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Tuesday, March 1
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Entanglement and Renormalization in Many Body Systems
  • Brian Swingle, graduate student in physics, MIT,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Evolution and Explosion of Mass-Accreting Pop III Stars
  • Ken'ichi Nomoto, University of Tokyo,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Ionization Potential of Very Large Atoms and Why Density Functional Theory Works
  • Kieron Burke, professor of "heretical" physical and computational chemistry, UC Irvine,
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Wednesday, March 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets: New Insights on the Remarkable Planetary System of Bright Star HR8799
  • Ben Zuckerman, professor of astronomy, UCLA,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Hermitian Matrix Model with External Source: Critical Case with r-Airy Kernel
  • Seung Yeop Lee, Sherman Fairchild Research Fellow in Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Metallicity Distribution Function of the Milky Way Halo, as Determined from the Hamburg/ESO Survey
  • Norbert Christlieb, University of Heidelberg,
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Thursday, March 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Limits of Communication
  • Alexander Sherstov, Microsoft Research,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Messy Magnets and Dirty Superfluids
  • Gil Refael, associate professor of condensed matter physics, Caltech,
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Friday, March 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Holographic C-theorems
  • Robert Myers, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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Monday, March 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Early Astrophysics Results from Planck
  • Graca Rocha, JPL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
How to Turn Graphene into a Room-Temperature Topological Insulator Using Adatoms
  • Jason Alicea, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, UC Irvine,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
Measurement of Single Target-Spin Asymmetry in Semi-Inclusive Pion Electroproduction on a Transversely Polarized $^3$He Target
  • Xin Qian, Robert A. Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics, Caltech,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Multi-scale Dynamics and Information
  • N. Sri Namachchivaya, professor of aerospace engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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Tuesday, March 8
8:00 am -
Thursday 12:30 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
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8:00 am -
Thursday 12:30 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Quantum Theory Cannot be Extended
  • Roger Colbeck, postdoctoral researcher, Perimeter Institute,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Astrometric Effects of a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background
  • Laura Book, graduate student in theoretical astrophysics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill 370
New Constraints on the Evolution of the Stellar-to-Dark Matter Connection: A Combined Analysis of Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing, Clustering, and Stellar Mass Functions from z=0.2 to z=1
  • Alexie Leauthaud, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
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Wednesday, March 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
CFT Primary Fields and the Calculus of Conformal Dimensions
  • Nikolai Makarov, professor of mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Formation of Massive Stars
  • Mark Krumholz, UC Santa Cruz,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Efficient Bayesian Methods for Clustering Data
  • Katherine Heller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Friday, March 11
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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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Clustering, Caustics, and Collisions in Turbulent Aerosols
  • Michael Wilkinson, professor of mathematics and statistics, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK,
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Monday, March 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • Lucianne Walkowicz, UC Berkeley,
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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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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Broad 100
Geometry and Genetics
  • Eric D. Siggia, Professor, Laboratory of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, The Rockefeller University,
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Tuesday, March 15
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Circulation of Cosmic Metals and Baryons
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Predictive Defect Engineering for Scalable Photovoltaics at $1/Wp
  • Tonio Buonassissi, professor of mechanical engineering and manufacturing, MIT,
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Wednesday, March 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Structure and Radiation of Relativistic Jets
  • Dimitrios Giannios, Princeton University,
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Thursday, March 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
An Update on SKA
  • Minh Huynh, associate professor, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), University of Western Australia,
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Friday, March 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Twistors and de Sitter Holography
  • Herman Verlinde, Princeton University,
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Monday, March 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Supernovae in Galaxy Clusters with the Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey
  • David Sand, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Efficient Stochastic Particle Dynamics for High-Dimensional Simulation
  • Matthew West, assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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Tuesday, March 22
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Planet Signatures in Stellar Abundances
  • Ivan Ramirez, Carnegie Observatories,
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Wednesday, March 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Combining Doppler Radial Velocities and High-Contrast Imaging: Constraints on the True Mass and 3d orbit of Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets
  • Justin Crepp, Caltech,
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Thursday, March 24
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Chemodynamical Studies of the Milky Way Disk at the Gaia Era
  • Daisuke Kawata, University College London,
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Monday, March 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Pre-Main Sequence Stellar Rotation and Star-Disk Interaction
  • Nairn Baliber, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Integral Absorbing Boundary Conditions in the Time Domain
  • Francisco-Javier Sayas, associate professor of mathematical sciences, University of Delaware,
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Tuesday, March 29
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Birth Environment of the Solar System
  • Fred C. Adams, University of Michigan,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Expanding the Network of Advanced GW Detectors
  • Jay Marx, LIGO, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Seeing Magnetic Light: Quantifying and Enhancing Magnetic Dipole Emission
  • Rashid Zia, professor of engineering, Brown University,
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Wednesday, March 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Topic to be announced.
  • Ivan Ramirez, Carnegie Observatories,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Formal Verification of Software Infrastructure: From Science to Engineering
  • Adam Chlipala, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
The First Room Temperature Continuous Wave (CW) Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) and High Efficiency Blue and Green GaN LEDs
  • Chun-Yen Chang, professor, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Small Star Opportunity to Find and Characterize Habitable Planets
  • Jacob Bean, Harvard University,
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Thursday, March 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Near-Earth Comets and Asteroids
  • Donald K. Yeomans, senior research scientist and supervisor for the Solar System Dynamics Group, JPL,
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