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Come feed your mind (and your stomach) at this month's Lunch & Learn event, featuring talks by graduate students in Physics and History. Come enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from graduate students across the campus.
Come feed your mind (and your stomach) at this month's Lunch & Learn event, featuring talks by graduate students in Physics and History. Lunch & Learn events are co-sponsored by the Graduate Division and the Graduate Student Association, and you'll enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from graduate students across the campus.
Lunch & Learn
This Edition: Localization and Little Liberia
Friday, âNovember 4
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Elings Hall Room 1605
âPizza and salad lunch will be provided
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"Thermalization and Its Discontents"
Katharine Hyatt
Graduate Student in Physics
Almost all large groups of interacting quantum particles interact internally to reach equilibrium. But sometimes this doesn't happen, as in the case of many-body localization, and this new quantum phase is interesting. While it is hard to study, it can support exotic physics and might be also be useful for quantum computing. Thus, we can use classical computers to attack something that brains and pencils struggle with, and we can also learn about forbidden exotica along the way.
"Borderlands and Black Studies: African Americans in Baja California"
Laura Hooton
Graduate Student in History
Little Liberia was an African American agricultural community created in Baja California in the early 1900's. Blacks from Los Angeles and Oklahoma moved across the border in an effort to reveal racial injustice present in the United States and change racial attitudes. They hoped to connect with local residents, grow the local economy, sell goods back to the United States, and stay connected with their communities north of the border. A decade after it began, the colony ended in a disastrous turn of events. But the Little Liberia story and its communication across humanities fields gives an alternate version of African American community movements and the United States border.
This event will be moderated byâ Christian Villase~or, the Assistant Dean of the Graduate Division.
Interested in being a presenter at an upcoming Lunch & Learn? Click here to find out more! If you have any questions about this event or Lunch & Learn in general, please email Shawn Warner-Garcia.