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January 2009
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
4:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo
Robert Wiringa,
senior physicist,
Argonne National Laboratory,
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
(1) Nuclear Electromagnetic Currents in Chiral EFT; (2) Parity-Violating Observables in A=3 and 4 Systems
Rocco Schiavilla,
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Searching for Dark Matter with Bubble Chambers
Andrew Sonnenschein,
Fermilab,
Friday, January 9th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chern-Simons Gauge Theories and M2 Brane CFTs
Jaemo Park,
Pohang University of Science and Technology and visiting professor in physics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Results on Finite Density Phase Transition and Nucleon Structure
Keh-Fei Liu,
professor of physics,
University of Kentucky,
Monday, January 12th, 2009
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar
Theory of Strongly Interacting Fermions
Peter Drummond,
professor of physics,
Swinburne University of Technology,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Search for Rare Decays of B(s) to Two Muons at the Tevatron and Beyond: History and New Physics
Vyacheslav Krutelyov,
postdoctoral research fellow in physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Standard Model Higgs in the Two Photon Channel at CMS
Yousi Ma,
graduate student in high energy physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Topic to be announced.
Joanna Dunkley,
faculty member in astrophysics,
Oxford University,
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Kellogg Seminar
Minimal Electroweak Scale Cosmology at the LHC
Michael Ramsey-Musolf,
professor of physics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Interface Mediated Transport in Micro/Nanoscale Flows
Sandra Troian,
professor of applied physics, aeronautics, and mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, January 16th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Simplifying and Extending the AdS_5xS^5 Pure Spinor Formalism
Nathan Berkovits,
Instituto de Física Teórica, São Paulo, Brazil,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Supersymmetric Electroweak Baryogenesis and Electric Dipole Moments
Yingchuan Li,
research associate in physics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
10:00am
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Renormalization: Foundations, Status and Prospects
Guifre Vidal,
professor of physical sciences,
University of Queensland,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Status of SuperB—The Super Flavor Factory
David Hitlin,
professor of high energy physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Bifocals for Baryonic Physics: Toward Successful Models of High-Redshift Galaxy Formation
Brant Robertson,
Spitzer Fellow,
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,
the University of Chicago,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Kellogg Seminar
New Results from the MiniBooNE Detector
Gerry Garvey,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
What Makes He-4 Supersolid?
Nikolay Prokofiev,
professor of physics,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Timo Weigand,
postdoctoral scholar in high-energy theory,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Nuclear Clusters in Effective Field Theory: Does EFT Stand for Extreme Fine Tuning?
Bira van Kolck,
associate professor of physics,
University of Arizona,
Monday, January 26th, 2009
9:45am
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11:00am
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Astronomy Tea Talk
An Adaptive Optics Perspective on Star Formation around a Supermassive Black Hole
Jessica Lu,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Supersymmetry Without Prejudice
JoAnne Hewett,
professor of physics,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Kellogg Seminar
Lattice Calculation of Thermal Properties of Low-Density Neutron Matter
Ryoichi Seki,
professor of physics,
Cal State Northridge,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Operational Meaning of Min- and Max-entropy
Christian Schaffner,
postdoctoral scholar,
Centre for Mathematix and Computer Science (CWI),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Scientific Results from the First Six Months of the FERLI/LAT Mission
Troy Porter,
research scientist in physics,
UC Santa Cruz,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Quasars, Feedback, and Galaxy Formation
Philip Hopkins,
research fellow,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
New Measurements of Persistent Currents in Normal Metal Rings
Jack Harris,
assistant professor of physics,
Yale University,
Friday, January 30th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be Announced
Nikita Nekrasov,
professor,
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Photonic Cluster State Machine Gun
Daniel Lindner,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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