Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: “Fractal patterns in music”
Andrzej Herczyński (Boston College)
If aesthetic preferences are influenced by the fractal geometry of nature, scaling regularities would be expected in all art forms, including music. While a variety of statistical tools have been proposed to analyze…
High Energy Theory Seminar: The dynamics of dRGT massive gravity
Jan Kożuszek (Imperial College London)
After reviewing the motivation and challenges connected with the dRGT theory of ghost-free massive gravity, we discuss our recent progress in understanding non-linear dynamics of this model. In spherical symmetry,…
Astrophysics Seminar: The Present and Future of High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy
Naoko Kurahashi Neilson (Drexel University)
In the past decade, neutrino astronomy went from dream to reality with IceCube producing spectacular observations of the very first neutrino sources in the sky. Last year, the diffuse emission of the Galactic Plane…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Key issues in understanding the superconductivity of UTe2
Johnpierre Paglione (University of Maryland)
The spin-triplet superconductor UTe2 has recently emerged as a rich system that incorporates aspects
of unconventional superconductivity, heavy-electron physics and non-trivial topologies.
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Experimental Particle Physics: Expanding Horizons: Novel Strategies in low mass BSM Physics Exploration with CMS
Abhijith Gandrakota (Fermilab)
In the pursuit of Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics, the CMS experiment has employed unconventional techniques to uncover elusive phenomena. This presentation delves into three pivotal aspects of this effort…
High Energy Theory Seminar: Staggered bosons, staggered clock models and supersymmetry on the lattice
David Berenstein (UCSB)
I will describe constructions of lattice field theories that assign a single bosonic variable to each site, rather a conjugate pair x,p. The information to realize a non-trivial dynamics is realized by non-trivial…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Bacterial Swarm, An Active Matter State Enriched by Interfacial Fluid Dynamics
Jay Tang (Brown University)
Soft matter, a term not used often a few decades ago, has become a recognized branch of physics studied by researchers worldwide from multiple disciplines. My own random walk in this field started with experiments on…
Astrophysics Seminar: How micro galaxies could help constrain the properties of dark matter
Raphael Errani (Carnegie Mellon University)
Guided by the recent discovery of the faint Milky Way satellite UMa3/UnionsI, in this talk I will present the results of our controlled high-resolution simulations to discuss how ”micro galaxies” could be…
High Energy Theory Seminar: The complex Liouville string
Victor Rodriguez (UCSB)
I will introduce the complex Liouville string, a solvable critical worldsheet string theory defined by coupling two Liouville theories with complex conjugate central charges c = 13 ± is. By harnessing the non-…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Search and Response Mechanisms in Active Soft Matter
Alireza Abbaspourrad (Cornell University)
Efficient migration in complex environments is crucial for biological systems that search for a target across various length scales. Microswimmers’ motion, such as bacterial chemotaxis in complex environments, and…