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Tuesday, February 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
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  • Nick Seymour, University of Southampton,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Cold Atoms
  • Jiannis Pachos, reader in theoretical physics, University of Leeds,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • Jason Tumlinson, Space Telescope Science Institute ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Stochastic Electrochemistry—Single Molecules and Particles
  • Allen J. Bard, professor and faculty director, Center for Electrochemistry, the University of Texas at Austin,
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Wednesday, February 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Universal Occurrence of Localization in Continuous Random Schrodinger Operators
  • Abel Klein, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Physical and Chemical Toeholds for Exoplanet Bioastronomy
  • Tori Hoehler, research scientist and principal investigator in bioenergetics, NASA Ames Research Center,
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Thursday, February 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
A Tale of Quantum Viscosity in Universal Fermi Gases
  • John Thomas, Fritz London Professor of Physics, Duke University,
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Friday, February 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Wilsonian and Holographic Renormalization Groups
  • Joe Polchinkski, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Modeling Microbial Cooperation
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Monday, February 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The AGN-Starburst Connection in Low Redshift Galaxy Clusters from Multiwavelength Data
  • David Atlee, Ohio State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
A Magnetic Analog of the Isotope Effect in Cuprates
  • Amit Keren, professor of physics, Technion, Israel,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
The Mathematics of Crime Hotspots
  • Martin Short, assistant adjunct professor of mathematics, UCLA,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
Simplified Model for Same Sign Dilepton Signal and Related Phenomenology
  • Shufang Su, University of Arizona,
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Tuesday, February 8
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Optical Continuous-Variable Cluster States
  • Nicolas Menicucci, postdoctoral researcher, Perimeter Institute,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • Martha Haynes, Cornell University,
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Wednesday, February 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Stability of Absolutely Continuous Spectrum Under Decaying Perturbations: A Review of Recent Developments
  • Yoram Last, professor of mathematics, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
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1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
Holography for Metallic Quantum Criticality
  • Sean Hartnoll, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Group Behavior: The Case of Galaxies
  • Marcella Carollo, ETH Zurich,
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, February 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Galaxies: Comparing Isolated and Hickson Compact Group Galaxies
  • Ute Lisenfeld, University of Granada and IPAC,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Exploring New Frontiers of Quantum Optical Science
  • Mikhail Lukin, professor of physics, Harvard University,
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Friday, February 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
A New Perspective on Gluing in TQFT
  • Tudor Dimofte, Institute for Advanced Study,
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Monday, February 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Patterns in the Dark: Understanding Galaxy Clusters and the SZ Effect
  • Dan Marrone, University of Arizona,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Competing Phases of 2D Electrons at $\nu$ = 5/2 and 7/3
  • Jing Xia, Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar Experimental Physics, Caltech,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Physical Consequences of the QED Theta Angle
  • Stephen Hsu, University of Oregon,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Fast Algorithms for Oscillatory Kernels
  • Lexing Ying, associate professor of mathematics and ICES, the University of Texas at Austin,
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Tuesday, February 15
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Quantifying the Relation Between Work and Information-recent Results Using the Smooth Entropy Approach
  • Oscar Dahlsten, research fellow, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Molecules in the Quantum Regime
  • Jun Ye, professor of physics, University of Colorado, Boulder,
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Wednesday, February 16
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Topic to be announced.
  • Daniel Fabrycky, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Bethe-Sommerfeld Conjecture for Periodic Operators
  • Leonid Parnovski, professor of mathematics, University College London,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Early Science from the Pan-STARRS PS1 Telescope
  • Nick Kaiser, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,
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Thursday, February 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors: Giant Quantum Machines
  • Nergis Mavalvala, professor of physics, MIT,
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Friday, February 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
D-branes, Quivers, and Surface Operators
  • Duiliu Emanuel Diaconescu, Rutgers University,
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Monday, February 21
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Tuning magnetism in FeAs-based materials via tetrahedral structure
  • Johnpierre Paglione, assistant professor, Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials Department of Physics, University of Maryland,
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Tuesday, February 22
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Quantum Proofs for Classical Theorems
  • Andrew Drucker, graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, MIT,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • Laird Close, University of Arizona,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Theory of Multiexciton Generation at the Nanometer Scale
  • Eran Rabani, professor of chemistry, Tel Aviv University,
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Wednesday, February 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Inverse Spectral Analysis of Finite Spring Mass Systems
  • Rafael del Rio, IIMAS-UNAM,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Spectroscopic Identification of Massive Young Stellar Objects in the Galactic Center
  • Solange Ramirez, IPAC, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Constraints on the Birth Environment of the Solar System
  • Fred Adams, University of Michigan,
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Thursday, February 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Statistical Modeling over Graphs via Convex Optimization
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Giant Planets in the Stellar Mass-Metallicity Plane
  • John Johnson, assistant professor of astronomy, Caltech,
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Friday, February 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
T-duality for Massive Stringy States
  • Jnan Maharana, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
AGT on the S-Duality Wall
  • Jaemo Park, Postech, South Korea,
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Monday, February 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
New Insights into the Use of Cosmic Telescopes and the Role of AGN Feedback in Galaxy Formation
  • Mark Ammons, Hubble Fellow, the University of Arizona,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Rare Fluctuations and the Anderson Model of Localization
  • Ravindra N. Bhatt, professor of electrical engineering, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Broad 100
Feeling the Pressure: Mechanical Regulation of the Cytoskeleton
  • Daniel Fletcher, professor of bioengineering, UC Berkeley,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Approximate Acoustic
  • Hongyu Liu, assistant professor of mathematics, UC Irvine,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
  • Marco Ajello, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology,
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