Upcoming Events
Seminars, HET and HEE Seminars
High Energy Theory Seminar: Comments on the density matrix of the universe in two dimensional quantum cosmology
Finn Larsen (UMichigan)
Department Colloquia, Primakoff Lectures
Colloquium: Discoveries with the JWST, and what comes next
John C. Mather (NASA) Physics Nobel 2006
Condensed and Living Matter Seminars
Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar
Matteo Mitrano (Harvard)
Seminars, HET and HEE Seminars
High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"
Deyan Mihaylov (Case Western Reserve University)
Seminars, HET and HEE Seminars
Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: "TBA"
Arthur Apresyan (FNAL)
Seminars, Astro Seminars
Astrophysics Seminar: "TBA"
Enrique Paillas (Waterloo)
Seminars, HET and HEE Seminars
High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"
Andreas Karch (UT Austin)
Seminars, Astro Seminars
Astrophysics Seminar: "TBA"
Thavisha Dharmawardena (NYU)
Department News
What can theoretical physics teach us about knitting?
Penn physicist Randall Kamien, visiting scholar Lauren Niu, and collaborator Geneviève Dion of Drexel bring unprecedented levels of predictability to the ancient practice of knitting by developing
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2025 Sloan Research Fellows
The University of Pennsylvania’s Jason Altschuler, César de la Fuente,
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The Missing Data Link
When Bhuvnesh Jain and Greg Ridgeway co-founded the Data Driven Discovery Initiative (DDDI) in 2021, their initial goal was to support the undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs acro
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Department Scholar in Residence Update: Sculpture Installation on Cover of Arts Based Research Book
Portal, a sculpture installation inspired by research of black holes created by Rebecca Kamen, visiting scholar and artist in residence in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been
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A less ‘clumpy,’ more complex universe?
Researchers combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe’s evolutionary history and found that it may have become ‘messier and complicated’ than expected in recent years.
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Fruit flies and physics
Penn Physicist Andrea Liu and collaborators modeled the behavior of tissue during a stage of fly development and found, surprisingly, it doesn’t fluidize as it shrinks but stays solid.
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