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February 2008
Friday, February 1st, 2008
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking in String Models
Jason Kumar,
assistant project scientist,
department of physics and astronomy,
UC Irvine,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Misty Bentz,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
After the Standard Model: Some Things We Might See at the LHC
Gustaaf Brooijmans,
assistant professor of physics,
Columbia University,
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutron Beta-DeCay and the Value of Vud
Bradley (Brad) Plaster,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Kellogg Radiation Lab,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Connecting Galaxies, Halos, and Star Formation Rates Across Cosmic Time
Risa H. Wechsler,
assistant professor of physics,
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology,
Stanford University,
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Precision Measurements of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with Reactor Neutrinos
Karsten Heeger,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Friday, February 8th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
New N=2 S-Duality and AdS/CFT
Yuji Tachikawa,
postdoctoral fellow in natural sciences,
Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminar
Signatures from Reheating after Inflation: Gravitational Waves and Primordial Magnetic Fields
Juan Garcia-Bellido,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,
Monday, February 11th, 2008
4:00am
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Footprints of the Beyond in Flavor Physics
Amarjit Soni,
The Johns Hopkins University,
8:00am
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6:00pm
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Workshop on Multivariate Analysis in HEP and Astrophysics
Winnett Lounge
Multivariate Techniques for Separating Signal and Background
8:00am
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6:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Erik Muller,
astronomer,
Australia Telescope National Facility ,
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Nanoscale Quantum Optics: From Single-Photon Devices to Strongly Correlated Systems
Darrick Chang,
graduate student in physics,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
An Overview of Results from the CHARA Array on Mount Wilson
Harold A. McAlister,
professor of astronomy,
Georgia State University,
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Entangled Electrons in the Solid State: Quantum Interference and Dephasing
Moty Heiblum,
professorial chair in submicron electronics,
department of condensed matter physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Friday, February 15th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Boost-Invariant Plasma in AdS/CFT
Alex Buchel,
assistant professor of applied mathematics,
Western Ontario University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Vortex-Quark Interaction in N=4 SYM from AdS/CFT Correspondence
Soo-Jong Rey,
Seoul National University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
How to Quantum Compute Against Biased Noise
Panos Aliferis,
IBM, Watson Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
High-Resolution Observations of Proto-Planetary Disks in the MM Wavelength Regime
Andrea Isella,
graduate student in astronomy,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Sweet Spot Supersymmetry
Ryuchiro Kitano,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Life and Death of the First Stars
Alexander Heger,
associate professor, University of Minnesota,
and associate adjunct professor,
UC Santa Cruz,
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Dried to Order: Electronic and Mechanical Properties of Self- Assembled Nanoparticle Monolayers
Heinrich Jaeger,
professor of physics,
James Franck Institute and the University of Chicago,
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
4:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Deuteron E/M Form Factors
Dan Phillips,
associate professor of physics,
Ohio University,
Monday, February 25th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
New Science with Large-Aperture Infrared Interferometry: First Fringes on Galactic Center Stars and the Near Future of the Keck Interferometer
Jörg-Uwe Pott,
Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Top Jets and Precision Measurements of the Top Quark Mass
Sean Fleming,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Arizona,
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Complementarity and Wave-Particle Duality
Berthold-Georg Englert,
professor of physics,
National University of Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Goodness-of-fit—Pitfalls and Power
Frank Porter,
professor of physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Old Disk of the Milky Way as Revealed by the SEGUE Survey
Connie Rockosi,
assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,
and assistant astronomer,
UCO/Lick Observatory,
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Noisy Dynamics of Cell-Fate Decision-Making
Michael Elowitz,
Bren Scholar and assistant professor of biology and applied physics,
Caltech,
Friday, February 29th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A Strong Coupling Expansion for N=4 SYM and Other Superconformal Field Theories
David Berenstein,
assistant professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
D-Branes in LG-Models and Mirror Symmetry
Dmitri Orlov,
Steklov Institute, Moscow,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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