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October 2007
Monday, October 1st, 2007
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Chemical Analysis of the Fornax Dwarf Galaxy
Bruno Letarte,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
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High Energy Physics Seminar
From Belle to a Super B Factory
Masashi Hazumi,
associate professor of experimental high energy physics,
INPS KEK,
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
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Astronomy Colloquium
Prospects for Detecting Primordial Gravitational Radiation via the CMB
Andrew Lange,
Goldberger Professor of Physics, Caltech, and senior research scientist,
JPL,
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Neutrino CP Violation Deep Underground
Bill Marciano,
Brookhaven National Lab,
Friday, October 5th, 2007
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Stringy Instantons, Geometric Transitions, and Dynamical SUSY Breaking
Shamit Kachru,
professor of physics,
Stanford University and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Monday, October 8th, 2007
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Back to the Future: The Lee-Wick Standard Model
Mark Wise,
McCone Professor of High Energy Physics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Enriched Xenon Observatory for Double Beta Decay
Andrea Pocar,
postdoctoral scholar in neutrino physics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
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Astronomy Colloquium
Megamasers, the Hubble Constant, and Dark Energy
Jim Braatz,
associate scientist,
Natoinal Radio Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Direct Product Theorems for Communication Complexity via Sub-Distribution Bounds with Application to Communication-Entanglement Trade-Offs in Quantum Communication Protocols
Rahul Jain,
postdoctoral research fellow in computer science,
University of Waterloo,
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
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Physics Research Conference
Jamming
Andrea Liu,
professor of condensed matter theory,
The University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, October 12th, 2007
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Phenomenology of (Extra)Ordinary Gauge Mediation
David Shih,
Institute for Advanced Study,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supersymmetry Breaking Vacua from M-Theory Fivebranes
Luca Mazzucato,
Tel-Aviv University,
Monday, October 15th, 2007
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Probing Cosmology with X-ray Galaxy Clusters
David Rapetti,
experimental research associate,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and KIPAC,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Classical Renormalization of Codimension-Two Brane Couplings
Claudia de Rham,
Perimeter Institute,
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Simple Universal Hamiltonians
Peter Love,
assistant professor of physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
"Software and Computing for the LHC" and "EVO Current and Future Developments"
Julian Bunn,
member of the professional staff in high energy physics,
Caltech,
Dave Adamczyk,
research engineer in high energy physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
12:00pm
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Special Kellogg Seminar
The Neutron EDM Experiment at ILL
James Karamath,
graduate student in physics,
University of Sussex,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Protoplanetary Disks in the Inner AU
Joshua Eisner,
Miller Fellow,
department of astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
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Physics Research Conference
Neutrinos: The Dark Side of the Light Fermions
Alexander Kusenko,
professor of physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
Friday, October 19th, 2007
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Sergio Ferrara,
professor of physics and astronomy,
UCLA, and CERN,
4:00pm
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Light Scalar at the LHC: Higgs or Dilaton?
Walter Goldberger,
associate professor of physics,
Yale University,
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrino Mass from Tritium Beta Decay: From Mainz to KATRIN
Bjorn Flatt,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies
Joshua Simon,
Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
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Physics Research Conference
A Quantum Computer Can Determine Who Wins a Game Faster than a Classical Computer
Edward Farhi,
professor of physics and director of the Center for Theoretical Physics,
MIT,
Friday, October 26th, 2007
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Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar
Rotating Photons
Steven van Enk,
associate professor of physics,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Particle Physics with a Torsion Pendulum: A New Axion Search
Seth Hoedl,
postdoctoral fellow,
Center for Experimental Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics,
University of Washington,
Monday, October 29th, 2007
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Astronomy Tea Talk
New Results on the Abundances and Kinematics in the M31 Halo from 10-150 kpc
Andreas Koch,
postdoctoral scholar in physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
GenEvA: A New Framework For Event Generation
Frank Tackmann,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Topological Field Theory and Representation Theory
David Ben-Zvi,
assistant professor in geometry research,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
Robert McKeown,
professor of physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Nonperturbative Effects in Matrix Models and Topological Strings
Marlene Weiss,
CERN and ETH, Zurich,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Clustering of Galaxies and Black Holes at z~1
Alison Coil,
postdoctoral researcher in astronomy,
University of Arizona, Tucson,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Mass Scales and Unparticle Physics at the LHC
Devin Walker,
visitor in physics,
UC Berkeley,