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Steven R. White - Just Enough Entanglement: Simulating Quantum Systems without a Quantum Computer

The general solution of many-particle quantum systems is exponentially complex, requiring a quantum computer to solve. But for many of the most important properties of realistic experimental systems,…

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Jasmine Nirody - A tale of two motilities: adaptive biomechanical systems in complex, changing environments

Natural environments are heterogeneous and can fluctuate with time. As such, biomechanical systems from proteins to whole organisms have developed strategies to deal with considerable spatial and…

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Aomawa L. Shields - Recipe for a Habitable Planet

The discovery of numerous small exoplanets has brought the search for life beyond the Solar System into sharp focus on many potentially habitable worlds where life may exist. However, many factors…

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Loop Quantum Gravity: A Bird’s Eye View - Abhay Ashtekar

After a brief overview of quantum gravity as a whole, Dr. Ashtekar will explain the basics of Loop Quantum Gravity and its applications to some long standing questions: the nature of the very early…

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From Microstructure to Morphology: Topological Defects and Shape Evolution in Soft Matter - Robin Selinger

Soft materials with orientational order can undergo dramatic shape transformations driven by change of temperature or other stimuli. Nematic elastomers, a form of liquid crystal polymer, have been…

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Observing the signature of a single prolific r-process event in an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy - Anna Frebel

The heaviest chemical elements in the periodic table are synthesized through the rapid neutron-capture (r-) process but the astrophysical site where r-process nucleosynthesis occurs is still unknown.…

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Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: a growing frontier of "pure and applied" theoretical physics - Royce K. P. Zia

Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: a growing frontier of "pure and applied" theoretical physics Founded over a century ago, statistical mechanics for systems in thermal equilibrium has…

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Neutrons as a unique tool for research - Alan Tennant

Neutrons provide an essential and complementary probe of matter with unique sensitivity to light atoms and magnetic phenomena. As part of a Department of Energy initiative to define the future needs…

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Quantum FM radio for Quantum Computing - David Schuster

Individual superconducting qubits have seen impressive improvements in nearly all aspects over the past decade and now sit at the threshold of being able to perform quantum error correction. Scaling…

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