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May 2006
Monday, May 1st, 2006
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Pentaquarks and Other Results from the STAR Experiment
Sevil Salur,
postdoctoral researcher in physics,
Yale University,
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices and Superlattices
Mason Porter,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Hitting the Millisecond Pulsar Jackpot with the GBT
Scott Ransom,
assistant astronomer,
the National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
Thursday, May 4th, 2006
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
How to Represent Movie Stars in the Human Brain
Christof Koch,
Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology,
and professor of computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
Friday, May 5th, 2006
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Zhiqin Lu,
associate professor of differential geometry,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Electric Dipole Moments in Storage Ring: The Next Generation of Hadronic EDM Experiments
Dr. Yannis Semertzidis,
physics department,
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Monday, May 8th, 2006
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Results from Babar and on Cosmological Parameters from Weak Gravitational Lensing
Justin Albert,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Gravity from Quantum Computation: Observational Consequences
Seth Lloyd,
professor of mechanical engineering,
MIT,
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Back-Action in Mesoscopic Physics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Aashish Clerk,
assistant professor of physics,
McGill University,
Friday, May 12th, 2006
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Phase Transitions in Topological String Theory
Marcos Marino,
department of theoretical physics,
CERN,
Monday, May 15th, 2006
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrino Signatures of Supernova Turbulence
Alexander Friedland,
staff scientist,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Discovery Potential of the Higgs Boson at CMS in Four Lepton Final State
David Futyan,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Riverside,
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Mid-IR Spectroscopy of Infrared Luminous Galaxies at z~2
Lin Yan,
Spitzer Science Center,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 18th, 2006
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic Renormalization of Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes
Donald Marolf,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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Monday, May 22nd, 2006
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A High-Resolution Search for Dark Matter
Leanne Duffy,
graduate research assistant,
department of physics,
University of Florida,
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Reversible Universal Quantum Computation within Translation Invariant Systems
Karl Vollbrecht,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
MUON Colliders
Amit Klier,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Riverside,
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies
Evan Skillman,
professor of astronomy,
University of Minnesota,
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Computers—Dream and Realization
Rainer Blatt,
director of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information,
Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Friday, May 26th, 2006
4:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
From HiRes to TA: The Cosmic Ray Frontier in Utah
Kai Martens,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Utah,
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
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Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmic Evolution of Spheroids: Stellar Populations, Dark Matter Halos, and Supermassive Black Holes
Tommaso Treu,
assistant proferssor of physics,
UCSB,