Department Colloquia

Upcoming Department Colloquia

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Past Department Colloquia



Colloquium: Light, Quantum and Energy

Liang Wu (University of Pennsylvania)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

The conventional device to convert light to electrical current uses two different kinds of doped silicon merged together known as pn junction or heterostructures. The current only flows one way in the pn junction due…



Colloquium: The Wide-angle View of Dark Matter in Nearby Galaxies

Robyn Sanderson (University of Pennsylvania)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

The Gaia astrometric survey has delivered a detailed “close-up” of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, by measuring precise 3D positions and…



Colloquium: Theia: Illuminating Neutrinos with a New Kind of Detector

Josh Klein (University of Pennsylvania)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8



Primakoff Lecture: Deciphering the Higgs boson: insights and revelations a decade after the discovery

Andreas Hoecker (CERN)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

The discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) marks a breakthrough in particle physics, and it stands with the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.…



Colloquium: Change Physics Culture Now

Jessica Esquivel (Fermilab)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

This presentation will overview initiatives created to overcome inequity in physics. We will discuss grassroots efforts like Black in Physics, institution-adjacent efforts like Change-Now at Fermilab, and APS-funded…