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Monday, April 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
  • Jon Swift, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Latest ATLAS Results
  • Daniel Whiteson, UC Irvine,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
The Laplacian Paradigm: Emerging Algorithms for Massive Graphs
  • Shanghua Teng, Chair, Department of Computer Science, USC,
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Tuesday, April 3
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Gas and the Galaxy "Main Sequence" Scaling Relation: What Have We Learned?"
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Disorder Effects in Graphene Nanostructures
  • Andrei Garcia, Department of Physics, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Predicting molecular crystal properties with quantum chemistry
  • Gregory Beran, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside,
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Wednesday, April 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Annenberg 213
A Coupled Level Set-Moment of Fluid Method for Incompressible Two-Phase Flows
  • Mark Sussman, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Spectral Theory of Discontinuous Functions of Self-adjoint Operators
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Formation and Retention of Planets in Disks
  • Wladimir Lyra, JPL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Core-Collapse Supernova Theory 78 Years after Baade & Zwicky 1934 -- Where we stand and where we are heading.
  • Christian Ott, Caltech,
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Thursday, April 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Emergence of Gravity
  • Erik Verlinde, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam/KITP,
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Monday, April 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Merger-Induced Black Hole Accretion and Star Formation: Observations vs. Simulations
  • Hai Fu, UC Irvine,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Composite Weak Bosons and the LHC
  • Harald Fritzsch, Ludwig-Maximillians University,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Super-resolution via sparse recovery: progress and challenges
  • Laurent Demanet, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics, MIT,
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Tuesday, April 10
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
WISE
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Wednesday, April 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zeros of Random Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
How will the Webb Space Telescope measure First Light Reionization, & Galaxy Assembly in the post WFC3 era?
  • Rogier Windhorst, ASU,
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1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Landing a Rover on Mars (do not try this at home)
  • Rob Manning, Chief Engineer, Mars Science Laboratory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Nuclear Physics at Two Kiloparsecs with Millisecond Pulsars
  • Scott Ransom, NRAO,
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Thursday, April 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Inflation, infinity, equilibrium and the observable Universe
  • Andreas Albrecht, Professor of Physics & Department Chair, UC Davis,
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Friday, April 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Gravity Dual of the Ising Model
  • Alex Maloney, McGill University,
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Monday, April 16
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
Discrete Steps and Inter-Subunit Coordination of a DNA Packaging Ring-ATPase
  • Carlos Bustamante, Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, Physics, and Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Noncommutative geometry models for cosmology
  • Matilde Marcolli, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Heavy-Element Enrichment in the Early Universe Observed with FIRE
  • Rob Simcoe, MIT,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Community Structure in Networks
  • Mason Porter, University Lecturer, Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, University of Oxford,
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Huntington Library
"Cognitive Astrophysics: A View from Nowhere"
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Tuesday, April 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Recent Observational Results from Optical Interferometry
  • Gerard van Belle, Lowell Observatory,
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Wednesday, April 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Status of ALMA: Progress of Cycle 0 Observations & Anticipated Capabilities
  • Kartik Sheth, ALMA,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Uniform Fractal Properties of Some Quasiperiodic Models
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Ultra-faint Dwarfs, Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation
  • Beth Willman, Harverford,
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Thursday, April 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Dark Matter in the Universe
  • Katherine Freese, George E. Uhlenbeck Professor of Physics, Assoc Director, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan,
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Friday, April 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Measurement of the Hawking Temperature for an Analog Horizon
  • William Unruh, Univ of British Columbia,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The Kerr/CFT correspondence and non-relativistic CFTs
  • Monica Guica, Univ of Pennsylvania,
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Monday, April 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
  • Evan Keane, MPIfR, Bonn,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Creating Large Mass Athermal Phonon Detectors with 1-10eV Trigger Thresholds for Coherent nuĀ½-N scattering and Exotic Dark Matter Application
  • Matt Pyle, UC Berkeley,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Numerical Analysis
  • Joseph Grcar, SIAM Visiting Lecturer,
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Tuesday, April 24
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Star Formation in Extended Disk Galaxies"
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
  • Sheila Dwyer, MIT,
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Wednesday, April 25
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
TBA
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Two Dynamical Aspects of Quasi-periodic Jacobi Cocycles: (Self) Duality and Upper Bounds for the LE
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Water in space: from interstellar clouds to planet-forming disks (14th Annual Greenstein Lecturer)
  • Ewine van Dishoeck, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands & Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching,
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 26
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Reactions of OH Radicals, H Atoms, and Solvated Electrons in Pressurized High Temperature Water
  • David M. Bartels, Professor, Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum Coherence in Photosynthesis
  • Birgitta Whaley, UC Berkeley,
  • Birgitta Whaley, Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley,
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Friday, April 27
10:45 am - 11:45 pm
Lauritsen 469
The black hole information paradox
  • Samir Mathur, Ohio State Univ,
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Monday, April 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
High Redshift Strongly Lensed Submillimeter Galaxies
  • Joaquin Vieira, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Warm Dark Matter and Low Scale Left-Right Symmetry?
  • Yue Zhang, ICTP, Trieste,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
RETHINKING CARBON FIXATION
  • Ron Milo, Senior Scientist and Anna and Maurice Boukstein Career Development Chair, Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
A Flexible Stochastic Collocation Algorithm on Arbitrary Nodes via Interpolation
  • Dongbin Xiu, Mathematics, Purdue University,
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Huntington Library
"Bright Galaxies, Dark Universe Part II: Adulthood to Retirement"
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