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Seminars, Astro Seminars

Astrophysics Seminar: "TBA"
Thavisha Dharmawardena (NYU)

March 26, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm
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Condensed and Living Matter Seminars

Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Motility regulation as a self-organization principle
Julien Tailleur (MIT)

March 26, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Equilibrium statistical mechanics tells us how to control the self-assembly of passive materials by tuning the competition between energy and entropy to achieve desired states of organization. Out of equilibrium, no…
Seminars, HET and HEE Seminars

High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"
Maulik Parikh (Arizona State University)

March 31, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Seminars, Astro Seminars

Astrophysics Seminar: Why a tiny neutrino particle inspired me to simulate and reconstruct the entire Universe
Adrian Bayer (Flatiron)

April 2, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm Massive neutrinos suppress the growth of cosmic structure on small, non-linear scales, making it crucial to go beyond a traditional power spectrum analysis to tighten constraints on their mass.
Condensed and Living Matter Seminars

Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Physical approaches to understanding and predicting viral evolution
John Barton (University of Pittsburgh)

April 2, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm
How predictable is evolution? This question has inspired biological research for decades, but it remains challenging to address quantitatively. In this talk, I will describe how we adapted methods from statistical…
Seminars, HET and HEE Seminars

High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"
Kent Yagi (University of Virginia)

April 7, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm
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

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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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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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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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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The Missing Data Link

January 28, 2025

When Bhuvnesh Jain and Greg Ridgeway co-founded the Data Driven Discovery Initiative (DDDI) in 2021, their initial goal was to support the undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs acro
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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

Tomorrow

Thavisha Dharmawardena (NYU)

Tomorrow

Julien Tailleur (MIT)

Maulik Parikh (Arizona State University)

Adrian Bayer (Flatiron)

John Barton (University of Pittsburgh)

Kent Yagi (University of Virginia)

Daniel Eisenstein (Harvard University)

Yasunori Nomura (Berkeley)

Department News