Upcoming Talks
October 2009
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
4:00pm
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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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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Self-Assembly of DNA into Nanoscale Three-Dimensional Shapes
William Shih,
assistant professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School,
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Schroedinger's Mirrors—Extending Quantum Experiments Using Massive Mechanical Resonators
Markus Aspelmeyer,
professor of physics ,
University of Vienna,
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
4:00pm
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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,
Monday, October 12th, 2009
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Ground States and Excitations of Spatially Anisotropic Quantum Antiferromagnets
Oleg Starykh,
associate professor of physics,
University of Utah,
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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,
Monday, October 19th, 2009
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Phases of a Supersymmetric Model of Lattice Fermions
Liza Huijse,
University of Amsterdam,
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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,
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Dots for Dummies
Ramamurti Shankar,
professor of physics,
Yale University,
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optical Nanostructures for Advanced Communication Systems
Marko Lončar,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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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Applied Physics Seminar
An Experimental Test of Non-local Realism
Simon Groeblacher,
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information,
University of Vienna,
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Isaac Newton: Mathematician, Natural Philosopher, Alchemist . . . Cop?
Thomas Levenson,
professor of science writing,
MIT,