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November 2006
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in the Taurus and Upper Scorpius Associations
Catherine Slesnick,
graduate student in astronomy,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supersymmetric Renormalization Prescription and Finitness in N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
Laurent Baulieu,
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Inner Workings of Early-Type Galaxies: Cores, Nuclei, and Supermassive Black Holes
Laura Ferrarese,
senior research officer,
NRC/HIA,
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Circuit QED: Quantum Optics and Quantum Computing on a Superconducting Chip
Rob Schoelkopf,
professor of applied physics and physics,
Yale University,
Friday, November 3rd, 2006
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Kristian Kennaway,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Joe Carlson,
theoretical division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Monday, November 6th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Landscape Predictions for the Higgs Boson and Top Quark Masses
Taizan Watari,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Control of Coupled Spins in a Mesoscopic Environment
Jake Taylor,
research fellow in physics,
MIT,
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Trouble in Paradise? The Tale of Solar Abundances
Sarbani Basu,
pfrofessor of astronomy and DGS,
Yale University,
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Search for Yukawa-Type Gravity-Like Forces at Sub-mm Distance
Aaron Kapitulnik,
professor of physics and applied physics,
Stanford University,
Friday, November 10th, 2006
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Joerg Teschner,
Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Frederik Denef,
associate professor,
department of physics and astronomy,
Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
"Searching for Supersymmetry in Low-Energy Experiments"
Carlos Wagner,
Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago,
Monday, November 13th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Top Flavor Violation: From the B Factories to the LHC
Michele Papucci,
postdoc in particle physics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
What's Entanglement Good For?
Steve Flammia,
research assistant,
University of New Mexico,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Ends of Stellar Lives at the Galactic Center
Michael Muno,
postdoctoral researcher in astronomy,
Caltech,
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Symmetries of the Early Universe and the Origin of Matter
Michael Ramsey-Musolf,
senior research associate in physics,
Caltech,
Friday, November 17th, 2006
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Albion Lawrence,
assistant professor of physics,
Brandeis University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Kellogg Seminar
Parity and Time Reversal Violation in Atoms and Nuclei, and Test of Unification Theories
Victor Flambaum,
University of New South Wales and Argonne National Laboratory,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
SLE for String Theorists
Paul Wiegmann,
professor of physics,
University of Chicago,
Monday, November 20th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Special Kellogg Seminar
Variation of Fundamental Constants from Big Bang to Atomic Clocks
Victor Flambaum,
University of New South Wales and Argonne National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Start-up of the OPERA Experiment
Alessandro Paoloni,
research scientist,
Frascati LNF,
INFN,
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A Revised Model for the Formation of Disk Galaxies
Stephane Courteau,
assistant professor of physics,
Queen's University,
Monday, November 27th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Improving Event Generators with Effective Theories
Christian Bauer,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Ancillae with Homogeneous Errors
Bryan Eastin,
graduate student in physics,
University of New Mexico,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Baryogenesis Below the TeV Scale Abs
Federico Urban,
graduate student and research assistant in physics,
INFN—University of Ferrara,
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topological Strings on Compact Calabi-Yau Spaces: Modularity and Boundary Conditions
Minxin Huang,
research associate in physics,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A New Generation of Stellar Population Synthesis Models, and Galaxy Evolution
Claudia Maraston,
Marie Curie Fellow,
department of astrophysics,
University of Oxford,
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Is Evolution Understood? Quantitative Questions from a Statistical Mechanic
Daniel S. Fisher,
professor of physics and applied physics,
Harvard University,