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Wednesday, February 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Planet Formation at Wide Separations
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
(Non)linear Schrodinger Equation Outside Convex Obstacles
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1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
Integrability and the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence
  • Bogdan Stefanski, City U. London,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Planet Formation at Wide Separations
  • Ruth Murray-Clay, Harvard CfA,
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Thursday, February 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Gravitational Waves and the Search: Into the Future
  • Rana Adhikari, Assistant Professor of Physics, LIGO, Caltech,
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Friday, February 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Consistent truncation of d=11 supergravity on AdS_4 x S^7
  • Krzysztof Pilch, USC,
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1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Downs 107
Detecting Majorana fermions at the topological superconductor surface
  • Suk Bum Chung, Dr., Condensed Matter Group , Stanford University,
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Monday, February 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Magnetotransport and Coulomb Drag in Graphene Bilayers
  • Emanuel Tutuc, Asssistant Professor , Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Austin,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Compressive Sensing: Dynamics, Multichannel Sampling, and Parametric Estimation
  • Justin Romberg, Associate Professor , Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech,
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Tuesday, February 7
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
On Khovanov homology and the Fukaya categories of Hilbert schemes
  • Mohammed Abouzaid, MIT,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Understanding RVB states with PEPS
  • David Perez-Garcia, Associate Professor, Mathematical Analysis, Complutense University of Madrid,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
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Wednesday, February 8
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
On the Size of the Nodal Sets of Solutions of Elliptic and Parabolic PDEs
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Keck 142
Controlling Light with Meta-Symmetries and Couplings
  • Boubacar Kante, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Pairing of critical Fermi-surface states
  • Max Metlitski, Dr., Kavli Institute for Theorethical Physics , University of California, Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Nova Outburst: An Evolving Paradigm?
  • Robert Williams, STScI,
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Thursday, February 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Black Holes Get Loud. And Bright.
  • Janna Levin, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard College, Columbia University,
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Friday, February 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
OPE of Wilson-'t Hooft loop operators
  • Natalia Saulina, Perimeter Institute,
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Monday, February 13
9:00 am -
Friday 5:00 pm
Off Campus
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Rapidity Singularities in Quantum Field Theory
  • Ira Rothstein,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
Evolutionary Principles of Protein Structure and Function
  • Rama Ranganathan, Professor of Systems Biology, Department of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern Medical Center,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Strategies for Solving Complex Problems in Chemical, Materials, Biological, and Physical Sciences
  • William A. Goddard, Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor, Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics, Caltech,
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Tuesday, February 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Random Matrices and Dyson Brownian Motion
  • Horng-Tzer Yau, Mathematics, Harvard University,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Unforgeable noise-tolerant quantum tokens
  • Fernando Pastawski, Max-Planck Institute,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
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Wednesday, February 15
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
On Heat Kernel Bounds for Schrodinger Operators on Bounded Lipschitz Domains With Robin-type Boundary Conditions
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1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
Instanton calculus in quiver gauge theories
  • Vasliy Pestun, Institute for Advanced Study,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The First Stars and Galaxies
  • Volker Bromm, University of Texas,
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, February 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Bose-metals of frustrated spins and bosons and towards non-Fermi-liquids of electrons
  • Lesik Motrunich, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Caltech,
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Friday, February 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
A refinement of entanglement entropy and the number of degrees of freedom
  • Hong Liu, MIT,
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Monday, February 20
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Tuesday, February 21
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
The complexity of the Local Separable Hamiltonian Problem lem
  • André Chailloux, University of California, Berkeley,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Microwave and Submm Emission from Interstellar Dust"
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Wednesday, February 22
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
TBA
  • Sabrina Stierwalt, SSC, Caltech,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
A Jacobi Decomposition for Path Commuting Graphs
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1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Lauritsen 469
Double Field Theory and String Duality
  • Chris Hull, Imperial College,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Inflows, outflows, and the physics of galaxy formation
  • Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, UC Berkeley,
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Thursday, February 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Keith Spalding 410
ESAs mission to map the geometry of the dark Universe
  • Rene Laureijs, ESA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
This Is Your Brain On Music
  • Daniel Levitin, Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Music, McGill University,
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Friday, February 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 269
A Natural Language for AdS/CFT correlators
  • Balt van Rees, SUNY Stony Brook,
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Monday, February 27
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Hogwild for Machine Learning on Multicore
  • Benjamin Recht, Assistant Professor, Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Results from CRESST-II
  • Jean-Come Lanfranchi, TU Munich,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
  • Lincoln Greenhill, Harvard/CfA,
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Tuesday, February 28
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Probing the Dark Side of Galaxy formation with Absorption"
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The many ways of seeing black hole-neutron star binaries
  • Matt Duez, Washington State University,
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Wednesday, February 29
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
The Heating and Cooling of the Interstellar Medium in NGC 1097
  • Pedro Beirao, SSC, Caltech,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Vanishing Integrals for Hall-Littlewood Polynomials
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Galaxy-Halo Connection Across Mass and Time
  • Risa Wechsler, KIPAC/Stanford,
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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