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Week of February 24, 2013

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Monday, February 25
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Cluster Trees, Near-Neighbor Graphs, and Continuum Percolation
  • Sanjoy Dasgupta, Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT): Latest Developments and Next Steps
  • Gary Sanders, TMT/Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
Quantum Criticality in Mott Insulators
  • Ribhu Kaul, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Kentucky,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Beckman Institute Auditorium
Probing bacterial cell shape determination by watching the dynamics of synthetic enzymes
  • Ethan Garner, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Fundamental Physics with Optically Levitated Objects
  • Asimina Arvanitaki, Stanford University,
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Tuesday, February 26
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Electrochemistry vs. Battery System Engineering: Deconstructing the Recent Spate of Battery Failures
  • Rob Ferber, Founder, ElectronVault, Inc.,
  • Linda Maepa, Founder, ElectronVault, Inc.,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
  • Alan Dressler, Dr., Carnegie Observatories,
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Wednesday, February 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Bridged Gap: Transients in the Local Universe
  • Mansi Kasliwal, Carnegie,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 105
Learning and Optimization
  • Karthik Sridharan, Department of Statistics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
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Thursday, February 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Versatility of Dirac Electrons in Graphene
  • Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT,
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Friday, March 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Twistor Strings for N=8 Supergravity
  • David Skinner, IAS & Cambridge,
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Winding strings on Calabi Yau manifolds and closed geodesics
  • Peng Gao, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, SUNY Stony Brook,
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