Astro Seminar: "Constraining Gravity through CMB Lensing and Galaxy Velocities"
Anthony Pullen (Carnegie Mellon)
We discuss recent work exploring the use of CMB lensing to probe E_G, the ratio between curvature and velocity perturbations. This quantity is distinct for various gravity models, breaking the degeneracy in current…
Women in Physics Public Lecture Pt.1: "Science, Scholarship and Snacks"
Mildred Dresselhaus (MIT)
Join the Nano/Bio Interface Center for an afternoon of talks highlighting recent and ongoing nano-scale research presented by:
Math-Bio seminar: "Learning how antibodies are drafted and revised"
Erick Matsen (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Antibodies must recognize a great diversity of antigens to protect us from infectious disease. The binding properties of antibodies are determined by the sequences of their corresponding B cell receptors (BCRs).…
Special Condensed Matter Seminar: "Topological semimetals and chiral transport in inversion asymmetric systems"
Shuichi Murakami, Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
The Z2 topological insulators (TIs) are topological phases under time-reversal symmetry. In 2007, we theoretically proposed a universal phase diagram describing a phase transition between 3D…
Special Seminar: "Illuminating biology a the nanoscale with single-molecule and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy"
Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University and 2015 Recipient of the NBIC Award for Research Excellence in Nanotechnology
Reception to follow.
Astro Seminar: "The Unique Links Between Transiting Brown Dwarfs and Transiting Hot Jupiters"
Thomas Beatty (Penn State)
There are currently twelve known transiting brown dwarfs, nine of which orbit single main-sequence stars. These systems give us one of the only ways in which we may directly measure the masses and radii brown dwarfs…
Why Light Matters
From smart lighting, mobile connectivity and underwater communications, to aviation, defense and security, the countless applications of light have revolutionized society.
Explore some of the newest ways in…
Math-Bio Seminar: "Estimating the unseen variants in human populations provides a roadmap for precision medicine"
James Zou, Microsoft Research New England and MIT
What can we learn from 60,000 genome sequences? I will describe how we are leveraging the largest collection of human exomes to model the landscape of harmful genetic variations in healthy individuals. I will also…
High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"
Cliff Burgess (McMaster)
ABO Seminars: "TBA"
Regine Choe (University of Rochester)