Physics Research Conference 2015-16

The Physics Research Conference is held on Thursday at 4:00 P.M. in 201 E. Bridge, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served in 10 8 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 as of 5-Nov-15. The series of recorded PRC lectures can be viewed here. They may also be viewed on the Title linked page for the individual speaker below.

* Links access abstracts and biographical information

Date	Speaker*	Title*	Host
October 1	Holger Müller UC Berkeley	Atom interferometers measuring the fine structure constant and probing the dark sector	Rana Adhikari
October 8	Eugene Mele U Penn	The Winding Road to Topological Insulators	Jason Alicea
October 15	Jim Fuller Caltech	The powerful magnetic fields of red giant stars	David Stevenson
October 22	Eric Mazur Harvard	Confessions of a converted lecturer	Gil Refael
October 29	Savas Dimopoulos Stanford	Experiments Big and Small	Clifford Cheung
November 5	Luis Lehner Perimeter Institute	Surprises in (strong/non linear) gravity	Mark Scheel
November 12	Mansi Kasliwal Caltech	Special Division Seminar -- See the Sound: In Search of the Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Waves	Fiona Harrison
November 19	Brian Swingle Stanford	Einstein's Equations From Entanglement	Sean Carroll
December 3	Jorge Cham PhD Comics	Science communication and the making of The PHD Movie 2	Jason Alicea
January 7	Yuri Levin Monash University	Magnetic toys in the sky	Rana Adhikari
January 14	Omer Tamuz Caltech	What does a typical dynamical system look like?	Fiona Harrison
January 21	Stefan Leichenauer UC Berkeley	Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity, and Quantum Information	Sean Carroll
January 28	Claudia de Rham Case Western	What can we learn from modifying gravity ?	Sean Carroll
February 4	Anyes Taffard UC Irvine	The Large Hadron Collider: Awakening at the next energy frontier	Maria Spiropulu
February 11	Rafael Yuste Columbia	The Novel Neurotechnologies: simultaneous 3D all-optical imaging and activation of neurons in living brains	Michael Roukes
February 18	Cumrun Vafa Harvard	Fundamental Lessons From String Theory	Hirosi Ooguri
February 25	Eric Betzig HHMI Janelia Research Campus	Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution	Michael Roukes
March 3	Michael Crommie UC Berkeley	Imaging Relativistic Fermions in Atomically- Engineered Graphene Potentials	Nai-Chang Yeh
March 31	Steven Block Stanford	Optical Tweezers: Gene Regulation, Studied One Molecule at a Time	David Hsieh
April 7	Charles M. Marcus The Niels Bohr Institute	The Biard Lecture: Basic Components of Solid-State Quantum Computing Hardware	Michael Roukes
April 14	Maria Zuber MIT	Internal Structure of the Moon from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission	Sunil Golwala
April 21	Patrick Huber Virginia Tech	Antineutrino reactor monitoring and applications to nuclear non-proliferation safeguards	Ryan Patterson
April 28	Liam McAllister Cornell	String Theory and the CMB	Chris Martin
May 5	Hitoshi Murayama UC Berkeley	When a Symmetry Breaks	Clifford Cheung
May 12	Ana Maria Rey JILA	Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers	Jason Alicea
May 19	Fernando Brandao Caltech	Quantum Physics of Information	Fiona Harrison
May 26	Daniel Lidar USC	Adventures in quantum optimization with noisy qubits	Maria Spiropulu

2014-2015 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 2015-16

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