Department Colloquium: Progress Toward a Solution of the “Supernova Problem”
Anthony Mezzacappa, University of Tennessee
The death of massive stars in core collapse supernova explosions are directly or indirectly responsible for the lion’s share of the elements in the periodic table, give birth to neutron stars and stellar mass black…
Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: "Jinping Neutrino Experiment"
Shaomin Chen, Tsinghua University
High Energy Theory seminar
Lara Anderson, Virgina Tech
Condensed Matter seminar: "Phonon superconductivity and Landau levels of the twisted bilayer graphene"
Biao Lian, Princeton University
The twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near the magic twist angle 1.05 degrees is known to have extremely flat electron bands, and exhibits both superconductivity and correlated insulating phases. In the first part, we…
Condensed Matter seminar: "Quantum Many-Body Physics Beyond Ground States"
Thomas Iadecola, University of Maryland
Recently a set of traditional assumptions in quantum condensed matter theory has been upended by the realization that many-body systems can host stable quantum phenomena at infinite temperature. I will discuss…
Astronomy seminar: "Detecting IGM structures in the very early Universe: Status, challenges, and new approaches"
Nithya Thyagarajan (NRAO)
Direct detection of evolving neutral Hydrogen structures from the Cosmic Dawn and Reionization Epochs (EoR) will reveal the nature of the first stars and galaxies as well as complete our understanding of a…
High Energy Theory seminar: "Higgs Couplings at High Scales"
Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh
Experiments at the LHC have been improving the measurements of the Higgs boson properties, and the searches for new physics are being actively conducted. In the absence of deviations from the Standard Model thus far…