Events Calendar

 March 2023        
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Xucheng Gan, Millicharged Relics Reveal Massless Dark Photons (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

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, Astro Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

, No Astro Seminar (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

1
, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Joaquin Turiaci, Black hole spin-statistics (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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2
, Equity & Inclusion Committee (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM)

Arvind Murugan, Learning without Neurons (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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3
Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

6
David Hogg, New maps of the dark matter with old astronomical tools (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

, Grad Pheno Journal Club (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

7
Weiner, "Supersymmetry" (10:30 AM - 11:30 AM)

, Astro Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Melissa Ness, On stars as tools to reconstruct the history of the Milky Way (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Kevin Kelly, New Thoughts on an Old Anomaly (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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(12:15 PM - 1:30 PM)

, Equity & Inclusion Committee (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM)

10
Lorenz Eberhardt, 3d Gravity and Teichmueller TQFT (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

13
, Spring Break - No Classes

14
, Spring Break - No Classes

, Astro Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

15
, Spring Break - No Classes

, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Christian Jepsen, Q-deformed String Amplitudes (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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, Spring Break - No Classes

, Equity & Inclusion Committee (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM)

Aleix Gimenez-Grau, The Witten Diagram Bootstrap for Holographic Defects (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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17
, Spring Break - No Classes

Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

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Ken Van Tilburg, Extended Path Intensity Correlation (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

, Grad Pheno Journal Club (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

21
, Astro Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Alyson Brooks, Small Statistics No More: a suite of dwarf galaxy simulations to interpret observations (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

David Moore, Mechanical sensors for dark matter (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Sara Seager, Exoplanets and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)

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, Equity & Inclusion Committee (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM)

Sara Seager, Venus as Potentially Habitable Planet (4:15 PM - 5:30 PM)

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Sara Seager, Exoplanet Atmospheres and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM)

-- Abstract: Thousands of exoplanets are known to orbit nearby stars and small rocky planets are established to be common. The ambitious and lofty goal of identifying a habitable or inhabited exoplanet is within reach—by the new James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) capability for observations of exoplanet atmospheres for water vapor and gases that might be attributed to life. The JWST uses transmission spectroscopy, a technique that relies on disentangling the host star and planet signals, and for atmospheres of rocky planets orbiting in the habitable zone of their host stars is limited to small red dwarf host stars. Yet now that we are faced with the unprecedented quality of JWST data, the community faces two major challenges. The first is that low-level host star variability caused by stellar surface inhomogeneity from magnetic fields can dominate the exoplanet atmosphere signal. The second challenge comes from significant inconsistencies when applying intricate inverse-problem algorithms to retrieve atmospheric parameters from data. Can we overcome these challenges or will the identification of a habitable or inhabited exoplanet have to wait for the next generation of “direct imaging” space-based telescopes.

Raju Venugopalan, What's in a phase, or how the topology of the QCD vacuum influences the spin of the proton (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

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Massimo Porrati, Back to the future: causality on a moving brane world (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

, Grad Pheno Journal Club (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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, Astro Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

George Wong, How to probe the black hole – jet connection (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Xiaoliang Qi, Bulk reconstruction from generalized free fields (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM)

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, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

Hong Liu, Emergence of space and time in holography (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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, Equity & Inclusion Committee (12:30 PM - 2:00 PM)

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Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)