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Friday, March 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Twistor Strings for N=8 Supergravity
  • David Skinner, IAS & Cambridge,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Winding strings on Calabi Yau manifolds and closed geodesics
  • Peng Gao, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, SUNY Stony Brook,
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Monday, March 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
New Systems, Algorithms, and Data Structures for High Availability
  • Siddhartha Sen, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Resonating-valence-bond Trial Wavefunctions (and beyond) for Frustrated Quantum Magnets
  • Kevin Beach, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Alberta,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
"Understanding the Dark Matter - Baryon Connection Through Disk Galaxy Assembly"
  • Sarah Miller, UC Riverside/Caltech,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
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Wednesday, March 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Learning in an Adversarial World, with Connections to Pricing, Hedging and Routing
  • Jacob Abernethy, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Exploding stars and Cosmic Acceleration: Better Precision in the Infrared
  • Robert Kirshner, Harvard,
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Thursday, March 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
  • Lars Hernquist, Prof., Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Learning with Humans in the Loop
  • Yisong Yue, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum fluctuations: From the Casimir Effect to Quantum Entanglement
  • Israel Klich, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Virginia,
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Monday, March 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
General Messenger Higgs Mediation
  • David Shih, Rutgers University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
SmB6: An Ideal Topological Insulator
  • Jing Xia, Professor, Department of Physics, University of California Irvine,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
'Kinetic Luminosity of Quasar Outflows and its Implications to AGN Feedback: VLT/Xshooter and HST/COS Observations'
  • Nahum Arav, Virginia Tech,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Seismic Interferometry
  • Robert Clayton, Professor of Geophysics and Divisional Academic Officer for Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
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Tuesday, March 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Gravitational waves and neutrino emissions from compact binary mergers
  • Kenta Kiuchi, University of Kyoto,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The James Webb Space Telescope
  • Dr. John Gardner, NASA GSFC,
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5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
  • John Logsdon, Professor Emeritus , George Washington University,
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Wednesday, March 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Fully Homomorphic Encryption
  • Zvika Brakerski, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Massive Stars Across the Cosmos: Engines, Lighthouses, and Laboratories
  • Emily Levesque, Univ of Colorado,
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Thursday, March 14
9:45 am -
Saturday 12:15 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
From Monopoles to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation
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Friday, March 15
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Probing the Large Scale Anisotropies of the Universe from the CMB Temperature and Polarization Data
  • Grigor Aslanyan, Research Fellow, Physics, University of Auckland, New Zealand,
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Monday, March 18
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
‘How are Spiral Galaxies Fed & Kept Blue'
  • James Binney, Oxford University,
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Tuesday, March 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Extracting Science from Surveys of our Galaxy
  • Prof. James Binney, University of Oxford,
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Wednesday, March 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Adventures in High Time Resolution Astrophysics
  • Stuart Littlefair, Univ of Sheffield,
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Friday, March 22
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Exoplanet Habitability
  • Sara Seager, Professor, Physics and Planetary Science, MIT,
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Monday, March 25
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Planet-Disk Interaction: A Classical Problem in the New Era Helps to Find Young Planets in Birth
  • Zhaohuan Zhu, Princeton,
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Tuesday, March 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
  • Prof. Norm Murray, CITA,
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Wednesday, March 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Detecting the First Stars at Redshift 20:
  • Rennan Barkana, Tel Aviv,
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Friday, March 29
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Looking Forward: Binaries and their Planets
  • Kaitlin Kratter, Hubble Fellow, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder,
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