Physics Research Conference 2017-18

The Physics Research Conference is held on Thursday at 4:00 P.M. in 201 E. Bridge, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served in 108 E. Bridge before the lecture at 3:45 P.M. and after the lecture at 5 P.M. All talks are intended for a broad audience, and everyone is encouraged to attend.
The Feynman Lecture Hall has video recording capability. They may be viewed on the 'Title' linked page for the individual speaker below. Some speakers may have chosen not to be recorded.

* Links access Speaker biographical information, talk Title with abstract and video link if recorded

Date	Speaker*	Title*	Host
September 28	Xiaowei Zhuang Harvard University	Illuminating biology at the nanoscale and systems scale by imaging	David Hsieh
October 5	Renato Renner ETH Zurich	Can quantum mechanics be valid on large scales?	Fernando Brandao
October 12	Matt Dobbs McGill University	The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) First Light	Sunil Golwala
October 19	Mikhail Lukin Harvard University	Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science	Manuel Endres
October 26	Steve Giddings UC Santa Barbara	Black holes, quantum information, and the foundations of physics	Rana Adhikari
November 2	Subir Sachdev Harvard University	The Biard Lecture - Quantum matter without quasiparticles: strange metals and black holes	David Hsieh
November 9	James Crutchfield UC Davis	Demonology: The Curious Role of Intelligence in Physics & Biology	Sean Carroll
November 16	Chen-Yu Liu Indiana University	Unresolved Problems in Neutron Decay	Brad Filippone
November 30	Mohammad Hafezi Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland	Topological photonics: from classical to quantum	Gil Refael
January 4	David Simmons-Duffin Caltech	The conformal bootstrap: magnets, boiling water, and quantum gravity	Fiona Harrison
January 11	David Hsieh Caltech	Signatures of a 3D quantum liquid crystal
January 18	Clifford Cheung Caltech	Unification from Scattering Amplitudes
January 25	Scott Tremaine Institute for Advanced Study	Fuzzy dark matter and the small-scale structure problem	Sterl Phinney
February 1	Jeffrey Harvey University of Chicago	From Moonshine to Black Holes, Number Theory in Physics	Hirosi Ooguri
February 8	William Irvine University of Chicago	The life of vortex knots and links and the conservation of helicity	Jason Alicea
February 15	Anne Schukraft Fermilab	Neutrinos - small particles, big science	Maria Spiropulu
February 22	Alexei Kitaev Caltech	A toy quantum black hole
March 1	Daniel Harlow MIT	Black Holes, Holography, and Quantum Error Correction	John Preskill
March 8	Zaven Arzoumanian NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	NICER View: Astrophysics and Exploration from the International Space Station	Sterl Phinney
April 5	Vicky Kalogera Northwestern University	19th Lauritsen Memorial Lecture: The Dawn of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics	Hirosi Ooguri
April 12	Nicholas Hutzler Caltech	Searching for New Particles and Forces with Polar Molecules	Fiona Harrison
April 19	Lulu Qian Caltech	A cargo-sorting DNA robot	Sean Carroll
April 26	Brian Metzger Columbia University	20th Lauritsen Memorial Lecture: The Radioactive Glow of Freshly-Synthesized Heavy Nuclei from a Neutron Star Collision	Sterl Phinney
May 3	Ann E. Nelson University of Washington	Low Energy Baryogenesis and Beauty	Clifford Cheung
May 10	Charles Kane U of Penn	Symmetry, topology and electronic phases of matter	Jason Alicea
May 17	Xiaoliang Qi Stanford University	Grad Students' Choice: The entanglement glue for spacetime	Jason Alicea
May 24	Eva Halkiadakis Rutgers University	Exploring the Energy Frontier at the Large Hadron Collider	Maria Spiropulu
May 31	Rana Adhikari Caltech	All the Black Holes in the Universe

2016-2017 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 2017-18

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