes He-4 Supersolid?
  • Nikolay Prokofiev, professor of physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
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Friday, January 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Timo Weigand, postdoctoral scholar in high-energy theory, Stanford University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Downs 107
Vibrational Dynamics and Heat Conduction in Amorphous Solids
  • Vincenzo Vitelli, postdoctoral researcher in soft condensed matter, the University of Pennsylvania,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Nuclear Clusters in Effective Field Theory: Does EFT Stand for Extreme Fine Tuning?
  • Bira van Kolck, associate professor of physics, University of Arizona,
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Monday, January 26
9:45 am - 11:00 am
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Lattice Calculation of Thermal Properties of Low-Density Neutron Matter
  • Ryoichi Seki, professor of physics, Cal State Northridge,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Supersymmetry Without Prejudice
  • JoAnne Hewett, professor of physics, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde 106
An Adaptive Optics Perspective on Star Formation around a Supermassive Black Hole
  • Jessica Lu, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,
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Tuesday, January 27
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
The Operational Meaning of Min- and Max-entropy
  • Christian Schaffner, postdoctoral scholar, Centre for Mathematix and Computer Science (CWI),
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Scientific Results from the First Six Months of the FERLI/LAT Mission
  • Troy Porter, research scientist in physics, UC Santa Cruz,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Ultrafast, Nonlinear, and Quantum Nanoplasmonics
  • Mark I. Stockman, professor of physics, Georgia State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Multiexcitons Squeezed in “Subexcitonic” Volumes: Recombination and Photogeneration Pathways
  • Victor I. Klimov, team leader, Department of Chemistry, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Moore 239
Wireless Network Information Flow: A Deterministic Approach
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Wednesday, January 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
On Rational Approximants for the Euler Constant
  • Alexander Aptekarev, Russian Academy of Sciences,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Quasars, Feedback, and Galaxy Formation
  • Philip Hopkins, research fellow, UC Berkeley,
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Thursday, January 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
New Measurements of Persistent Currents in Normal Metal Rings
  • Jack Harris, assistant professor of physics, Yale University,
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Friday, January 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be Announced
  • Nikita Nekrasov, professor, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Downs 107
Cancelled
  • Jack Harris, assistant professor of physics, Yale University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
A Photonic Cluster State Machine Gun
  • Daniel Lindner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Seaquarks and Baryon form Factors
  • Dan-Olof Riska, Helsinki Institute of Physics,
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