Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Physical approaches to understanding and predicting viral evolution
John Barton (University of Pittsburgh)
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…
Astrophysics Seminar: Why a tiny neutrino particle inspired me to simulate and reconstruct the entire Universe
Adrian Bayer (Flatiron)
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.
High Energy Theory Seminar: Free-falling in Quantum Spacetime
Maulik Parikh (Arizona State University)
Gravity is usually regarded classically, obeying Newton's law or Einstein's equations. Here I will show that, when the gravitational field is treated quantum-mechanically, the classical trajectories of freely falling…
Astrophysics Seminar: "TBA"
Thavisha Dharmawardena (NYU)
Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Motility regulation as a self-organization principle
Julien Tailleur (MIT)
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…
High Energy Theory Seminar: Universal Bounds in interface conformal field theories
Andreas Karch (UT Austin)
Critical phenomena in the presence of interfaces provide a much richer arena than their more studied cousin of boundary critical phenomena. In this talk, I'll review certain observables that are new and unique…
Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: Development of high precision 4D-trackers for future experiments
Artur Apresyan (FNAL)
I will present recent progress towards the development of 4D-trackers with high granularity in position in time. As future colliders move to higher energy collisions, with increased particle occupancy, the need…
Penn Science Café: There is No One Way To Teach Math
Penn Science Café
Robin Penmantle (Speaker) & Bill Ashmanskas (Moderator)
Get ready for a lively, interactive Science Café with Penn math professor Robin Pemantle and Penn physics senior lecturer Bill Ashmanskas, both members of Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation’…
High Energy Theory Seminar: Gravitational waves with astrometry in the Gaia era
Deyan Mihaylov (Case Western Reserve University)
Gravitational waves have a periodic effect on the apparent positions of stars on the sky. This effect can be quantified and ultra-precise astrometric measurements (like the ones from Gaia)…
Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Quantum Control of Quantum Materials
Matteo Mitrano (Harvard)
Coherently engineering quantum states with light is a key frontier in the control of quantum materials. Over the last two decades, ultrafast lasers have revealed a variety of emergent topological, magnetic, and…