Advances in Biomedical Optics: "Molecular Imaging of Breast Cancer: Clinical and Biologic Insights"
David Mankoff, Prof. of Radiology (UPenn)
*These seminars are supported by the Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy Laboratory, the Center for Magnetic Resonance and Optical Imaging, the Department of Radiology and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at…
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Physics of the Peacock’s Dance"
Suzanne Amador Kane, Haverford College
Peacocks are the textbook example of an elaborate mating display--and hence of sexual selection in evolution. To seduce females, male peafowl perform a complicated dance in which they tilt, pivot and shake their…
Astro Seminar: "SciServer - A Collaborative Research Environment for Large-scale Data-driven Science"
Gerard Lemson (Johns Hopkins)
SciServer is a Big Data infrastructure project developed at Johns Hopkins University that provides a common environment for sharable, computationally-intensive research.
Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: "Search for right-handed W and heavy neutrinos in the 2l+2j final state at CMS"
Jorge Chaves, Cornell University
Despite the discovery of the standard model (SM) Higgs boson, there are still unanswered questions that are not explained by the SM, such as the nature of the chiral structure of weak interactions. During…
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Formation of a hexagonal limit-periodic structure"
Josh Socolar, Duke University
A limit-periodic structure consists of a union of periodic patterns with no largest lattice constant. The discovery of an aperiodic monotile -- a single tile that forces hexagonal limit-periodic pattern in the same…
Astro Seminar: "The Relationship Between Quasar Activity and Diffuse Cool Halo Gas -- Feeding or Feedback?"
Sean Johnson (Princeton/Carnegie)
The growth and evolution of galaxies is fueled by gas accretion from circum-/intergalactic gas reservoirs. In turn, gas accretion and cooling is regulated by outflows and heating from supernovae and active galactic…
Eli Burstein Lecture: "Confinement & Tunneling, Pillars of Nanoscience"
Emilio Mendez: Director of Energy Science and Technology, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Professor of Physics, Stony Brook University
The properties of materials are in general determined by chemical composition and structure, but at the nanoscale they depend on size as well. As one or more dimensions of a material become increasingly smaller,…
Math-Bio seminar: "Phenotypic plasticity promotes balanced polymorphism and recombination modification in periodic environments"
Davorka Gulisija, University of Pennsylvania
Phenotypic plasticity is known to arise in varying habitats where it diminishes harmful environmental effects. How plasticity shapes genetic architecture of traits under varying selection is unknown. Using an…
Special Condensed Matter Seminar: "Nano-electrodynamics with graphene plasmons"
Mark Lundeberg, Institute of Photonic Sciences (Castelldefels, Spain).
I will review my recent work on plasmons in graphene, a naturally appropriate material for studying electron motion at terahertz and mid-infrared frequencies. Graphene plasmons are extremely confined propagating…
Department Colloquium: "Results from the New Horizons Flyby of Pluto"
Marc Buie (Southwest Research Institute) hosted by Mariangela Bernardi
July 2015 saw the culmination of decades of work to get a detailed look at a distant and intriguing world. As of late 2016, the transmission of all data from the encounter was completed and the project is now…