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Week of February 27, 2011

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Monday, February 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
New Insights into the Use of Cosmic Telescopes and the Role of AGN Feedback in Galaxy Formation
  • Mark Ammons, Hubble Fellow, the University of Arizona,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Rare Fluctuations and the Anderson Model of Localization
  • Ravindra N. Bhatt, professor of electrical engineering, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Broad 100
Feeling the Pressure: Mechanical Regulation of the Cytoskeleton
  • Daniel Fletcher, professor of bioengineering, UC Berkeley,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Approximate Acoustic
  • Hongyu Liu, assistant professor of mathematics, UC Irvine,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Lauritsen 469
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
  • Marco Ajello, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology,
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Tuesday, March 1
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Annenberg 107
Entanglement and Renormalization in Many Body Systems
  • Brian Swingle, graduate student in physics, MIT,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Evolution and Explosion of Mass-Accreting Pop III Stars
  • Ken'ichi Nomoto, University of Tokyo,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Ionization Potential of Very Large Atoms and Why Density Functional Theory Works
  • Kieron Burke, professor of "heretical" physical and computational chemistry, UC Irvine,
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Wednesday, March 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets: New Insights on the Remarkable Planetary System of Bright Star HR8799
  • Ben Zuckerman, professor of astronomy, UCLA,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Hermitian Matrix Model with External Source: Critical Case with r-Airy Kernel
  • Seung Yeop Lee, Sherman Fairchild Research Fellow in Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Metallicity Distribution Function of the Milky Way Halo, as Determined from the Hamburg/ESO Survey
  • Norbert Christlieb, University of Heidelberg,
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Thursday, March 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Limits of Communication
  • Alexander Sherstov, Microsoft Research,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Messy Magnets and Dirty Superfluids
  • Gil Refael, associate professor of condensed matter physics, Caltech,
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Friday, March 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Holographic C-theorems
  • Robert Myers, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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