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December 2008
Monday, December 1st, 2008
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Detection of z > 2 Type IIn Supernovae in the CFHTLS Deep Fields
Jeff Cooke,
postdoctoral fellow in cosmology,
UC Irvine,
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Periodic Table for Topological Insulators and Superconductors
Alexei Kitaev,
professor of theoretical physics and computer science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Physics Search in Rare Tau Decays
Sanjay Swain,
research scientist in physics,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Reconciling Observations of the Galaxy Merger Rate
Jennifer Lotz,
research fellow,
National Optical Astronomy Observatory,
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Electronic Liquid Crystals
Steve Kivelson,
professor of physics,
Stanford University,
Friday, December 5th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Dual Superconformal Symmetry of Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills
Emery Sokatchev,
Laboratoire d'Annecy-Le-Vieux de Physique Theorique (LAPTH),
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A New High-Contrast Imaging Program at Palomar
Sasha Hinkley,
graduate student in astronomy,
Columbia University,
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spectral Gap in Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Mohammad Amin,
visiting scholar,
Institute for Quantum Information,
Caltech,
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holography and Dynamical Critical Phenomena
Michael Mulligan,
graduate student in physics,
Stanford University,
Friday, December 12th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Weyl Invariance and the Origins of Mass
Andrew Waldron,
professor of mathematics,
UC Davis,
Monday, December 15th, 2008
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
TRAPHIC—Radiative Transfer for Large Hydrodynamical Simulation of Cosmic Reionization
Andreas Pawlik,
Leiden Observatory,
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Johan Richard,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
University of Durham,