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October 2009
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
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Physics Research Conference
Studying the Dark Universe with Galaxy Clustering
John Peacock,
professor of cosmology and head of the Institute for Astronomy,
University of Edinburgh, Scotland,
Monday, October 5th, 2009
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Detecting Low-Mass Substructure via Gravitational Imaging
Simna Vegetti,
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Development of Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers in the U.S.
Mitchell Soderberg,
postdoctoral scholar in high energy neutrino physics,
Yale University,
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
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Physics Research Conference
The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time
Sean Carroll,
senior research associate in physics,
Caltech,
Friday, October 9th, 2009
11:00am
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
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Astronomy Tea Talk
New Results for Giant Arc Statistics in ~100 Clusters Observed with HST
Assaf Horesh,
graduate student,
School of Physics and Astronomy,
Tel Aviv University,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Testing Eternal Inflation with Cosmic Bubble Collisions
Matthew Johnson,
postdoctoral scholar in theoretical physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
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Astronomy Colloquium
Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks
John Carpenter,
deputy director, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, and senior research associate in astronomy,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Fermi LAT Pulsars: The New Gamma-ray View of the Pulsar Machine
Roger Romani,
professor of physics,
Stanford University,
Friday, October 16th, 2009
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
AdS/CFT with small extra dimensions
Eva Silverstein,
Kavli Insitute for Theoretical Physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Superstring in AdS4xCP3
Linus Wulff,
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Rome,
Monday, October 19th, 2009
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
All Quiet in the Outer Halo&mash;Chemical Abundances in dSphs and Outer Halo Globular Clusters
Andreas Koch,
research fellow,
University of Leicester,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Phases of a Supersymmetric Model of Lattice Fermions
Liza Huijse,
graduate student,
University of Amsterdam,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A New High-Sensitivity Search for Muon-to-Electron Conversion at Fermilab
Robert Bernstein,
Fermilab,
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information
Measurement-Based Quantum Computation in Realistic Spin-1 Chains
Joe Renes,
postdoctoral scholar,
Technical University of Darmstadt,
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Birth of Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Gamma-ray Bursts
Eliot Quataert,
professor of astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
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Physics Research Conference
Dots for Dummies
Ramamurti Shankar,
professor of physics,
Yale University,
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supersymmetric Wilson Loops in N=4 SYM and Pure Spinors
Anatoly Dymarsky,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Monday, October 26th, 2009
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A Deep View on the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers & Overweight Galaxies
Mariska Kriek,
postdoctoral fellow in astrophysical sciences,
Princeton University,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Measuring Sparticles with the Matrix Element
Johan Alwall,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
10:30am
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Seeking Topological Information in Knot Homologies
Yi Ni,
faculty member in Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A Measurement of Neutrino Induced Charged Current Neutral Pion Production at MiniBooNE
Robert Nelson,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Positive Semidefinite Grothendieck Problem with Rank Constraint
Frank Vallentin,
postdoctoral scholar,
Delft University of Technology,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Spatially Resolved Dynamics of z~2forming Galaxies
Reinhard Genzel,
managing director,
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik,
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Physics Research Conference
Isaac Newton: Mathematician, Natural Philosopher, Alchemist . . . Cop?
Thomas Levenson,
professor of science writing,
MIT,
Friday, October 30th, 2009
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Aspects of Symmetric Product Orbifolds
Shlomo Razamat,
research associate in physics,
SUNY Stony Brook,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Alexander Westphal,
postdoctoral scholar,
Stanford University,