Physics Research Conference 2018-19

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
October 4	Edward Farhi Google/MIT	What to do with a Near Term Quantum Computer	John Preskill
October 11	Ali Yazdani Princeton University	Spotting the elusive Majorana under the microscope	Jason Alicea
October 18	Nevin Weinberg MIT	When stars go nonlinear: large amplitude tides and stellar oscillations	Rana Adhikari
October 25	Felix von Oppen Freie Universität Berlin	Elements of a topological quantum computer	Gil Refael
November 1	Suzanne Staggs Princeton University	Gigapixel Maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background	Jamie Bock
November 8	William Newton Texas A&M University	The extent and observable properties of nuclear pasta in neutron star crusts	Sterl Phinney
November 15	Gabriel Orebi Gann UC Berkeley	Let There be Light: unlocking the secrets of the Universe with neutrinos	Maria Spiropulu
November 29	Kate Scholberg Duke University	Detecting the Tiny Thump of the Neutrino	Brad Filippone
December 6	Douglas Stanford Stanford University	Black holes and random matrices	Hirosi Ooguri
January 10	David Wolpert Santa Fe Institute	Fundamental limits on the thermodynamics of circuits	Sean Carroll
January 17	Markus Greiner Harvard University	The Biard Lecture - Ultracold atom quantum simulations: Exploring low temperature Fermi-Hubbard phases	Manuel Endres
January 24	Jason Petta Princeton University	Spinning up a silicon-based quantum processor	Gil Refael
January 31	Si Xie Caltech	Precision Timing at the LHC and Beyond
February 7	Aleksandra Walczak Ecole Normale Supérieure	Prediction in immune repertoires	Maria Spiropulu
February 14	David Van Valen Caltech	Deep learning for single-cell biology	Rob Phillips
February 21	Andrea Young UC Santa Barbara	Correlations in moire flat bands: topological order, symmetry breaking, and superconductivity	Xie Chen
February 28	David Wallace USC	Firewalls and decoherent histories	Sean Carroll
March 7	Washington Taylor MIT	Physics and Energy	Hirosi Ooguri
April 4	Ranny Budnik Weizmann Institute	Dark Matter direct detection at a crossroads	Sunil Golwala
April 11	Xiao-Gang Wen MIT	Grad Students' Choice: Topological order and topological excitation	Jason Alicea/Ashmeet Singh
April 18	Kang-Kuen Ni Harvard University	Building Single Molecules – reactions, collisions, and spectroscopy of two atoms	Manuel Endres
April 25	Rachel Ivie American Institute of Physics	Beyond Representation: Data to Improve the Situation of Women and Minorities in Physics and Astronomy	Jason Alicea
May 2	Xie Chen Caltech	Fracton order: from quantum hard drive to foliated manifold
May 9	Antoine Browaeys Istitut d'Optique, Paris	Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms	Manuel Endres
May 16	Lina Necib Caltech	Dark Matter in the Era of Gaia	Sean Carroll
May 23	Duncan Brown Syracuse University	What have we learned about binary neutron stars since the discovery of GW170817?	Sterl Phinney
May 30	Natalia Toro SLAC	Exploring the Dark Sector: Surprising Opportunities at Familiar Mass Scales	Clifford Cheung

2017-2018 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 2018-19

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