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Monday, March 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Dual Supermassive Black Holes as Tracers of Galaxy Mergers
  • Julie Comerford, UC Berkeley,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Downs 107
Surface Adsorbates Fluctuations and Phase Noise
  • Philip X.L. Feng, senior staff scientist in condensed matter physics, Caltech,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Topic to be announced.
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
Understanding Baryon Masses from the Lattice
  • Elizabeth Jenkins, professor of physics, UC San Diego,
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Tuesday, March 2
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Quantum Black Holes and Mock Modular Forms
  • Don Zagier, Max Planck Institute, Bonn,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • Gaspar Bakos, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Imaging Reaction Sequences with Isomeric Selectivity
  • David Osborn, Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Probing Neutron Stars with Gravitational Waves
  • Ben Owen, Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, Pennsylvania State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Annenberg 213
Robustness vs. Optimality in Scheduling—Two Case Studies
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Zeta Functions, Periods, and Diophantine Equations
  • Don Zagier, scientific member and director, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics,
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5:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
Monitoring Future Climate Treaties
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Wednesday, March 3
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Variational Estimates for Carleson's Operator and Applications
  • Christoph Thiele, professor of mathematics, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Understanding the Cosmic Recombination Epoch
  • Chris Hirata, assistant professor of astrophysics, Caltech,
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Thursday, March 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
New Limit on the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment of the 199Hg Atom
  • Norval Fortson, professor of physics, University of Washington,
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Friday, March 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
A Supermatrix Model for AdS4/CFT3
  • Diego Trancanelli, postdoctoral scholar in physics, UC San Diego,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Topic to be announced.
  • Jiangliu Liu, Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, Caltech,
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Monday, March 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • Jay Anderson, STScI,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Downs 107
Experimental Signatures and Control of Topological Insulators
  • David Hsieh, postdoctoral fellow in physics, MIT,
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Tuesday, March 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Distinguishing Convex Sets of Quantum Strategies
  • Gus Gutoski, graduate student in mathematics, University of Waterloo,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • David Sand, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Annenberg 213
Robustness vs. Optimality in Scheduling—Two Case Studies
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Chemistry of Metal-Organic Frameworks Full of Nothing
  • Omar Yaghi, professor of chemistry, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
How Molecular Motors Move on Microtubules
  • Ahmet Yildiz, professor of biophysics, UC Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Results from the final exposure of CDMS-II
  • Zeeshan Ahmed, graduate student in physics, Caltech,
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Wednesday, March 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Nonperturbative Results for Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Three Dimensions
  • Anton Kapustin, associate professor of physics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Exoplanets Abound
  • Jason Wright, assistant professor of astronomy, the Pennsylvania State University,
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Friday, March 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • David Morrison, professor of mathematics and physics, UC Santa Barbara,
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Monday, March 15
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Mechanism and Targeting of DNA Binding by the RAG Proteins during V(D)J Recombination
  • David Schatz, professor of immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • James Geach, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Durham University,
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Tuesday, March 16
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Demographics of Exoplanets
  • Scott Gaudi, Ohio State University,
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Wednesday, March 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Seismology of the Sun and Stars
  • Laurent Gizon, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung,
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Friday, March 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Keith Spalding 410
Special Lunch Talk: "The Global Financial Crisis—What the @#$%*! Happened?"
  • Dori Levanoni, partner and codirector of Global Macro, First Quadrant, L.P.,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
The PSI Neutron EDM Experiment
  • Guillaume Pignol, Technische Universitat Munchen,
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Monday, March 22
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • Claudia Maraston, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • Jillian Bellovary, graduate student in astronomy, University of Washington,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Downs 107
Topic to be announced.
  • Kamran Behnia, research director at CNRS, UPRS-Quantum Physics Laboratory, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles ,
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Tuesday, March 23
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Quantum Simulation: From Statics to Dynamics
  • Peter Love, assistant professor of physics, Haverford College,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
High-z Galaxy Formation in the Standard Cosmology
  • Avishai Dekel, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
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Monday, March 29
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Firestone 306
Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods and Semiconductor Device Simulation
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Extreme Starburst Galaxies at Low and High Redshift
  • Anna Franckowiak, University of Bonn,
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Tuesday, March 30
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Effective Models of Nonlinear Structures Like Fluid Evolution or Riemannian Geometry Using Algebraic Topology
  • Dennis Sullivan, SUNY Stony Brook, CUNY Graduate Center,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Nano- and Opto-Mechanical Transducers for Quantum Information Processing
  • Peter Rabl, research scholar in physics, Harvard University,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Downs 107
Diamagnetism and Pairing in Hole-Doped High Tc Superconductors
  • Lu Li, research fellow in condensed matter physics, MIT,
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Wednesday, March 31
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Firestone 306
Challenges and Perspectives in Multi-Phase Flow Modeling: Sub-Grid Accurate and Gradient-Augmented Methods
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Formation of Spheroids, Black Holes, and AGN: A Coherent Picture?
  • Rachel Somerville, associate astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute,
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