Physics Research Conference 2013-14

The Physics Research Conference is held on Thursday at 4:00 P.M. in 201 E. Bridge, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served in 114 E. Bridge at 3:45 P.M. If that room is not available, they are served 108 E. Bridge. All talks are intended for a broad audience, and everyone is encouraged to attend.

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Date	Speaker*	Title*	Host
October 3	Jay Davis Hertz Foundation	Next Steps in Nuclear Weapons Control	Tom Tombrello
October 10	Alberto Nicolis Columbia University	Effective Field Theories for Fluids and Superfluids	Clifford Cheung
October 17	Persis Drell Director Emerita at SLAC	Illuminating the Atomic World: The X-ray Free Electron Laser at SLAC	Tom Prince
October 24	Peter Graham Stanford University	Axion Detection with NMR	Clifford Cheung
October 31	John Martinis UCSB	Design of a Superconducting Quantum Computer	John Preskill
November 7	Barbara Jones IBM Almaden Research Center	The Sometimes Surprising Behavior of Magnetic Spins on a Complex Surface	Nai-Chang Yeh
November 14	E. William Colglazier U.S. Dept. of State	International Science Diplomacy	Maria Spiropulu
November 21	Chetan Nayak Microsoft Station Q, UCSB	Many-Body Localization: What is It and What are Its Implications?	Gil Refael
December 5	Sunney Xie Harvard University	Life at the Single Molecule Level	Michael Roukes
January 9	Robert J. Schoelkopf Yale University	The Birth, Care, and Feeding of Cat States in Circuit QED: Quantum Jumps of Photon Parity	John Preskill
January 16	Cora Dvorkin IAS	Probing Dark Matter with the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large-Scale Structure	Sterl Phinney
January 23	Martin Zwierlein MIT	A Little Big Bang: Strong Interactions in Ultracold Fermi Gases	John Preskill
January 30	David Huse Princeton University	Quantum thermalization and many-body Anderson localization	Gil Refael
February 6	Eugene Demler Harvard University	Exploring Big Questions on Small scales	Gil Refael
February 13	John Grotzinger Caltech	A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars	Tom Prince
February 20	Kyle Shen Cornell University	Controlling and Observing Electronic Structure in Artificial Quantum Materials	David Hsieh
February 27	Philip Anderson Princeton University	The Biard Lecture - The Discovery of the Anderson-Higgs Mechanism	Maria Spiropulu
March 6	Harry Nelson UCSB	Touch the Dark Matter	Sunil Golwala
March 20	Jamie Bock Caltech	BICEP2: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales	Sean Carroll
April 3	Henry Reich MinutePhysics	Explaining Physics in a Minute (or Two)	John Preskill
April 10	Harold Hwang Stanford / SLAC	Emergent Phenomena at Oxide Interfaces	Jim Eisenstein
April 17		CANCELED
April 24	Kathryn Zurek University of Michigan	Cosmic clues for dark matter	Sean Carroll
May 1		CANCELED
May 8	Alessandra Lanzara UC Berkeley	Controlling superconductivity with light	David Hsieh
May 15	Shamit Kachru Stanford University	Explorations in the Physics and Mathematics of Moonshine	Hirosi Ooguri
May 22	Kevin P. Hand JPL	Ocean Worlds of the Outer Solar System	Sean Carroll
May 29	Andrea Ghez UCLA	The Galactic Center: Unveiling the Heart of our Galaxy	Tom Prince

2012-2013 Physics Research Conference Lecture series can be found here

Please send inquiries or correspondence to Sheri K Stoll, sstoll at caltech(dot)edu

Physics Research Conference 2013-14

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