Institute Calendar

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Tuesday, March 31st, 2015

9:00am – 5:00pm

9:30am – 10:30am

See event detail for location

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Gapped and gapless phases of frustration-free spin-1/2 chains

David Gosset, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Theoretical Physics, Caltech,

1:00pm – 1:30pm

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Optical losses and the optical power requirements in the traditional and the intracavity readout topologies of laser gravitational-wave detectors

F. YA. Khalili, Physics, Moscow State University,

1:30pm – 2:00pm

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Single mode cavity to avoid parametric instability in laser gravitational wave detector

Sergey Vyachanin, Physics, Moscow State University,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Water oxidation with all-inorganic earth-abundant catalysts

Dr. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Kerckhoff 119

Do We Know Enough to Design Biology?

Pamela Silver, Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

South Mudd 365

Point Source Reconnaissance: Physical Studies of Near-Earth Asteroids

Nicholas Moskovitz, NSF Fellow, Lowell Observatory,