Astrophysics Seminar: FRB science results from CHIME
Kendrick Smith (Perimeter)
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a recently discovered, poorly understood class of transient event, and understanding their origin has become a central problem in astrophysics. I will present FRB science results…
Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: LEGEND: new results and future prospects in the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge
Jason Detwiler (University of Washington)
The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double-beta decay (LEGEND) aims to be the first to observe the creation of matter without matter in the form of neutrinoless double-beta decay, an L- and…
High Energy Theory Seminar: Renormalization Group in far-from-equilibrium states
Vladimir Rosenhaus (CUNY)
We study renormalization group flows in far-from-equilibrium states. The study is made tractable by focusing on states that are spatially homogeneous, time-independent, and scale invariant. Such states, in…
Astrophysics Seminar: Formation and Evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies: Nature vs Nurture?
Yen-Ting Lin (ASIAA)
The formation and evolution of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), the most massive galaxies in the universe, is not a well-understood issue in astrophysics. Are BCGs special compared to other cluster…
Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: Accelerating the search for Sub-GeV Dark Matter
Christina Mantilla Suarez (UVA)
Accelerator-based experiments provide a unique opportunity to expand the search for dark sector and rare processes in the MeV to GeV mass range, just below the proton mass. This largely unexplored regime is…
Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Living Stealthy Hyperuniformity
Alison Sweeney (Yale)
Structural color and transparency are common phenomena in life - these optical properties are found in many species of mammals, birds, insects, and even bacteria. This talk discusses our recent…
Astrophysics Seminar: Weak Lensing with the Effective Theory of Large-Scale Structure
Stephen Chen (Princeton)
In the past decade, effective theories of large-scale structure (EFT) have become the premier way to constrain fundamental physics using spectroscopic surveys starting from first principles. In this talk I…
Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Geometry for Many Body Systems: Geometrical Sum Rules and Lattice Models
Jie Wang (Temple University)
Geometry describes how quantum states change locally in parameter space and governs many important physical phenomena, including many-body phases and their responses. The classic example of zero-temperature…