Fall 2015
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
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Sept. 3 |
"The Dark Energy Survey and Gravitational Waves" Abstract |
Marcelle Soares-Santos | Center for Particle Astrophysics/Fermilab | Gabriela Gonzalez |
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Sept. 10 |
"Recoverability in Quantum Information Theory" Abstract |
Mark Wilde | LSU | Jon Dowling |
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Sept. 17 |
"What does localization mean in interacting systems?" Abstract |
Rachel Wortis | Trent University | Juana Moreno |
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Sept. 24 |
"Habitable Zones and the Occurence of Potential Habitable Planets in our Galaxy" Abstract |
Ravi Kopparapu | Goddard Space Flight Center | Juhan Frank |
| Oct. 1 | "Complex wave vector band structure for quantum transport" Abstract |
Xiaoguang Zhang | University of Florida | Rongying Jin |
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Oct. 8 |
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Wednesday |
Hearne Eminent Lecture Series PUBLIC LECTURE: "Black Holes in General Relativity" Abstract |
Robert Wald | Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago | Iván Agullo and Parampreet Singh |
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Oct. 15 |
Hearne Eminent Lecture Series "Black Holes and Information Loss" Abstract |
Robert Wald | Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago | Iván Agullo and Parampreet Singh |
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Oct. 22 |
"Quantum correlations and entanglement in the presence of dispersive media" Abstract |
Ryan Glasser | Tulane University | Mark Wilde |
| Oct. 29 | Fall Holiday | |||
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Nov. 5 |
"A new channel towards the explosion of type ia supernovae" Abstract |
Marina Orio | Wisconsin/Torino | Brad Schaefer |
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Wednesday
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Goodrich Distinguished Lecture Series PUBLIC LECTURE: "Taking the King's Shilling: From studying nuclear terrorism at LSU to briefing the Queen of England" Abstract |
Peter Zimmerman | Prof. Emeritus of Science & Security, Kings College London | Mike Cherry & Ed Zganjar |
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Nov. 12 |
Goodrich Distinguished Lecture Series "Dissecting the Nuclear Accord with Iran: Goals, Physics, Policy, Politics and Where the West Went Wrong" Abstract |
Peter Zimmerman | Prof. Emeritus of Science & Security, Kings College London | Mike Cherry & Ed Zganjar |
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Nov.19 |
"Walter Kohn and the Creation of Density Functional Theory"Abstract | Andy Zangwill | Georgia Tech | Ward Plummer |
| Nov. 26 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |||
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Dec. 3 |
"Measuring the Spins of Accreting Black Holes" Abstract | Jeff McClintock | Harvard University | Gabriela Gonzalez |