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January 2015
Monday, January 5th, 2015
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Natural Inflation and Quantum Gravity
Prashant Saraswat,
University of Maryland & Johns Hopkins,
Tuesday, January 6th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Extracting Progenitor Parameters of Rotating CCSNe via Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Laksh Bashin,
Undergraduate,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 8th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Towards Neutron Star Multimessenger Astronomy: A Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves from Fermi-LAT Unassociated Sources in LIGO S6 Data
Jax Sanders,
Graduate Student,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Seeking simplicity in complexity: A physicist's view of vulcanized media
Paul Goldbart,
Professor and Chair,
School of Physics,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Monday, January 12th, 2015
4:00pm
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
1:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
From h(t) to post-detection science: The gravitational-wave science workflow
Madline Wade,
Teaching Assistant,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Searching for intermediate-mass black-hole binaries and measuring the neutron-star equation of state using advanced gravitational-wave detectors
Leslie Wade,
Teaching Assistant,
Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
1:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Advanced LIGO: Adaptive Mode Matching for the Output Mode Cleaner
Antonio Perreca,
Research Associate,
Syracuse University,
4:00pm
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Thursday, January 15th, 2015
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LIGO Seminar
The Fermilab Holometer: Operation and RF correlation of twin 40m interferometers
Lee McCuller,
Graduate Student,
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Optimal Thermodynamic Control and the Riemannian Geometry of the Ising model
Gavin Crooks,
Physicist Senior Scientist,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley,
Friday, January 16th, 2015
11:00am
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
1:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Laying a foundation for confident transient gravitational wave observation: characterizing the Advanced LIGO instruments
Jessica McIver,
Graduate Student,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Probing Cosmic Acceleration with the Dark Energy Survey
Joshua Frieman,
Fermilab and U. Chicago,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
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Physics Research Conference
Searches for Particle Dark Matter
Tim Tait,
Professor of Physics,
Physics,
UC Irvine,
Friday, January 23rd, 2015
11:00am
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Monday, January 26th, 2015
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Wigner functions negativity and contextuality in quantum computation
Nicolas DelFosse,
University of Sherbrooke,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2015
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Thursday, January 29th, 2015
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Physics Research Conference
Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets in the Super-Earth Era
Heather Knutson,
Assistant Professor of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Friday, January 30th, 2015
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
AdS5 solutions from M5-branes on Riemann surface and D6-brane sources
Ibrahima (Ibou) Bah,
University of Southern California,