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Seminars, HET and HEE Seminars

High Energy Theory Seminar: Love numbers for astrophysical compact objects in theories beyond General Relativity
Kent Yagi (University of Virginia)

April 7, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm
One can probe nuclear physics with gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger through measurements of a tidal Love number. The latter is a linear response coefficient of the stellar quadrupole moment to…
Dissertation Defense: "“Searching Beyond the Standard Model with the Atlas Experiment: B – L R-PARITY Violating Supersymmetry”
Lauren Osojnak

April 8, 2025 11:30am - 1:00pm
Department Colloquia, Rittenhouse Lectures

Rittenhouse Lecture: Measuring Cosmic Sound with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
Daniel Eisenstein (Harvard University)

April 9, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm
I will describe recent results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the measurement of the cosmic distance scale with the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) method and its resulting implications for…
Seminars, HET and HEE Seminars

High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"
Yasunori Nomura (Berkeley)

April 14, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Dissertation Defense: "Topological Approach to Quantum Gravity and String Theory."
Noah Braeger

April 15, 2025 9:30am - 11:30am
Condensed and Living Matter Seminars

Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Light Probes and Structural Color in Dense Complex Media: Lost Between Single and Multiple Scattering
Frank Scheffold (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

April 15, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Visible light can be used to probe dense, complex media such as colloidal suspensions or compact sediments. In liquid samples, the temporal fluctuations contain information about the local viscoelastic environment,…
Seminars, Astro Seminars

Astrophysics Seminar: High-redshift star formation under the cosmic microscope with SPT+ALMA+JWST
Joaquin Vieira (UIUC)

April 16, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Condensed and Living Matter Seminars

Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar
Jie Wang (Temple University)

April 16, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Department News

New high-definition pictures of the early universe

March 19, 2025

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy—the earliest cosmic
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Phil Nelson receives Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching

March 12, 2025

The Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania were established in 1961 with the help of the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation.
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Robert Johnson selected for the Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence by Non-Standing Faculty

March 12, 2025

Congratulations to Bob Johnson, who has been selected for the Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence by Non-Standing Faculty.
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What can theoretical physics teach us about knitting?

February 24, 2025

Penn physicist Randall Kamien, visiting scholar Lauren Niu, and collaborator Geneviève Dion of Drexel bring unprecedented levels of predictability to the ancient practice of knitting by developing
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2025 Sloan Research Fellows

February 19, 2025

The University of Pennsylvania’s Jason Altschuler, César de la Fuente,
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Department Scholar in Residence Update: Sculpture Installation on Cover of Arts Based Research Book

January 28, 2025

Portal, a sculpture installation inspired by research of black holes created by Rebecca Kamen, visiting scholar and artist in residence in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been
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Fourteen full-time faculty members are joined by staff, postdocs, and students in research on astrophysics and cosmology.

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Condensed Matter

The Condensed Matter research at Penn is organized around three broadly defined groups: Quantum Matter, Soft Matter and Living Matter.

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Particle Physics

The Particle Physics group at Penn studies the fundamental forces of Nature, early universe cosmology and mathematical physics.

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Upcoming Events

Kent Yagi (University of Virginia)

Lauren Osojnak

Daniel Eisenstein (Harvard University)

Yasunori Nomura (Berkeley)

Noah Braeger

Frank Scheffold (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

Joaquin Vieira (UIUC)

Jie Wang (Temple University)

Department News