Physics Research Conference 2016-17

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. The video of a given talk may be viewed on the 'Title' linked page for the individual speaker below.

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

Date	Speaker*	Title*	Host
September 29	William Joseph Weber Università di Trento	The LISA Pathfinder mission: first results and implications for an orbiting gravitational wave observatory	Sterl Phinney
October 6	Matthew P.A. Fisher KITP/UC Santa Barbara	Quantum Crystals, Quantum Computing and Quantum Cognition	Jason Alicea
October 13	Zahid Hasan Princeton	New Topological Phases of Matter : Platform for emergent Dirac, Majorana and Weyl fermions	David Hsieh
October 20	Kathryn Zurek LBNL	Broadening the Searchlight: New Ideas in Dark Matter Detection	Maria Spiropulu
October 27	Boris Shraiman KITP/UC Santa Barbara	Physics and Biology of Morphogenesis	Alexei Kitaev
November 3	Tracy Slatyer MIT	Light from Darkness? Searching for Dark Matter in the Sky	Sean Carroll
November 10	Abhay Pasupathy Columbia University	Electronic Nematicity in the Iron-Pnictide Superconductors	David Hsieh
November 17	Juan Maldacena Institute for Advanced Study	Quantum mechanics and geometry of spacetime	John Preskill
December 1	Sara Seager MIT	The Biard Lecture: Mapping the Nearest Stars for Habitable Worlds	Chris Martin
January 5	Dan Stamper-Kurn UC Berkeley	Detecting and coupling quantum objects with quantum light	Rana Adhikari
January 12	Ryan Patterson Caltech	The next questions in neutrino physics
January 19	Nikita Nekrasov Simons Center for Geometry and Physics	How I learned to stop worrying and to love both instantons and anti-instantons	Sergei Gukov
January 26	Dimitri Mawet Caltech	Imaging and remote sensing of other worlds	Fiona Harrison
February 2	David Pines Santa Fe Institute and UC Davis	Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter	Tom Rosenbaum
February 9	Scott Aaronson University of Texas at Austin	Quantum Supremacy	Rana Adhikari
February 16	Asimina Arvanitaki Perimeter Institute	Particle Physics Beyond Colliders	Mark Wise
February 23	Dam Son University of Chicago	The quasiparticle of the quantum Hall fluids	Jason Alicea
March 2	Patrick Lee, MIT	Can superconductivity survive at very low electron density?	Nai-Chang Yeh
March 9	Justin Khoury University of Pennsylvania	New Approaches to Dark Matter	Sean Carroll
April 6	Beverley McKeon Caltech	Deconstructing (and reconstructing) wall turbulence: Characterizing natural and synthetic self-sustaining processes	Sean Carroll
April 13	Manuel Endres Caltech	Quantum many-body control	Fiona Harrison
April 20	Michael Roukes Caltech	Can we reverse-engineer the brain?
April 27	Ignacio Cirac Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik	Quantum simulations: From condensed matter to high energy models	John Preskill
May 4	Anna Grassellino FNAL	The Physics and Material Science of Modern Particle Accelerators	Maria Spiropulu
May 11	Michelle Dolinski Drexel University	Current and future searches for neutrinoless double beta decay	Brad Filippone
May 18	Gary Horowitz UCSB	The Remarkable Power of General Relativity	Hirosi Ooguri
May 25	Henriette Elvang University of Michigan	The Physics of Soft Particles	Clifford Cheung
June 1	Risa Wechsler Stanford University	Probing the Dark Universe with Galaxy Surveys	Sunil Golwala

2015-2016 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 2016-17

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