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Events During the 2016 Spring Semester

January 2016

   Friday, January 29th
Klaus Molmer, Aarhus University
****NOTE SPECIAL START TIME****
Quantum trajectories and the quantum state of the past
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Mark Saffman
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February 2016

   Friday, February 12th
Marek Kowalski, Humboldt University Berlin & DESY Zeuthen
Deciphering IceCube’s High-Energy Neutrinos
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Albrecht Karle
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   Friday, February 19th
Kent Irwin, Stanford/SLAC
Searching for Dark Matter with Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Kam Arnold
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   Friday, February 26th
Nepomuk Otte, Georgia Tech
Gamma-Ray Observations of Pulsars with Cherenkov Telescopes
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff
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March 2016

   Friday, March 4th
Chris E. Forest, Penn State
Understanding when we can trust climate models: Characterizing uncertainty in climate change from global to regional scales
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Susan Nossal
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   Friday, March 11th
Isobel Ojalvo, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Status and Future of Tau physics at the LHC
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Lisa Everett
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   Thursday, March 17th
Alain Aspect, CNRS, Institut d’Optique
From Bell's inequalities to quantum information: a new quantum revolution
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:45 pm), hosted by Thad Walker
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   Friday, March 18th
David Nelson, Harvard University
Gene Surfing and Survival of the Luckiest
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:15 pm), hosted by Pupa Gilbert
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April 2016

   Friday, April 1st
Keith Bechtol, UW - Madison, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center
New Satellite Galaxies of Our Milky Way
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Jim Lawler
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   Friday, April 8th
Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall, hosted by Dan Chung
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   Friday, April 15th
Josh Frieman, Fermilab and the University of Chicago
Probing the Accelerating Universe with the Dark Energy Survey
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Kam Arnold
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   Friday, April 22nd
Richard Mushotzky, University of Maryland/Goddard Space Flight Center
First Results from Hitomi
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Dan McCammon
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   Friday, April 29th
Paul Cassak, West Virginia University
When Magnetic Field Lines Break
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm), hosted by Jan Egedal
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May 2016

   Friday, May 6th
Steve Meyer, The University of Chicago
Distinguished Alumni Award Winner
A Search for Space-Time Correlations from the Planck Scale with the Fermilab Holometer
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm), hosted by Peter Timbie
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