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Week of November 14, 2010

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Monday, November 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Downs 107
Disordered Nonlinear Systems: From Localization to Hyper-transport
  • Yevgeny Krivolapov, Technion Institute of Technology Israel,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Simulations of the Magellanic Stream in a First Infall Scenario
  • Gurtina Besla, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
Energy-Dependent Composition of UHECRs and the Future of Charged Particle Astronomy
  • Antonio Calvez, UCLA,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Detection and Imaging with Waves in Heterogeneous, Strongly Backscattering Media
  • Liliana Borcea, professor of computational and applied mathematics, Rice University,
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Tuesday, November 16
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Learning from Examples Using Quantum Annealing
  • Hartmut Neven, Google,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Clarifying our View of Star Formation in Extreme Environments with Adaptive Optics
  • Jessica Lu, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Quantum Imaging of Topological Phases
  • Hari Manoharan, professor of physics, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Newtonian Noise or How to Get into Serious Trouble (and Out Again)
  • Jan Harms, senior research fellow in physics, LIGO, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Graphene: Unique Properties and Practical Applications
  • Alexander Balandin, professor of electrical engineering, Nano-Device Laboratory, UC Riverside,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Annenberg 213
Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental Design
  • Andreas Krause, assistant professor of computer science, Caltech,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
ATLAS
  • Heather Gray, graduate student, Columbia University and Caltech,
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Wednesday, November 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Topic to be announced.
  • Yong Shi, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, IPAC, Caltech,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Wheels within Wheels: Hamiltonian Dynamics as a Hierarchy of Action Variables
  • Rory Perkins, graduate student, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Position-Based Cryptography: Classical and Quantum
  • Rafail Ostrovsky, professor of computer science and mathematics, Center for Information and Computation Security, UCLA,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Violent Events in Extrasolar Planetary Systems: From Post-T Tauri Stars to White Dwarfs
  • Ben Zuckerman, professor of astronomy, emeritus, UCLA,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
The Road Coloring Problem and Symbolic Dynamics
  • Benjamin Weiss, professor of mathematics, emeritus, Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ,
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, November 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Bose-Einstein Condensates and Synthetic Gauge Fields
  • Ian Spielman, fellow, Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and the University of Maryland,
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Friday, November 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Exact Results in Black Hole Entropy Counting
  • Joao Gomes, University of Paris,
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Saturday, November 20
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Annenberg 213
Topic and speaker to be announced.
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