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March 2007
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Researching Einstein: Star-Clusters, Eclipses, and Anti-Relativity 1918–1921
Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald,
professor of history,
Caltech,
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Pavel Kovtun,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Monday, March 5th, 2007
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Causality in Effective Field Theories
Alejandro Jenkins,
research associate at the Center for Theoretical Physics,
MIT,
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Decoherence in Josephson Qubits: Noise Phenomenological Model and Its Microscopic Origin
Lara Faoro,
postdoctoral fellow,
department of physics and astronomy,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED
ILC Tracker
Timothy K. Nelson,
research scientist,
Linear Collider Detector,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
What Can We Learn from Galaxy Clustering?
David H. Weinberg,
professor of astronomy,
Ohio State University,
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Jasons
Ann Finkbeiner,
visiting associate professor,
Johns Hopkins University,
Friday, March 9th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Reconstructing 1/2 BPS Geometries from N = 4 SYM
Samuel Vazquez,
department of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Renormalizable Non-metric Gravity?
Kirill Krasnov,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
The Race to Detect Dark Matter with Noble Liquids, and the Status of XENON10
Thomas Shutt,
associate professor of physics,
Case Western Reserve University,
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Contextuality and Nonclassicality
Robert Spekkens,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Diversity in Young Neutron Stars: The High Magnetic Field Puzzle
Victoria Kaspi,
associate professor,
department of physics,
McGill University,
Friday, March 16th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Extremal Black Holes Entropy and Topological Strings
Kirill Saraikin,
department of physics,
Harvard University,
Monday, March 19th, 2007
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Fundamental Constants in Physics and Their Time Dependence
Harald Fritzsch,
Universität München,
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Matter—Antimatter Oscillations at Three Trillion Hertz
Ivan Furic,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Ground Based Gamma Ray Astronomy: Status and Perspectives
Felix Aharonian,
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics,
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Higher Spins, Lichnerowicz Algebras, and Superparticles
Andrew Waldron,
associate professor of mathematics,
UC Davis,
Monday, March 26th, 2007
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
B Meson Decays to Three-Body Charmless Hadronic Final States
Alexei Y. Garmash,
associate research physicist,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
New Insights into Star Formation in Galaxies from Spitzer
Robert Kennicutt,
junior professor and astronomer,
Cambridge University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Reheating of the Universe after Infation with f(phi)R Gravity: Spontaneous Decay of Inflatons to Bosons, Fermions, and Gauge Bosons
Eiichiro Komatsu,
assistant professor of astronomy,
University of Texas at Austin,
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Cosmological Simulations of Clusters of Galaxies: Status, Problems, Challenges
Andrey Kravtsov,
associate professor,
department of astronomy and astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
Friday, March 30th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories and Supergroup Sigma Models
Hubert Saleur,
professor of theoretical statistical mechanics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Prospects for Diffractive and Forward Physics at the LHC
Monika Grothe,
assistant scientist in high energy physics,
University of Wisconsin, Turin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Can Dark Matter Turn into Light and Bright Matter?
Hasan Yüksel,
postdoctoral research associate,
Ohio State University,