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November 2008
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Scale-Factor Cutoff Measure on the Multiverse
Michael Salem,
postdoctoral research associate,
Institute of Cosmology,
Tufts University,
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Cosmological Chiral Condensate and the Cosmological Constant
Stephon Alexander,
assistant professor of physics,
the Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Mystery of Vus from Tau Decays
Swagato Banerjee,
research associate in high energy physics,
University of Victoria; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment
Cristiano Galbiati,
assistant professor of physics,
Princeton University,
Friday, November 7th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The BCFT Boundary State from Open String Fields
Michael Kiermaier,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
MIT,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Applied String Theory: Transport Properties of Holographic Defects
Matthias Wapler,
graduate student,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Noble Liquids—The Revolution in Direct Dark Matter Searches
Cristiano Galbiati,
assistant professor of physics,
Princeton University,
Monday, November 10th, 2008
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Precision Muon Physics: New Results and Future Prospects
David Hertzog,
Univesity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
10:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Latest Results from Borexino
Andrea Pocar,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Stanford University,
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Information Processing in Living Cells: Beyond First Approximations
Ido Golding,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Friday, November 14th, 2008
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Towards M2 Branes Probing Generic Toric Singularities
Diego Rodriguez-Gomez,
visiting postdoctoral research associate in physics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Short Baseline Neutrino Disappearance at Fermilab
Kendall Mahn,
graduate student in physics,
Columbia University,
Monday, November 17th, 2008
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Line Emission in Cooling Flow Brightest Cluster Galaxies
Louise Edwards,
postdoctoral scholar in astrophysics,
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center ,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Dark Top
David Poland,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
Harvard University ,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Accurate and Decoherence-Protected Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Daniel Lidar,
associate professor,
Department of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering and Department of Physics,
USC,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Structure of the Proton from Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions
Stephen Trentalange,
research associate in physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Spontaneously Broken Hidden Gauge Symmetries
Devin Walker,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
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Astronomy Colloquium
Making Galaxies on Supercomputers; One Star at a Time
Tom Abel,
associate professor of physics,
Stanford University,
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
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Physics Research Conference
Status of Prospects of Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
Niki Saoulidou,
Wilson Fellow,
Fermilab,
Friday, November 21st, 2008
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Four-Dimensional Structure of String Compactifications
Gonzalo Torroba,
graduate student in high energy theory,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Precision Spectroscopy in Fr and Rb for Studies of the Electroweak Interaction in Atomic Systems
Adrian Galvan,
resident graduate assistant is physics,
University of Maryland,
Monday, November 24th, 2008
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Computing Reionization with the Moments of the Transfer Equation: First Results on Topology
Kristian Finlator,
graduate assistant/associate in astronomy,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Searches for Subgravitational Forces
Jay Wacker,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Antineutrinos in Minos
Alex Himmel,
graduate student in physics,
Caltech,