Upcoming Events
Condensed and Living Matter Seminars
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Understanding spontaneous assembly in biology: How self-assembly and phase separation work together to build biological structures.
LaNell Williams (Princeton)
Seminars, Astro Seminars
Astrophysics Seminar: "TBA"
Neal Dalal (Perimeter)
Condensed and Living Matter Seminars
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Driven molecular fluxes control the number size and position of an essential phase-separated organelle in algae
Linnea Lemma (Princeton)
Department Colloquia
Colloquium: Dark Matter Searches and New Constraints from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment
Carmen Carmona (Pennsylvania State University)
Seminars, HET and HEE Seminars
High Energy Theory Seminar: "TBA"
Job Felbrugge (University of Edinburgh)
Seminars, Astro Seminars
Astrophysics Seminar: "TBA"
Anirban Roy (NYU)
Seminars, HET and HEE Seminars
Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: First Measurement of Missing Energy Due to Nuclear Effects in Monoenergetic Neutrino Charged Current Interactions
Eric Marzec (Michigan)
Condensed and Living Matter Seminars
Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Robust prediction of moiré material topology
Valentin Crepel (Flatiron Institute)
Department News
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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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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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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The White House Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists
The PECASE (Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers) honorary award winners from 2018-22 were officially announced by the White House today.
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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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Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by the Army Research Office Selection
Liang Wu has been selected for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by the Army Research Office. The award recognizes
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It is incumbent on us all as a global community of scientists to actively participate in the diversification of science, technology, engineering and mathematics by directly and intentionally engaging those groups that are underrepresented in our individual fields.
The Penn Physics & Astronomy Department offers a variety of research opportunities that bring students of a range of academic levels to Penn.