Center for Particle Cosmology Astro Seminar: "Stalking Dark Energy and the Mystery of the Accelerating Universe"

Professor Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkely National Lab, Berkeley

"...How was the discovery made? What has been the progress since, in understanding dark energy and the accelerating universe?"

Nobel laureate will discuss these questions and more!

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Condensed Matter Seminar: Microfluidic Pathways towards Topological Defect Templates

Professor Anupam Sengupta, MIT

Liquid crystals (LCs) are mesogenic phases of matter which combine liquid fluidity with crystalline solid properties.The material anisotropy allows us to explore LCs as complex functional materials for microfluidics…

Astronomy Seminar: TBD

Andreu Font-Ribera (LBNL)

Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: Detecting Cosmic Neutrinos with Ice Cube at the Earth's South Pole

Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Drexel

Department Colloquium:"Control Without Measurement: The Profound Challenge of Quantum Information"

Charles Marcus, Neils Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

Condensed Matter Seminar: “Making Cells with Active Micro-tubule Mixtures”

Professor Jennifer Ross, UMass Amherst

Biology utilizes energy to organize itself from the nanoscale to the macroscopic scale. We seek to determine the universal principles of organization from the molecular scale that gives rise to architecture on the…

Astronomy Seminar: Massive Galaxy Growth since Cosmic Noon

Stijn Wuyts (MPE Garching)

The Hubble Space Telescope and integral-field spectrographs on the
ground offer us an unprecedented view of the internal physics within
high-redshift galaxies.  Exploiting the powerful synergy between…

Department Colloquium: The First Luminous Objects and the Epoch of Reionization

Adam Lidz, UPenn

An exciting and largely unexplored frontier in observational and theoretical cosmology is to understand the properties of the universe between 400,000 years and one billion years after the big bang. Notably, the…

*New Course this Fall*

Professor Gary Gibbons, University of Pennsylvania

Phys-696-001

Prerequisites: A first course in general relativity, including the idea of a Lie derivative and Killing vector fields

The course will start with a heuristic account of the Chandrasekhar…