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Monday, April 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Jet Charge and Track-Based Observables for the LHC
  • Wouter Waalewijn, UC San Diego,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Interstellar Medium of Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization
  • Joseph Munoz, UCLA,
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Wednesday, April 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
New Dimenstions for Stellar Spectroscopy: Reconstructing Chemo-Dynamical Evolution of the Galaxy with Late-Type Stars
  • Dr. Maria Bergemann, MPA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
How the Milky Way Built its Disk
  • Hans-Walter Rix, MPIA,
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: A New Window on Matter, Spacetime and the Universe
  • Harvey Newman, Caltech,
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Friday, April 5
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Near-Field Cosmology: Big Science From Small Galaxies
  • Mike Boylan-Kolchin, Center for Galaxy Evolution Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine,
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Monday, April 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Latest Higgs results from ATLAS: the beginning of a long road
  • Rustem Ospanov, University of Pennsylvania,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Atomically Thin Photodetectors: The Ideal Semi-Metal vs. The Insurmountable Insulator
  • Nathaniel Gabor, MIT,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) Project
  • David Kipping, CfA,
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Tuesday, April 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Sequential decoding of general quantum communication channels
  • Mark Wilde, Louisiana State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
  • Dr. Rick Williams, Carnegie Observatories,
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Wednesday, April 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Redshift Space Distortions of the Galaxy Distribution
  • Alex Szalay, John Hopkins University,
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Thursday, April 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Ubiquitous SQUID: Then and Now
  • John Clarke, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley,
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Friday, April 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Black hole scattering from monodromy
  • Alejandra Castro, Harvard University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Uncovering Properties of Cosmic Dark Matter through Indirect Detection
  • Sheldon Campbell, Postdoctoral Fellow, CCAPP (Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics), Ohio State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Quadrature by Expansion: A New Method for the Evaluation of Layer Potentials
  • Leslie Greengard, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,
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Monday, April 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Prospects and Challenges of Neutral Atom Quantum Simulation
  • David Weld, Assistant Professor, UCSB,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Evidence for and Obstructions to Partially Massless Gravity
  • Kurt Hinterbichler, Perimeter Institute,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
Explaining a cell's evolutionary trade-offs in terms of proteome physical chemistry
  • Ken Dill, Professor of Physics and Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
What have galaxies done with their metals?
  • Molly Peebles, UCLA,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
What have galaxies done with their metals?
  • Molly Peebles , UCLA,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Development and Applications of Numerical Solvers for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations on Octree Adaptive Grids
  • Frederic Gibou, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,
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Tuesday, April 16
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Equilibrium value method for optimization problems and its applications in quantum computation
  • Xiaodi Wu, University of Michigan,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Hybrid Systems in Interaction with Radiation: New Avenues to Study Reactive Transients in Chemistry and to Design Novel Functional Materials
  • Bernd Abel, Professor, Chemistry Department, Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification (IOM), Leipzig, Germany, and Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University Leipzig, Germany,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
  • Prof. Connie Rockosi, UC Santa Cruz, UCO/Lick Observatory,
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Wednesday, April 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
An Astronomical Time Machine: Light Echoes from Historic Supernovae and Stellar Eruptions
  • Armin Rest, STScI,
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Thursday, April 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
New Observations about Quantum Field Theory
  • Zohar Komargodski, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
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Friday, April 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
to be announced
  • Sung-Sik Lee, McMaster University,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
to be announced
  • Zohar Komargodski, Weizmann Institute,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Non-Thermal Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetized Astrophysical Flows
  • Lorenzo Sironi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
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Monday, April 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The Mu2e Experiment
  • Bertrand Echenard, Caltech,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
(Tentative Title) Cosmological Results from Planck
  • Graca Rocha, JPL/Caltech,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Spectral Element Methods in Motion
  • David Kopriva, Professor, Department of Mathematics, The Florida State University,
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Tuesday, April 23
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Continuous-variable quantum cryptography: Current status and future directions
  • Christian Weedbrook, University of Toronto,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Exotic Excitonics: From Organic Crystals to Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
  • David Reichman, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Completing the Inventory of the Outer Solar System
  • Dr. Scott Sheppard, DTM,
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Wednesday, April 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Murchison Widefield Array: the low frequency Precursor for the Square Kilometre Array
  • Steven Tingay, Curtin Institute, Western Australia ,
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Unveiling the High Energy X-ray Sky with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
  • Fiona Harrison, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Caltech,
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Friday, April 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
to be announced
  • John McGreevy, UC San Diego,
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Monday, April 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Thinking Fast, Building Big: Opportunities for Neutrino Physics Using Fast Timing and Large Area Photodetectors
  • Matthew Wetstein, University of Chicago,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Spin-Orbit Tuned Ground States in Single-Crystal Iridates
  • Gang Cao, Professor, University of Kentucky,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
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Tuesday, April 30
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Building one-time memories from isolated qubits
  • Yi-Kai Liu, Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Structure and Mechanics of Silk and Silk-inspired Materials
  • Markus J. Buehler, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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