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Monday, February 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
From "Order By Disorder" to Emergent Electrodynamics in Geometrically Frustrated Pyrochlore Magnets
  • Kate Ross, Postdoctoral Fellow, NIST/Johns Hopkins University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Microstructure Based Laser-Driven Particle Accelerators
  • Joel England, SLAC,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Nonlinear Waves from Beaches to Photonics
  • Mark Ablowitz, Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
A Measurement of the Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with Bolocam
  • Jack Sayers, Caltech,
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Tuesday, February 4
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Watching dynamics: from patchy colloids to nanoscale biomolecules
  • Qian Chen, Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Device engineering with quantum and/or artificial materials
  • Yuki Sato, Rowland Junior Fellow, The Rowland Institute, Harvard University,
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Wednesday, February 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Instability of Astrophysics Witnessed in the Twentieth Century
  • Martin Harwit, Cornell,
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Thursday, February 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Exploring Big Questions on Small scales
  • Eugene Demler, Professor of Physics, Harvard University,
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Friday, February 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The holography of electric/magnetic duality breaking
  • Oscar Varela, Harvard University,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Scattering coefficients from Monodromies
  • Maria Rodriguez, Harvard University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Assessing the Role of Stellar Feedback from Small to Large Scales
  • Laura Lopez, Pappalardo Fellow in Physics and NASA Einstein Fellow, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research, MIT,
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Monday, February 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Neutrino Interactions at MINERvA
  • Kevin McFarland, University of Rochester,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Downs 107
Toward true topological insulator materials
  • Johnpierre Paglione, Professor, University of Maryland,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Thin film interference in ultra-thin layers: color coatings, tunable absorbers, and anomalous thermal emitters
  • Mikhail Kats, Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Data-driven articles in astronomy with Authorea
  • Alberto Pepe, Harvard,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Smoke Rings from Smoke
  • Peter Schröder, Professor of Computer Science and Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech,
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Tuesday, February 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Coherent Excitons, Coherent Spectroscopies
  • Joel Yuen-Zhou, Robert J. Silbey Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
  • Prof. Mary Putman, Columbia University,
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Wednesday, February 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Ecology of Galaxy Formation Within the "Cosmic Web"
  • Chuck Steidel, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Development and Applications of Numerical Solvers for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations on Octree Adaptive Grids
  • Professor Frederic G. Gibou, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara ,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Super-resolution fluorescence imaging and applications to aggregation-prone proteins in cells
  • Steffen J. Sahl, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University,
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8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, February 13
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Watson 104
Photonic topological insulators and pseudomagnetism
  • Mikael C. Rechtsman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars
  • John Grotzinger, Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology, Caltech,
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Friday, February 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Quantum simulation using cold atoms and a brighter future
  • Chen-Lung Hung, Postdoc, Quantum Optics, Caltech,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Gluons for nothing, gravitons for free...
  • JJ Carrasco, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Beauty and Wonder in Exciton-Polariton Condensates
  • Na Young Kim, Physical Science Research Associate, Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University,
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Tuesday, February 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Star Formation, Molecular Gas and Galaxy Dynamics at the Peak of the Galaxy Formation Epoch
  • Dr. Linda Tacconi, MPI fur Ex. Physik,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Ergodicity breaking and entanglement in many-body systems
  • Dmitry Abanin, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Color Outside the Lines: The Search for Multijet Physics at the LHC
  • Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
From Force and Torque Sensing To The Quantum Harmonic Oscillator...Using Optomechanical Springs
  • John Davis, Assistant Professor, University of Alberta,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Most Common "Peculiar" Supernova
  • Ryan Foley, Univ of Illinois,
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Wednesday, February 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Bringing Dark Matter into Focus
  • Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton,
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Thursday, February 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Controlling and Observing Electronic Structure in Artificial Quantum Materials
  • Kyle Shen, Assistant Professor of Physics, Cornell University,
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Friday, February 21
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Revisiting 3d Mirror Symmetry
  • Peter Koroteev, Perimeter Institute,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill 370
Self-force via worldline integration: from extreme mass ratio inspirals to cosmic strings
  • Barry Wardell, Research Associate, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University,
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Monday, February 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Shedding New Light on Sterile Neutrino Cosmology
  • Brian Shuve, Perimeter Institute,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Quantum Transport and Correlated Phenomena in Bilayer and Trilayer Graphene Membranes
  • Jeanie Lau, Professor, UC Riverside,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Molecular gas, AGNs, star formation and galaxy evolution: a local look at galaxies undergoing the transition
  • Katherine Alatalo, IPAC,
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Tuesday, February 25
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Real slices of the moduli space of Higgs bundles
  • Laura Schaposnik, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Organization at the Air-Aqueous Interface: Ions, Lipids, Water, Electric Fields, Lung Lining and Atmospheric Aerosols
  • Heather Allen, Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Pathology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Physics of Galaxy Cluster Plasmas
  • Prof. Eliot Quataert, UC Berkeley,
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Wednesday, February 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Math-Physics Seminar
  • Jurg Frohlich, ETH Zurich & IAS Princeton,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 213
An Overview of Boundary Integral Methods for the Last 40 Years
  • Professor George C. Hsiao, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The structure and evolution of dark matter halos
  • Andrew Pontzen, UC London,
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Thursday, February 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
THE BIARD LECTURE - The Discovery of the Anderson-Higgs Mechanism
  • Philip Anderson, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Princeton University,
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Friday, February 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Majorana Fermions in Chains of Magnetic Atoms on a superconductor
  • Stevan Nadj-Perge, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Analysis Seminar
  • Jurg Frolich, ETH Zurich & IAS Princeton,
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