Astronomy Seminar: How to Find an Earth
Megan Bedell (Flatiron)
The detection of an Earth twin (an Earth-mass planet orbiting a Sun-like star within the habitable zone) has recently become feasible for the first time thanks to advances in observational…
High Energy Theory Seminar: Classifying boundary conditions in JT gravity
Jorrit Kruthoff (Stanford)
We will discuss various boundary conditions in JT gravity and their implications in both the classical and quantum theory. Our focus will primarily be on fixing the metric and extrinsic curvature on the…
Thesis Defense: “Spiraling out of disorder: Investigating the behavior of nematic liquid crystalline systems and soft vortex matter under geometrical confinement"
Helen Ansell (University of Pennsylvania)
Thesis Defense: “Entanglement Structure and the Emergence of Spacetime"
Matthew DeCross (University of Pennsylvania)
https://upenn.zoom.us/j/8634201446?pwd=VGpHb25FczRXRkJ2YUdEb0t1WmZUQT09…
Astronomy Seminar: Detection and Characterization of M-dwarf Planets with Next Generation Instruments
Guðmundur Kári Stefánsson (Princeton)
Abstract: Planets orbiting nearby M-dwarfs—the most numerous stars in the galaxy and our nearest stellar neighbors—are advantageous for detailed characterization. The…
Mathematical Biology seminar: "Boolean Networks: discrete dynamical models of high-dimensional nonlinear systems"
Jordan Rozum (Pennsylvania State University)
Boolean networks are a common modeling tool for studying the phenotypic changes that cells undergo in response stimuli. Examples include cell differentiation during embryogenesis, metastasis of…
High Energy Theory Seminar: Anomalies and Emergent Symmetries on the Lattice and in the Continuum
Shu-Heng Shao (IAS)
We consider various standard and exotic lattice models, and deform them using an approach generalizing the Villain formulation. The new lattice models exhibit many properties that were thought…
Mathematical Biology seminar: TBA
Jordan Rozum (Pennsylvania State University)
DIP Annual Diversity Seminar
Dr. Gina Quan (San José State University)
Our speaker will be Dr. Gina Quan (https://ginaquan.com/). Title & abstract will be announced closer to the date.
Annual Diversity Seminar Website Event: "Cultivating Equity-Focused Institutional Change in University STEM Departments"
Gina Quan (San José State University)
Discipline-based education research has made great strides in understanding how to foster more equitable and effective teaching in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). However, there still has…