Weekly Seminars

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Monday, November 2

Particle Theory Group Seminar
1:30 PM, RI 180
No Seminar

Statistics Department Seminar
4:00 PM, Eckhart 133
Amit Singer, Princeton University
"Spectral Methods and Semidefinte Programming for Cryo-EM, NMR Spectroscopy, Low Rank Matrix Completion and Computer Vision"

High Energy Physics
4:15 PM, RI 480
Martina Hurwitz, U of C
"Measurement of the WW+WZ cross section in a Semileptonic Decay at CDF"

Tuesday, November 3

James Franck Institute Colloquium
4:00 PM, GCIS W301/303
Subir Sachdev, Harvard university
"Quantum Phase Transitions: from Antiferromagnets and Superconductors to Black holes"

Wednesday, November 4

Computations in Science Seminar
12:30 PM, KPTC 206
Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
"Dissipation and transport in strongly interacting quantum systems"

Particle Theory Group Seminar
1:30 PM, RI 180
Mu-Chun Chen
"Two-tales of T' Family Symmetry"

Astronomy Colloquium
3:30 PM, RI 480
Josh Winn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Exoplanets and their Odd Orbital Orientations"

KICP
3:30 PM, RI 480
No Seminar

Thursday, November 5

Particle Theory Group Seminar
1:30 PM, RI 180
Arjun Bagchi
"The non-relativistic limit of AdS/CFT"

Physics Colloquium
4:15 PM, KPTC 106
Craig Hogan, U of C
Holographic Noise in Michelson Interferometers: a Direct Experimental Probe of Unification at the Planck Scale"

Friday, November 6

KICP Lunch Seminar
12:00 (Noon), LASR 152
Andrew Wetzel, UC Berkeley
"Satelitte Galaxies in LambdaCDM: Orbits, Merging & Disruption"

Geophsyical Sciences Seminar
1:30 - 2:30 PM, HGS 101
Ellen Currano, Miami University of Ohio
"Some Liked it Hot: A Paleontological Perspective of Plant-Insect Herbivore Interactions"

3:00 - 4:00 PM, HGS 176
Mark Altabet, University of Massachusetts
"Climatic Forcing of Oceanic Nitrogen Loss"

Physics Friday Lecture
4:00 PM, KPTC 206
Bruce Winstein, U of C
"Particle Physics and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation"

Saturdays, October 3 through December 12 (No lecture on November 28th)

70th Arthur H. Compton Lecture Series
11:00 a.m., KPTC 106
Eric Switzer, Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics/EFI, University of Chicago
"The Physics of Energy Devices"