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HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR: High Energy Colliders: Past, Present and Future
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HEP - ASTRO SEMINAR: Laying the Groundwork for Precision Map of the Higgs Sector: Measurement of the ttbarW and ttbarZ Cross-Sections
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Mike Anderson Thesis Defense: "Hot Gaseous Halos Around Galaxies"
Sasha Muratov Thesis Defense: "Cosmological Small-Scale Structure: The Formation of The First Stars, Galaxies, and Globular Clusters"
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Nathan Crockett Thesis Defense
Jordan Zastrow Thesis Defense
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