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Wednesday, April 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Poisson Statistics for Eigenvalues of Continuum Random Schrodinger Operators
  • Abel Klein, professor of mathematics, UC Irvine,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
21 cm Cosmology and Astrophysics: The Road to Reionization
  • Judd Bowman, postdoctoral scholar in astrophysics, Caltech,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Laser Driven Acceleration of Electrons: From 0 to 1 GeV in 3 Cm and Beyond
  • Wim Leemans, program head of LOASIS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
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Friday, April 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Beyond $\eta/s = 1/4\pi$
  • Rob Myers, Perimeter Institute,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Deconstructing Dark Matter through Strong Gravitational Lensing Observations
  • Leonidas Moustakas, JPL,
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4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
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Monday, April 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Towards Precision Models of Collider Physics
  • Peter Skands, Femilab,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Quantitative Spectroscopy of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Applications
  • Luc Dessart, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille,
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Tuesday, April 7
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Quantum Algorithms for Testing Properties of Probability Distributions
  • Sergey Bravyi, IBM,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Modelling the Origins of the Hubble Sequence
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
pH of the Liquid Water Surface: Selective Adsorption of Hydroxide and Hydronium
  • Richard J. Saykally, professor of chemistry, UC Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
The Pamela Space Experiment
  • Mirko Boezio, senior researcher in physics, INFN Trieste,
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Wednesday, April 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Using Intracluster Light to Probe Galaxy Clusters
  • Chris Mihos, professor of astronomy, Case Western Reserve University,
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Thursday, April 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Tunneling Spectroscopy with Extraordinary Energy Resolution: The Discovery of a New Quasiparticle
  • Raymond Ashoori, professor of physics, MIT,
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Friday, April 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
On the UV properties of Pohlmeyer-reduced string theory in AdS_5 x S^5
  • Radu Roiban, assistant professor of physics, the Pennsylvania State University,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Holographic Gauge Mediation
  • Sebastian Franco, Kavli Insitute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
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Monday, April 13
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
A Dual Characterization of Length Spaces with Applications to Dirichlet Metrics
  • Peter Stollmann, professor of mathematics, Technische Universitaet Chemnitz,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Searching for New Physics at the Tevatron
  • Monica D'Onofrio, University of Barcelona,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • Mayank Vahia, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Certified Reduced Basis Methods for Wave Problems
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Tuesday, April 14
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Toward Alien Horizons: The Study of Exoplanet Atmospheres through Transit Spectroscopy
  • Angelle Tanner, JPL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Control of DNA Repair by Photolyase
  • Dongping Zhong, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, the Ohio State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
The Truth, the Standard Model Truth, and Nothing but the Truth?
  • Charles Plager, postdoctoral scholar in physics, UCLA,
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Wednesday, April 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Modeling the Origins of the Hubble Sequence
  • Andrew Benson, senior research fellow in theoretical cosmology, Caltech,
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Thursday, April 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Glass Cages for Catching Light
  • Philip Russell, director, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From Quantum Chromodynamics to Gravity
  • Zvi Bern, professor of physics, UCLA,
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Friday, April 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Non-relativistic M2-brane Gauge Theory
  • Yu Nakayama, postdoctoral scholar in physics, UC Berkeley,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Amihay Hanany, Imperial College,
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Monday, April 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Collapse Mechanism of Lung Surfactant
  • Ka Yee Lee, professor of chemistry, the University of Chicago,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
WIMP Dark Matter Searches into the Next Decade with SuperCDMS and GEODM
  • Sunil Golwala, assistant professor of physics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Downs 107
Feedback Regulation and Dosage Compensation in Gene Networks
  • Murat Acar, Postdoctoral scholar in Biology, Biology Department, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Structured Matrix Computations: Recent Advances and Future Work
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Tuesday, April 21
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Eric Zaslow, professor of mathematics, Northwestern University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Simulating Quantum Systems Using Tensor Networks and Monte Carlo
  • Norbert Schuch, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • Karl Gebhardt, professor of astronomy, the University of Texas at Austin,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Looking for Patterns in B-meson Decays with Baryons at Babar
  • Tae Min Hong, graduate student in physics, UC Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Moore 239
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4:10 pm - 5:15 pm
Watson 104
Size Matters: Mechanical Properties of Materials at the Nano-Scale
  • Julia Greer, assistant professor of materials science, Caltech,
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Wednesday, April 22
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Interlacing Particle Systems
  • Alexei Borodin, professor of mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Galactic Dark Matter Substructure
  • Piero Madau, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Exploring the Extreme Universe: Astronomy and Particle Physics with VHE Gamma-rays
  • Amanda Weinstein, postdoctoral scholar in physics, VHE Gamma Rays, UCLA,
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Friday, April 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Ben Freivogel, visiting researcher in particle physics, UC Berkeley,
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Monday, April 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
HIgh-contrast Imaging of Evolved Stars with a Space-based Coronagraph
  • Justin Crepp, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Downs 107
135,137Ba NMR Investigation of the Field-Induced Phases of the S=1 Spin Dimer System Ba3Mn2O8
  • Stuart Brown, professor of experimental condensed matter, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Searching for New Physics with Light at CDF
  • Sasha Pranko, Fermilab,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Sparse Remote Sensing—Helmholtz Meets Heisenberg
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Tuesday, April 28
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Heralded Polynomial-Time Quantum State Tomography
  • Steve Flammia, postdoctoral reseacher, Perimeter Institute,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
What the Most Metal-Poor Stars Tell Us about the Early Universe
  • Anna Frebel, the University of Texas at Austin,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Results of the Electron Neutrino Appearance Search in the Minos
  • Juan P. Ochoa, graduate student in high energy physics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Extending the Capability of Neutron Scattering
  • Roger Pynn, professor, Department of Physics, Indiana University and the Spallation Neutron Source,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Bohmian Mechanics with Complex Action: An Exact Formulation of Quantum Mechanics with Complex Trajectories
  • David J. Tannor, professor of physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Moore 239
Beyond Convexity: Submodularity in Machine Learning Part II
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Wednesday, April 29
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Eigenfunction Localization for the 2-D Periodic Schroedinger Operator
  • Wei-Min Wang, professor of mathematics, Universite Paris-Sud,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Feedback in Starburst Galaxies
  • Todd Thompson, associate professor of astronomy, Ohio State University,
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Thursday, April 30
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Hard X-ray View of AGN-Recent X-ray, Optical and IR Results from the Swift BAT Survey
  • Richard Mushotzky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Complexity, Simplicity, and Unity of Living Systems from Cells to Cities: A Physicist's Search for Quantitative, Unified Theories of Biological and Social Structure and Organization
  • Geoffrey West, president and distinguished professor, Santa Fe Institute,
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