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- Category: Astroparticle Seminar
- 12/17/12 Astroparticle Seminar: Masayuki Wada, U of Texas-Austin "Searching for chiral symmetry restoration in relativistic heavy-ion collision w/ vector meson
- 10/01/12 Particle & Nuclear Astrophysics Seminar - Marco Giammarchi - Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milan
- 08/08/12 Special Seminar- by Neta Bahcall
- 05/29/12 Particle-Astro Special Seminar
- 04/27/12 Gravity Group Astrophysics/Cosmology Lunch
- 04/20/12
- Category: Atomic Physics Seminar
- 10/19/12 Atomic Physics Seminar - Morgan Hedges, University of Calgary - "Progress Toward Ultra-Long Coherence Times for Rare-earth Ion Quantum Memory"
- 02/14/12 AMO Seminar - Iannis Kominis, local visitor from the University of Crete - A Bird's Eye View of Spin Coherence
- 02/09/12 AMO Seminar - Wes Campbell, University of Maryland - Quantum information science with cold ions and molecules
- 01/23/12 AMO Seminar - Monika Schleier-Smith - A Squeezed Atomic Clock Enabled by Cavity Feedback - Quantum Many-Body Systems Division LMU Munich
- 01/19/12 AMO Seminar - Building Synthetic Materials from Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Magnetism in an Optical Lattice - Jonathan Simon - Harvard/MIT
- 01/12/12 AMO Seminar - Quantum phenomena in measurements of collective atomic motion and spin - Nathaniel Brahms - U. of California, Berkeley
- Category: Biophysics Seminar
- 12/10/12 Biophysics Seminar Series - Sergey Kryazhimskiy, Harvard
- 11/19/12 Biophysics Seminar Series - Fred Wolf (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization)
- 11/12/12 Biophysics Seminar Series - Jeremy England, MIT
- 11/05/12 Biophysics Seminar Series - Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller
- 10/15/12 Biophysics Seminar Series - Sharad Ramanathan, Harvard
- 10/08/12 Biophysics Seminar Series: Chao Tang, Peking University and UCSF
- 09/24/12 Biophysics Seminar Series: Paul Kulesa, Stowers Institute
- 04/30/12 Biophysics Seminar Series - Erel Levine, Harvard - "How to worm infection dynamics out of worms?"
- 04/23/12 Biophysics Seminar Series - Richard Neher (Max Planck Institute)
- 04/16/12 Biophysics Seminar Series - Philippe Cluzel, Harvard - The code within the code...
- 04/09/12 Biophysics Seminar Series - Johan Elf (Uppsala University)
- 04/02/12 Biophysics Seminar Series - David K. Lubensky (U. Michigan)
- 03/26/12 Biophysics Seminar Series - Jané Kondev (Brandeis U.) “Regulation of transcriptional noise in bacteria”
- Category: Condensed Matter Seminar
- 12/21/12 SPECIAL Condensed Matter Seminar - Ben Feldman, Harvard University - "Spin and Valley Influence on the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Suspended Gra
- 12/19/12 SPECIAL Condensed Matter Seminar - Inna Vishik, Stanford University - "Phase Competition in Cuprate Superconducting Dome"
- 12/10/12 Condensed Matter Seminar - Ganpathy Murthy, University of KY - Hamiltonian Theory of Fractionally Filled Chern Bands
- 11/29/12 Condensed Matter Seminar - Tomasz Durakiewicz, Los Alamos National Laboratory - Time-resolved ARPES of f-electron systems
- 11/19/12 Condensed Matter Seminar - Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland - "Surface Conduction of Topological Dirac Electrons in Bulk Insulating Bi2Se3"
- 11/12/12 Condensed Matter Seminar - Nuh Gedik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, " Ultrafast Probing of Dirac Fermions in Topological Insulators"
- 10/23/12 Condensed Matter Seminar - Kobi Kraus, Weizmann Institute of Science Topological States and Adiabatic Pumping in Quasicrystals
- 10/22/12 Condensed Matter Seminar - Prof Xiao-Liang Qi, Stanford University - "Synthetic non-Abelian anyons in fractional Chern insulators and beyond"
- 10/16/12 Condensed Matter Seminar - Shuichi Murakami, Tokyo Institute of Technology - " Topological magnon transport in ferromagnets"
- 10/08/12 Condensed Matter Seminar - Prof. Tomi Ohtsuki, Sophia University Tokyo, Japan "Simulating Anderson Localization"
- 09/24/12 Condensed Matter Seminar - Adam Nahum, University of Oxford "Loop models, vortex lines, and SU(n) magnets"
- 08/06/12 Condensed Matter Seminar - Dr. Justin J.T. Ye, University of Tokyo
- 05/21/12 Condensed Matter Seminar, Dr. Sungkun Hong, "Nanoscale Magnetic Imaging Using Single Electronic Spins in Diamond"
- 05/07/12 Condensed Matter Seminar, Gregory A. Fiete, "Interacting topological insulators in oxides"
- 04/27/12 Condensed Matter Seminar, Leo Kouwenhoven, " Majorana Fermions in Semiconductor Nanowires"
- 04/24/12 Condensed Matter Seminar, Karyn Le Hur, " Many-Bodied Quantum Physics with Photons"
- 04/23/12 Condensed Matter Seminar, Garnet Chan, Numerical approaches to correlated electrons"
- 04/02/12 Condensed Matter Seminar, Stephan Mandt, "Transport and non-equilibrium dynamics in optical lattices: from expanding atomic clouds to negative absolut
- 03/28/12 Special Condensed Matter Seminar, Jerome Dubail, "Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: from bulk model wave functions to the edge theory"
- 03/27/12 Special Condensed Matter Seminar, Benoit Estienne, "D-Algebra Structure of Topological Insulators"
- 03/26/12 Condensed Matter Seminar - Umesh Vazirani, Berkeley, "Testing quantum systems "
- 03/13/12 Special Condensed Matter Seminar, Chen Fang, “Topological Insulators and Semimetals with Point Group Symmetries”
- 02/13/12 Condensed Matter Seminar, Leo Kadanoff, "Numerical Renormalization Methods"
- 02/06/12 Condensed Matter Seminar, Leo Kadanoff, "Are Renormalization Methods "Really Ugly"?"
- 01/12/12 CMP Seminar - Tianheng Han - MIT - The Search For Quantum Spin Liquids
- Category: Gravity Group Seminar
- 05/18/12 Gravity Group Astrophysics|Cosmology Lunch
- 05/11/12 Gravity Group Astrophysics|Cosmology Lunch
- 05/04/12 Gravity Group Astrophysics Cosmology Lunch, "Black holes get loud and bright"
- 04/20/12 Gravity Group Astrophysics/Cosmology Lunch
- 04/20/12 Gravity Group Astrophysics|Cosmology Lunch
- 04/13/12 Gravity Group Astrophysics Cosmology Lunch, "Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds and Orbital Random Walks"
- 03/30/12 Gravity Group Astrophysics/Cosmology Lunch
- 03/23/12 Gravity Group Astrophysics|Cosmology Lunch "Detecting the Epoch of Reionization and Characterizing the Properties of the First Galaxies"
- 03/16/12 Princeton University Gravity Group Astrophysics|Cosmology Lunch
- 03/09/12 Gravity Group Astrophysics/Cosmology Lunch, "Vector Inflation and the Baryon Asymmetry Problem"
- 03/02/12 Gravity Group Astrophysics/Cosmology Seminar, "Eccentric black hole-neutron star mergers"
- 02/24/12 Astrophysics/Cosmology Journal Club, "The (quantum) field theorist's approach to gravitational dynamics"
- 02/17/12 Gravity Group Astrophysics/Cosmology Lunch "Topics in gravity/cosmology, Part 2"
- 02/10/12 Gravity Group Astrophysics/Cosmology Lunch, Topics in gravity/cosmology
- Category: High Energy Experiment Seminar
- 03/14/12 High Energy Physics Seminar-Kirk McDonald-Princeton
- 02/28/12 High Energy Theory Informal Seminar - David Marsh, Cornell University - Wasteland of Random Supergravities
- Category: High Energy Theory Seminar
- 12/17/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland - “Horizon Thermodynamics and Entanglement Entropy”
- 12/14/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - David Simmons-Duffin, IAS - “Projectors, Shadows, and Conformal Blocks”
- 12/12/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Daniel Jafferis, Harvard University - "Exact results in 5d superconformal theories with gravity duals"
- 12/11/12 High Energy Theory Informal Seminar - IAS- Joe Polchinski, KITP, University of CA, Santa Barbara-“Scale and Conformal Invariance in Quantum Field"
- 12/10/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Joe Polchinski, KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara - “Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?”
- 12/07/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Liam Fitzpatrick, Stanford University - "AdS Field Theory and Conformal Field Theory"
- 12/04/12 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Raphael Bousso, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - “Is There An Alternative To Firewalls?”
- 12/03/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Scott Thomas, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - TBA
- 11/30/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Christoph Keller, Rutgers, The State University of NJ - “Modular Constraints on Calabi-Yau Compactifications”
- 11/27/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Tigran Kalaydzhyan - DESY & ITEP - "Holography and chiral superfluidity for the quark-gluon plasma"
- 11/26/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Sheer El-Showk, CEA Saclay - New Skins for an Old Ceremony The Conformal Bootstrap and the Ising Model
- 11/19/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - David Marsh, Cornell University - “On Sequestering and De-Coupling in Stabilized String Models”
- 11/16/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Alfred Shapere - University of Kentucky - "Time Crystals"
- 11/09/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Michele Del Zotto, SISSA - “Evidences for D(G,s) Theories”
- 11/07/12 High Energy Theory Informal Seminar - IAS - Yang Zhang, Niels Bohr Institute - “Integrand-Level Reduction of High-Loop Scattering Amplitudes via Co
- 11/05/12 HET Seminar - Koenraad Schalm, University Leiden, NL - Strongly coupled electron systems from holography and the Birth and Collapse of anti-de-Sitter
- 11/02/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - David Simmons-Duffin, IAS - “Projectors, Shadows, and Conformal Blocks”
- 10/30/12 High Energy Theory Informal Seminar- IAS-Joe Polchinski, KITP, University of CA, Santa Barbara-Scale & Conformal Invariance in Quantum Field Theory
- 10/29/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Joe Polchinski, KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara - “Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?”
- 10/22/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Rak-Kyeong Seong - Imperial College London - "An evolution of Brane Tilings"
- 10/19/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Gil Paz, Wayne State University - “The Charge Radius of the Proton, A Five Sigma Discrepancy?”
- 10/16/12 High Energy Theory Informal Seminar - Daniele Dorigoni, Cambridge U.K. - "The Large-N Limit of 3d Super YM and Bosonization"
- 10/15/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - David Morrison, Univ. of CA, Santa Barbara - “Two-Sphere Partition Functions and Gromov-Witten Invariants”
- 10/12/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Alexander Polyakov, Princeton University - "Quantum instabilities of the de Sitter space"
- 10/08/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Leonardo Rasteli, SUNY at Stony Brook - TBA
- 10/05/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - David Skinner, Perimeter Institute/IAS - “Gravity from Rational Curves”
- 10/01/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Ran Yacoby - Weizmann Institute of Science - On Chern-Simons Vector Models and Three Dimensional Bosonization
- 09/28/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Katherine Zurek, University of Michigan - Cosmic clues for dark matter & their implications for a dark matter asymmetry
- 09/24/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Sebastian Franco, Durham University - “Bipartite Field Theories: From D-Brane Probes to Scattering Amplitudes”
- 09/17/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Simone Giombi - Princeton University - "Chern-Simons vector models and higher spin theories"
- 08/10/12 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - “Heavy-Quark Masses from Multi-Loop Calculations” - Peter Marquard, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- 05/21/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Lisa Randall, Harvard University - “Light Stops from Seiberg Duality”
- 05/18/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Adam Rej, IAS - “Integrability of the Deformed CP^{N-1} Sigma Model”
- 05/14/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Hong Liu - MIT - Entanglement entropy and the F(c)-theorem in (2+1)-dimension
- 05/11/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Sumit Das, University of Kentucky - "Sp(N) Collective Fields and dS/CFT"
- 05/07/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Rutger Boels, DESY - “New Applications of the Analytic S-matrix in String Theory”
- 05/04/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Jonathan Heckman, IAS
- 04/30/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Hsin-Chia Cheng, University of California - Kinematic Variables for Events with Missing Particles
- 04/26/12 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Alessandro Strumia, University of Pisa - “Unificaxion”
- 04/23/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Carlo Rovelli, Aix-Marseille University, France - Loop quantum Gravity: Recent Results and Open Problems
- 04/20/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Kfir Blum, IAS - 2 Higgs or not 2 Higgs
- 04/17/12 High Energy Theory Informal Seminar - IAS - Horacio Casini, Centro Atomico Bariloche - Strong Subadditivity of Entanglement Entropy and Quantum Field
- 04/16/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Erik Verlinde, University of Amsterdam - A proposed microscopic explanation for dark matter
- 04/13/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Csaba Csaki, Cornell University - MFV SUSY: A natural alternative to R-parity
- 04/10/12 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Edward Shuryak, Stony Brook University - Dualities and Quark-Gluon Plasmas
- 04/09/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Andrew Strominger, Harvard University - Progress in dS/CFT
- 04/06/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Scott Thomas, Rutgers University - Highlights from the Race to New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider
- 04/02/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Chris Tully, Princeton University - “Current Results from the LHC and Plans for 8 TeV”
- 03/30/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Jesse Thaler, MIT - "The Two Faces of Anomaly Mediation"
- 03/27/12 High Energy Theory Informal Seminar - Peng Zhao, University of Cambridge, DAMTP - A 5d/3d duality from relativistic integrable system
- 03/26/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Paul Chesler- MIT - Dynamical Hawking radiation and holographic thermalization
- 03/23/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Juan Maldacena, IAS - The Quark Anti-Quark Potential in N=4 Super Yang Mills
- 03/19/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Nathan Berkovits,Universidade Estadual Paulista - AdS_5 x S^5 Superstring at Small Radius
- 03/16/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Masahito Yamazaki, Princeton University - 3-manifolds from 4d superconformal index
- 03/13/12 High Energy Theory Informal Seminar - Mitsutoshi Fujita, Kyoto University - SL(2,R) duality on AdS/BCFT
- 03/12/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Barton Zwiebach, MIT - Double Field Theory: Geometry and Applications
- 03/09/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Simon Caron-Huot, IAS - Jet Quenching at RHIC and the LHC
- 03/05/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Kimyeong Lee, Korea Institute for Advanced Study - The Countings in 4,5,6 Dims
- 03/02/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Yasunori Nomura, Berkeley - Quantum Mechanics, Gravity, and the Multiverse
- 02/27/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - David Shih, Rutgers - Higgs at 125 GeV: A Crisis for Gauge Mediation?
- 02/24/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Tristan Dennen, University of California, Los Angeles - TBA
- 02/17/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Kurt Hinterbichler, University of Pennsylvania - "New developments in massive gravity"
- 02/13/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Alejandra Castro, McGill University - The gravity dual of the Ising model
- 02/10/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Nima Arkani-Hamed - TBA
- 02/07/12 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Bogdan Stefanski, City University London
- 02/06/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Razvan Gurau, Perimeter Institute - The Large N Limit of Tensor Models
- 01/31/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Jonathan Heckman - IAS - Connecting Strings to Things
- 01/24/12 High Energy Theory Seminar - Simone Giombi - Perimeter Institute - Higher spin theories and holography
- Category: Mathematical Physics Seminar
- 12/11/12 Math Phys Seminar: Jean-Pierre Eckman (University of Geneva) 'Atoms, Nuclei, and 3d Triangulations'
- 11/13/12 Math Phys Seminar: Sylvia Serfaty (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 and Courant Institute) 'Towards crystallization in Coulomb systems'
- 03/29/12 Math Phys Seminar: Jeffrey Schenker (IAS) 'Diffusion of wave packets for the Markov Schroedinger equation'
- 03/27/12 Math Phys Seminar: Sourav Chatterjee (Courant Inst. NYU) 'Invariant measures and the soliton resolution conjecture'
- 02/28/12 Math Phys Seminar: Christian Hainzl (University of Tuebingen) 'Low Density Limit of BCS Theory and Bose-Einstein Condensation of Fermion Pairs'
- 02/07/12 Math Phys Seminar: Jonathan Breuer (Hebrew University) 'Nonintersecting random walkers with a staircase initial condition'
- Category: PCTS Seminar
- 11/09/12 PCTS Series Nonequilibrium Physics Strongly Interacting Matter & Light, Michel Devoret Yale Univ. Parametric Amplification of Quantum Signals
- 11/05/12 PCTS Series Nonequilibrium Physics Strongly Interacting Matter & Light Jonathan Keeling St. Andrews Univ UK, Non-equilibrium coherence in light-matter
- Category: Phenomenology Seminar
- Category: Physics Colloquium
- 12/06/12 Physics Colloquium: Eleni Katifori, Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics & Self-Organization - "The Geometry and Topology of Plant Structures"
- 11/29/12 Physics Colloquium - Elizabeth Olson, Columbia University - "Amplification of Sound in the Mammalian Cochlea"
- 11/08/12 Physics Colloquium - Michel Devoret, Yale University - “The Road to the Poles: Quantum Measurements that Steer rather than Collapse"
- 10/25/12 Physics Colloquium - Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California, Berkeley - "Information, Entanglement and the Quantum Phases of Matter"
- 10/18/12 Physics Colloquium - Prof. Ian Spielman, NIST & University of Maryland: "Bose-Einstein condensates subject to synthetic gauge fields"
- 10/11/12 Physics Colloquium - Collective pattern formation and group behaviors from molecules to populations
- 10/04/12 Physics Colloquium: A Little Big Bang: Strong Interactions in Ultracold Fermi Gases - Martin Zwierlien - MIT
- 09/27/12 Physics Colloquium: "New Observations about the Renormalization Group Flow.'' Zohar Komargodski
- 09/20/12 Physics Colloquium - Is it the Higgs Boson?
- 05/03/12 Colloquium:Whistles & Thumps: Listening to the Transient Gravitational Wave Universe - Bernard Schutz - Max Planck
- 04/26/12 Colloquium: Energy: Technology, Economics, Policy, Informatics - Steve Koonin - Institute for Defense Analysis
- 04/19/12 Physics Colloquium-Erik Verlinde - University of Amsterdam - Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Emergence of Gravity
- 04/12/12 Physics Colloquium-Christopher Jarzynski
- 04/12/12 Physics Colloquium-Christopher Jarzynski, University of Maryland, College Park - Irreversibility and the Second Law of Thermodynamics at the Nanoscal
- 03/29/12 Physics Colloquium, Ana Maria Rey, Jila
- 03/08/12 Physics Colloquium-Holger Mueller, University of California Berkeley
- 03/01/12 Physics Colloquium-Jeffrey McClintock, Harvard
- 02/23/12 Physics Colloquium-Richard Prum, Yale
- 02/16/12 Physics Colloquium-Michael Brenner, Harvard
- 02/09/12 Hamilton Lecture-Leo Kadanoff
- Category: Public Lecture
- Category: Quantum Computing Seminar
- Category: Quantum Sciences Seminar Series
- 05/23/12 Quantum Sciences Seminar - C. Kloeffel, University of Basel, Switzerland - Strong spin-orbit interaction and helical hole states in Ge/Si nanowires
- 05/14/12 Quantum Sciences Seminar Series - Jacob M. Taylor (JQI/NIST) - Photons and phonons for quantum simulation and metrology
- 04/06/12 Quantum Sciences Seminar - Greg Fuchs, Cornell University - Quantum control and coherence of single electronic and nuclear spins in diamond
- 03/29/12 Quantum Sciences Seminar - Xuedong Hu, University of Buffalo - Optimizing Electron-spin-cavity coupling via a double quantum dot
- Category: Special Event
- 06/04/12 Class Day Reception
- 06/01/12 Special Reunion Seminar: The Joy of Physics: A Recital of Entertaining Physics Demonstrations
- 04/20/12 PHY-MAT-ASTRO Joint Open House
- 04/14/12 Annual Physics Recital
- 04/10/12 Raymond & Beverly Sackler Lecture in Astrophysics, Rashid Sunyaev
- 04/04/12 Sophomore Open House
- 03/13/12 Spectroscopy of materials under extreme conditions: evaluating magnetic frustration and spin liquid behavior in rare earth-containing Kagomé systems
- Category: Special Seminar
- 12/13/12 New prospects for cold molecular physics - Kang-Kuen Ni - JILA
- 12/10/12 Condensed Matter Physics with Ultracold Atoms: from Mott Insulators to Topological Superfluids - Waseem Bakr - MIT
- 12/04/12 Lessons from a high-Tc superfluid: probing local quantities in a strongly interacting Fermi gas - Yoav Sagi JILA
- 07/23/12 Special Seminar: US-China Trade and its Global Impact, Dr. Subramanian Swamy
- 07/09/12 **Special PCTS Seminar** - Prof. Chris Tully - Discovery of the Higgs Boson
- 07/09/12 **Special PCTS Seminar**
- 05/02/12 PPPL COLLOQUIUM: A Slightly Longer History of E=mc2, Or How I Came to Hate 4/3
- 04/30/12 Gravity Group Special Seminar, "Early Science from the Jansky Very Large Array"
- 03/16/12 The Computational Challenges of Connectomics
- 02/27/12 Osamu Tajima, "Road to primordial B-modes -- KEK's strategy for CMB polarization"
- 02/21/12 Condensed Matter/High Energy Theory Seminar - Zhengcheng Gu, KITP - Duality between symmetry protected topological order & intrinsic topological order
- 01/04/12 Special Seminar "The POLARBEAR Experiment"
- Category: Statistical Mechanics Seminar