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Monday, April 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
HIgh-contrast Imaging of Evolved Stars with a Space-based Coronagraph
  • Justin Crepp, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Searching for New Physics with Light at CDF
  • Sasha Pranko, Fermilab,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Downs 107
135,137Ba NMR Investigation of the Field-Induced Phases of the S=1 Spin Dimer System Ba3Mn2O8
  • Stuart Brown, professor of experimental condensed matter, UCLA,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Sparse Remote Sensing—Helmholtz Meets Heisenberg
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Tuesday, April 28
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Heralded Polynomial-Time Quantum State Tomography
  • Steve Flammia, postdoctoral reseacher, Perimeter Institute,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
What the Most Metal-Poor Stars Tell Us about the Early Universe
  • Anna Frebel, the University of Texas at Austin,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Results of the Electron Neutrino Appearance Search in the Minos
  • Juan P. Ochoa, graduate student in high energy physics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Extending the Capability of Neutron Scattering
  • Roger Pynn, professor, Department of Physics, Indiana University and the Spallation Neutron Source,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Bohmian Mechanics with Complex Action: An Exact Formulation of Quantum Mechanics with Complex Trajectories
  • David J. Tannor, professor of physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Moore 239
Beyond Convexity: Submodularity in Machine Learning Part II
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Wednesday, April 29
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Eigenfunction Localization for the 2-D Periodic Schroedinger Operator
  • Wei-Min Wang, professor of mathematics, Universite Paris-Sud,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Feedback in Starburst Galaxies
  • Todd Thompson, associate professor of astronomy, Ohio State University,
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Thursday, April 30
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Hard X-ray View of AGN-Recent X-ray, Optical and IR Results from the Swift BAT Survey
  • Richard Mushotzky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Complexity, Simplicity, and Unity of Living Systems from Cells to Cities: A Physicist's Search for Quantitative, Unified Theories of Biological and Social Structure and Organization
  • Geoffrey West, president and distinguished professor, Santa Fe Institute,
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Friday, May 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Spiky Strings and Spin Chains
  • Nick Dorey, professor of theoretical physics, University of Cambridge,
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