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Monday, November 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Universal Dynamics in Thermally Isolated Systems
  • Anatoli Polkovnikov, assistant professor of condensed matter physics, Boston University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Constraints on Black Hole Growth, Quasar Lifetimes, and Eddington Ratio Distributions from the SDSS Broad Line Quasar Black Hole Mass Function
  • Brandon Kelly, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Numerical Methods for Geometric Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
  • Adam Oberman, associate professor of mathematics, Simon Fraser University,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
Low Scale Flavor Gauge Symmetries
  • Giovanni Villadoro, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
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Tuesday, November 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Quantum Limits on Estimating a Waveform
  • Carlton Caves, professor of physics, University of New Mexico,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Charged-Particle Astronomy
  • Alexander Kusenko, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Annenberg 213
Adaptive Submodularity: A New Approach to Active Learning and Stochastic Optimization
  • Daniel Golovin, postdoctoral scholar, Center for the Mathematics of Information, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Orbital-free Embedding Theory and Its Applications in Numerical Simulations of the Electronic Structure in Condensed Phase
  • Tomasz A. Wesolowski, professor of physical chemistry, University of Geneva,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Dissipative Solitons: New Nonlinear Waves in Ultrafast Fiber Lasers
  • Frank Wise, professor of applied physics, Cornell University,
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Wednesday, November 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
  • Keely Finkelstein, Texas A&M University,
  • Steve Finkelstein, Texas A&M University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
All Pairs Shortest Path in Quadratic Time with High Probability
  • Benny Sudakov, professor of mathematics, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Do Massive Stars Explode?
  • Christopher Kochanek, Ohio State University,
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Thursday, November 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
High-Contrast Imaging and Atmospheric Modeling of Luminous Planets and Low-Mass Brown Dwarfs
  • Thayne Currie, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Al+ Optical Clocks for Fundamental Physics, Geodesy, and Quantum Metrology
  • Till Rosenband, physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
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Friday, November 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The Monster Orbifold and Group Cohomology
  • Geoffrey Mason, UC Santa Cruz,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be announced.
  • Vincent Bouchard, University of Alberta,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Quantized Pumping and Phase Diagram Topology of Interacting Bosons
  • Ehud Altman, senior scientist in condensed matter physics, Weizmann Institute of Science,
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