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January 2008
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Phase Diagram of Holographic QCD
Oren Bergman,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Thirty Meter Telescope Project: Opening the Next Generation of Giant Optical/Infrared Telescope
Gary Sanders,
project manager, Thirty Meter Telescope Project,
Caltech,
Friday, January 11th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Noncommutative Solitons and Integrable Systems
Masashi Hamanaka,
assistant professor of mathematics,
Nagoya University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Tevatron Race for the Higgs Boson
Ben Kilminster,
researcher in particle physics,
Ohio State University,
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special Kellogg Seminar
Baryogenesis, EDMs, and the Higgs Boson
Michael Ramsey-Musolf,
senior research associate in physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
ATLAS Experiment Design and Early Physics
Jason Nielsen,
assistant professor of physics,
UC Santa Cruz,
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
AzTEC 1100 Micron Survey of (Sub-)millimeter Galaxies: Cosmic Variance, Large Scale Structure, and the LMT
Minq Yun,
radio astronomer and an associate professor of astronomy,
University of Massachusetts,
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Metrology with Precision Light and Ultracold Atoms
Jun Ye,
fellow, JILA, and associate professor adjoint in physics,
University of Colorado,
Friday, January 18th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
New Paths in the String Theory Landscape
Magdalena Larfors,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
Uppsala University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Glue and Seak Quarks in the Nucleon
Keh-Fei Liu,
professor of physics,
University of Kentucky,
Monday, January 21st, 2008
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special Kellogg Seminar—CANCELED
Ryoichi Seki,
visiting associate in physics, Caltech,
and professor of physics,
Cal State Northridge,
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Detecting Extrasolar Planets, Plants, and Beaches
Ed Turner,
professor of astrophysical sciences,
Princeton University,
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Modeling the Chemosensing System of E. Coli
Ned Wingreen,
professor of molecular biology,
Princeton University,
Friday, January 25th, 2008
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Unparticle Physics
Howard Georgi,
professor of physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Interesting Results from MiniBooNe and MiniBooNE-NUMI
Gerry Garvey,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Monday, January 28th, 2008
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Pseudo-Chern-Simons Terms in the Standard Model, with Applications
Jeff Harvey,
professor of physics,
The University of Chicago,
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Simulated Annealing
Sergio Boixo,
graduate student in physics,
University of New Mexico,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Observation of a New Bottom-Strange Xi(b) Baryon at CDF
Dmitry Litvintsev,
research scientist in particle physics,
Fermilab,
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dark Matter and Dwarf Galaxies
James S. Bullock,
assistant professor of physics,
department of astronomy,
UC Irvine,
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Entanglement Renormalization, Quantum Criticality, and Topological Order
Guifre Vidal,
ARC Federation Fellow and Professor in the School of Physical Sciences,
University of Queensland, Australia,