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Friday, April 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Evolution of Entanglement Entropy using Holography
  • Tameem Albash, USC,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Downs 107
Spin-dependent Transport and Magnetic Response in Topological Insulators
  • Anton Burkov, professor of physics and astronomy, University of Waterloo, Canada,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Steele 125
Adventures along the Quantum-classical Boundary: On Schrödinger Cats, Decoherence and Prospects of Testing Continuous Spontaneous Localization Theories
  • Markus Arndt, professor of physics, University of Vienna,
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Monday, April 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Solving the Dwarf Galaxy Problem with H2-regulated Star Formation
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Geometry of Quantum Response in Open Systems
  • Yosi (Joseph) Avron, professor of physics, Israel Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
Pili Expression in Uropathogenic E. coli: Stochastic Switching and Epigenetic Control
  • Mustafa Khammash, professor of mechanical engineering, UC Santa Barbara,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
Effective Conformal Theory and Applications to Model-Building
  • Andrew Liam Fitzpatrick, Boston University,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Parallel-in-Time Integrators for Hamiltonian Systems
  • Frederic Legoll, LAMI, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France,
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Tuesday, April 5
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
IPAC Visting Grad Student Fellows Talks
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Visualization of Two Qubits
  • Yosi Avron, Department of Physics, Technion,
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Wednesday, April 6
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Topic to be announced.
  • John Debes, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Dissimilar Materials Epitaxy - Applications for Spintronics, Thermoelectrics and Shape Memory Materials
  • Chrisopher Palmstrom, professor of electrical and computer engineering, UC Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Brown Dwarf Science with the FIRE Spectrograph: Kinematics, Clouds and Ultracold Atmospheres
  • Adam Burgasser, UC San Diego,
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Thursday, April 7
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • Christian Johnson, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Engaging Spins in Semiconductors for Quantum Information Processing
  • David Awschalom, professor of physics and of electrical and computer engineering, UC Santa Barbara,
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Friday, April 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
TBA
  • Anton Kapustin, Caltech,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Geometric Features of Contracting Adiabatic Evolutions
  • Yosi Avron, professor of physics, Technion,
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Monday, April 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
How to Build CCAT
  • Steve Padin, senior research associate in astrophysics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Lattice Bosons: a paradigm strongly fluctuating superconductors and "bad metals"
  • Assa Auerbach, Professor, Physics Department , Technion,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
The Charge Radius of the Proton: A 5 sigma Discrepancy?
  • Gil Paz, the University of Chicago,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Multiscale Geometric Methods for Noisy Point Clouds in High Dimensions
  • Mauro Maggioni, mathematics and computer science, Duke University,
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Tuesday, April 12
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
From Nearby Galaxies to the Reionization Epoch: The Universe as seen in Lyman-Alpha
  • Hakim Atek, postdoctoral scholar in physics, IPAC, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy for Reaction Dynamics and Interstellar Chemistry
  • Brooks H. Pate, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, University of Virginia,
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Wednesday, April 13
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
A_n Symmetric Biorthogonal Elliptic Hypergeometric Functions
  • Fokko van de Bult, Bateman Research Instructor in Mathematics, Caltech,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Kepler
  • Jason Rowe, NASA Ames Research Center,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Probing Galaxies and the IGM with Lyman-alpha Absorption and Emission
  • Martin Haehnelt, Cambridge University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Towards Reliable Storage Systems
  • Haryadi Gunawi, University of California, Berkeley,
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
A New Approach to Wind Energy
  • John O. Dabiri, professor of aeronautics and bioengineering, Caltech,
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Friday, April 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Simon Caron-Huot, Institute for Advanced Study,
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Monday, April 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moore B270
Software Synthesis using Automated Reasoning
  • Ruzica Piskac, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
The Role of Fluctuation Theorems in Experimental Biology
  • Johan Paulsson, associate professor of systems biology, Harvard Medical School,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Ground-based Exoplanet Imaging: New Science Programs and the Prospects for Discovery
  • Justin Crepp, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Nonlocal Maximum Principles for Active Scalars
  • Alex Kiselev, professor of mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
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Tuesday, April 19
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Improving Telescopes with Quantum Repeaters
  • Daniel Gottessman, 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.
  • Michael F. A'Hearn, University of Maryland,
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Wednesday, April 20
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Herschel Observations of Molecular Oxygen in Orion
  • Paul Goldsmith, senior research scientist, JPL,
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1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Cynthia Keeler, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Chandra's First Decade (Plus) of Discovery (13th Annual Greenstein Lecturer)
  • Harvey Tananbaum, CHANDRA Center,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Markov Logic in Machine Reading
  • Hoifung Poon, University of Washington,
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Thursday, April 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum Light and Sound
  • Andrew Cleland, professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,
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Friday, April 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Eternal Inflation in the Light of Quantum Cosmology
  • James Hartle, UC Santa Barbara,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Fun with F-theory GUT
  • Joseph Marsano, the University of Chicago,
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Monday, April 25
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Transforming Light Polarization into Matter-spin-qubits and Back, Using Single, Semiconductor Quantum Dots
  • David Gershoni, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Moore B270
Algorithms, Obstructions, and Beating Exhaustive Search
  • Ryan Williams, IBM Almaden Research Center,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
  • Shri Kulkarni, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
A Variational Understanding of the Spin Liquid State of the Hubbard Model on the Honeycomb Lattice
  • Bryan Clark, postdoctoral fellow in condensed matter physics, Princeton University,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Linear Algebra and Machine Learning of Large Informatics Graphs
  • Michael Mahoney, research associate in mathematics, Stanford University,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
T2K
  • Morgan Wascko, Imperial College,
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Tuesday, April 26
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Lauritsen 269
Prospect of Particle Physics Experiments in China
  • Chen Hesheng, professor and director, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Spacetime Could be Simultaneously Continuous and Discrete, in the Same Way that Information Can Be
  • Achim Kempf, University of Waterloo,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Towards High-throughput Protein Analysis via Microfluidic Integration
  • Amy E. Herr, assistant professor of bioengineering, UC Berkeley,
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Wednesday, April 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Topic to be announced.
  • Joshua Pepper, Vanderbilt University,
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1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Lauritsen 469
Sphere Partitions Functions and the 3D Superconformal R-charge
  • Daniel Jafferis, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
High Resolution Imaging of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Galaxy Clusters
  • Brian Mason, National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Chiral Symmetry Breaking Order Parameters from Renormalization Group Optimized Perturbation
  • Andre Neveu, University of Montpellier,
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Pushing Einstein's Boundaries: Gravitational Approaches to the Challenges of Modern Cosmology
  • Mark Trodden, professor of physics and endowed chair, the University of Pennsylvania,
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Friday, April 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Shlomo Razamat, SUNY Stony Brook,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Supergravity Counterterms Versus Infinity Calculations
  • Kelly Stelle, Imperial College,
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