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Monday, October 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Generic wavefunction approach to two-dimensional fractional topological insulators
  • Xiao-Liang Qi, Asssistan Professor of Physics, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University,
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Searches for Extra Dimensions and Black Holes at CMS
  • Greg Landsberg, Brown University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Encounters at the Edge of a Cluster: Environment's Effect on Galaxy Evolution
  • Dennis Just, (Steward Observatory) ,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Chi-Square and Classical Exact Tests Often Wildly Misreport Significance; the Remedy Lies in Computers
  • Rachel Ward, Assistant Professor / Harrington Fellow, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
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Tuesday, October 11
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Type Ia Supernovae: Standardizable Candles and Crayons
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches
  • Alan Aspuru-Guzik, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology , Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Resonant Actuation of a Model of DNA Division
  • Wang Sang Koon, Senior Scientist, Control and Dynamical Systems , Caltech,
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Wednesday, October 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Hamiltonian ODEs on a Space of Deficient Measures
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Looking at the dynamics of the inner Galaxy with Herschel - HIGGS: The Herschel Inner Galaxy Gas Survey
  • Chris Martin, Oberlin College,
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1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Lauritsen 469
Charge Orbits and Symmetries for Supersymmetric Black Holes
  • Sergio Ferrara, CERN,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Turbulence, Computers and Stars
  • David Arnett, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
Neuroeconomics: How Does Your Brain Make Decisions?
  • Antonio Rangel, Professor of Economics and Neuroscience, Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
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Thursday, October 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Physics of Superconducting Calorimeters: Applications in Nuclear Safeguards
  • Kent Irwin, Fellow, NIST, U.S. Dept. of Commerce , Professor Adjoint, Dept. of Astrophysics & Planetary Science, University of Colorado, Boulder,
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Friday, October 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
  • Tadashi Takayanagi, IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room)
Novel topological phenomena in non-equilibrium systems
  • Takuya Kitagawa, PH D. Candidate, Physics Department, Harvard University,
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