Astronomy seminar: "TBA"
Abigail Lee, University of Chicago
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Probing Biological Dynamics: from long-term electrophysiology to high-resolution imaging"
Tian-Ming Fu (Princeton University)
The urgency to probe biological dynamics is impeded by a major challenge: the large dynamic range of biological processes—interactions of molecules within milliseconds can lead to…
High Energy seminar: "TBA"
Peter Adshead (University of Illinois)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells" - CANCELLED
Ibraham Cissé (Max Planck Institute)
We will discuss the latest efforts in our laboratory to develop highly sensitive methods of microscopy, to go directly inside living cells and uncover the behavior of single biomolecules as…
High Energy seminar: "TBA"
Ho Tat Lam (MIT)
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Rough fitness landscapes: from protein evolution to protein design" - POSTPONED TO SPRING 2023
Francesco Zamponi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS)
Rough (energy, or free energy, or fitness) landscapes are ubiquitous in disordered systems, from material science to biology. These landscapes feature a multitude of local energy minima,…
High Energy seminar: "TBA"
John T. Giblin, Jr. (Kenyon College)
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Neuronal biomechanics measured using combined atomic force – traction force microscopy"
Christian Staii (Tufts University)
During brain development neurons grow axons and dendrites that extend from the cell body and connect with other neurons to form neuronal circuits. Axons navigate over long distances (10-100 times…
Astrophysics seminar: "Ultralight sails for interstellar space travel"
Deep Jariwala and Igor Bargatin (University of Pennsylvania)
We argue that light sails with nanometer-scale thicknesses that are rapidly accelerated to relativistic velocities by lasers must be significantly curved in order to reduce their intrafilm mechanical…
High Energy seminar: "Precision Physics & Proton Structure at the LHC"
Johannes K. L. Michel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The LHC precision program critically relies on precise theory predictions for Standard-Model baseline rates to identify possible deviations due to New Physics and extract Standard Model…