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May 2009
Friday, May 1st, 2009
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Spiky Strings and Spin Chains
Nick Dorey,
professor of theoretical physics,
University of Cambridge,
Monday, May 4th, 2009
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Hidden Fermionic Dark Matter in Neutrino Detectors
Jennifer Kile,
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Multi Prover Interactive Proofs with Communicating Provers
Avinatan Hassidim,
postdoctoral associate,
Center for Theoretical Physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Recent Developments in Heavy Flavor Meson Spectrscopy
Alexander Rakitin,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Ptolemy's Cosmology, the First Scientific Cosmology
Noel Swerdlow,
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Seeing the Beginning of the Universe
Benjamin Wandelt,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Departments of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, currently on sabbatical at Caltech and JPL,
Friday, May 8th, 2009
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Nuclear Force from String Theory
Koji Hashimoto,
senior research scientist,
RIKEN,
Monday, May 11th, 2009
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Models for X-Ray Binaries: Galactic and Extragalactic Populations
Tassos Fragos,
graduate student,
Northwestern Universtiy,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Physics, QCD Radiation and MadGraph/MadEvent at the LHC
Johan Alwall,
postdoctoral scholar,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Is the Universe Homogeneous and Isotropic?
Marc Kamionkowski,
Robinson Professor of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Superfluid ^4He Matter Wave Interferometers Physics and Applications
Yuki Sato,
postdoctoral researcher,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, May 15th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
To be announced.
Martin Schnabl,
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,
Monday, May 18th, 2009
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Colette Salyk,
graduate student,
Geology and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Spontaneous R-parity Violation In Supersymmetry
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Matthew Elliott,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
University of Southern Indiana,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The CERN Axion Solar Telescope
Michael Pivovaroff,
physicist,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Massive Galaxy and Black Hole Formation Back to within 1 Billion Years after the Big Bang
Dominik A. Riechers,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Nano-opto-mechanics: Utilizing Light Forces within Guided-Wave Nanostructures
Oskar Painter,
associate professor of applied physics,
Caltech,
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Rapid Scale Dependent CFT Thermalization from Gravity
Shiraz Minwalla,
Tata Institute,
4:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Testing the Origin of Neutrino Masses at the LHC
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
research associate in physics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
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Physics Research Conference
Order of Magnitude Biology
Rob Phillips,
professor of applied physics and mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, May 29th, 2009
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Stable Non-supersymmetric Throats in String Theory
Dusan Simic,
graduate student in physics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
IR Divergences of Gauge-Theory Amplitudes and Resummation for LHC
Matthias Neubert,
University of Mainz,