Weekly Seminars

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Monday, May 5

Particle Theory Group Seminar
1:30 PM, RI 180
Sameer Murthy, University of California-Davis
"Counting All Dyons in N=4 String Theory"

Statistics Department Seminar
4:00 PM, Eckhart 133
Stuart Geman, Brown University
Bahadur Memorial Lectures : "Rare Events in the Financial Markets"

Enrico Fermi Institute High Energy Physics
4:15 PM, RI 480
Erika Garutti, DESY
"CALICE Experiment Achievements and Plans"

Tuesday, May 6

James Franck Institute Colloquium
4:00 PM, GCIS W301/303
David Biron, Harvard University
"Understanding a Small Neural Circuit (piece by piece)"

Wednesday, May 7

Computations in Science Seminar
12:30 PM, KPTC 206
No Seminar

Particle Theory Group Seminar
1:30 PM, RI 180
Christopher Beasley, University of California-Davis
"GUTS and Exceptional Branes in F-Theory"

KICP Colloquium
3:30 PM, RI 480
Leslie Rosenberg, University of Washington
"Searching for Dark-Matter Axions"

Thursday, May 8

Physics Colloquium
4:15 PM, KPTC 106
Joe Dwyer, Florida Institute of Technology
"X-ray Emission from Thunderstorms and Lightning"

Statistics Department Seminar
4:00 PM, Eckhart 133
Stuart Geman, Brown University
Bahadur Memorial Lectures : "On the Peculiar Statistics of Natural Images"

Friday, May 9

KICP Lunch Seminar
12:00 (Noon), LASR 152
Joanna Dunkley, Oxford University
(Visiting Fellow, Princeton University)
"WMAPS: Implications for Cosmology"

Geophysical Sciences Seminars
1:30-2:30 PM, HGS 101
Steve Dornbos, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"TBA"

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Erin Pettit, USGS Fairbanks
"Interpreting Climate History from Physical Characteristics of Ice"

Physics Friday Lecture
4:00 PM, KPTC 206
Yau Wah, University of Chicago
"What Do Golden CP Violation Kaon Decay and Medical Imaging Have in Common?"

 

Saturdays, April 5 through June 14 (No lecture on May 24)

67th Arthur H. Compton Lecture Series
11:00 a.m., KPTC 106
Kathryn Schaffer, University of Chicago KICP
"Seeing and Believing: Detection, Measurement, and Inference in Experimental Physics"
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